I just got invited to join the community on Dripbook.com and have added some books with my cartoons and illustration artwork.
It’s really nicely done, and the interface is quite intuitive – so if you are also a creative type I recommend you have a look.
Dripbook on-line portfolios for photographers, illustrators and artists in generalNot everything I post in my own blog is totally self-serving and egocentric. Even though it is a blog about me and my work written by myself….
But this post certainly is.
So here I go again tooting my own horn….which might make you wonder whether I am not really a sleazy ‘cartoon peddler’, and not a swashbuckling, international philanthropist after all….
Well to that I say: Poo poo, Madame or Monsieur! as I head for my hot air balloon.
But before, I leave you with a link to the brand new collection of wonderful, fine Ian D. Marsden cartoon t-shirts I just put together over at www.bountee.com.
The t-shirts feature cartoons and characters, sometimes with little slogans and come in many different colors. There are shirts for men, women and children’s cuts and sizes. I think this concludes the expansion of the ’shop’ area on marsdencartoons.com for the moment and I can return to drawing, creating and making cheese and mustard sandwiches again.
The URL is: http://www.bountee.com/user/marsdencartoons
Ian D. Marsden Cartoon T-shirts from Bountee.comI have just opened a gallery on imagekind.com and added 12 art prints to the shop section on marsdencartoons.com
So if anybody is interested in having their very own I.D.M. print, this is no longer an unobtainable goal.
This was created as a part of a larger cartoon illustration for a calendar and other marketing and advertising applications, featuring the client’s existing mascot ‘Der Kümmerer’ riding a mountain bike. It was very important that the phone in the character’s hand was very crisp and clear and all the features visible. I therefore decided to create an almost photo-realistic 100% vector reproduction of the Nokia mobile phone, which would reproduce and scale lossless up or down to all sizes. The fine shading and hues were achieved using gradient maps.
For the final, approved version of the overall illustration which went to print, the client requested that I make a less photorealistic and more hand-drawn line-art version of the phone. The finished illustration is on display in the ‘illustration’ slideshow on my site at www.marsdencartoons.com
Nokia Cell Phone – Vector Graphic in Adobe Illustrator CS3 by Ian Marsden
