Yupo Models

As a supplement to some of my sketches, I started playing around with Yupo.

Sheet of Yupo on the right 

For the uninformed, Yupo is a thin, semi-opaque sheet of plastic material that can act as tracing paper. You can draw on it with most mediums, but it does not absorb ink. This allows for paint or ink to remain workable for longer periods.

Watercolor & Graphite on Yupo

Originally Illustrated July 2013

Lizzo Bangers Logo

Back in August, longtime friend and local rapper Lizzo asked me to come up with a logo for her debut album. After a lot of deliberation, we decided to go with this one:

As seen on various merch:

Congrats to Lizzo on all the critical acclaim she's been receiving as of late!

BONUS ROUND:
Some logo drafts from the brainstorming process:

UPDATE

Rescued from the file catacombs:

Research at Urban Bean

Lust

So, I'm good with paint streaks.
I turned a painting of mine into a screenprint. I call it 'Lust'.

It's a three color print, as you can see, manually printed. Pretty abstract and available for purchase here.

Hipster Trash

Y'all remember my post waaay back? Sure you do. Well I finally transferred the idea from my computer to THE 4TH DIMENSION by way of silkscreen.

Behold!

I guess I call it Hipster Trash. I'm doing another (new object) to be part of the series in the next week or so.

One color down.

Tah-Dah!

These were all manually screenprinted by yours truly on 20"x23" French Paper Co. Pop-Tone Blu Raspberry cover stock. There's also a variant! Yellow! Mmm like butter.

Or Lemonade!

Yellow Variant: edition of 6 (only SIX!) and Teal: edition of 18.

Just to be clear about this:

KID JERF IN NO WAY CONDONES using a dinky digital camera in poor lighting to convey pieces of art. Sorry about that.

Available for purchase here.

Redlands Reprise

Quite a while ago I created a quick composition of a photo I had taken for use as a Facebook profile picture.

ugh is he talking about fb? lame

 It got lost in the shuffle and I rediscovered it, deciding I'd like to prepare it for screen printing posters.  
They haven't been printed yet, but if you're interested keep your eyes on the blog, they'll show up sooner or later.

REMIIIIX

Variant

VietZom Grrl

I've been working on this one for a long time. I think I'm finally satisfied with the final product:

Close-up

It went through a million iterations. Here's some pictures to convey (part of) my process:

Layers: Not just for Adobe

Trying to find a good color scheme.

Screenprinting: for your Home

[Choppy panoramic of] the studio space

Another lull in my blog activity has been caused by screen printing. I built a table and my friend and I amassed the materials needed to be able to screen print. Here are some photos from our first gig, a concert poster for Live Letters

Poster Design by Dschwen

I'll be sure to update [hopefully soon] with some of my own screen printed creations.

Al's Brew

It was recently my totally awesome Dad's birthday. Since he collects old beer cans, I figured a custom designed label would be a fitting gift.

I went for a pretty classic style and approach. After it was ready for printing, I found an old style beer can to paste it on;

They don't make 'em like they used to.

The existing rust from the can showed through during the pasting process, but it added a really great touch of antiquity. One of those "happy mistakes" I'd always heard about...

Rorschach (Toxic Ideation)

So as you may or may not have noticed, in reference to my Toxics album cover, the finished product was monotone. It didn't start that way though.

Stumbling through old files (oh, those files!) I found the original color version and appreciated how well it worked as a stand alone, I thought I'd show you guys to see your opinion.

Which further stemmed from some paint blobs I made, as seen below.

What do you see here?

Now if only I could find a decent large format printer... (Tips & hints welcome!)

Taste

This is just a post out of boredom. 

A lot of the time, when creating something, I make dozens of iterations of a piece just to more easily visualize the possibilities of an end product. Here are two early (read: far cry from final product) iterations of a piece I'm currently working on.

I'll be sure to come back eventually with the final product. These are essentially just proverbial thumbnail sketches of digital imaging. A byproduct of processing my way to a final composition.

Stamp & Post

I made my own postcards for various uses (thank you, invitation (?) whatever really.) Here's all I did:

Second times the charm: I forgot to make the image an inverse of the intended final product.

Crude, I know. The paper is fancy though?

Repeat!

Ink splatters for effect! (Poor Carpet ...)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sample of final product.

It was a fun project, definitely, but there is no room for perfectionism in stamp making. Straight, consistent lines are tough. Not bad for something I've only done a couple times before, if you ask me.

Love Letter to MPLS

I finally got to start screen printing some of my designs, I'm psyched! I took some pics for y'all (which you may not find as interesting as I do, but anyways,) sorry about the low-quality cellphone pics!

The first design I printed was commissioned by Shameless Inc. and it was based on a design I showed you in an earlier post (Love Note to MPLS). The design was modified to this end:

My babies...

 

...They grow so quickly.

Pretty cool right?? Hand printed by yours truly and available at Shameless' Storefront on Franklin & Hennepin and soon to come online. I'll talk about that more later though.

I also hand-deliver, if you're in the MN area and are interested in one, as well as ship. Get at me if you're interested! 

PS:

These shirts are for sale, and it would be awesome if you wanted one, to show your support for the local arts, or for whatever reason! 

This first run consisted of 18 shirts total, so if you want some in this color be sure to let me know quick! 

They are currently only $10 (!), e-mail:

Jeffrey (at) Kidjerf (dot) com to order!

Luxury

This was a logo commissioned by an electronic musician and dear friend of mine. Luxury is a remix project, on a crazy beat-bending spree through the R&B and Hip Hop hits of radioland. Be sure to check into Luxury's soundcloud in the coming months to get your allotted dosage.