Garbage Pail Kids
It's Sunday. I think. This week has been hectic. If you live anywhere in the UK, you'll already know about the weather problems we've been having. If not, then let me explain. Snow. In the middle of going to work, surving the snow, and eating, I've managed to get a bit more drawing done.
I think the idea occured to me on Monday of last week. I was searching eBay for Garbage Pail Kids. If you were born in the early ish 80's or before then you might know about them. If not, I'll explain very briefly. They were a series of stickers originally released in the US in 1985. They were a parody of the Cabbage Patch Dolls which were the current craze at the time, but with a twist. That twist being very sick humour.
...you might be noticing a pattern with things I take an interest in, first Little Dracula, now Garabage Pail Kids...
Back to my idea. When I was little, I remember drawing my own additions to the GPK stickers, but none of them matched even closely to the original style of John Pound's (the guy responsible for drawing a large portion of the GPK stickers). I tried, and tried... and gave up. But now, a good 15 years later I thought, why not just create one in my own style?
It was a small project. 2-3 evenings worth of work. The finished product being below. I've printed and cut a few out and I'm currently using them as business cards. Might print a few off as stickers too.
Please note I take no credit for the orignal concept of the picture. It's a straight up copy of this sticker.
Uncut sheets.
Individual cards.
The finished product!!
Overall I'm pretty happy with it. I've been trying different shading techiniques with this drawing. The hardest part of the picture was getting the colouring in the mushroom cloud right. I tried following the original closely at first, but it didn't look right with my simplistic style. It was far too realistic, so I toned it down a bit, simplyfied it, and voila.
Hope you enjoy it!
If you know me and want a copy, just ask. If you don't know me, and want a copy, just email me! todd at toli.co.uk if you're wondering.
posted by Toli @ Sunday, February 08, 2009
3 Comments:
Haha! I remember attempting to draw these! It doesn't actually seem like so long ago either... do you still have any of your original drawings?
And yes please. I would like one :)
No, i don't think i have any of the originals. I remember doing quite a lot of them though and making a box especially to store them, so who knows? maybe they're hiding away in the attic somewhere.. but if you've seen the state of our attic, you'd understand why i'm not going to look for them any time soon ;)
I like yours better than the original "Adam Bomb" i think it was. Anyway, i am opening a skate shop business and would like to be able to use your drawing for some shirts and decal stickers and stuff. What do ya think? Email me back if thats cool with you. If you send me an original, I'll be sure to send you some stuff if i use your image.
thanks
ckirkham20@gmail.com
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