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Smokin’ Ashes Logo Design

July 14, 2009

Chris MacDonald 2009

It’s been awhile since i’ve updated my site, So I’m going to try to take the time once a week to update my site with all my work I’ve been doing over the last year.

This logo design is something I did for a friend of a friend. He’s trying to start up this Southern Style Barbeque Catering Service that caters for parties or functions. Brian has this huge smoker that he made out of a big oil barrel that he clean out and turned into a smoker that is mounted on his truck, so he can go where ever the event is. I’ve also done his business card and t-shirt design. Soon, I will be starting the website www.smokinashes.com Stay tuned for more illustrations and designs.

Cartoon Self Portrait

January 30, 2009

Chris MacDonald 2009

For over two years now, I’ve been doing caricatures all over Massachusetts. I’ve done them at corporate functions, school events, birthday parties, and festivals. It’s something that I’ve always enjoyed doing. I’ve learned that drawing a good caricature is a lot different than just being really good at illustrator. Especially when you have a line of 20 people waiting to have their picture drawn. The trick is to capture the person’s most pronounced features and finish the drawing in about 8 minutes or less for black & white and 15 minutes for color.

“You’re your own worst critic.”

It’s true. Sure, over the years I’ve drawn my own likeness, but I’ve never done a caricature of myself that I was 100% happy with. So finally, the other day I sat down with my pencils, pad, erasers and whipped up a sketch of myself. From there I scanned it and touched it up in Photoshop. Then I brought it into Illustrator to give it a cleaner look.

I’ve decided I’m going to start doing more of this style caricature illustrations of my friends and family. So make sure you stop by my site frequently to check for new illustrations. You can also subscribe to my RSS feed to be updated automatically. If you would like one for yourself, a friend, a relative, maybe of a stranger (wait, that’s a little creepy), you can contact me at chris[at]chrislikestodraw.com.

UML Alumni Meetup

January 23, 2009

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Tonight I’m meeting up with my Design buddies from school at ‘The Burren’ in Boston to catch up on what everyone been doing since graduation. Maybe, someone will have a job connection for me. I’m still in the search for a full time job.

So changing topics, my buddy Mike just put Qik App. on his iPhone. We are going to try testing this code that will allow us to embed the live video feed in this Post. Here we go. Ok, its not working right now. Here is the link to his feed below.

http://qik.com/mikeostlund