Girl from Cherry 7up Commercial

Those few who may have seen my youtube account may have wondered why I have a 7up commercial with Matt Le Blanc saved there. Granted, I find Matt super dreamy and who wouldn't want to have a thousand of his babies? Despite my homoerotic proclivities, real or imagined, I have the commercial saved however, for a different reason altogether. For some reason, a little 11 year old Daves found the girl in it to be quite "Fly" or perhaps "Def" and decided to tape it with his vuus™ so he could make the following drawRing...

Oh wow!. I suppose that the line between a cute, babyfat enhanced teenage jawline and Down's syndrome was too fine a line for little 11 year old Daves. It took a lot of restraint not to photoshop the heck out of this, grr, the mile high ear, the Doherty eyes, the gill, the hair made of black licorice... & why did I leave the headband out? Perhaps I'm too rough on 11 year old Daves? Maybe take my time machine to 1986 and give him a Tab soda (ouch!)

Hey hey! Though I still feel like I have yet to break the 'champ' against the bow of this blog I thought I'd post this real quick anyways. One of these weekends I'll post a decent cross section of stuff I've done over the years. Till then, I'm eager to post these real quick:

These are for a Weird Al video that my comrades at Jibjab and I got to create. I was eager to post this because A) it's Weird Al, and Weird Al is cool. and B) I was pleasantly surprised by the results though I started this piece without "seeing it". To explain, I was given the biker bar interiors for this video. Here's the thing though, when I start an illustration or a series of illustrations (and this may sound pretentious, but excuse it here, as infer-able pomp is not the point) sometimes I just "see it" and it's a matter of executing it. Often I don't, I have no ideas, no 'vision' for the image(s) and those tasks always weigh on you like a sack of rocks. This project was one of those, and it accidentally came out exceeding my hopes. Not to say it's 'all that', only that I was stoked it came out this ..'ok'.

Here's a link to the whole video, check it out as it honestly is one of the funniest and most visually fun pieces I've ever been even a small part of...

http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/weird_al_charles_nelson_reilly

Cheers.