Julie Farrell's blog about her artwork ;)

Please don't steal my artwork, any part of it!

2009-08-13T20:22:00.000-07:00

So recently I was updating some Zazzle and greeting card universe sites with some new & older illustrations I did. Lo and behold on google I run across MY illustration of my cupcake frenchie on someone elses portfolio! Now while a teeny weeny bit of me was flattered, the other BIG part was thinking WTF?

Who goes and take a persons illustrations and puts them on a professional design job site as their own? Now granted the said person took the cupkace only from the illustration, but hey IT'S MY CUPCAKE ILLUSTRATION! AND.....she used it for an identity package for an actual business. So she probably got paid for it!

So now I have to go through this lengthy process with my lawyer, (yes I have a lawyer people), and figure out if I'm suing or what. Nice, very nice.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Thanks for liking my art, seriously! But please DO NOT under any circumstances take it! Even if you think you are gonna change a few things, it's still copyrighted by me & I WILL contact my lawyer!

J

Let's get updated shall we!

2009-08-13T20:18:00.000-07:00

OK, ok I know i'm HORRIBLE about updating for like what a year? So my sincere apologies! I just want to say that I had a life growing inside me that made me tired, sick, and pretty much large until the day she arrived! lol

She's the best thing ever and has been demanding all my free time when I am home from my professional job. She's finally a little older and things have calmed down, so I am able to get back into illustrating again for myself :) Yea!

I created a facebook group fan page for my art as well. Please feel free to join and stay even more up to date on what im doing in my spare time:)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116478960689

Cheers!

Muerte Day of the Dead Artwork Featured on Zazzle!

2008-05-11T12:32:00.000-07:00

OK so I know i'm bad and it's been too long since I updated my blog. Sorry! I've had a ton going on in my life since Xmas, which was my last post. First things 1st Im preggers with my 1st child and have been getting ready for her to come into the world :) 2nd, after xmas we lost our beloved French Bulldog who was paralyzed from 2 dehabilitating spinal ruptures (common for the breed), and I have been greiving his loss pretty badly.

I finally have taken some time and did a new design, a Muerte Skull Day of the Dead design. My husband's tattoo on his leg was what inspired me. Last year we took a trip to Mexico and loved it! I hope you enjoy my Muerte illustration as much as we loved Mexico!

So no sooner than I posted it up for sale on Zazzle and Cafepress, then lone & behold Zazzle features it as Today's Best Design! So way cool. Then I see my Tattoo MOM heart shirt is on the homepage featured also. So that's 2 design in 1 day that have gotten called out. I can say today is a good one ;)

So hey thanks for stopping by and have a look at my galeries for cool, urban hip designs!

My Robot Arwork now as a playing card!

2007-12-21T08:42:00.000-08:00

So about a month ago I joined this art contest where you pick a playing card & design something relevant to that card. I submitted a really cute robot that had 3 hearts on his chest, for the 3 of hearts card. I am excited to say that he ahs been chosen & will be on a deck of artist playing cards that will be for sale!The site is called Custom 52 (we are playing without a full deck), which is by far supremely wittyI think! Custom 52 is an Online Community that uses playing cards as their canvas, entries are graded by your peers & only the strong will survive!!!

The top design for each playing card will be chosen to go to print & a deck of the top submissions will be produced & go on sale for the world to enjoy. How freaking cool! So here is a snapshot of all Deck 2's artwork that will be available on a deck of cards. Purchase them from the Custom52 website!

Cycle 3 is going on now, so if you got some creativity in you that you wanna let loose...now is the time!

Happy Holidays and Have a great New Year! See ya on the flip side ;)

Pimp Our Logo Contest Winners!

2007-11-01T07:25:00.000-07:00

OK so a while back I entered into Zazzle's "pimp our logo Contest". You had to take their logo & design something around it and with it. Well today I got back the results and was happy to find out I got 2nd place!

