The Hills are Concerned

Lots going on in my mind that just spilled out in this piece.

1/4K Pudding Run

Just messing around with an all digital illustration. With my recent gallery stuff, I haven't been on the computer for a while. It felt good. Martha Rich has a tracksuit call out on her blog. Mine may not be up yet.

"Lemony Cloud Dance" at Fusion Gallery

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Another piece for a current show called "Off the Wall" over at the Fusion Gallery in Collingswood, NJ. That's South Jersey. Artist reception is 6-10pm on Saturday, Feb. 9. The artists featured in this show are all street artists and then there's innocent little me. Haaa! I was there at set up and the stuff is killer. So if you are in the area or even if you aren't, get over to say hi and be inspired. Collingswood has a thing called second Saturday so the shops will be open and you will be there, right?

The Little Life & Death Parade

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Here is another one for the show in South Jersey. When the gallery owner saw my stuff a month ago, he loved it and decided to retro fit me into an existing scheduled show so the details on my part of it are still sketchy.

Pink Cycloptopus

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This is one of 4-5 pieces for a show in a cool South Jersey Gallery this February. I'm stoked. More info to come when it gets closer.

I was bitten by the Kokeshi Doll bug.

Ever since seeing the Kokeshi Doll exhibit that ran at the Subtext Gallery, I knew I had to create my own. I ordered 2 blanks from Christina Conway, the curator for the show. The egg body ended up being too big in proportion to the head for my character based on the illustration I already did titled, "An Orange Is Always Good In A Pinch". So I cut a smaller ball and he looked the way I wanted him to. I plan on doing a different character using the egg body supplied.

Interview in Castle Magazine

Castle is a downloadable pdf magazine full of hot art. This was a fun interview. Be inspired and see what makes jim tick.

Octopink

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Happy new year everyone. I wish you all a much better year than 2007. This is my first piece of art for the year. It is acrylic and pencil on cardboard. Fun.

Vector Drip Guy

The fun in illustrator continues with another character in the line. What is Jim up to? Hmmmmmm. So mysterious.

Illustrator Rules!

You all knows what a fan of texture I am but I have a flat side to me. I get excited every time I see really cool vector art. And I love Adobe Illustrator. Here is a character from a concept I am working on. You may be seeing more of him and his friends in the future.

An Orange Is Always Good In A Pinch

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I love Mexican and South American culture. The colors and patterns blow me away. I was on a Mexican folk art site and got all reinspired. This is the result. I had an old desk from my mother's childhood that was falling apart and so before throwing it out, I kept the drawers and put them in my "gotta paint on that" someday pile. It's been over a year and this skull guy seemed perfect for the distressed wood drawer. Now I want to do more of these.

Brain freeze

When my brain seizes up, I do a journal/sketch and everything gets better again.

Nuns are funny sometimes

What can I say? I was messing around in my moleskin and all of a sudden felt like drawing a nun. I never know where my mind will take me. I like it that way.

Tis the Season

Poor little mummy. As if being dead isn't bad enough.

Geekzilla Attacks the Alien Birdbugs!

I know. My posting is down. Life is in the way and I need to do some full-color work soon or I will pop. I feel like this Geekzilla guy right now. Arrrrrgh!

Jim Bradshaw Moleskins Featured In Encore Magazine

I can't believe how much enthusiastic feedback I've been getting on my moleskin sketches since I started posting them. I was contacted a couple of months back by Encore Magazine and they wanted to run a feature of my mad little doodles in issue #36. Encore is a multi-award winning German online art, design, and film magazine. It's a great read even without my art. Haaaha. And the subscription is free. You can find me on the contents page under art, titled Moleskin. Enjoy!
Note: I did the above montage of various moleskin pages and think I might be on to another technique/look. It's funny how every new thing I try ends up a happy surprise that sends me down a fresh new path.

More mokeskins

Hollow Lemon with Cheese Color

You Must Pay and By All Means, Display

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This sign cracked me up. It took me a minute to figure out what seemed like a random order. Marine Park used to have free parking. Ahhh...progress.

Hollow Lemon with Cheese

I never know what to name my moleskin pages with all the stuff going on. I usually just go with the most prominent thing on the page. How sensible of me.

The Necessary Evil

The need for money is what is keeping me and many other illustrators locked in our full-time jobs. Kinda makes for this love/hate relationship with that dirty green stuff.

Little Planet

I did an original doodle for a friend, but scanned it before I gave it away. Then I just had to see this thing in color.

