The Professional Webspace of Designer and Illustrator Kevin Cornell:
"Design, Art, and Lackluster Humor."
And all that illustrated Malarkey...
In the winter of 2006, web designer and author Andy Clarke asked me if I was interested in doing some character work for the new incarnation of Stuff and Nonsense. "What I'd like," he said, "is a sort of mod character on a scooter. Can you draw eyes?"
"Sure," I replied, "I draw eyes all the time."
"Good," he said, "This guy will need eyes."
"On his face?" I said.
"Right."
"I follow. With a nose in between?"
Andy gave a pensive pause, "Is that what you usually do?"
"Generally," I replied.
"Let's do that, then," said Andy.
And so our conversation went for nearly 4 hours, slowly building the character of Ace Face, the scooter-riding gent gracing the front page of Stuff and Nonsense. Soon after finishing the Ace Face character, Andy asked if I'd be interested in illustrating his badge.
"What's a badge?" I said.
"My logo," he replied, "I'd like it to look like some of the British Motoring Association badges from the 50's and 60's."
"The 1950's?" I asked.
"Look, do you want the job or not?" said Andy, obviously exasperated.
"Can I use Red?"
Andy nodded slowly, and with a sly grin said, "Is there any other color?". Then we combined our power rings, and the logo was magically finished!
An Interesting Sidenote
Andy also printed up actual Stuff and Nonsense badges, and put them up for sale. Which I think is just pretty darn neat. Maybe I can design rocket boots for him, he'll create a bunch of them too!
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Portfolio
- Birthday Street
- Comics For All!
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- Mental Notes
- Get Mental
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- Blue Collar Illustrations
- Proletariat Pencils
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- Phaeton
- Baptismal Font
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- Made Natural
- Shirt Stake
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- Rands Graphic
- A Shirt for Reposing
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- Business Brickyard Illustrations
- Backing the Basics
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- The Superest
- Who Is The Superest?
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- AIGA/NY Wrapping Paper
- You Can Never Have Too Many Santas.
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- SmartyPig Avatars
- Brilliant Oinkers
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- A List Apart
- The Staff Illustrator
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- dConstruct 2007
- Your Toast Is Loading
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- Stuff And Nonsense Illustrations
- And All That Illustrated Malarkey
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- BEASTS!
- A Modern-Day Bestiary
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- Daring Fireball Shirt
- This Shirt Was A Thrill
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- MyMaidens Masthead
- There's Always A First Time.
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- Signal Flares
- 34 Tiny Illustrations
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- Robots and Rockets
- The Internet Research Group
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- Art of the Cookie
- What Kind of Cookie Are You?
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- Black Warrior Review
- A Quarterly Compilation
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- Canceled Flight
- Illustrators unite to destroy flying rats.
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- 100 One-Offs
- Comics and Cartoons
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- Compositionals
- Click and Compose!
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- Sketchbook One
- The Bearskinrug Sketchbook
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- The Highland Pipe-Off
- Now accepting applicants.
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- Spectacular Attacks
- Your number is up.
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- Quadruped
- One website; no compromise.
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- Lewis & Mojo
- An Island Picture Show.
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- Sideshow Redux
- A carnival, frozen in time.
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- Bearskinrug, Version 4
- The ex-Bearskinrug.
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- Bearskinrug, Version 3
- The ex-ex-Bearskinrug
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- How To Build A Snowman
- Build yourself a meltable slave!
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