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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.

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DIY Hanging Containers.

So I’ve been recycling tin cans and using them as containers for my art and writing supplies. Now in order to save more space on my new work area, I decided to hang them on my wall. Of course, I wanted each container to be completely detachable and portable; for instance, if I wanted to use only Micron pens in the living room, I can just remove that can and take it with me.

At first I was going to use magnets or one of those magnetic knife racks, but after prototyping with some heavy duty magnets lying around my apartment, I realized stuff like that couldn’t support the weight of, say, 20 Sharpies or the rounded surface area of the can.

Instead, I figured a system of hooks and loops would work.

Using small nuts and bolts, I attached D-Ring Strap Hangers (you know, the ones drilled in the back of wooden picture frames) to the cans. The D-Ring would latch onto a screw on the wall. In order to keep the cans balanced and not topple over if the weight shifted, I hammered two nails below each screw. Again, this keeps the can from shifting and its contents falling (a can full of X-acto blades would be the worst thing to fall on you).

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

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

Highlight of the Day: 2012.08.25: Tattoo. on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
So Alex returned to East River Tattoo. to get her tattoo done by Sue, and I decided I might as well get one myself. When I first came to East River in April, I was looking through Sue’s portfolio, and I fell in love with this drawing of a bandaged up cat; to me, it’s the embodiment of remaining positive despite all the hardships, misfortunes, and struggles. Now fast forward a few months later, and I got it.

According to Sue, the cat represents her idea of New York City: this city will beat you up, but you’re happy to be here. I couldn’t agree more.

Detailed murals made entirely with marker, by Charlotte Mann.

“Dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.”

Agnes Repplier.

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.

The Candy Room by the Red Design Group.

# Interior Decorating

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