MidwestLove Art & Design

Hello everyone,

As you may have noticed, MidwestLove.com looks a bit different. I’ve launched a new portfolio based website at the www.MidwestLove.com doman and the new home for the MWL blog is www.blog.midwestlove.com.  So update your RSS readers and bookmarks! Sorry for the lack of advance warning, this idea for a new web site quite literally sprung up overnight.

In other news, I’m going to be using the blog here for more in-depth look at specific projects, so if anyone has any requests for projects they’d like me to blog about, let me know. Who knows, I might even get creative with posting some of my thoughts on other things such as music, books, personal life and (take a deep breath) other people’s art. We’ll just see what this turns into.

Anyway, thanks again for checking in. As always, I’d love to hear your feedback on the new site or anything else you may feel compelled to talk to me about. Thanks!

-marky

I just had to share this, mostly because the illustration makes me laugh. Madison show promoters, TRAgency have commissioned me to do a series of printed posters for their upcoming shows. I was given complete artistic liscence to do whatever I wanted for each, so my goal for the series is to be as diverse as possible while remaining relevant to the style of each show, and also to try out some new techniques. This was a mix of illustration and digital art. The main character (I named him “Ponce DeLeChicken”) was done with pencil, inked and scanned. The backgroud is a blank page out of my wife’s grandmother’s antique scrapbook that I’ve been waiting to utilize for a while now. The big orange “C” has no significance whatsoever. It just looked right and framed the illustration nicely. I wish I had some more insight into it’s reason for being there, but there is none. Thus is life.

I’m going to try and make updates more frequently on here so all of you with RSS subscriptions can have more MidwestLove in your inbox everyday.

-marky