Chlschef

My original idea for the Threadless Loves Drawing competition was going to be a play on Escher's famous hand-drawing-a-hand piece, but I soon saw that someone else had already submitted something along those lines, and realized it wasn't such an original idea after all. That said, I commenced to create "Animalia", which is a play on Alphabet Zoo, an earlier Threadless print, and Graeme Base's picture book of the same title. It also includes my nod to such classics as The Hound of the Baskervilles, Moby Dick, Puss in Boots, Jungle Book, and The Wizard of Oz, and plays on the Adam and Eve story, Steve Irwin, and Nintendo's Mario Kart. There is also a Jackalope. And that alone makes this design worthwhile.

Here is how it went down.

First, I created an original sketches (front and back), with no references:



Then, I refined them:



After developing each sketch to my liking, I transfered them to sheets of vellum:



And then inked them:





Next comes scanning, and then the process begins again as I add color by hand. Right now my medium of choice is watercolor, but that may change.

We will soon see, as the deadline fast approaches.

P.S.
This is me right now:

I've been slaving away in Microsoft Expression Design for the past two weeks on tee designs for Threadless. If you've never heard of Threadless, you're really missing out. Check it out here. Anyway, here are the designs.





Now that you're super excited about this, go ahead and vote!


Kudos.

Neon
by Chloe Scheffe

human-faced sounds
reverberating fling
off stripped-down tin-can walls
mirrored in
the puddle-faces, cloudy-brown dotting down
an alley way
down deep – a ringworm
neighborhood

woven through a lip-edged
hole a never-dull soul
one of us
who made it through
pupation
into full-winged form

and neon-faced graced
the stage


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Since the 7th of January I've been interning at Rusty George Creative, a brilliant graphic design firm in the gritty city of Tacoma. I've recorded my journey thus far in daily blogs, ordered from old to new. Enjoy.

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