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My wife asked me to whip up an invitation for a baby shower she was helping put on. After explaining that good design is not just whipped up, I set out to create an invitation that was cool enough to put my name on yet frilly enough to satisfy my wife. What is more cool than a pregnant chick surfing through a tropical sunset in a maternity bathing suit?

This will be the last of the Arts & Crafts for a bit. I have had these odds and ends sitting around for a while and had wanted to show them in some capacity so what more fitting than to put them here. Some of the stuff in my previous Arts & Crafts posts is pretty old but it is sentimental to me. I miss the days of Photoshop Tennis and generally just screwing around with images for fun. Now it’s all work work work…

This won me first place in an online art contest on this forum I used to frequent. It was supposed to be a fictitious album cover which it was.  I have never ever referred to myself as ‘MC Cube’ in any other instance.  I thought the ‘Parental Advisory’ label gave it just enough authenticity to be sweet and I was right.  Yay me!

Just an idea that popped into my head one day when I had some free time on my hands. Seriously though, what would Jimi do?

One day I picked up a stock photo and started masking out the background.  I got into it and decided to get really intricate and deep with the hair.  Then I did the face and thought how flat it looked in vectors, so I started shading with my tablet.  In the end it turned into one of those things that was really fun to obsess about and think “gee I should have been using Illustrator all along” but it had no purpose.  At least now I can show it on my blog and say “look what I did!”

Pixar’s movie Cars was a huge hit in my household so it was inevitable that we would throw a Cars-themed birthday party for the twins. We did iron-on t-shirts for all of the kids that came to the party and then let them destroy enhance my beautiful artwork with puff paint and fabric markers. The customized t-shirts seemed to be a hit as a few of the kids were in disbelief that they actually got to keep this sweet party favor.

No, it’s not Doc Hudson or any other character from the movie, it’s just a modern-looking hotrod that I thought was sweet looking and wouldn’t lead to copyright infringement. I guess in hindsight I could have just done Lightning McQueen (or more likely Doc Hudson who was by far the coolest ride in the movie) but this was more fun for daddy!