Shirt.Woot Derby #115: National Parks

What's going on?! I actually submitted an entry this week?!?! I hope you like Yellowsnow National Park

It's Been So Long

Wow, I didn't realize how long it has been since I posted any art. It's been a busy couple months. I hope to get back into the swing of things shortly!

Okay, One More...

Okay, so... Even though the first one was painful, I decided to do another. Concept from my brother, though he may deny it because my monster isn't what he envisioned and he thinks it looks too much like the hills in the old Mario games... Anywho, here's my entry entitled: From the Depths...

Shirt.Woot Derby #95: Pointillism

This was another tough week. I intensely love pointillism, but that doesn't mean I intensely love doing it. In fact, it is extremely annoying and frustrating. But, I managed to get one out. This composition is entitled: Would You Like to Be Happy, Too?

And Another

Well, I really enjoy the way some of the Shirt.Woot designers use halftones, so I was playing around with them last night. I didn't start out with much of a concept in mind, but I think this shaped out really nicely. So nicely, in fact, that I actually decided to submit the design as a second entry in the Air derby. There has been some concern about the halftones being too small. I don't think it will be a problem, but I guess we'll see how it goes.

Here is a composition entitled: Have an Orange Soda (on me!)

Shirt.Woot Derby #94: Air

So, you may have noticed that I skipped a week. Well, Shirt.Woot had a Double-Take derby, wherein, they take entries that they had given Honorable Mentions (didn't win, but Shirt.Woot liked 'em) in the past couple months and they get another shot at printing. I didn't have any Honorable Mentions, so I got to sit the week out. However, Shirt.Woot did post the new theme for this week right away, so I technically got a jump. Unfortunately, Air isn't too inspiring a theme, so I didn't get started until Thursday morning (05/07/2009) anyway. Oh, well...

Anyways, here is my entry for the Air derby:

The Aerator Strikes Again!!!
Bubbleton - A lot of things strike fear into the hearts of Bubbleton's residents, but the recent report of a serial popper sent shivers down the spines of even the manliest bubble. The menace has been dubbed "The Aerator" by local newspapers for his modus operandi of aerating unsuspecting bubbles. More at 10:00pm...

Side Project

So, I had been seeing many horse/unicorn related entries submitted on Shirt.Woot and I was just horrified. The proportions were all wrong, but then... horses ARE difficult to draw. I remember drawing them when I was much younger and being often frustrated. Anyways, as a side project, I decided to give a try. I did a lot of research and couldn't find any pictures of a horse in the pose I wanted, so I kinda had to take elements from several pictures and I hope that it looks realistic. Here is my finished work:

Shirt.Woot Derby #92: Steampunk

My new entry is entitled Steam Powered Glove. The inspiration was the '89 Nintendo flop: The Power Glove. Let me know what you think!

Shirt.Woot Derby #91: Trees

The theme this week is: Trees. I love bonsai trees and wanted to do something with one. I figured that a miniature tree should have a miniature pruner, thus Miniature Pruning:

Shirt.Woot Derby #88: Music

Even though I am sorta in a band (we don't get together too regularly) and I love music, I just wasn't too inspired by the theme of Music this week. Here is my entry, The Lead Vocalist:

Shirt.Woot Derby #87: Art Deco

Art Deco is a cool style from the '30's - reminiscent of movies like The Rocketeer or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I really love the style and enjoyed creating Art Deco Planes:



Of note, this is my first entry using my beloved Wacom Intuos 3 6x8" USB Tablet. It was a gift from friends; I fell in love with it immediately and use it all the time. Previously, I had just been using the little mouse touchpad thingamajig on my laptop.

Shirt.Woot Derby #86: TV Show Titles Re-Interpreted

TV Show Titles Re-Interpreted was a fun theme and I submitted two entries, first, Rugrats:



And then - Seaquest:

Shirt.Woot Derby #85: Circus

This is my first week of submitting entries for the Shirt.Woot Derby. The theme this week is Circus. I had two entries. First, Future Ringmaster:



And, Fire Baton:

This is BaldBob's First Post on His Art Blog

Hello, Everybody!

This is my art blog. This post is here in order to create a brief introduction. I intend to post all the new art that I create here, in addition to scanning in my previous art so that I have a one-stop-shop for any and all that might be interested in such a thing.

A bit about myself:

My name is Michael Kremer. I have been interested in art since at least the third grade (as that is my first art memory). My teacher had one of my classmates' parents (at least those that were willing, i suppose) come in each week to lead the class in some sort of art project.

My mother decided to come in one week to do a project on portraits. So, she brought in some history about famous portrait artists and the like, then we were paired up with another classmate, given crayons or colored pencils (don't recall exactly) and we were to draw portraits of each other. I recall my teacher looking at my effort with kind of a stunned look on her face and asking my mom if I had ever done portraits before (I took that to mean that it was pretty good).

And so that began my interest in art. However, I was never all that interested with color and shifted toward the pencil. So, you will note that the early scans (that I will upload at some point) are mostly pencil.

Currently, I have joined the Shirt.Woot.com community and am trying my hand at the t-shirt design business. I figured this might be a simple, free way to practice graphic design and get feedback along the way. I have been interested in graphic design since my junior year in high school; however, the one class my high school offered wasn't really the best. We were able to play with a few programs a bit and learned the basics of layout, but nothing beyond that - so, not too helpful. And since graphic design programs are hugely expensive, I haven't done much of anything until early this year when my brother offered me an older version of Adobe Photoshop.

So, anyway - that's probably a longer introduction than necessary - on to BaldBob's Art Blog!!!