Posted on January 31, 2010 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
It’s been a long while, but thanks to an AIGA Screenprinting workshop at the Atlanta Printmakers Society on Friday, I got to do some limited edition screen prints on paper. It felt great to get back into that and get my hands dirty – literally. The piece was drawn in Photoshop with the Wacom tablet and supplemented with a pattern from Illustrator. I’m really happy with the result. Many thanks to Shari Margolin for co-organizing it and Matthew Crouch for donating paper samples so I had something to print on!
Posted on November 13, 2009 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
It’s been a busy several months on the creative front. Probably one of my best creations/collaborations to date was with my wife – we welcomed our second daughter into the world on October 6th. Leading right up into that was finishing up the album artwork for some good friends of mine in the band Afroskull. To Obscurity and Beyond is their 2nd release – it’s a mind blowing followup to their debut album, Monster for the Masses. You can purchase the new one and hear tracks here: LINK. Just find a comfortable cushion to sit on and make sure to wrap your head in duct tape so you don’t lose your grey matter. Check them out if this doesn’t scare you: New Orleans Funk + Black Sabbath + Frank Zappa + a giant horn section.
Posted on November 21, 2008 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
These were some explorations of both style and execution for a project I’m working on. It was nice to play around with some illustration for a change at work – something I don’t usually get to do. It was a nice change of pace…
Posted on June 4, 2008 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
It’s been awhile, I know… It’s hard keeping up with a 1-and-a-half year old. My wife is out of town, and my daughter is asleep so it was a good time to play around with some art…
When my daughter was born, my wife had asked me to do a piece for her room. For a myriad of reasons I’ve been putting this off, but I finally made it to the intersection of inspiration, free time and upgraded RAM.
This piece is based on a song from one of her toys that repetitively beckons you to find shapes everywhere you look. Based on the profuse number of times I’ve heard it, I’m pretty sure that the lyrics are engraved on the inside of my skull. Lovingly, of course.
I’ll probably noodle with it some more for composition, but I’m generally happy with it. Look at the larger version – some of the detail closes up when it’s a thumbnail.
Posted on February 27, 2008 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
Working the image, playing with fonts, adding some lighting and texture. Getting there…
Posted on February 22, 2008 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
Here is really the first in a series of planned Cartoon Network show destinations. We’re really just having fun with this, but here are some progress shots. I like the white version with the negative space, but there’s something about the tan with white highlight too I can’t let go of. Not sure which is working better… Thoughts? This is a combo of Illustrator and Photoshop.
Posted on February 13, 2008 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
This is a concept that one of our designers, Owen Eliasen is developing. He concepted a great program of products and graphics based on character versions of vintage airlines that we’re investigating producing. This is an imagined airport poster to go along with that program. All Photoshop and some Illustrator typography. I created some custom sponge brushes from some images I found on the internet which worked out well for the background.
Posted on December 2, 2007 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
The invitations I designed for our wedding in 2004, and a few tee shirts I designed are featured on the Standard Deluxe website. Check it out! Link here: Standard Deluxe.
Posted on November 2, 2007 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
This is from the annual CN calendar that our design group puts out. Our group developed this self-initiated/self-directed project back in 2000 I think and we’ve been doing one every year since. Unfortunately this never sees consumers, so only a select few outside Cartoon Network actually get them. The upshot, though is that we’re our own client so we get to take liberties we normally wouldn’t be afforded on other projects. We each get a month and get to interpret it more or less how we want. This is my contribution for June, it’s for the upcoming show Secret Saturdays by Jay Stephens (of Tutenstein, Oddville & Jetcat, Chick and Dee, and Land of Nod fame). This was concepted by me and Clint Carruth our Sr. Writer, pencilled by Juan Ortiz, inked by Mark Prudeaux, and colored, typeset, layout and P’shop effects by me. I’m really thrilled with how it came out, Juan and Mark did a fantastic job. They made it incredibly easy, thanks guys!
Posted on October 19, 2007 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
As mentioned in my last post, here’s the real McCoy. It wouldn’t all fit on the scanner bed, but you get the idea. Since the ink is oil based, there’s a bit of viscosity so neat things can happen and it can hold the textures of objects. You can also ink over top of your original wipeouts and add more colors. I think this was a 3 color experiment. This was probably circa 2000-2002.
Posted on October 3, 2007 by JAYRO Posted in Blog
One of my newer pieces, I believe this was from 2005 also. I made some giclee prints out of this which are for sale at Alcove Gallery in Atlanta.
Posted on September 30, 2007 by jayADMINrogers2011 Posted in Blog
Some friends of mine who have a production company in NY needed a logo, so we set out to give them a nice edgy brand. They do alot of work for MTV: Punched in the Head Productions. My friend Joe built out the site and we worked together on the end credit animation. It was a lot of fun… If I can figure out how to post video, I’ll put it up.
I just looked back through the logo concepts, there were some good choices there… I love the brain getting pummeled…The Ralph Steadman-esque one wasn’t bad either. This is just a selection of the many I presented. I really appreciate the opportunity to work on the project. Thanks Craig, Amelia and Joe!
