New Illustration

I was asked to do some illustrations for an interactive design agency. Here is one of them. Enjoy.

More Robots!

If you follow any of my other portfolios, then i have already updated those with these prints, but as a good little blogger, i am posting it here as well. Poor, Poor robot.
Here is the link to my Etsy shop for these:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Opafaf

Retro Raygun Ad

Here is another personal illustration with the same theme as yesterday. Retro Futuristic. This is a Raygun... in honor of my daughter, Reagan.

and here is the Etsy listing to buy a print. I think eventually I will take Etsy out of the mix and just start offering these prints either just on my blog or on my main website:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/61529865/retro-raygun-art-print

City Street

City street illustration. Enjoy.

Premium Halloween sketch brushes - Photoshop

Hey all, I am offering my premium Halloween sketch brushes for Photoshop available to buy for $3.50. These would go great with any Halloween related design, and is perfect for those designers who are looking for some nice drawings. Currently I only use Paypal, and after it is purchased, you will be given an option to download the file. Enjoy!

A friend of mine

Here is an illustration of a friend of mine. I had drawn his picture about 11 years ago, and he wanted to see it again.. this isn;t it, I don;t know where that picture is, so I made this instead.

September Email for light Touch

Here is the newest email design for Light Touch Laser in Salt Lake City. Every month I do an email blast for people signed up for their specials, and this is an eample of what I send out each month

Sketches

These are some sketches to be made into paintings when i get some time. The one that looks like me is kind of a self-portrait, and kind of not... I will post the painted versions when i get around to painting them.
Connect with me on FB! Here is my Sabor Design Studio page:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Sabor-Design-Studio/109603929070114?ref=ts

Danny Devito rides again.

Watching "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Thought I would try and draw Devito... don't know if it is successful, but it's a start.

Good Morning Monday.

Good morning Monday. So, a little update on something I haven't spoken of at all. Over the weekend I figured out how to setup a Wordpress blog on my own personal website. Here is the link to that: http://blog.sabordesigns.com
It is not ready, not setup.. and just has some placeholder text for now, but I think I will eventually switch to that blog, rather than use this blog.. I think it may appear more professional. Any thoughts on that?

Ok, as you know, I illustrate for a scrapbooking company called Karen Foster Design, I was recently sent some samples of some pages that have been created with product I designed. This is not a scrapbooking blog, but I just thought I would show you what some people are doing with some of my stuff. These were created by a lady named Shelby Koehler in Canada. I'm glad people can find creative ways to use stuff I design.

Maternity and School

So here are the last two lines I worked on for this release: Maternity and School. There are other collateral I designed for these lines like stacked elements and charms etc... but i didn't feel like posting those... so deal with it. If you want to check out the full line, you can go to www.karenfosterdesign.com or scrapbookpaper.com and see all the new stuff.
Later.

Football

Here is the football line that was recently released. It is made to give it a semi-vintage feel to it.
The small image is a sheet of card stock stickers, and the larger images are papers.  I think they turned out pretty cool.

Srapbook Time again.

OK, as you may know. I work full-time at Karen Foster Design as a Lead Illustrator/Designer. Every couple of months we release new product. It is that time again. There was just a Craft and Hobby Association show last week and the new products were released, so I can now share them on my blog. I will just show the ones I created, one a day for the next couple of days. Enjoy.

OK, I lied. Here are 2 different products, Autumn and Thanksgiving. I just designed them to coordinate, so i am posting them together.
Karen Foster's Website: http://karenfosterdesign.com/
Online store where you can buy this stuff: http://scrapbookpaper.com/

Late at night posting...

A friend commissioned me to create a piece of artwork for her baby's room. This is what I created. It will by 2'x3'... pretty big

New tool

I got a trial of CS5 and I was playing around with a new tool in Illustrator. It is a vector brush tool. I used it to create the shadows and highlights on this bunny.

Billboards in action

Ok, so a few months ago I created some billboards for a company that runs the concession stands at several national parks. One of those parks is Carlsbad Caverns, here are the art files I created for those: http://michaelmurdock.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-mexico-billboards.html

Well, I just got actual pictures of two of the signs, so here they are. I will post the 3rd when I get it.
Enjoy.
Michael

Flyer and bookmark.

Outside of flier

Inside of flier

Bookmark

 

Last December I was asked to make this. I forgot about it and came across it when I was cleaning up my files. It was for a contest down in a California school district. I did the artwork and the type in this, and if I remember right, it was all to be done really quick. So there was a pretty fast turn around on this. There is also a bookmark that went along with it.

Not sure how I feel about this one.

Here is another sketch. Not sure if I like it or not, but I figured I need to post something.

Quick sketch in Painter

I want to get more into the program "Painter". It is sort of like Photoshop, except that the brushes you can use are meant to simulate real-world painting materials. Back in the day I took a class on it, but that was like 8 years ago... so things have changed I think.. Here is my first attempt, enjoy.

Toy Story Carnival

Look at this, we get two postings today. Very rare, but worth it. This is a personal project. It is an invitation for my son's 4th birthday party. Got the illustrations from Disney online coloring books and went from there. I think it turned out cool. The benefits of having an artist for a dad I guess.