Anatomically correct bonfire
Posted by Jeff Moores at 2:15 pm on July 7th
After my mad dash home from ICON5 Thursday night, I got home for our annual 4th of july Ring of Fire festivities. One of our traditions is sacrificing our X-mas tree from the year past. Our bonfire usually is build from orphan wood or other junk that nobody wants. The bonfire took on certain anatomical features and as you can see, this year's bonfire was of the male gender. With the fireworks about to commence, we light the fire!
A dry X-mas tree goes up quickly!
As the town's fireworks commence, Sam plays an inspiring version of Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner.
Getting ready for ICON5
Posted by Jeff Moores at 1:12 am on July 1st
My juggling hipster, Nick Beat, will be helping me entertain those present for my slideshow on Personalized Promotions this Thursday afternoon at ICON5. I'm still frantically putting it together. Hope to see or meet a few drawgers!
Here's a sneak peak at one of the postcard promotions Xerox printed using Variable Data Printing (VDP)
Here's a sneak peak at one of the postcard promotions Xerox printed using Variable Data Printing (VDP)
Randy Enos stands tall amongst the masters
Posted by Jeff Moores at 2:43 pm on June 5th
it's been almost 30 years since a small time college student designed this poster/t-shirt for Parsons School of Design. After feeling miffed at his exclusion, Illustrator/instructor extraordinaire RANDY ENOS' career is now complete and he can finally die a happy illustrator as he now stands beside Michleangelo's David and Leonardo's Mona Lisa.
Long live ENOS!
Randy was, in my opinion, the best instructor at Parsons. Not sure how the instructors are there now, But I bet they don't make'em like they used to!
Randy was, in my opinion, the best instructor at Parsons. Not sure how the instructors are there now, But I bet they don't make'em like they used to!
Going eCommerce
Posted by Jeff Moores at 10:53 pm on June 4th
Can you find HARRI? He's been hiding for over 30 years.
25 years ago I decided to close the doors on a successful little t-shirt business to pursue a career in illustration. Before that, I kept quite busy designing, printing and selling shirts during high school and college. I Followed the Stones and Dead on tour back in the 70s when it was semi-legal to bootleg shirts. But primarily, I sold a ton of shirts at West Virginia University and other colleges as I embarked on a "5 year 5 school plan." But as the trademark police mounted in the 80s, I decided Illustration was the better career choice. Besides, the fumes from the ink had me half looped.
So, here we are in 2008 and I'm back in the t-shirt business. WHY? Because friends from WVU kept requesting me to reprint some of my WVU shirts from the 70s. The entrepreneurial side of me finally gave in...
...long story short, I went up in the attic and salvaged the old B/W designs which were drawn on krinkly old tracing paper with a #2 rapiograph pen. I was afraid if I sneezed, they'd vanish. SO, I scanned, restored and colorized them in Photoshop and presto! A complete line of vintage 70s WVU shirts and posters to market as well as my latest WVU design:
High Street, The Street That Never Sleeps
This was a quick little animation I posted on youtube. It's starting to make it's way around some of the WVU blogs and drive customers to www.findharri.com. Ya gotta love youtube! Crank your speakers for this one if you like banjo pickin'!
ABove is High Street, the new WVU t-shirt/poster that is currently selling at WVU's Book Exchange, several bars and my eCommerce site. One note of interest, because of the strict college trademark laws, I could NOT use any of the TMed WVU logos and captions PLUS the revered MOUNTAINEER could not be "cartooned."
I had to remove the Mountaineer from the drawing. If you know anything about WVU, the Mountaineer is the school mascot and has been rated as one of the best college mascots in the country. The Mountaineer played a major role in my WVU designs and now I couldn't use him. With a little photoshop magic, the Mountaineer quickly became BANJO EER with an exploding banjo. And his coon skin cap became his lively side kick, "Little Coonie."
If you want to know the story behind findharri , we'll need to sit down over a couple cold ones. Flaherty, where's the pub with the cheap cold ones? See you there in July!
BANJO 'EER and Little Coonie
This is the original drawing done in 1977 while I was at WVU. Sunnyside was the party side of campus. The original t-shirts were one color black ink on light colored t-shirts. Thousands of these Sunnyside shirts sold during the late 70s.
OK, as you can see, my drawing skills were very crude back then. Maybe I can blame that on the ink fumes or was it something else in the air.... :^)
Here's the colorized version of Sunnyside with a few updates. For small orders, I print digital transfers on an Epson 1400 printer, then use a heat transfer machine to print the shirt. The results are incredible and the transfers today are light years better than they were in the old days.
