A running list of illustrative, vector-style painting ideas. Some are new, others are older pieces I think could be better if I came back to them in this style.

I am trying to find a balance between realism and illustrative. I can do realism, but I don’t particularly enjoy it. It feels like a chore.

Working as vectors isn’t exactly an escape from labor. Building an interesting illustration can take forever, and I’m never quite sure when an image is rich and complex enoughβ€”or when it’s still just a clumsy digital doodle.

But I enjoy thinking this way more, and the finished images have another advantage: they’re already built to become stickers, shirts, prints and other things if I want them to.

Audiences seem to respond well to both approaches. Maybe a little more to this one.

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  • REDO
    • ⭐️ Cock of the Walk
    • ⭐️ Moral Relativity
    • ⭐️ Lesser of 2 Evils
    • Appletini and Fig Leaf Bikini (no bottles, no angel/devil)
    • Snakebites and Forbidden Delights (no bottles, no angel/devil)
    • 7 years bad luck
    • Burlesque Existentialist – only one emo quote:
      • β€œI choose the black sheep over the unicorns and puppies.”
      • β€œIf on thoughts of death we are fed. Thus, a coffin, became my bed.”
      • “There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.”
      • “There’s nothing in front of me but a black wall.”
      • “The point is there ain’t no point.”
      • “Hang my head, drown my fear ’til you all just disappear.”
    • Curiosity Killed the Cat
    • Half Empty, Half Full
    • ⭐️ Carrot and stick
  • ⭐️ Cactus Nudes
    • ⭐️ day of the dead skull with cactus in cranium
    • ⭐️ Ranch Motel with pin up maid
    • Cactus and Flowers In Small Cans
  • monopoly man
  • Retro clip art kid eating corn angel and devil season it
  • Retro clip art kids eating watermelon angel and devil season with tanjin and chamoy

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After a long exile in South Texas climbing out of a nihilistic funk, Otis Woodcock has found his way back to the open skies and quiet horizons of the American prairie. Having earned an MFA from Miami University, Ohio, he left his ancestral home in southern Indiana, spending the last three decades between Louisville, Kentucky, and San Antonio, Texas, developing his Iconoclasmatic Pop Artβ„’ practice. On this journey, an anxious recovering Catholic and cancer survivor gradually evolved into the optimistic existentialist whose work is less interested in providing answers than in questioning certainty. Today, Woodcock lives and works where the seasonal rhythms and expansive landscapes of the Midwest serve as the backdrop for an ongoing exploration of belief systems, cultural inheritance, and the subtle poetry of ordinary things.