dear everybody,

now that my computer has passed away, i need some tips
on how to do very finished hand drawn work.

tell me what you do:
• what kinda pens
• do you use tracing paper
• does anybody start and finish with inks onlyl
• what kinda pencils do ya'll use!

help a digital brother out!

love, josh!

a good friend that i've know for the last 5 years has passed away.
i will miss you Apple "rodriquez" Powerbook g4.

i've backed up all of my illustratoins except for 3.
one was a illustration for democracy loves.
i was so fucking proud of it.

my laptop died while i was doing a color job at 3 am.

moar here

hi how are all of you?
pretty angry about it all huh?

well... this might cheer ya up.




and

agerstrand.com

sorry joe,
my friend made a template based off your site.
but i tried to switch it up as much as i could.

i promise its temp.
i'll have a redesign soon.

lets not get in a bike fight over this.

-- josh

right herr

how are you guys? im bored.

"Courage and Creativity

Like that of the spawning salmon, the artist’s life is a never-ending upstream battle. To function creatively the artist must have the courage to fight for what he believes. Courage in the face of a danger that has no element of high adventure in it-just the cold, hard possibility of losing his job. Yet the courage of his convictions is, along with his talent, his only source of strength. Frank Lloyd Wright put it this way:

I’ll work as I’ll think as I am
No thought of fashion or sham
Nor for fortune the jade
Serve vile Gods of trade
My thought as beseemeth a man’

The businessman will never respect the professional who does not believe in what he does. The businessman under these circumstances can only ‘use’ the artist for his own ends. And why not, if the artist himself has no ends?

In asking the artist to have courage, we must ask the same of industry. The impetus to conform, so widespread today, will, if not checked, kill all forms of creativity, scientific and technological included."



see the rest of the article
http://www.paul-rand.com/thoughts_graphisIntro.shtml

the minute i arrive in chicago. on this old bike.




my plans are really coming together to be in chicago
in exactly one year.

im moving home to save up some money and hang out with mah mommy, then im off to the big city,
filled with dreams and cum.

anywayz
you better be weight training your legs joe.
or you'll have to change your name to

slowjoe

hey everybody!

this week, i'll be sending on all the prizes i have at my house,
if you voluenteered to give mr. reilly stroope some artwork or some goodies

please contact him for his mailing adress and send it along.
thanks for participating everybody.
we really lucked out on that contest
and got 3 really solid shirts printed this week.

go team venture THREADLESS!

on the product page it says joshua agerstrand and jan avendano
aka folo.... but were not folo.

we are smelly little bear
i know its silly, but were still doing collaboration
work together, adn i dont wnat anyone thinking
that folo is me, or something like that.


is that cool threadless?
tell your web dude i'll buy him a snickers bar or something.
sorry :(

thanks!