Gorilla icon

Let's see where it goes, but I got a call from a coworker's cousin, to make an overnight icon. I thought... oh now I will have to stay up all night again to make some cash.... But when I talked to him, he had a pretty clear idea of what he visually wanted as an icon for his CD, (yes, it could be a logo... so I had to find a fair rate). So i sketched while on the phone. I sketched a bit more on the train and printed a cpl of reference pictures. 1 hour total then. Then @ home before my wonderful dinner i scanned and outlined the sketches. I was already tired but there was no chance not to do it. the icon was to be printed on CDs to distribute @ Jay-Z's album release @ the Apollo in my neighborhood - Harlem THE NEXT DAY.
I decided to sleep and wake up early. 6am I was sitting on my computer with my coffee and watching my cat be amused by the early dusk lights and birds with the baptist church-pre jewish temple background.

By 7:30 I was more than done, emailed, printed, PDFed (is that a verb? it should be...) and saved the design on my flashdrive. At lunch met the guy, he was happy, cashed me the $$ (I Love that part!!) and told me he will have more work. So the story repeats itself:
Good contacts -> good work -> happy client - > more reference clients -> more work.... all good.

Hope to keep more of this circle of work, while I catch up with my 3 website clients... and here is the logo/icon:


next week we are going to our first snowboarding trip, and since our freelance through Aquent insurance kicks in in January, we should be careful.. so no double black diamons.. yieehh!!! Picture links to come...