Summer Time

Summer time is here again!

This summer I am taking off from my usual working for bands and flyering to really focus on my drawing. So I am going to do 75% drawing from life, and 25% painting (traditional and digital).

A lot of my drawings will be posted here throughout the summer but pieces that I take to a finish digital painting will be posted on www.personalviewpoint.com which is being updated and provided by my generous teacher Zina Saunders.

Have a great summer friends, look out for updates!

-Daniel Fishel

Society of illustrators and My Favorite Mistakes Show

So Tomorrow I will be going to NYC to hang out at the Society of Illustrators to hang out at the reception, meet and greet many people. I hope to make new friends, and new mentors. Above is a digital mock up of the image I am screen printing as a business card for tomorrow. I am also going to do a small run of these as well just for keeps sake.

Also here at the University of the Arts, I have a Gum Bi-Chromate Print that I submitted to hang in a printmaking show called "My Favorite Mistakes", which show cases images that are off register, didn't ink completely, ect. Gum Bi-chromate is a process where you seperate colors using channels into CMYK negitives that would then be exposed to light on Rives BFK paper with a chemical mixture of Watercolor pigments/Arabic Gum and Amonium Dichromate. It's a process I highly considered to print all my paintings in as a traditional means besides printing archival ink jet prints, but the cost and time put into printing 1 image takes a long time.

Anyway, The Printmaking show is amazing and I highly recommend anyone going to it, because it shows how good happy accidents look at paper. You can see this show on the 6th floor at 333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia PA.

New Stuff

I just finished a t-shirt design for a band called Nafy, but very soon they are changing their name to "In Confidence": myspace.com/neveragainforyou

Here is the Sketch I did for their new t-shirt.



Here is the finished design for that shirt



Here is another shirt design that I finished was for the No sleep records band "The Wonder Years":http://www.myspace.com/thewonderyearspa

They have hired illustrators that are typically more playful with their imagery, than I am used to, but my favorite illustrator that they work with is James Heimer: http://www.jamesheimer.com/

You can buy this shirt for $17 at http://www.solidmerchandising.com/thewonderyears/item2.html




Very Recently, I helped a illustrator friend of mine named Alex Eckman-Lawn: http://alexeckmanlawn.com/, do a screenprint run of a flyer he did for a date for one of Philadelphia's best ambient metal bands, Rosetta, for when they do a tour of the down under.

Here is some images I put together of the screen printing process and the final of this 52 edition run.



Last thing, I am making artist products !!!! Here is my new t-shirt design that I made for sale on myspace/facebook. $8 postage paid, and if you send me a email/send money to my paypal account: Fisheld@aol,com

You will the the shirt next monday. I am doing a pre-order now and printing next sunday. It is going to be awsome.

This is a Straight edge t-shirt that is a re-interp. of ones before it with the same saying.



Enjoy guys

-FISH

Latest Happenings

I officially got into the Society of illustrators Student Competition Show along with 6 of my other peers among the other 130 people that will have things at the show.

Link to our pieces: http://www.soicompetitions.org/?section=gallery&competition_id=22&method=inst&institution_id=85

Here is the piece that got in.....

Yesterday, I did a demo on digital illustration that I am also doing to create a series of portraits that show the personality of the person portrayed. I am doing all female artist, because they have I think better stories, and more colorful personalities than that of many other people. Plus females are fun to draw, and hits me up at my love of Alphnose Mucha illustration of women.

"I remember back in my home town, how nature started over take the industrialism that was had happend....."

"If you give me a Key and a box with a key hole I will be amused for hours just playing with that...."

- Ali Crow

Also, when everyone gets a chance, check out http://www.personalviewpoint.com atleast once a week on Thursdays. Not only will you see my work, but work of my peers.

I am working on not only a couple school assignments but a few assignments that I got from bands. This is going to be fun!

Keep it real!

Benefit Show

After I talk to the booker.... Not only will all the Proceeds from the door go to the benefit, but all the money I get for the Flyer will as well.

Come to the show, have some fun in support of the benefit.

Originals for sale and Canceled show flyer

One Thing people may or may not know about my work is that it is all done by hand. I don't like working on Adobe Illustrator. I think it is a waste of my time doing all the line work and it makes me frustrated and I stop what I am doing. I dont have patience for that program. So I do it all by hand.

These drawings are for sale!

These drawings are done on American Masters Archival paper with Archival india ink and acrylic inks, with touch ups done with liquitex acrylic titanium white paint.

These Drawings were done with the This Is Hell show flyer (Previous post)

Do you want it/them? Email Me at Fisheld@aol.com

$100 postage paid, with or without matt.

This Show got canceled because Lebanon cancelled their US tour. They are a really good ambient rock band so if you are into Pelican they are a good band to look into.

That is it. I got alot of work to do....

Lots of cool stuff going on

So I created a flyer for Championship out in leymone, PA. It will be screen printed in 4 colors.

I love doing flyers because it lets me try out differnt ways to use images, and concepts. Even thought I am alittle limited by its flat nature and to the amount of colors based on how much money I have at the time, I still enjoy doing it.

This flyer, kinda goes with this whole adam and eve thing. She has a tree on her shirt which is representing the tree of knowledge, and she is shooting these laser beams at Adam who you can now see all of his bones which represents the passage "....and they relized they were naked, and covered each other up with leaves they made gurdles with..." or how ever the passage goes. Its sorta the same thing but in a X-Ray fashion, and contemporary.

Process of how I built it is below. (If you click on the empty blue box it will put you to a new page and animate)

I am back in school so updating this will be alittle slow. Keep checking my myspace for anything cool going on.

www.myspace.com/xfishxart

-FISH