I'm very interested in inherent design. This means that an inherent trait of a phenomenon will give a designer an inherently matching quality which can be expanded upon and designed. Now that I've lost everyone, let me say that I made landscapes out of my thumb prints.
During Halloween I drew portraits and sold books at a show called Tripolar, in Rogers, MN. Shortly before the show I finished coloring a piece done for the owners of Mix Beat Productions and Sub Sonic Sound, two of the companies who organized Tripolar. Each company received transforming robots designed to match their company's original logo and image.
Processing Mixbots
Conceptual Sketch
Mix Beat Productions - Blender
Sub Sonic Sound - Amplifier
Color Mixed Beat Productions Sticker Images
Colored Sub Sonic Sound Sticker Images
These two robots should be printed on stickers and found all over the city some time soon. Thanks to Mix Beat Productions and Sub Sonic Sound for one of the funnest gigs I've had yet.
This year for the 2009 MCAD Art Sale all of my pieces follow a natural theme of mostly animals with one sea shell. They're all for sale when the sale starts on Friday the 20th and last until Saturday the 21st. I've always wanted to draw all of these animals and had never made it a priority until the pieces were due for the sale. It was a joy making these.
Processing Animals
Shark
Cheetah
Snake
Hippooptamus
Iguana
Gorilla
Sea Turtle
Rhinoceros Beetle
Sea Shell
Frog
Goldfish
Elephant
Betta Fish
Monkey
Rhinoceros
Red Elk
Crab
Giraffe
I'll also be doing free portraits at the sale on the first floor on Saturday morning.
After painting the planets my investigation felt like it was lacking something. It made me think about life and it's connection to space. The Sun fires life into our space and the Milky Way is our Sun's house. Life is systems within systems and one house within another.
It's a new start. I have been working on many new projects and look forward to sharing them with the web community. Between self publishing and selling my art book, Processing, to putting hours and hours into a project for Ted Anderson, I have a lot of explaining to do.
The term, "Processing," has always been very important to me. It's that balance between conceptualizing and construction that's always interested me. A year ago, I spent a week processing space and geometry. A series of paintings followed.
The Pink Hobo Gallery in North East Minneapolis held a show with artists making pine wood derby cars and I submitted a wooden transformer I named, "Super Goformer." I had a great amount of help making the car with my buddy Jeff Nygaard. We both had a pretty good laugh when we saw it on Fox News. Poor Mr. Goformer, he wasn't goformed properly and he'll always be laughed at by the other goformers...
I heard that the show is going on the road to another place, so I'll have to wait a little bit longer to get Super Goformer back.
Fallcon '09 was great! I had so many great experiences this year and honestly need to thank all of the wonderful people who stopped at my table! I was very lucky this year with sales and kind people. Fallcon is also all volunteers, so thanks to them too!
For those of you who are looking to get ahold of me after Fallcon please e-mail: tallseanlynch@gmail.com
Many many new projects over the horizon. Ravens. Robots. British Robots. Wheelchairs.
When I fully move into the 2d Cloud studio, I'll be doing web work for them and myself. Books will actually be able to be bought online.
Last, but not least, Comics Worth Reading was kind enough to stop at my table at Mocca and chat me up about programming and Robots and write a bit about it for their time at Mocca!
Sean is freelance illustrator and comic artist. He has self published many comics and minis including, Processing, Texas++, Nuclear Twilight, Good, Animal Explosives, Amanojaku and World War Squirrel. Sean has been featured in the Xeric Award winning anthology, Ghost Comics. He is also the editor of the seasonal anthology, Zine Supreme. He has illustrated Cool Kids Volume 1 with Sigrid Ellis and is currently working on Being Human with Ted Anderson.
