Drawings & Sketches » Illustration http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog Illustration Sketchblog of Brad Fitzpatrick Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:47:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Illustration of a Big Dirty Chef Serving a Startled & Uneasy Customer. http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1924/illustration-of-a-big-dirty-chef-serving-a-startled-uneasy-customer/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1924/illustration-of-a-big-dirty-chef-serving-a-startled-uneasy-customer/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:24:28 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1924/illustration-of-a-big-dirty-chef-serving-a-startled-uneasy-customer/ Here’s last month illustration for NH Magazine’s Last Laugh column. Would you like “flies” with that? Mwahaha.. This was a pretty fun one to do. I love drawing big sloppy fat guys smoking cigars with buzzing flies serving food to unexpecting picky skinny dudes. It’s a weird thing with me.

Cartoon Restaurant Illustration of a Dirty Cartoon Chef Somking a stubby cigar

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1924/illustration-of-a-big-dirty-chef-serving-a-startled-uneasy-customer/feed/ 4 Book Illustrator – Clutter http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1201/book-illustrator/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1201/book-illustrator/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:49:06 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/?p=1201
A Cranky, Cluttered old Book Illustrator]]> Try de-cluttering this old book illustrator fogey. this was an article illustration done a while back on old timers having a hard time making the leap into the digital age. I thought the scrolls & 10 commandments were a nice touch. :) Inspired to post by IF's topic this week which is "Clutter."

A Cluttered Old Book Illustrator

A Cluttered Old Book Illustrator

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1201/book-illustrator/feed/ 19 Gas Pump Halloween Costume Illustration http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1186/gas-pump-halloween-costume-illustration/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1186/gas-pump-halloween-costume-illustration/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:06:07 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/?p=1186 Gas Pump Halloween Costume Illustration]]> Here's my illustration for NH Magazine's 'Last Laugh' article for their October issue, in before & after format.. This was a fun one. Definitely the scariest illustration I've done in a while.
Gas Pump Halloween Costume Illustration

Gas Pump Halloween Costume Illustration


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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/1186/gas-pump-halloween-costume-illustration/feed/ 12 Free Beer Mug Icons for the Buy Me a Beer Plugin http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/395/free-beer-mug-icons-for-the-buy-me-a-beer-plugin/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/395/free-beer-mug-icons-for-the-buy-me-a-beer-plugin/#comments Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:25:17 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/395/free-beer-mug-icons-for-the-buy-me-a-beer-plugin/ I found out from Chris G about a nifty WordPress plugin that puts a twist on a blog's tip jar or donation link: The Buy Me a Beer Plugin.

The idea is that readers who find your blog posts useful and/or inspiring might want to send you a few bucks via PayPal as a tip. Enough to buy you a frosty cold beer. I thought it was a clever idea, especially since I love beer and it's warming up outsi... no, pretty much just because I love beer....

To show my appreciation of the work Sherief Mursyidi put into the Buy Me a Beer Plugin, I'm offering a few versions of my beer mug cliparts for anyone to use freely with the plugin.

Just right click the images below and "save as" to download. Then rename the icons and drop them into the Buy Me a Beer plugin folder to override the old ones, then upload to your server. Enjoy!

Free Beer Mug Icon LargeFree Beer Mug Icon MediumFree Beer Mug Icon Small

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/395/free-beer-mug-icons-for-the-buy-me-a-beer-plugin/feed/ 11 More Cartoon Trouble… http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/350/more-cartoon-trouble/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/350/more-cartoon-trouble/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:58:50 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/350/more-cartoon-trouble/ Here's an earlier cartoon from Blaugh.  Sometimes Chris is good enough to let me write a gag every now and again, this was one of those times.  I thought it also fit nicely with this week's Illustration Friday topic: "Trouble."   Hard to say who's in more trouble here, the kid or the dad. I'm going with the dad.

Blogging Blackmail

Btw... did you know you can run automatically updating daily Blaugh cartoons on your website or blog? Check out our nifty little cartoon widget here... Comes in 5 convenient sizes!