So now I have to figure out soemthing to do with my prize $, which shouldn't be hard considering the holidays are coming up!!! LOL I was thinking of getting a new digital camera, so that could be fun ;)

Anyways if you haven't seen it, check out my design below!

FROM THE JUDGES:

*Von Says: Beautiful collage, colors and depth.
*Sonya Says: A positive and neo-modernistic design. A flowing design bringing depth and futuristic elements.

There were so many great entries, so congrats to everyone! Zazzle definitely has a great artist community that keeps your passion alive!

My Artwork featured on Sabet TV!

2007-10-11T07:24:00.000-07:00

So 2 features in 1 day! First teh Girl Geek Blog and now Sabet TV has featured one of my heart illustrations! All I can say ladies and gentlemen is that I am honored & very excited for this.

I just found the Sabet TV site yesterday and was instantly drawn in by the community and creativity going on there. YOu can create your own gallery and portfolio of work for others to see, people can comment on your designs, and you can do the same for other people.

It's not only a great artist networking site, but it also has a plethra of other art links all over the site that take you to other various art & design places.

I have to tell you that this site is one of my newest favs. If you haven't heard about it yet, go by and check it out, you'll be glad you did!

My Frenchie Halloween Cards as Artwork of the Day!

2007-10-10T21:12:00.000-07:00

I made a custom card at my zazzle store. It is a custom illustration of a French Bulldog with a pumpkin, some bats, and a very festive Halloween theme.

Now I have to say that I am tickled pink that I recieved an e-mail tonight letting me know that it is "The card of the day" on the Queen of the Girl Geeks blog!

Check it out! And thanks Queen of the Girl Geeks, i'm honored!

Zazzle Pimp Our Logo Design Contest!

2007-10-04T07:42:00.000-07:00

Zazzle’s got a new look and a new logo! This looked really fun and they are having some really great prizes and you get to show off your design skillz! Basically they wantes to see how you can use the Zazzle logo with your design to make the best take-the-cake contest entry!

Here is my entry. Feel free to click on it to go to the Zazzle page where it is at, vote, comment on it, and even purchase it if you like!

Where Creativity Shines Through!
by

jfarrell12

Get this custom print
at Zazzle

Now Zazzle is alot like Cafepress, only they have an artist community that votes on your designs and you can join a fan club or someone can join yours. Very good for enhancing your skills and networking with other artists. Plus I love their printing on t-shirts, very good indeed!

Check out the contest and other contestants designs by clicking the image or links above! You can even order the design I made ;)

What am I doing?

2007-09-30T15:40:00.000-07:00

Man, i feel like there is never enough time in the day for everything I want to have done!
Im sure others feel the same way. This weekend I had planned to do so many things and like always I get sidetracked.

Im starting to focus now on the holidays and new products to add to my lines in order to fuffill that goal. I have bee illustrating a series of French Bulldog designs that I have been sketching out on my train rides into work everyday.

I hope you do enjoy them!

Design can be found on greeting cards and apparel from my Cafepress Store called BarkArt, my Zazzle store!

View of my products.

2007-08-15T20:17:00.000-07:00

I have been having alot of people ask me lately where they can purchase my designs at. I have the links to my online stores up on the right.

They include Cafepress, Zazzle, and Bountee. Currently my Japan based designs are just that...based in Japan and I will let you know as soona s they are available in the States.

For now here is some eye candy for all you wondering eyes!

buy unique gifts at Zazzle

2008 Beijing Olympics

2007-07-27T20:09:00.000-07:00

So the 2008 Games are being held in Beijing. Recently I joined 14 other artist and we now form a artist representative called TaoCool. We are independent designers that are looking for licensing and selling our designs to clothing manufacturers.

Here's where the exciting new s for me comes about, I got 15 of my "olympic themed" designed chosen for the 2008 Olympics!!!! OMG, I know!!!

