I was happy to draw the logo for David Gutowski’s new food blog, 3 Squares. (Meg and I were also happy to be David’s first guest bloggers.)
Here’s a few process doodles from my sketchbook:
PROCESS: T-SHIRT DESIGN FOR BOOKSLUT
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.