Pretty much a Ware-house

What up fam,
It's getting a bit late here in Tacoma, but I wanted to post this thing up before bedtime (which is as soon as possible). Converting this one to GIF format for the web changed the colors again, but for this image I was not very particular about them to begin with, so I didn't freak out about it this time. This image me hurriedly sort of aiming for Chris Ware style. He's so good! Martin, thank you for his stunning book.
The new job is cool, the youth are cool, no homework is cool, so life is pretty good lately, drawing and listening to TED lectures, rapping and making beats, researching earth science online so I can help teach. Mom, I am totally going to get your birthday present in the mail this week (I swear).
Charlie

corn in colors

I have been working on coloring drawings in Photoshop, and despite the fact that the color profiles are the same between my different adobe programs, taking it from doing type layout in Illustrator to photoshop annihilates the colors. Then I save it for the web, as a GIF, which brings imageready into the mix, which twists the colors around again. So, whatever, here's a poster with different-than-originally-planned colors.


And here is a drawing of some men in hats
(If I don't post next weekend it is because my computer is contemplating breaking again)

not teeth. (larger than teeth)

A comic! They are not teeth (which is feedback that I have gotten from a few people I've showed this to so far), they are a country and an international organization. This is pretty much goes out to the IPE majors out there.
Enjoy!

A lot of this comic is based on an article by Reed Lindsay from the Nation that came out on June 2nd. Here's a link, but I guess you only get to look at the start of the article if you don't subscribe. I read it at my local library. The article is called "Haiti on the Death Plan," the 'Death Plan' being many Haitians' name for the government's liberal economic policy.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080602/lindsay
Here are a few highlights from the article:

• More than 4.5 million Haitians spend more than half their income on food, and there has been rioting and strong public response to the increase in food prices over the last year.(p 22)
• Haiti is one of the most economically liberal countries in Latin America. (p 24)
• Their newly elected president has promised more food aid and has gotten rice prices to drop, but does not seem to plan on changing the economic policy of keeping inflation low no matter what. (p 24)

Spring

Hey team,
I have been moving and flying and experiencing the twin cities a lot lately, a lot of transitioning, and in the morning I am driving with my father to visit his parents. I love spending time with family, and having more time to have politically charged arguments for hours on end in a car never hurt a relationship, right? I am looking forward to it, then after Illinois we drive back and I head up to Ely, Minnesota for a visit. Then back to Tacoma via airplane, to start my job a couple days later.
Well I have to get up in less than seven hours and I want a snack, oral hygiene, then sleeping, so I got to post these now. I am not actually very happy with this poster (it is what scribbling on a computer looks like), and the desktop things don't line up perfectly, but I am learning and I figure if I waited for anything I was totally happy with, I would never post anything. The second two images are desktops. The middle image is the first tiling sort of thing I have tried to make with any level of complexity, and the last image is a picture of my desktop so you don't have to download it to see it in action. Once I get back to Tacoma and harness the power of the scanner Andrew gave me, expect a lot more ink and less digital: I have been getting sick of illustrator since I started trying to enter logo design contests online. And no, you will never see my submissions because I despise them. At least now I know I probably won't ever get a job doing this.
Peace,
Charlie