Jordan W Martin Illustration

Whats Going On

2012-09-19T02:01:00.001-04:00

Lots of things are going on. But the most exciting for me at the moment is my Threadless submission. Threadless is running a Minecraft tee shirt design contest. Now, I love Minecraft, so I had to jump at the opportunity to design a Minecraft shirt. Below is the link to the page, and if anyone actually reads my blog you are awesome, and if you want to help me, all you need to do is score my design, click on "email me if this gets made" and/or leave a comment professing your love for my design. If you use Facebook, you don't even need a Theradless account to vote, because it allows you to log in with Facebook. For anyone that really likes the design, I have it made up as computer, phone, and tablet wallpapers on my website.

In other news, I am working on a project for my company, Right After Then Design, that will be coming out in the next few months. There will be more on that soon. Aside from that project, there are many things that I am working on, but not too much I want to talk about yet. Recently I did updated my website with some new art like the sketched below.

Yup

2012-05-23T14:13:00.003-04:00

So, although I never even posted about it on this blog, the Kickstarter project went very well. My book, Yesterday Brings Today, should be available some time soon if I can work out some details. But this brings me to what to do with this blog. Although I Don't know if anyone really reads this, it does give me a place to put random things I do like the illustration above. We shall see, but I keep considering the idea of completely merging with Right After Then, so I don't have so many things to keep track of. For now, don't forget to check out Angry and Mad and even though the Kickstarter is already funded, you can still see how things are coming along with the book on the project page.

Kicking Things Off

2012-04-24T12:29:00.001-04:00

Hopefully my next post will be "Kickstartering Things Off". If you don't know anything about kickstarter.com, you should check it out. Kickstarter is a really fantastic site that helps people fund creative projects. It allows people to back a project and get rewarded for it in the end. I am in the process of getting my Yesterday Brings Today project approved. I will post more about that as soon as I am approved.

In case you don't know, Yesterday Brings Today is an illustrated short story I have been working on for a long while now. It's an odd thing because while most of my artwork is on the comical side of things, this is much more serious. I have been posting about it over on the Right After Then blog. Some more information on Yesterday Brings Today is there, and once the kickstarter is up and running you will be able to learn even more about my book.

Fantastic customers and sketches

2012-03-22T00:15:00.001-04:00

Above is a sketch I did of some awesome customers. They really enjoyed it, and sometimes it's people like that that remind you of why you do what you do. To give someone something that hopefully they will enjoy for a long time to come is a great feeling. When you do mostly comical work it is often assumed that your artwork is empty, but in truth I put a lot of myself into everything I do. Finding things to laugh at and enjoy life is very important. The other important thing that cartoons and caricatures do is point out what makes us different, what makes us unique.

Down here is a body sketch I drew. Usually I despise bodies, they are a little on the campy side, and usually they are not worth the time you put into them. The exception to this is that we recently increased the prices of the body sketches, and now I feel better about the time I have to put in for the body. The other exception is fun customers with fun requests, like this cat woman sketch.

Just some Great Fair Sketches

2012-03-19T01:06:00.001-04:00

Nothing much to report; I just keep pluggin' away at Angry and Mad and Right After Then. In the past few days I have gotten bunch of work done on one of our upcoming comics; I've done some artwork and some much needed naming of characters.

In an unrelated note, here is a whole slew of fair caricatures I've done recently.

A Good Drawing Day

2012-03-14T02:10:00.004-04:00

Just got back from a really great drawing session. It started out as a vary bad drawing night; it's been much too long since I have drawn from a model, but in the end I turned out these two pieces that I really enjoy, so enjoy . . .

Also, everything with Right After Then is going really well. We have decided to re-imagine my old web comic site, Angry and Mad, into an entirely new animal. With Right After Then we have a lot of ideas for stories, including ones to go along with the games we are developing, so Angry and Mad will be our place to have these stories play out. This will leave our official site clean and professional, while Angry and Mad is our playground for madness. I am happy and glad about it.

Touching Some Drawing Experiments

2012-03-02T15:42:00.001-05:00

So I have been wanting to start experimenting more with drawing on my iPad, and I have finally gotten to it. I'm not sure if it will go anywhere but I just bought a Boxwave stylus that works really nice. Adobe is working on a slew of touch apps. Honestly I feel like none of these apps are completely up to par yet, but that's a part of app development; I have high hopes. Adobe Ideas is the app I used for these two; it's clean, well designed, but still lacking on features.

More Texas Caricatures

2012-02-29T20:22:00.001-05:00

My book is still under way with Right After Then, but because I was feeling like I don't have enough on my plate I decided to restart Angry and Mad. Most of you probably have no idea what Angry and Mad is because I pretty much failed at it. It was my attempt at a web comic. I think it was funny but honestly I just sort of gave up on it. Things have changed, I think, and I am going to make www.angryandmad.com into a web comic site for Right After Then Design. We will feature a bunch of comic series, many of which will relate to the games and products we are working on. Hopefully the new site will be up soon.
Our show with The California Boys The California Boys (http://www.thecaliforniaboys.com) has come to a close, but these are some fun sketches from the show. Again, presented with some pictures of the costumers.

A Few Fair Kids

2012-02-21T14:04:00.001-05:00

Here are just a few caricatures from a fair that I'm working with The California Boys (http://www.thecaliforniaboys.com) working right now. Since some people, namely Chris Chua, have complained that I don't ever take pictures of the actual person to compare, I have started to do so. So, here are a few of my caricatures with their human counter parts.

