Steve Ollice, Illustration & Graphic Design
Visiting my mother is like going to a museum. She collects antiques, mostly early American artifacts from the turn of the century. Collections of rolling pins, wash boards, and tobacco tins cover the walls and decorate every spare inch of her comfortable colonial home. As an artist, bent towards design and illustration, I am mostly [...]
Too bad, so sad, another bad guy is taking a dirt nap! So, in an attempt to ride the keyword wave of a hot search topic, I am posting this short tutorial on a different and perhaps new approach to caricature. 1) Find a good source image First, I scour the Internet for a decent [...]
The Great Gully is a creek that flows into Cayuga Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in Upstate New York. Every creek that flows into one of these lakes has some sort of waterfall. Some falls are more spectacular than others. They were all formed in the same way and at the same time as [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Tony Chester of OnWired needed a background illustrated for a fishing website. I had a great meeting with Tony and his team. They had a clear idea of what they wanted and how to execute it. Unfortunately, the client went in a different direction. I got the message the next [...]
To me, a caricature is a person’s likeness that has some kind of an exaggeration of reality. That exaggeration can be based on any emotional gesture or physical feature, but I tend to gravitate towards funny expressions and realistic renderings. Rather than try to explain what I’ve learned about drawing caricatures, I’m just going to [...]
About two years ago, I was asked to draw a caricature of President Obama. My boss at the time, was thinking of creating a political blog and wanted to see what I could come up with. I spent an hour researching other caricatures online to see what other artist were exaggerating in their depictions. I [...]
Last year I was offered the opportunity to work for Replay Photos, a little company located in the heart of the historic tobacco district of Durham, North Carolina. Replay Photos has a website that sells licensed photos of most college, university, and some professional sports. The offices were in a 100 year old renovated tobacco [...]
It was a long time in the making and it is now live! Here is my first live WordPress web site. I’ve got big plans for the blog and plan to write a few articles on some things I’ve learned and some things I don’t want to forget. So follow me on Twitter or subscribe [...]
I am a huge fan of gig posters and www.gigposter.com. My co-worker’s band was releasing a CD and I wanted to stretch my creativity. Have a band? I will design in exchange for free music… and beer.
I just finished my first illustration using my new Wacom Cintiq 12wx tablet. I was amazed at how quickly I became accustomed to this new way of working. Drawing on screen is so natural! Now, this illustration is very tight and not expressive, but I plan for this tablet to help break this habit. My [...]
