Screentone TV
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Style & Fashion Drawings: Passionate About White Jeans
My strip about white jeans. I’m a big fan. Don’t make the mistake of thinking they’re for summers only. They are great all year. Get ‘em dirty.
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4 new risograph postcards! - for sale at the screentone.tv shop. My drawings of lantanas and star jasmines, risographed in 3-4 colors each at Retro Jam Osaka. $3 per card, or all 4 for $10. Ships intl. You can learn about faux-CMYK risograph printing with the Riso Color Sciences Multipack. By the way - you can also buy a lantana or star jasmine pin badge, too!
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New pin alert! Star Jasmine Pin Badge. This is a hard enamel pin badge. Ships in risographed paper packaging, and includes an extra jasmine risographed postcard.
Jasmine is a flower that smells SO good and which you can see in many shapes and sizes. My favorite is “star jasmine.” It has gorgeous, paper-thin and radially symmetrical petals around a tiny gold center.
I like to pick out a flower and stick it in my lapel button-hole for decoration. But many flowers aren’t well suited for this… they are beautiful but they don’t have a firm stem or they will dry up without water. So I wanted to make some pins from my favorite flowers, to wear all day.
This pin is made with white and yellow enamel, set into brass. The pin is small, about 3/4” inch (2cm) in diameter.
You can buy it at my web shop for $12. (Check out the big lantana pins while you’re there, too! Lantanas are my favorite flower)
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Style & Fashion Drawings: Razor Technique Advice
Second strip about shaving for Put This On. Read it here!
Getting a lot of good advice on tips on my Instagram, too.
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Style & Fashion Drawings: A Razor Technique Story
First of two strips about shaving for Put This On - read it here!
Since figuring that out - I have been shaving and it works!
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Thinking about 9-11, 20 years later
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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.
