Eric Shalley

Having a bit of fun with type and came up with this little pink piggy. Constructed from different sizes and weights of Bembo.

Inspired by Bembo’s Zoo.

A 5 min study sketch from a news stroy about troops comming home from overseas. Ballpoint pen on paper.

Another blast from my portfolio past. A sculpture of my rocket ship lava lamp. It is slightly larger than life size and constructed from thin wire and solder. The real thing sits on my desk at work.

I was digging through an old box of art stuff and came across some of my sketchbooks. It was like a trip down memory lane. It has also inspired me to start being more diligent about carrying my skectchbook around with me. Expect to see more sketches in the future.

This study of the back muscle structure was done during a figure drawing class in college.

Black Speedball pen on paper.

I recently had the opportunity to develop an icon set for use in both print and television. The icons needed to be built in a vector format, but the desired look was to feel watercolored. I expiremented with several techniques and ended up making my own vector watercolor brushes from scanned watercolor strokes. The icons are traced from my original ballpoint pen sketches. I am pleased with the results and wanted to share them.

My wife’s uncle (Unk as they call him) makes some of the most amazing sauces, dressings, and egg noodles you will ever taste. He gives them out at family get togethers in plain canning jars with the contents labeled in marker on the lid. Not a bad system, but I wanted to suprise him with a label and logo of his own. It will be fun to see his face when we sneak these onto his creations.

Another illustration for a quarterly health magazine. It was for an article on osteoporosis awareness and prevention.

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This week I got to step out of my web designer shoes and do some illustration work for a quarterly health magazine. It was a nice break from my typical schedule.

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I came across Grant Hamilon’s Flickr Stream today and was stunned by his Polaroid work. He definitely has a handle on color, composition, and presentation. These photos make my insides smile. I could really look at these all day long, so simple and serene.

Visit Grant’s Flickr Stream.

Visit Grant’s portfolio.

I have been using this fantastic resource for a few weeks now, and thought I would share it. The site allows you to browse different font styles and types and retrieve the CSS code to achieve the results for your web projects. It is so easy to use and has saved me quite a bit of time from the trial and error way I typically go about exploring web type.

Try Typechart out for yourself.