Phenomenon

DIe in Space, Repeatedly

Teaser for a game project. This is what you call truth in advertising.

To Do List

They say making lists us helpful, but I'm just not seeing it.

Greebles are space barnacles

Spam in a can

So I hear it's your birthday…

 

Congratulations! Another year forward on your journey.

And also:

Updidn't: Triastroloboterra

Some things didn't get blogged for whatever reason in the past few months. This is one.

Dream Watch

I had a dream about this watch, which is odd because I don't usually remember my dreams and I don't wear a watch. 

Hospital Corner

I spent several hours hanging around a hospital room yesterday (I wasn't the patient). Eventually I got tired of reading Moby Dick to pass the time, and made this sketch on my iPhone.
The clock on the wall really did read 99:59, that's not artistic license.

Getting Things Done

Order from chaos!

Psycho KLR

My friend's industrial motorcycle. Having spent a lot of time operating industrial machines, I personally wouldn't want my motorcycle to look like work, but to each their own. I spent a lot of time looking at this bike on my recent adventures. I almost miss the ugly thing.

Giant

"I'll be a pharoah soon
Rule from some golden tomb
Things will be different then
The sun will rise from here
Then I'll be ten feet tall
And you'll be nothing at all"

Mobile test

Trail

Just a real quick one as I'm about to leave on vacation. I wouldn't have even bothered,  but this weeks Illustration Friday topic of "Trail" was too perfect to ignore.

I'm about to go motorcycling across the United States, following the trail of one C.K. Shepherd, who rode across the country on his motorcycle after he came back from World War One, back in 1919. He documented his journey with the book Across America By Motor-Cycle, which you can find, free of charge, on Archive.org. And as we follow his trail, our crossing will be documented by my good friend Chris, at acrossamericabymotorcycle.blogspot.com

I'll probably do some sketching on the journey, and I may update from the road, but for now, no promises.

Until next,
Rod

Equipment

The bottle opener is +1/+3 vs. Lagers. 

Ahead Poster!

By popular some demand, I am now selling prints of my last piece Ahead. It can be found under "Prints" on my website rodgillespie.ca

Ahead

Maybe it's because I was just reading something about Eric Chahi and the classic Amiga game Out Of This World (originally known as Another World, presumably the name was changed for America to avoid a flood of death threats from disappointed soap opera fans) but I did this one in simple vector style with Illustrator instead of freehand (again, freehand, not Freehand, and if you get that joke, give yourself a cookie).

I worked out the basic idea freehand in Sketchbook Pro before taking it into Illustrator, and you can see the original rough outline, if you're into that kind of thing, after the jump.

Detective

Going rough for this week's Illustration Friday, rough like the hard-boiled detectives of yesteryear's pulp ragazines.

Eff Zed Six

After listening to Big Illustration Party Time podcast episode 36, with guest Jason Cruz, motorcycle and hotrod illustrator extraordinaire, I decided to try out something in the Cruz mode.

Rocket Surgery

Expired

So this Illustration Friday is Expired, which brings to mind all kinds of fun things. Took some inspiration from a novel I recently read. Bet you can't guess what it was!

Buell Ulysses XB12S RIPFTW

Nothing too exciting, this is part of a t-shirt design I'm working on. It is, however, a motorcycle, on Monday.

Perspective

I'm crushing your head!

Somewhere to the West

The sun came out, and a man went for a ride.

Propagata

I'm going to be honest, I had a hard time coming up with something work-safe for the Illustration Friday topic 'propagate'. Not that I'm in the habit of making dirty pictures or anything, it's just… propagate. Nudge nudge, wink wink.

Adrift

Everyone always said I was a space cadet.

Monsters In Real Places

I found this super-fun site, Monsters In Real Places, where you can see, well, monsters, in real places. Like this fella from Caleb Somers:

Or this one from Jane Davies:

…and maybe even something from Yours Truly!

Go check out Monsters In Real Places.

Muddy

It's muddy, it's a mudskipper. It's not the Muddy Mudskipper of course. Though it secretly wishes it was, as mudskippers are wont to do.

Monday moto

Focused

An unblinking electronic eye for each citizen, focused on your every move.

Men With Hats

The Adventurebilt Hat Company says this about their hats:

"Our hats are anachronisms, relics from a past age when every man wore a hat, and the hat he chose to wear would tell you much about the man beneath it. And of course, the most popular hat style of that era was the fedora."

If a man chooses to wear most popular hat, that is the same hat as almost everybody else, then what does that tell you about him? Did they really think this through?

Of course, I think the comic strip Achewood may have the final word on the Fedora, "You don't look like Bogart, you look like you ride a Honda Goldwing and collect swords"

McKing

It's Monday, you know what that means…

Clumsy

MotoMonday!

Wilderness

"Society is the place where people exist together. Yes sir. That is civilization. Yes sir.

The lone wolf belongs to the wilderness! Yes sir.

You must not grow up to be a lone wolf! No sir."

Motomonday!

Starting last monday, I intend to commemorate everybody's favourite day of the week with my favourite thing, the motorcycle. Enjoy!

A Night Ride

Had a dream I was racing in a strange yet familiar indoor city on my motorcycle.