I am super excited and will reveal them when I can. But i have to say that I am so glad that my hard work has finally paid off. Plus I get to work with some amazing people and fellow designers and am so inspired by their artwork every day!

Thanks for looking & I'll update more soon!

Wowza it's been to long!

2007-07-04T10:20:00.000-07:00

Holy Moly! I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while...er ages ;) I had ALOT, and I mean ALot of things happen in my life recently, all positive, that has been taking all my time.

First good news is that I signed a contract with a company in Asia to sell some of my t-shirt designs! Who Hoo! I will post more on that once eveything becomes public, such as the website & whatnot.

I also quit my job, b/c it was stressing me out &amp;amp;amp; taking up WAY too much of my time & life.Yes I did get a new one, doing the same thing (designing Interface Menus for Video Games), but hopefully it will be better for me in those areas I mentioned were bad.

OK so there are other things going on, but I did promise some Tattoo designs if I recall. :)

So feel free to drop me a line & let me know what you think. If you are interested in purchasing these designs on a shirt or any other item please visit my site HERE!

New T-shirt Design @ Bountee.com

2007-04-14T13:42:00.000-07:00

Hey peeps! I have recently been inspired by my daily walk downtown & my many rides on the good ol' Chicago El Train...especially late at night! ;)

So I did a new design in Illustrator, all vector graphics, and have put it up on a brand new site calle Bountee. If you haven't yet checked this site out you really should. It's like CafePress, but seems to draw alot more urban undergrund artist to its website..kind of like threadless, but they don't own your copyright to you designs. So I give it 2 big girly thumbs up! Check my side links to get to their website.

Anyways here is my design! Let me know what you think & oh yeah, if you are thinking of buying one you'd better hurry they are a limited edition item!

Long time no see!

2007-04-12T20:47:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!

I am here and just want to say sorry for not updating lately! I've had some"life events" that weren't too fun and knocked the wind out of me for about a month.

I have been working though on new fine art pieces that I hope to get into a gallery soon. Now I can't say too much, but the pieces are done on clayboard using gauche paint, pen, and some really cool techniques.

Now I did tell you that I do have other inspirations than my dogs, and as you can see in my pict that I have tattoos. So what do you think my inspiration was for my new pieces? Can you figure it out?

Just got a Projekt Dog product photographed!

2007-02-16T17:29:00.000-08:00

Just thought I would share with you all what the design looks like on an actual t-shirt. I thought it turned out great! People have been giving me lots of compliments on it and I even got featured in someone else's blog!!! How exciting! :)

Buckey the Keeshond Illustration

2007-01-28T08:52:00.000-08:00

This is a Keeshond illustration I did for a good friend of mine. He is always helping me out with watching my dogs when I go out of town, so I wanted to do something really nice for him :)

This illustration was done in Illustrator and then we had it printed on 24x36 canvas & framed. All I had to work with was an old photo of the dog, the background I did completely by taking picts of different compostions and picking the best one that fit with the dogs pose.

I highly recommend if you have never had an image printed on canvas to try it, it looks AMAZING!

We had it printed at Canvas on Demand. All you do is uplaod your image, pick the size you want it printed at and choose a frame. Easy! They also have some cool color options for you to choose from for a more dramatic look.

Alright lets get started. Funky, hip & Urban Bulldog Illustration.

2007-01-03T12:53:00.000-08:00

So lets see, what should I show you first? I'm thinking I might show you a design I just recently finished. I wanted to update my CafePress website, but I wanted to do another funky urban design that was dog related. Im calling it Projekt Dog, as I plan on doing a whole series of these with different breeds. So here it is:
I really like what i did with this design & can see it on so many items it's not even funny. My inspiration? Well of course the bulldog, but also old vintage playing cards and the realization that people that love dog art need something that isn't always cutsie bubble gum factory.

Uraban & hip is what this image represents. So fear no longer people laughing at your drab bullog shirt, a new era has arrived!!! Check it out in the BarkArt store.

;)