Back From the Drawing Board

shirt.woot Derby Entry

toadyco — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:52:15 +0000

Here’s my entry in this week’s shirt.woot Derby. The theme is “Lyrics Illustrated.” I submitted a design inspired by “Brass Monkey.”

You can vote on it here, which would make you one of a very select group. It’s doing about as well as my entries usually do — currently in 45th place with a mere 71 votes.

shirt.woot Derby Entry

toadyco — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:45:08 +0000

This was my entry in last week’s shirt.woot Derby. The theme was “Line Art.”

It takes a special kind of masochism to enter the Derbies over and over. Who knows what the voting public is going to like? Not me, obviously, as this design finished way back in 81st place with only 66 votes.

Ded Bugs: East Coast Tour

toadyco — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:32:46 +0000

St. Louis’s Ded Bugs are coming to the East Coast soon, and it was my pleasure to draw this poster to advertise their arrival. It’s an homage to Iron Maiden’s “Trooper” art, as you might notice.

Savage Sounds of the Woot Podcast

toadyco — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:25:45 +0000

There’s a collection of the best (or, actually, “least terrible”) woot podcast jingles available for download in the woot blog. To serve as virtual album cover art, I scrawled the doodle below.

woot! Replacement Calendar Art

toadyco — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:15:57 +0000

At the end of last year, woot.com sold their traditional grab-bag of “crappy” calendars. All this year — assuming I don’t get hit by a bus — I’ll be drawing replacement art that woot users can download and print to paste over the pictures in the calendars they bought. Here are the first three.

January:

February:

March:

Click the links above to see the woot blog posts about each of these illustrations. In each one, you’ll find a more in-depth explanation of the Replacement Calendar Art project and a high-res version of that month’s illustration.

NY METRO Illustration: OneWeekJob

toadyco — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:43:26 +0000

I illustrated an article in the NY METRO paper about Sean Aiken of OneWeekJob.com. It looked like this:

Click the image above to see a larger version. You can read the paper online here.

shirt.woot Design: Try Me

toadyco — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:09:38 +0000

I did the original drawing that became today’s shirt.woot offering. The shirt looks like this:

In case you’re interested in this sort of thing, here’s what the version I submitted looked like:

My very first sketch just said “Try Me,” but as I worked on it I came to decide “Try Me, Turkey” was funnier. As you can see, Woot’s St. Louis staff disagreed with me and changed it back. They also chose a different font and color for the words, and eliminated one of my juicy golden-brown turkey-body colors. Every color means another pass through the screening machine (or something), so I can understand why they wanted to do that.

NY METRO Illustration: Layoffs

toadyco — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:24:07 +0000

I illustrated an article in yesterday’s NY METRO paper about surviving layoffs. It looked like this:

You can read the paper online here.

NY METRO Illustration: Cyber Santa

toadyco — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:53:51 +0000

An illustration of mine supposedly ran in the NY METRO paper this week. It went with an article about holiday shopping online, and looked like this:

You can read the paper online here — but not the issue in which this drawing appeared; that one doesn’t load.

NY Metro Illustration: Classroom Laptops

toadyco — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:06:29 +0000

I’ve got an illustration in today’s NY METRO paper accompanying an article about laptop computers in the classroom. It looks like this:

You can read the paper online here.