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/350/more-cartoon-trouble/feed/ 6 An Offensive Cartoon? http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/347/offensive-cartoons/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/347/offensive-cartoons/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:24:26 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/347/offensive-cartoons/ As you may or may not know, I've been working on a project with Chris Pirillo for a few months now called "Blaugh: The Unofficial Comic of the Blogosphere." Chris does most of the writing and I do the art, and we're soley sponsored by GoDaddy. It's a great little gig and it's been a fun ride with very few, if any, bumps in the road... until yesterday.

Last week Chris emailed me Monday's gag (which I loved):

Terrorist #1: "Did you bring the liquid explosives?"
Terrorist #2: "Nah, I just scored some Sony batteries from eBay."

So as usual, I ran with it and by letting my cartoonist instincts take over I created the following cartoon:

Chris emailed me a little while later saying he was woried that it's too offensive, can we racially neutralize the characters before publishing it? What was that?!? I was pretty stunned to be honest. Isn't this what terrorists look like? His fear was offending "a sh*t load of people" and my fear was having our work censored.

So after some colorful back and forth IM discussion, and Chris running it by a few members of his crew, the decision was to compromise and put ski masks on the terrorists to diffuse any possible racially profiling interpertations. Here's the edited version:

At first I thought it worked better due to the language slang used in the caption, like "nah" and "scored"... that's something I can't see an Islamist ever saying. But after sleeping on it, I like the original art better and think it's a better cartoon than the the edited ski mask version if we just un-slanged the caption.

The original seems more real to me, am I really being culturally insensitive?? I don't think so. Has this country gotten so concerned with political correctness that we have to worry about offending terrorists now? After all, I am caricaturing the people who bombed the stuffing out of us, right?

Does that mean I need to start worrying about all my other characters now? Should I not make african americans with fuller lips?  Should I be concerned about offending audience members with large noses? What about Geeky glasses? CEO's? Stupid people? Smart People? Women? Kids? Spammers?  Prostitutes? Flight Attendants? Overweight people??

I don't see any other cartoonists softening up their caricatures of terrorism. You're always going to offend someone somewhere with something...  it's inevitable, that's just how it is in this world of "PC".  I've never been a fan of trying to please everyone or tip-toeing around issues over-populated by the Unaware.

I'm interested in your thoughts about this and would really like to hear your viewpoints so please, don't let the terrorists win, take a moment to comment below. 

And for the record, my sincere apologies to all those that might be offended by the above cartoons, skiiers and snowboarders included.

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It's been too long since I've participated in Illustration Friday's weekly meme, so here's my offering for this week's topic "Farm"  Enjoy, and feel free to link to your entry in the comments!

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A Cartoon dog portrait illustration

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]]> http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/309/a-portrait-for-illustration-friday/feed/ 10 Florida Arts Poster… http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/274/florida-arts-poster/ http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/274/florida-arts-poster/#comments Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:54:15 +0000 Fitz http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/weblog/?p=274 Here's that Florida Art Festival poster I said I'd post for you when it was done. (click the image below to enlarge) It was actually for the Palm Beach Cultural Council if anyone knows of it.

This was a fun assignment but it was tricky getting all the characters to piece together just right. As you can probably see from the original sketch, there was a lot of tweaking involved. That's another great advantage to working digitally, vector in particular... it's relatively easy to work the composition by adjusting placement and sizing of elements. Some might call this cheating, I call it saving years of my life. :-)

I'm looking forward to getting a copy of the full-size poster from the agency when it's complete... it'll make a nice addition to the studio. I need more finished art on my walls, plenty of sketches and works in progress but not much color stuff.

The client was very pleased with the final art, I was even lucky enough to get a quote from the art director for my upcoming testimonial page...

"Brad's artistic and professional capabilities are superior and made it easy for us to complete our project and go beyond our clients' expectations!"

Florida Poster Illustration before and after - small

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All characters, names, and gags in cartoons located on this website are entirely fictitious and are not related in anyway with anyone in real life... living or dead, and any similarities are, and always will be, PURELY COINCIDENTAL.

cartoon of an old man complaining about compatibility issues with his wife.

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