Screentone TV
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Style & Fashion Drawings: Glenn Au, Juniors, & Personal Style
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Went to Venice this morning with Sayaka. I love this place!!!
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Cleaning up lunch sketches
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NEIGHBORS
NEIGHBORS, designed in 2019 when four planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, & Venus - were super big and bright in the sky, nearby to Earth. We had a good community in the apartment complex, too.
Printed in weird colors! Fluorescent red, AQUA, yellow, and black. Tough colors to harmonize but we got something here.
Large A3 size (11 3/4” x 16 1/2”), $20 (ships in a poster tube)
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New Prints in the SCREENTONE.TV Shop
Pandemic Pool Party. Pool Patio. & NEIGHBORS.
1 is brand new (and I made a postcard version, too). The other 2 are big-size version of formerly small prints… and whoa, they look great.
I’ll be posting more pictures. But for now - check ‘em out in the store at screentone.tv. I’m shipping in cardboard tubes: $5 in the US, $20 international.
TOP NOTCH risograph prints, made by Retro Jam in Osaka!!!!! You will be amazed.
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“My world, my Earth, is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and gobbled and fought until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. There are no forests left on my Earth. The air is grey, the sky is grey, it is always hot. It is habitable, it is still habitable, but not as this world is. This is a living world, a harmony. Mine is a discord. You Odonians chose a desert; we Terrans made a desert… We survive there as you do. People are tough! There are nearly a half billion of us now. Once there were nine billion. You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do – they never adapt either. We failed as a species, as a social species.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed -
I’m available for freelance again, which means I’m spending mornings in cafes drawing comics.
ALSO big news I’m vaccinated! I hope we are able to squelch the spread of COVID. I think it’s highly unlikely I would get a bad case of COVID but it’s quite likely that if I got it, I would spread it to people more vulnerable. I had a couple sick days while my immune system figured out the virus but feel good now.
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I’m still available, for boards and background design! I’ve been in hiring limbo for too long… I hope it’s not a bad vibe to post a diary strip about it.
You can see my portfolio at ryancecilsmith.com, and see a lot of my background designs for OK KO on this blog - linking to the tag here! And of course you can follow my work on instagram @ryancecil.
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Been drawing and adding screentone to the sketchbook lately
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Style & Fashion Drawings: Adrian on Creative Uniforms
My newest strip for Put This On, with Adrian Hogan in Tokyo. Follow him on Insta! And one more tip: check out Margaret Howell Japan’s women’s look book!!
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Style & Fashion Drawings: Adrian in Tokyo
First strip in conversation with my friend Adrian Hogan. Follow his work on IG!
Edit: because I was asked! Mine are the Comfort Craftsman, in black. Usually I am a leather sole guy, but I figured it would be nice to try something different, for once. If you’re on the fence with the Turnout and Craftsman: the difference is minimal so most people won’t notice. So I think you should go with your gut.
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Jan 1 2021
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Style & Fashion Drawings: To Be Able To Try New Things
Originally at Put This On. I’ve since been told Ascot Chang is based in HK, although I think they were founded in Shanghai? Anyway, great shirts! But I’m still getting most of mine at Sid.
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Style & Fashion Drawings: The Best Hiking Boots
Originally published at Put This On.
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Style & Fashion Drawings: The Right Extravagance
My newest strip about Put This On.
If you’re curious about the stuff I’m dreaming about - the pants and shirt are from Sid, Hat from Cody Wellema, and socks from Dapper Classics.
I’ve written about the socks from DC before. I think they’re the best. Here’s an old strip where I wrote about “marrying” pairs of socks by sewing little matching colorful emblems. Real simple - just a few stitches. These socks last long and feel awesome. I threw away all my mid-length, loose socks of various colors a couple years ago and only wear these now M-F.
Sid Mashburn did a similar thing this year - they’re selling a box of 7 near-identical navy over-the-calf socks, to be worn all week. “The uniform vibe!” The only difference is color-matching toe seams. This frickin’ rules!
About hats - how do I describe this? A good beaver felt hat feels both soft and firm, flexible and sturdy. It bends into the shape you like and can later be re-steamed and pressed by a milliner. I wrote about visiting Cody Wellema’s shop in Altadena here and here.
