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Who Be He?
They call him Phillip Retuta. He calls himself a visual & interactive designer, motion graphics artist, and illustrator -- an all-around artist. He's 29 years old, from Chicago, living in NYC, and has a lovely husky-lab mix named Nico. Currently employed as Senior Designer at a digital and social media firm.

What's All This Then?
Well, it's a fairly random tumblog of current and upcoming art endevours, photographs, comic sketches, creative philosophies, inspirations, and generally incomplete art projects.

So yeah, it's like a sketchbook.

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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

Indie Rawk Jeffro: black and brown ink on wood.

by Phillip Retuta

DIY Balanced Living.

I got rid of/donated/gave away a lot of stuff, rearranged furniture in both my room and my apartment, and added shelves to my bedroom (when living in NYC, space is a hard commodity to find). I also bought a long, 78-inch Ikea tabletop to replace my clunky desk, so now I have a dual work space for my computers and drawings.

And let’s not forget a new dog bed for my huskador, Nico.

Essentially, with the new year and my current health, I felt I needed change. This total revamp of my living situation feels like a total cleanse (#keepingitreal2013) of my life — I’m like a phoenix of sorts. Let me tell ya, I feel good.

All in all, I spent maybe about $200 in new furniture/building materials. Old or new, here’s a list of the stuff featured in these photos:

Large Brown & Tan Orthopedic Lounger Dog Bed ($69.99 in store, Petco)
White Vika Amon 78-inch table top ($45.00, Ikea)
Fartech Flip Clock in orange ($108.00, Homeloo)
The Art of Storage Leonardo Bike Wall Mount ($40.00, Home Depot)
Limited edition Steve Rude X-Men lithograph ($60.00, St. Marks Comics)
4’x10” wood planks (x6) and 8”x10” shelf brackets (x18) ($60.00, Lowes & Home Depot).
Polaroid Film, Polaroid Cameras, Polaroid Land Camera Printer (eBay, The Impossible Proje ct: NYC/SoHo location, thrift stores)

Saturday Night: a pen, a board, a beer, and James Murphy. #art #ink #drawing #sketch #comic #pencil #wip #workinprogress

Friday night #drawing with a #dog on my lap. #socks #art

#art #drawing #sketch #ink #marker #comic #newyears #2012

Detailed murals made entirely with marker, by Charlotte Mann.

Highlight of the Day: 2012.05.15: Comics Again.

At work, I’ve been doing a lot of pencil and ink character designs for an upcoming game. Naturally, making all of these illustrations have rekindled my love of drawing comics and storytelling. Pictured here is an incomplete comic from early 2009 (before I moved to New York and went to Parsons). I began rewriting the dialogue for this one and generating new material for future comics; I still want to develop and flush out the epic storyline I have in mind. I’ll most likely ink this tonight.

With the comics (including supporting web campaigns), the comic website, and my Hindsight/Foresight project, I know I have a lot of personal projects I’d like to see finished. It may come off as a relatively impossible task, but doing this kind of stuff is my passion and my hobby (really, I have no tight deadline on any of these as long as they’re being worked on). And if there’s one thing that prevents me from going totally mental out of sheer boredom, it’s these creative passions and hobbies.

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