Took this shot at Long Lake Park on Sunday after the first snow fall of the seaon. 

I’m proud to announce a new addition to my family. Colin Alan Porter. My 4 year old daughter Allie made a card for the little man. According to her it’s his birthday, and this is the inside of the card she made. I’m on the left with her and the baby on the right with a crab between them, of course.

Here’s a recent illustration I did that will be used to help a campaign to get college faculty to throw out their old student records.

I found another great art blog I wanted to share with you. It’s call Share Some Candy. What is it? Here’s how they put it:

sharesomecandy is a curated collective of inspiring design finds and art. the content is appropriate for all audiences – 9-99. criteria for inclusion are finds that are universally inspiring, beautiful and thought provoking. every image is referenced to its found location through a ‘via’ link.

Basically a site loaded with all kinds of inspirational art. The stop-motion animation below is an example of the kids of work you’ll find on there.

I should also take this moment to apologize to all those Lollgygaggin readers out there. I am well aware of the fact that I haven’t posted in a very long time. Sad when stuff like this gets put on the side burner. Where has my time been spent? Well, with a new puppy, a sick pregnant wife, 3 year old and battling through an overload of work at my paying gig. Still not a legit excuse. Luckily the creative bug is firing up inside and hopefully to the point where I can’t hold it back. So expect to see me back at it again soon.

A very fitting Illustration Friday topic this week. Goes nicely with the image I was already going to post today. I got a 2 for 1 out of it. Today is the 2 year anniversary of Lollygaggin and that’s certainly reason to celebrate. Or at least good excuse to whip up this illustration.

This is something I whipped up for a poster design. It’s for a Boston College ATIG recognition luncheon and workshop. The organization encourages faculty to incorporate cutting edge technologies in their teaching.

Here’s a guy my 3 yr old daughter, Allie drew a while back. It’s fun seeing her now stating to draw faces and other objects. I love how she always adds a little tuft of hair on top of each character. You’ll also notice dots that look like accidents. If I’m not mistaken according to the artist, they are actually the nose and chin.

Happy Holidays to you and yerz! This is the design I whipped up for my family’s xmas card. I was very late with it this year. The cards still need to be filled out and mailed, yikes. I got caught up in other things and was slow to get the design done then we were hit hard by the ice storm that swept through New England last week, which has put projects like this on the back burner.

My friends and I were having a little discussion about how we used to send funny homemade postcard to each other when we first went away to college. By the time we graduated email was getting huge and my use of postage stamps really tailed off. At this point it’s extremely rare that I mail anything with the exception of Netflix DVDs. Off that discussion my friend Lea decided to kick off a postcard chain. You know like a chain letter, only friendly. She sent one to me (the turkey collage seen below) and I in turn created one and sent it off to my other childhood friend Alex. The lawn darts are a reference to a song our band played back in middle school.

It was fun to send out some real mail an a great excuse for me to play around with watercolor.

Happy Halloween. Sorry to of been absent here lately. I’ll be posting soon with more illustrations. Till then enjoy these shots I took of our jack-o-lanterns. Thought I’d mess around with some handheld, long exposure shots.

I dusted off an old illustration which seemed fitting for this week’s IF topic.

Here’s the completed film, the theme this time was Carnival. I’m responsible for the beaver with the silly hat, eating a corn dog.

You can also check out photos of the event here.

I participated in the second Drinking and Drawing Boston event last night at Paddy O’s. Another successful event that brought a lot of  artists together to create an animated film.  This go around we had an added treat, Dave Schlafman, a talented and successful animation director presented his work and held a Q&A.

The film should be completed in a few days and once it is I’ll post it here. I can at least offer a little tease with a peak at the title image (seen above). I was glad to be asked to draw it. It was done on an index card with a sharpie which for me was a nice change from how I usual draw. I often sketch out my ideas with paper but quickly jump to the computer and my wacom tablet. So sadly I think this is my first post of work that wasn’t done digitally.

Click here to learn more about the event.

These rough sketches are ideas I was sketching out for a university student computer services t-shirt design. The project was tabled before I got too far with it. But I thought I’d share these drawings anyway. I’m certainly due for a post here.

Also Drinking and Drawing – Boston II is coming up this Wednesday, June 18th. If you’re in the Boston area I suggest you check it out. I’ll have a full update here afterwards.

Here’s an illustration I created for part of a campaign letting college faculty know about the eSylabus web repository coming out this Fall.