The pickles are delicious!

My refrigerator pickles are delicious, if a little on the salty side. The taste is very much like kim chi. Yum! They were ready in about 3 days.

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posted by Tony at 10:52 PM | 1 comments

Rockin' 2

So I mentioned (below) another pending flyer for WLUW involving a Chinese good-fortune cat. Well, I've gotten nowhere on that yet — I kind of need to take a good look at one somewhere before I can really draw one in a leather jacket with studio headphones. Hey, I bet I could have done that yesterday when Eric and I were at the Asian market. Oh well.

Eric and I went to this Chinese-Vietnamese market whose offerings also cover Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, Japan, and I'm sure many others. We bought dry carrot noodles and soft fresh lo mein; two flavors of Japanese rice seasoning; cheap lemons and a large bag of yu choy; and sesame oil, dark thick soy sauce, and aged Chinese vinegar made from "sorghum, barley, and pea" (go ahead, let the 12-year-old child in you giggle at that). Then we came home and I made an improvised refrigerator salt-pickle, sort of like a quickie kim chi, with napa cabbage, onion, garlic, carrot, and radish, lots of salt and some vinegar, and various random seasonings. We'll see if it tastes good when it's ready, which will be I guess a few days to a week. (The problem with improvising is you have to improvise when things are done, too.)

But I digress. Here's the sketch of the good fortune cat that I drew when I was brainstorming ideas:

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posted by Tony at 11:53 AM | 3 comments

I like to draw pictures of odd-looking people

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posted by Tony at 11:10 PM | 1 comments

Rockin'

It's been a while since I've posted... not that I've had nothing to say or show, but just that I haven't had the time to sit down and do it.

But here's an easy thing to show, since it doesn't involve scanning:

I made a couple of flyers for WLUW. The first is a general station flyer which is conceivably being passed out after concerts around town right now! I did it all in Illustrator without the benefit of a graphics tablet, and I think all things considered it looks pretty good. (Though my next submission will be hand-drawn and inked... I'm planning on something involving a Chinese good-fortune cat, the kind you see as part of a shrine in the corner of a Chinese restaurant.)

So here's my general flyer, Rock Chick Rocks Out:


The second flyer was for the show Think Pink, the one I submitted a posted for earlier. Either they didn't like the poster, or it just wasn't what they were looking for... that's fine, the real point of that poster was just for me to make it and show it to someone. Anyway, the folks at Think Pink had a logo created somewhere, and said they wanted a flyer that used the logo and certain text. This came back to me with a request to maybe churn something out that could be used in a few days. So I created this in maybe 1/2 hour, and if anyone in Chicago went to the Reeling Film Festival two weeks ago, they just might have been given one of these puppies.

I'll post some actual sketches later.

In the meantime, enjoy this photo I took of a dahlia in a vase Eric made:

The dahlia came from Barb at the farmer's market... the picture is from mid-October. There are no more local flowers to be had anywhere, but it's nice, as we descend into December, to remember when they were around.

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posted by Tony at 8:10 PM | 1 comments