Another Beautiful Day

Is there anything happier than a kid at the beach? That is how I felt when I went to Ocean City yesterday on a perfect September day.

Wandering Moleskin Doodles

Whatever came to my mind, landed on the page.

When Jim Dreams

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Some moleskin fun from my slightly warped mind.

Robo Brainwash

Here's a character I've been messing with. It's actually 2 characters. They are forced to get along in a codependent situation somewhere in the future.

We have visitors

It's not going to be like war of the worlds. Anyone who spends so much time and energy just to visit humans like me won't be tipping the S.A.T richter scale in my opinion. Any way, I have been having a great time in my new moleskin. This is one of the pages with some very minor photoshop color touches. I included close ups so you can see all the fun paint and pencil details.

My Kit Cat Clock

This illustration is of my Kit Cat Clock hanging in my studio. My grandmother had one of these when I was growing up and I remember being hypnotised by those roving eyes. So since I am so into time and clocks, I just had to have one. It was only a matter of time before I drew it.

Hot Diggity Dog!

What can say summer more than a hot dog on the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore? Maybe two hot dogs?

Fairytale Nightmare rendered up version

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I promised I would post the most completed version of this doodle to date. And here it is. Who says Jimmy can't keep his word? For detailed views of this, head over to my new site and click on sketchbook 1 and start with image 5.
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IF: Emergency

This is a crop from a recent sketch/illustration. It kinda says emergency to me. But hey. What do I know. I only drew the thing. Notice how some don't sense the urgency as they sit around eating blue cheese with tea. Actually, blue cheese IS an emergency if it ends up in my mouth. An instant eject system was installed in my head for terrible things like blue cheese and the like. I know, I spelled blue cheese wrong. I just don't respect the stuff enough to care.
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jbradshaw.net is live!

I finally got my site up and running. Many things tried to get in the way, so it took way longer than I had hoped. Please let me know if there are any problems with links or whatever. Check it out! jbradshaw.net

Free Your Mind

I have seen illustrators using old books as sketchbooks. Just paint over the pages and let some print show through for texture. This is a way for me to loosen up and get off the computer. Just push paint and stuff around. I sucked my whole family into this and we had a big fun mess on Satruday. I banged out 4 pages and it was freeing.

Wascalwy wabbit

I have a rabbit problem. My yard is infested and nothing seems to help. They make brown spots in the yard and mess with the garden. We have wasted money on a couple of guaranteed products and I don't want to go the stinky fox urine route. Sometimes I throw tennis balls at them. They will move about 3 feet and just sit there until I get about 3 feet from them. With my shaved head and my growing frustration, they make me feel like Elmer Fudd. They obviously know that I am too soft to hurt them so my only option seems to be trapping them one at a time and taking them for a ride. Or coexisting with them. Anyway, this illustration is not far from my freakin' reality. Sigh.

Geeky Bird

My birds are smarter than your birds.

Red Monster

A little redo since I can't get to the illustration side of me lately. Grrrrrrrrrr!!! All life and no art makes jim a grouchy boy.

IF: Suit

You need to dress in the right suit if you want to make a giant leap for mankind. I know it's contrived but I like IF but don't usually have time to come up with so many illustrations. So you have to take what I give. Okay? This illustration is about 2 or 3 years old with a texture update.

Zambini's Last Trick

Just a sketch I had around that I did some effect work on. I kinda like the brown pencil on the old book page.

Post your butt off!

Note: This was thrown together in a rush. It needs a redo someday.

Every Tuesday at SugarFrostedGoodness is PYBOT. We get an email from our fearless leader Jeff who likes to stoke us up with stuff like you see in the cartoon above. PYBOT stands for post your butt off Tuesday. Frankly, my butt is having trouble reattaching as time goes by. I am usually behind (no pun) in my posting of the topics there so this cartoon is for my boy Jeff. BTW: that's his avatar on the tv screen.

Beezer Ice Cream

We have this ice cream truck guy in Jersey called Weaser. He has a cheap knock-off of the Greatful Dead Weaser guy from the Europe 72 live album, smashing his raindow colored ice cream cone on his head. I don't usually like rip-off art, especially bad rip-off art. But for some reason, I have always liked this one. I guess I'm just easy when it comes to ice cream. Anyway, here's my spin of a cheap knock-off of Weaser.
I included the original Weaser at the top. I would take a picture of the ice cream truck version but I havn't seen it since I moved to South Jersey 7 years ago.