A few months ago, Jessa Crispin asked me if I wanted to submit a t-shirt design for the literary website Bookslut. So I said, “Cool, let’s do it.” Last week I finally got around to finishing.
I really didn’t want to go for the obvious slutty-girl-reading-a-book theme, so after about a dozen abandoned ideas, I sketched this one:
Decided Jefferson would be my muse (the pixellated color cartoon is from the wonderful 1993 computer game, DAY OF THE TENTACLE):
Tighter sketch:
Carved:
Thought ol’ Tom needed a companion:
Sketched her:
Carved:
No idea whether the design will actually get used, but there you go.
I like.
that’s pretty cool. i love how much research you do for even the simplest drawing.
I know…it’s kind of pathetic, really. I’ve just started doing these little photoshop collages recently with Google Image Search. The good news is that they don’t take as much time as you’d think….
I love how her petticoats look like books. Hope you win.
six months! six months i’ve been waiting for my buddha under the tree and yet you find time to produce sketches for some fly-by-night book blog. have you no decency?
crap dude — i totally forgot about your buddha. i’ll get on that
amazing blog!
Thanks, Miho!
Amazing work! I like seeing your process.
…and I’d wear it!
-Megan