Art Cards!

As a special guest at a con last weekend I thought I'd try my hand at those new fangled (yeah - I know they've been around for more than 15 years!) ACEO / art card thingies. 2.5" x 3.5" each, gouache and ink on colored illustration board. Hope to have time to do more soon.

Glen Mullaly Store Launch

Nothing like waiting for the imminent collapse of the worldwide economy to finally jump into the world of online commerce! Check out the launch of my store featuring high quality prints and my original illustration work...

Super Advertising!

Hey everyone! Here's part of a recent job I did for an advertising client. When I was growing up there was nothing I wanted more than to be a comic book artist. Even though I eventually did some work at the edge of mainstream comics for one of the big companies my interests went in another direction. So it's fun to get to do this comic-style stuff now and then for advertising and magazine clients. There's a male counterpart to this character and a super-villain in the works as well.

Made For Each Other!

Gouache (and a touch of coloured pencil!) on illustration board, 6" x 6", 2009.

Illustrated by Glen Mullaly.

After a MUCH too long absence from these here pages I thought I'd start off again by posting the front to the Valentine's Day card / illo I gave to my sweetie on Saturday. I thought robots would be appropriate as were were definitely made for each other!

This is the first fully hand-painted (as in with figures and junk - not just patterns or background stuff) illustration I've done in 20 years and the first in gouache. So I was learning as I quickly painted to get it done in time!

Robots, Robots, Robots!

It's been quite a while since my last post to this hallowed hall of illustration luminaries, so I thought I'd share a few bits and pieces of mine from the new Know magazine that hits the stands this week. Above and ( in detail ) below you'll see the cover for this issue's Robot theme. This came together fairly quickly so I don't think it turned out too bad. Combination of gouache ( the blue background ) and Photoshop colouring.


Next up are a couple of details ( sorry, you'll have to pick up a copy to see the whole thing! ) from the regular puzzles and fun feature that I write and illustrate, "Know Fun". I went with a orange / yellow colour scheme on this one. The clients weren't incredibly happy but I think it worked.
That's all for Know ( I mean now! )

Spies, Spies, and more Spies!

I know I say it every time, but it's been far too long since my last post here at good ol' SFG!
So for this post I thought I'd share avec vous all a couple of illos I just finished up for the March /April issue of Kayak magazine, a swell historical kid's mag. From the title you've probably already guessified that the theme for this ish is spies! Besides the cover I wrangled up four illustrations for the main fiction piece, set in 1955 around a young girl's well nurtured fears over foriegn spies and atomic attack. Since it was only fitting I decided to do my best to present the spots as they might have appeared in a 1955 kids magazine, down to the two-colour printing.
For the whole story and all the images you'll have to wait until March 1st at your local news stand, but for a couple more sneak peeks check out my recent Flicker post over at, well... Flickr!

Paulo Monstro e seu Conjunto!

This one's pretty old - in fact it's the first image of my own that I coloured in Photoshop. I dug it up since I though it might fit this week's ghoulish Halloween theme. Happy Haunting everyone!

Time for an Update!

Yep, long past time actually! Glad to be back fellow SFG'ers.
I couple of months ago I posted a cropped preview of this building inspection postcard I did for a local government body, so I thought I better post the whole thing. Below you'll find a variation on the same theme for a second mailer. I tried to keep to a limited, primary colour palette for these. Enjoy!

Bug Bingo!

This one's an oldie ( I'll leave it up to you whether it's a goodie ) from back in ought four. Two page "Creepy Crawly Bingo" game spread for chickaDEE magazine. Sans copy it don't make a whole heckuva lotta sense but the general gist ( I think he was a camp counselor of mine once! ) was that the kids roll a die and cover the creature ( not all bugs, but close enough to count ) with the corresponding number of dots. First to get all six on their card wins!

PYBOM Ancient Greeks!

Work crazy... too many deadlines... so tired... must post to SFG before losing consciousness.....

