RYAN THURLWELL
931 West Leland Ave, Unit 304
Chicago, IL 60640
ryan@thewanderland.com
773.547.8990

PROJECTS

Change Today, Change Tomorrow

Firebelly Design recently participated in the 37th Annual Pilsen East Artist's Open House, and I was invited to contribute work to help raise money for Pilsen schools. Many thanks to all those who gave their time and work towards a great cause.

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More L33t Spe4k

Oh Em Gee! Markers, ink and my Mac.

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Lessons

Satoru Nihei, otherwise known as Mr. Beautifool, asked me for some lessons I have learned. This drawing is the result.

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Harrington

Digital drawing i did for my friend Dan.

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Everything Goes with Green

Experiments with type and watercolor.

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E is for Evil

Letters that are constructed out of lots of little shapes have been a recent fascination of mine. Pencil and then some photoshop love.

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Fancy Pants

Invited by Amy Rowan, otherwise known as Art School Girl, to be one of twelve featured artists for 2008. Buy it here.

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Potraits

Recently, I have been trying to include some recognizable imagery into my work, and that has taken form in these portraits.

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El Nino

Letter drawings that depict sinews, tendons, veins–everything organic. All drawings completed on the Chicago El train, commuting to and from my previous job.

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Word Pictures

Some watercolor & ink drawings.

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Inky Ideas

Ink on watercolor paper.

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Blue Company Poster

A poster illustration for Blue Company, via Rick Valicenti of Thirst.

Anchor Graphics

Logo redesign in conjunction with Firebelly Design.

We Miss You

January 18th, 2008 was Mom's birthday. We miss you.

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Color Therapy

Colored pencils and Autumn for Rick Valicenti and the Playground.

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For some reason I have a bizarre attraction to how language and communication are affected by technology and subcultures. Specifically programmers and other people that text/IM all the time. Rendering some of those words and abbreviations have an interesting dialog

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A Collection of Drawings

Letter drawings that depict sinews, tendons, veins–everything organic. All drawings completed in the Chicago El train, commuting to and from my previous job.

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Ouch!

That smarts!

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GINORMOUS

The challenge was to be as simple as possible.

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Santa

Ball point pen and vector art.

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Women in the Director's Chair Postcard

Using a drawing of my Nanna and some Photoshop fun.

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Poster

A small sketchbook collected into a poster.

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Ornament

Naturally, they all say something.

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I Love Marian Bantjes

Now the world knows.

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Ed Fella

They say to learn from the masters…

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