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Evan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:52:03 +0000

I was asked by Puny to contribute a character design to an animated music video they are doing for this song, We R Superheroes on The Apples in Stereo’s new kids’ album, Robbert Bobbert. Not only is this one of my favorite bands, but I really love the song and all the people working on the music video. Contributors include Tim Sievert, Jordan Crane, King Mini, Kevin Cannon and others I can’t quite remember.

so this is the alter ego and his super-powered self who I’m calling The Calculator. I imagine he uses his super computing powers to calculate exactly the correct solution to solve any problem. Also, he is a serious nerd.

Didot, Hatched

Evan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:56:21 +0000

I’ve been working on a kind of font for some clients’ wedding and its been slow to start, but I finally have the base of it down. This image will appear as the front of a card that we are having printed on a letter-press and I can’t wait to see how it looks.

here is more of the font, and this is what I’m actually calling it as it really basically is Didot.

This is the story of what may be…

Evan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:18:11 +0000

I just launched the blog of my next personal project. Odds are, you got the info on facebook, but just in case, I’m putting together an anthology of stories about the future of our planet. I want everyone to submit or tell someone else to submit, but preferably both. It’s not just a comics anthology, I am pretty much accepting anything that tells a story. It’s gonna be a big project and I’m really counting on you guys to help me out with some phenominal stuff. Let me know if you plan to submit or if you can’t think of anything so i can help you brainstorm. Go to the blog for more information:

A Future History of the Planet Earth

Halp!

Evan — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:27:21 +0000

I’m currently ideating a bunch of things, as I’ve previously stated. Well along with that, I’m using this experimentation time to make pieces for the art sale so I can at least feel like selling them is enough to justify spending as much time on them as I am. I just unearthed this giant box of color-aid that I totally forgot that I had. Its some pretty great stuff and I don’t get enough time to do the cut paper/collage thing even though I am admittedly bad at it. I came up with the following image, but I know it isn’t finished. I want to go back into it with pencil or something and maybe do something a little less abstract. But what?

I’d love any suggestions.

p@tternz

Evan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:32:44 +0000

Lately, I’ve been kind of exploring a whole bunch of new things. I have always really liked patterns, but I never really make very many, plus I really felt like I needed to use some digital media since everything I’ve done lately is hand-made (even my website). Anyway, these aren’t the best, but I think I really like them. Plus they actually fit together and repeat seamlessly, which is actually not super hard in a geometric pattern, but it’s something.

cuties

Evan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:10:23 +0000

I made a library of cute/funny facial features and vectorized them for the purpose of making non-cute objects cute. This is just version one (very rough), but this is about what they would look like and everyone would be able to use it this easily.

oh, btw, joel, I stole your pics

HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP

Evan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:38:54 +0000

so um, theres this website. its called the comics reporter. i guess its a thing that a lot of people read. well. UM. My book just got a write-up on it and its like one of those things that gets you a little wet, you know? Like from my eyes. Ok, it made me so giddy i cried a little. well. just go read it, i cant directly link to it, so just scroll down a little…

The Comics Reporter

freedom! we got freedom!

Evan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:59:13 +0000

yub nub eee chop!

Excitement!

Evan — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:36:47 +0000

I just found out I’m gonna be in Print Magazine!

They’re gonna feature my Summer Youth Programs Catalog I did for Designworks last year, so not so much peen as the image would have you believe, but HOORAY!

Hey

Evan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:54:56 +0000

thanks to joellie pants and some greasy work on my part, there is a sweet new feature on www.evanpalmercomics.com . That feature just happens to be my livejournal just buttin its way in to my main page! It’ll hopefully be a way to keep people coming back or friending me on livejournal because im pretty constantly posting new sketches and stuff i may not put on my actual website. usually the stuff is pretty fun in my opinion.

also,

Spare-Time Art

Evan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:14:17 +0000

This is pretty much what I do when I’m at work, but I don’t have any blacks to fill or panel boarders to draw or other high-class business to conduct. I work on my own things. Today, that mostly meant doodling. I worked on my proposal too, but I’ve pretty much promised myself that when I get any idea I like, I’m gonna capture it somehow. Today they flowed out from some divine mind-spring. This first one was inspired from the lunch-time conversation, “Where’s Molly?”

Molly is Hope and Bryan’s cat (1 of 4) and she’s tiny, feisty, and boxy. She also has a stump-tale and I love her to pieces.

next are two more four-panel movie doodle comics SPOILER ALERT: they give away obvious endings…

I plan on making more. If anyone can do an Indiana Jones one, please try. Also, if you think you can do a movie that I’ve done better, give it a shot. Hopefully, I’ll see Wanted this weekend and I’ll have some fresh ammo. I have no idea where this last one came from, but I want to do more in his universe. This might make a dope t-shirt. I’m already doodling another character that’s making me giggle…

this even isn’t everything I drew today, I think I might make another post soon.

A four-panel movie

Evan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:46:03 +0000

I should do this more often.

Robitties ver. 1.0

Evan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:37:59 +0000

I’ve copied this from my livejournal, which i’m using as my main blog now

This is the first version of a little thing I’m calling Robitties
I’ve designed it as a sort of community building exercise among designers to begin with. What I have done is composed a library of different parts of electronic gizmos into an Adobe Illustrator file. The five robots you see here (as well as my livejournal icons) have been composed using this library. If you want to be a part of the project, follow these steps:

1) Download the Library file here.(you will need Adobe Illustrator CS2 or CS3, also if it downloads as a …ai.ps file, just remove the ps)

2) Play around, get a feel for all the parts and how they are constructed. I’ve left the robots I’ve created in a layer so you can see what I’ve done. If you think there should be a piece that isn’t there, make it!

3) See what kind of robot you can make and save your robot into another file. Name it, include separated out any pieces you created and maybe even include a short description of what it does.

4) Email it to me! If its too big, I can also take, jpegs or pdfs.

5) I am composing a site for all the designs and eventually, your design will be up on it. There may even be merch and contests designed around them.

Keep in mind this is a rough version and its only geared towards people who own and know how to use Adobe Illustrator. Now if you aren’t one of those people, keep waiting. Version 2.0 will be a flash app that will be more user friendly. its currently being designed by Joel Gillman and myself, but its gonna be a while and I couldn’t wait any longer!

Good Luck!

Camera

Evan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:10:20 +0000

hey guys, Im thinking of buying a digital camera. “Really, you don’t have one?!?” Yeah, I know, time to get with it. But i don’t really know anything about them at all. I don’t need anything fancy, but do you guys have any suggestions of which/where to get one? I know, lame post, the next one will make up for it.

mo-bots

Evan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:39:29 +0000

man, that new image uploader doesn’t work on this computer…

the top one is throwin a gang sign
if ya got any input on names or other suggestions, please let me know.