Earlier this year (around the time of the first Jameson vs. Scott (all right, the only one (so far))), I was getting pretty into Photoshop. It was at this time that I started exploring vector art (the style of the film adaptation of A Scanner Darkly), learning from online tutorials and working with personal/friend’s photos. One of my unfinished works from this winter is below:
Original photo credit and the band name “Tropic Flannel” goes to Jameson. I posterized the desaturated original to about 8 or 9 different shade values and worked on my and John-Michael’s faces (I stopped at his hair). A while ago, while thinking about making a personal portrait, I decided to revisit vector art, but using much fewer values. I also added some significant contour lines, which I think are necessary when working with fewer values to delineate facial features and separate the figure from the background. To see the two I worked on most recently, read on:








Remember how I used to do Dee-rector’s commentary for all the Lenny Dee shows? Well you’re about to make some new memories! …With the third installment of Dee-rector commentary for Lenny Dee, focusing on Lenny Dee: You’re Outta Line, the Spring Term 2009 show. It’s been several months with only a few changes to the Dee’s line-up, so you should have a pretty good i-Dee (pun) of all the members by now. We’ll start with the sketch that wasn’t actually a sketch, but got its own YouTube video:
1. Dee-Rector’s Intro (Vote for Chase Kimball!) – In which Tim and I introduce the show, but not before passing around a petition to have Chase Kimball on the ballot for CSA Senator (or something like that). A few people asked me if the pie exchange of questions and answers was scripted, and I can assure you that it most certainly was not. It came about as the result of Tim Carroll’s razor-sharp wit. My answer to what it’s like to be Tim was less razor-sharp and more rambling and nonsensical. And then we get the signatures, and we start the show! The inside jokes you may have missed:
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