Valenswhaa?

2012-02-16T01:30:00.001-05:00

A Whole New Bag

2012-02-14T02:11:00.001-05:00

There are a lot of "New Bags" going on right now. Lately I have been posting on the blog for the company my cousin and I started, Right After Then Design. We are working on a few projects, but the first for us to produce will be an illustrated short story I wrote called Yesterday Brings Today. You can check it out on our website http://www.rightafterthen.com or even on our Facebook page. I'm really excited about it, but I don't want to be redundant and post about it all here, so if you want to know more about it you'll have to check out with Right After Then.

So the next new bag to talk about is my new bag. I carry a bag with me pretty much everywhere with my drawing stuff and my iPad. My old one was made from a pant leg, and it served me well. But, it had gotten pretty worn out, it was starting to fall apart.

Ali (my lovely wife) encouraged me to make a new one, and so I spent a day putting together a new one full of lovely little pockets and cool bag things. I truly enjoy this new one, even though it's not made from pants.

The last new bag here is some experimentation with caricatures. Ali and I are working a fair with some really great artists. So, I am trying to move forward and get better. I'll keep posting with these experiments.

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Which Witch?

2012-01-07T04:51:00.003-05:00

"Dinna'? oooh, dinna' best serve just 'efor it startin' to loose hope," slipped the words of the witch past her solitary tooth.

Just a few New Things

2011-12-28T11:16:00.008-05:00

(My easel on the road, doing caricatures)

Well, I have been meaning to update for quite a while now, but I have been waiting for the BlogPress app to update, since that is how i usually post, but they have not fixed this tinny issue where trying to save causes the whole app to crash. Truthfully it is making me think of turning over to Wordpress. I have started a Wordpress blog for a project I am working on, that shall be revealed soon, and I have been vary happy with there service. Besides, I love apps and there app is vary well designed.

Anyhoo, I have been doing mainly caricatures lately. Here are just a few Caricatures I have been doing at the fairs. Maybe one day I will post pictures of the people too, but honestly I care more about the artwork. As much as I enjoy doing caricatures, I am an illustrator at heart.

Finally this week I have been able to do some work for myself. Just some sketches, nothing fancy, but I so happy to get some time to do something for myself. the first is just a doodle, but the two after that are some concept art for a world I am creating for one of my many projects.

Some Simple Sketches

2011-10-19T01:06:00.001-04:00

We have been on the move a lot doing caricatures, but here are some doodles I did during some down time.

These two came out of my recent obsession with Minecraft. I am eagerly awaiting the release of Minecraft on iOS, because I am going through some withdraw from being away from it. I know it's ridiculous, but sometimes you need to have a pointless thing to relax. We have a little sketch of Ali and I in Minecraft, and we have a little creeper interpretation.

If you haven't played Minecraft, then you probably still have a life.

Beta Website with a Beta Application

2011-08-30T11:43:00.001-04:00

I have done a little work with Adobes new beta application (code name) Muse. It is not a final website but a work in progress. I have needed to put up updated artwork and information. I am still happy with how it came out, but it will be improved as I get to know Muse and get some more time to work on it, the better it will become: http://www.jordanwmartin.com

New Business Cards

2011-07-26T16:06:00.001-04:00

My new business cards have come in! I have been working on a new ID package and a new website. So far I have been really happy with how everything is coming alone. Soon I will have some time to get the website finished.

Ps. Here is a sketch I did the other day at the fair we are doing. Just thought it was fun; usually I don't like doing body's.

More to Come

2011-07-20T22:27:00.001-04:00

We have been in upstate New York for the past 10 days, and some great sketches came out of it. Above is my new self caricature, and below is a few of my favorites from the week. I'll be off again tomorrow, so hopefully this week will bring along some great sketches too.

After I get back, my fiancé and I will have to get all ready for our wedding. Good things are happening, and great things are coming.

A few new Caricatures

2011-06-12T01:47:00.006-04:00

Here are just some caricatures from the other weekend; sadly all I had was my cell phone to take the pictures, but I think they came out alright in the end.

(And yes, the couple in the last sketch did request to be riding a unicorn.)

2011-05-03T23:18:00.005-04:00

I was off for 2 months doing caricatures, then I moved into the house that my wonderfully beautiful fiancee will live together in when we are married in August. So things have been and continue to be crazy, and I am off again. I figured I would set something out here for now.

These are 2 caricatures I did while on the road. They are of my aforementioned beautiful fiancee.

The Thing With No Name

2011-02-18T01:41:00.001-05:00

Did this sketch today, and ended up liking it a lot. Now I'm working on a final draft of it.

Spooning.

2011-02-12T20:37:00.002-05:00

Foxy

2011-02-12T09:08:00.003-05:00

This is an illustration I did yesterday of this fox character I have been playing with.
I took some pictures of my process, but I'll post those later.

Another day

2011-02-09T01:43:00.003-05:00

Just a shot of my current studio along with a sketch I think I probably overworked.

Doodle Days

2011-02-07T23:56:00.004-05:00

Here is just another random sketch. I have just been sitting around doodling and listening to Radiolab (I have become obsessed). It is good to spend some time at home. Lately I have spent a lot of time on the road doing caricatures and vising friends along the way.

Hmmmmm . . .

2011-02-07T02:44:00.005-05:00

I have no idea if I will keep up with this, but I am going to try . . . So, lets see how it goes . . .