For larger orders, I leave the printing to RPS, a local screen printing co. that does beautiful work. SO, am I crazy for getting back into the t-shirt business? I guess time will tell. The plan is to go from college to college developing a line of products for each school similar to the WVU line. Next up is Penn State and after that Flaherty will help me with Ohio State.
I'm currently talking to some printing companies about using variable data printing (VDP) and print-on-demand technology for personalized products all available at www.findharri.com. If you'd like to hear more about VDP and how you can use it to personalize your illustration promotions, come to ICON5 and listen to my talk on Personalized Promotions or meet me and Flaherty for a couple cold cheap ones....
Who's going to ICON5?
Posted by Jeff Moores at 2:21 am on June 4th
OK- where's the drawger party? I'll be giving a little talk on personalized promotions at ICON5- 7/3,Thursday 2-3pm. Where's a good watering hole near the Roosevelt? Looking forward!
For Immediate Release
ICON5
The Illustration Conference
The Big Picture
New York City
July 2-5, 2008
ICON5 The Big Picture is gearing up for 4 exciting, jam-packed days in The Big Apple. Hundreds of illustrators, art directors, creative and media professionals will meet over the July 4th holiday for lots of fun, information and inspiration. http://www.theillustrationconference.org/index.html
ICON5 will be held at the historic Roosevelt Hotel near Grand Central Station. This prominent landmark named for Teddy Roosevelt has been meticulously restored to its majestic glory from the 1920's with modern-day amenities. http://www.theroosevelthotel.com /
ICON5 will bring together over 500 national and international attendees and speakers. These highly skilled, highly educated professionals work on the cutting edge of the global visual evolution and will bring their unique energy and enthusiasm to the conference. ICON embraces the city it's produced in with various pre-conference events, such as studio tours of local artists and magazine art departments; visits to museums and other sites of interest and public exhibitions.
ICON The Illustration Conference is a national, grass-roots, not-for-profit, professional entity established in 1997 to serve the illustration community. ICON is an all volunteer organization supported by sponsor contributions and registration fees. Unlike many other conferences, ICON is not supported with membership dues. Since the first conference in Santa Fe, NM, our purpose has been to provide a platform for illustrators to address, in a timely manner, the most important issues and ideas facing the profession. ICON is committed to creating an ongoing dialogue that serves the whole industry. Each conference brings together a community of illustrators and creative professionals to explore new concepts, media, technologies, and professional issues. Programming topics fall into these three important categories: Inspiration, Industry and Business. Previous biannual conferences have been held in Santa Fe, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Please call Mark Heflin, PR Chair, at 917-408-9944 to discuss story ideas for your publication or by email: mark@ai-ap.com .
We appreciate your interest and support of ICON5 The Big Picture.
Little lost doggie
Posted by Jeff Moores at 1:55 am on June 4th
While roller skiing on a nearby country road, this cute little guy was waiting for me as I approached him from a far. He appeared lost, tired and thirsty. Using the ragged yellow nylon rope as a leash, I tried to invent a new sport but it didn't work.
Eventually he was reunited with his master but it was fun to have this cute little guy around the house.
Happy Hour cartoonist
Posted by Jeff Moores at 11:06 pm on March 30th
These guys were all from North Carolina and they couldn't agree on the best college basket ball team.
I was busy drawing cartoons at Xerox's Thought Leadership Workshop last week. Bob Wagner has asked me to do several of these, but I must say this latest one at the Casa Larga winery was a riot. Keynote speaker Harry Waldenman educated us all on the art of wine tasting while I tried to make art of the wine tasters. OK, so they're just quick 10 minute cartoons drawn on a Wacom tablet. Talk about working fast, I think I drew at least 40 images that evening. Can't remember how many glasses of wine I had...
Below are a few samples that were printed on the Xerox iGen3 digital printer and given to the attendees as going away presents. I must say being a Happy Hour Cartoonist is fun stuff
Warm wishes
Posted by Jeff Moores at 1:35 am on December 25th
I wanted to extend my warmest wishes to all my pals on drawger. Here's to another fun year and some holiday cheer!
Skoal!
Like daveB, i too ran out of time and resorted to the good old stand by for a card-- photos of the kids. At least the relatives will have something to stick on the fridge... :^)
Let's go 'EERS!
Posted by Jeff Moores at 9:34 pm on December 1st
The Mountaineers go up against PITT tonight. Win and they go to the National Championship. I attended both these schools and root for both, but in critical games I cheer for which ever team is having the better season. Sounds like bandwagon to me, but I don't know what else to do.
This is a very quick doodle for a t-shirt idea. I actually met this group of college students at a WVU game early this year. Who ever painted these kids did a great job, because they were BLUE, ultramarine blue, thru and thru!!!
