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Thought of this tonight, and drew it up real quick. Guess the guys name will be Roger now.. Used Inkscape for inking and coloring it.

lorenzo080830flyer , originally uploaded by tmray02 . This is the flyer artwork I created for my band Lorenzo's Music upcoming CD release show for our new album. http://www.lorenzosmusic.com This is a flyer created based on a vintage french matchbook cover I found on Flickr. I know I could have just used the image and added on top of that, but I wanted to try and recreated the look in Inkscape using textures and the sculpting tool.

Recently I was asked to create the artwork an advertising music publishing house's website. They wanted the artwork to have the look and feel of a vintage children's storybook. The concept was-- two boys climbing into a pillow fort they made in their living room, which will lead them into an imaginary music land type setting. So for the first part, after several sketches, this was the one that was chosen. After the character sketches were sent, the main boy was chosen from this sketch. I did some clean up work on the pencils and scanned it into GIMP. Then cut it out to look like it was a drawing that was clipped with scissors so later it could be put on top of the art to give it the effect that it's being used to play with like colorforms toys back in the day. In the original concept sketch the other boy was crawling into the fort and they felt it didn't get the idea across that he was doing that. So I decided to draw the other boy like he was sticking his head o...