This piece was pulled from the archives of my pun ideas, and while I swear I had a sketch for it I just could not for the life of me find it (UPDATE: the sketch was found so I posted it below for comparison, I’ll spare telling you it was literally sitting in a sketch book next to my computer the entire time I just never bothered to look in it, because I didn’t realize the book was there…behind all of that stuff…the lesson? Clean your workspace often). Anyhow, I redrew the image from memory on my iPad, which took me around five (5) hours in Procreate.
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| Original concept which looks a bit Spongebob-ish |
With the initial sketch and layout fully realized, I took the drawing into Adobe Illustrator to vector all the linework. Upon completing that process (untimed, but potentially five [5] hours), I took the outlined piece into Adobe Photoshop to literally stitch it back together. I then painted the image in Procreate for about seventeen (17) hours. Once I was finished with the illustration, I sent it out to SGX for proofing.
Unfortunately, due the name (SPAM), the image file was misplaced, and I was never able to get an actual proof. I had to ask the printers to produce the final images sight unseen as my deadline* was rapidly approaching. Thankfully, the delay, and mix-up were not too problematic (other than just being simply stressful), as the image did not need any correcting.
The illustration is associated to a series of pun-based images I have done over the course of several years. Hopefully the ‘joke’ reads, but if not, I shall elaborate. These days those of us who have cellular phones get a lot of calls from telemarketers trying to solicit sales. Most phones these days have a feature that identifies the caller, allowing them to determine whether the interaction will be worth their time. The calls are typically referred to as SPAM (or spamming), and will show up with that title on the phone’s caller identification. Hence, the joke. I also added some of other mirth making ‘Easter Eggs’ into the image as well.
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I started the 8” x 10” image (printed on 100lb Cover), on September 11th, 2022 and finished it on the 22nd, spending roughly thirty (30) hours on the image. The piece was due on October 7th, 2022*, at Gallery1988 for ‘Jerrod Maruyama’s SMORGASBORD’, a group show put on by the social media maven and artist dedicated to food. The show debuted on October 22nd, 2022, and closed November 5th, 2022 featuring works of myself and many other talented artists. At this time the prints are exclusively available via the gallery, so please check their website for all remaining works related to the show including mine.
(*sidenote I thought it was due October 1st, so I literally rushed to get this piece done. This is also what happens when you have too much going on all at the same time)
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