Showcase Your Work!

Be a part of the

BYU Illustrator Showcase 2010

a local art show at the Provo Health and Justice Building.

No Jury = No Pressure (You frame it and we’ll hang it.)

Entries due to Will Strong on Thursday, February 4th (delivered to the BFA Studio, F-455 in the H-FAC).

All entries must be framed with a wire, all ready to hang. $2 hanging fee per piece. $1 fee for BYUIA members

Show off your work. Come to a fun reception. Be part of the Downtown Provo Gallery Stroll.

Questions? Contact Will Strong: bign.strong@gmail.com

T-SHIRT VOTING!!

All right, people, look alive! On behalf of the BYUIA officers, I apologize for our month-long blog/communication hiatus. I submit that we compensate by presenting these awesome t-shirt designs submitted by such rad folks as yourselves!

the five t-shirts below are different entries-- the backs and fronts of shirts are shown:

How BYU-IA Members vote::
1. Check out these designs and pick your top TWO favorites

2. Wander on over to the hall in front of F-455 in the H-fac (the Illustration BFA studio)
3. Take a yellow slip of paper (on the wall) and put your name and two favorite t-shirts
4. Put the paper in the folder with the rad drawing of a dude saying "VOTE HERE" before january 26th
5. Wait to hear what our top 3 finalists will be!

For everyone else::

If you'd like one of these snazzy t-shirts, go on up to E-509 RIGHT NOW and sign up with the secretary to be a BYU-IA member. Cost is $35 per year, and it includes awesome discounts at places like dickblick.com, Artist's Corner, and access to our wholesale framing account. For details, comment on this post or e-mail us at byuillustrators@gmail.com. If you join, PLEASE let us know so we can add you to the list.

THEN you, too can vote and walk around wearing a sweet shirt, saving of money on all sorts of artsty stuff. Aaah, yeeeah.

We were so happy with the turnout this year. Thanks to all of you who submitted entries!

New Post?

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this, but I propose a new topic to get this blog going again and kick off the new year before we're in February.

New (semi-legit) topic: Sleep

the last sound a whack-a-mole hears...

...is CONK.

(Talk about animal cruelty...)

GOT YER CONK!

Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE LOVE LOVE YA fantasy.
People who know me well know that I can quote from my favorite young adult books very easily.
And I know that I have books in my head far more often than I let everyone else know about it :-)

So it's not surprising that the VERY FIRST THING I thought of in association with our weekly doodle prompt-- CONK--was from a YA fantasy book. And it also happens to be one that most of you would be familiar with.


"...Peeves the Poltergeist was worth two locked doors and a trick staircase if you met him when you were late for class. He would drop wastepaper baskets on your head, pull rugs from under your feet, pelt you with bits of chalk, or sneak up behind you, invisible, grab your nose, and screech, "GOT YOUR CONK!"
From page 132 of my paperback copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone



Brought to you by my handy-dandy camera phone, since I had no better way to get it here.

Deadline Extended!

Okay, because Thanksgiving Break was actually a break for some people (and rightly so) and a time of chaos for others (*raises hand*), we decided to extend the deadline for T-shirt entries. They are now due in ONE WEEK---

Again: T-shirt contest entries are due on Tuesday, December 8th. For now. :)

T-shirt REMINDER!

Happy Thanksgiving Break! While you're soaking up the relaxation (or hastily putting together projects...heh) this week, remember to doodle up a design for the t-shirt contest. I've only received a couple (2) and we want a wide selection! Last year's was awesome.

We decided that you don't have to submit the actual Adobe Illustrator file, as long as your design has the capacity to be made in Illustrator later. We can help you with it if you don't know how. So just send me what you've got! Details below.

Also, ANYONE can submit a design, and it's FREE to enter so you've got nothing to lose.


Happy designing. :)