Here are enlarged details of four of the twelve ancient Greek goddesses and gods from a couple of spreads I just did for the Oct. issue of chickaDEE magazine. The colouring on these ( Photoshop, pencil and gouache, the first time I tried it like this ) was a real rush job, so it's not as bad as I expected.

And now to bed........

A Measure of Strength!

Hey cats and kittens! Here's a small detail ( with rough text ) from my latest Know Fun puzzles and fun spread for Know Mag, on the stands in September. Swellerific kid's illustrator Jerry Smath's influence is in definite evidence throughout this spread. For a couple more examples stop by my Flickr site... no secret knock required!

Ride 'Em Cowgirl!

If by "Old" you mean the 1950's and if by "West" you mean western Canada then here you go! I did this two-page spread for Yes Mag a couple of years ago for their "Horse Science" issue. All the extra space on the sides was for the copious text labeling and describing the parts of the horse.
I think I went a little too realistic with the horse, or too cartoony with the girl, oh well.
Pencil with colours in Photoshop.

It's Inspection Time!

With deadlines and family commitments it's been a few weeks since my last post, so how better to start in again than with only 1/3 third of an unfinished illustration! This is a portion of one of a couple of postcards I'm working on for a local area government to send out to remind folks when building inspections are needed as part of construction or renovations. Not the most exciting subject matter in the world, and they didn't want to go too wild with it. So I went with gentle humour and a real retro look.
Hope you like it ( at least 33.3%, that is ).

Texture Pie

Here's one of the four puzzles from Know Fun, my regular puzzles and fun spread in the new issue of Know Magazine ( The Science Magazine for Curious Kids ) that hits the stands this week. I try to vary the style from issue to issue and this month I loaded on the texture. Dig in!

HB Package Tour

I forgot all about this last week, but it would have fit right in to the Summer Vacation challenge. A few years ago an illustrator pal asked if I wouldn't mind contributing a sketch to another illustrator's ( or animator's - I forget ) sketchbook that was being passed around. I said yes, but was on a deadline so I adapted a recent illo I had done for a kid's mag and came up with this scene featuring some of Hanna Barbara's 60's and 70's stars taking a summer hiatus package tour plane trip. I added the very quick tones at some point later.
Not sure why Jeannie doesn't just blink that package of peanuts open!

DI Interview: Glen Mullaly

Another great interview with one of my new favorite illustrators, Glen Mullaly. Be sure to click over and check it out, believe me you'll be glad you did. Good stuff! Be sure to leave a comment while you're there.

-Jeff
http://www.diinterviews.com

Summer Vacation Roadtrip!

Hi folks! Glen Mullaly here again, this time celebrating the summer vacation roadtrip with this text-free, slightly cropped alternate version of the cover for the July issue of Kayak, a kid's history mag that I do the covers for.
I ended up spending waaaay more time on this than the small budget called for and produced three versions - the aged 2-colour version you see above, a clean, un-aged 2-colour and eventually a full colour at the request of the client. The A.D. didn't know I was doing a 2-colour so I totally understood his concerns. This aged version didn't really suit the tone of the feature anyway... but as a stand-alone I really dig it, so I'm foisting it on you. Grab a road map and pile on board!

Glad to be here!

Hey everybody, Glen Mullaly here to say hi-ho and how-do-you-do! Happy to have been invited to SFG and so I thought I'd start off with a few words of introduction ( and exploitation ) by steering you to my wacky website - glenmullaly.com as well as my furshlugginer Flickr site - which contains not only my own work but selected choice cuts of vintage Grade A illustration from my favourite kid's books, magazines and records from the past. Stop by and say hi!



For my first post I thought I'd share some ( mechanical ) pencil roughs for a website illo I did a couple of months ago. We start ( above ) with a small thumbnail rough ( a little over 3" high ). Next up ( below ) the almost finished pencil, about 7".



Up last, the finished illustration as a stand-alone. To see Frozen Pea Girl earning her keep click here.