Post-It Note Art by Joe Sparks

Johanan with Tiffany Jewelry

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:11:00 +0000

A cartoon sketch I made of her in 2007.

Obama - all up in yr whyt hows!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:27:00 +0000

"IM ALL UP IN YR WHYT HOWS, SPENDIN YR MUNYZ"

UPDATE: Ok, 3 ridiculous charges of racism in 3 minutes I have to announce clearly to the DOLTS of the world that the forced misspelling in this and many other posts on this blog is an "homage" to the trendy lolcats and other caption-a-photo blogs out there, like this famous one: http://icanhascheezburger.com/

I am not "imitating how black people talk." We all know Obama talks perfectly well. I'm imitating cutsy spelling errors as seen in lolcats, to go with my cutsy drawing of Obama with loads of cash munyz, y'all.

Egg, meet bread... AW YEAH

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:29:00 +0000

"Hi, I'm Bread!"

"I'm Egg."

Laterz..

AW YEAH

Unwelcome Flower

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:38:00 +0000

I brought you a flower!

O Thanx. I'll put it with Mike's.

10 years of Stars and Hearts?

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:08:00 +0000

I don't know exactly how long or how many thousands of times I've drawn hearts and stars like this. Here they are with coffee mugs celebrating each other.

sketches with black frames

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:43:00 +0000

guy, star, frame

Fortune Teller, frame

heart with kids

15 Fly Character Designs

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:42:00 +0000

Literally: Flies, as in the flying insects: (Click on an image to see large size.)

Close up on my two favorites:

Below, I animated #15 in a little test, with some other character designs. Rollover a character, and be sure to click each one!

Happy Birthday with heart star fruit and artist

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:18:00 +0000

Even a couple of pieces of fruit are excited about it:

Save this and use it on someone's facebook or myspace when appropriate!

Guest artist Sam Sparks: The Fire Skeleton.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Samuel Sparks, prolific artist of literally thousands of works, is the guest artist for this entry. Sam did this a little while back at the age of 7:

Fire Skeleton conducting an orchestral fire storm symphony on a city.
Note the extremely excellent skeleton design.

Signed "by SAM" on the back, in letters are made of bones on fire.

my so-called business meeting notes, part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Guys in sky vision, flower row, lotsa dots connecting

guy in big red chair

tall flowers, little guys

tall red orange bottle with pink flower on wood table with carved heart.

green boy with sky flowers, happy blue octopus.

soft gray pencil scene with moody guy, lamp post, trees, and deep canyon

my so-called business meeting notes, part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:36:00 +0000

I take thorough notes in meetings. Here's some from my note book, taken in the middle of hour-long deep problem-solving discussions with my clients:

Underground library cave with big red chair. Above ground is a scene with flowers, hills and sky. I've been drawing underground caves with stuff in them since I was about 4 years old.

Happy guy, ugly flower. I made this one in a meeting yesterday.

These notes take me right back to the SiteCatalyst presentation.

Cute girl with big pillar. All hands Gyro meeting notes.
The pillar was accused of being "phallic" by Jason M.

Advertising storyboard in my cartoon style

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:06:00 +0000

I work in advertising. During a brain-storming session with some other professionals at Publicis, we were sketching away on ideas in a semi-realistic style (which takes me a long time to do). I suddenly decided to do one of the ideas in my simple quick cartoon style.

We posted our boards on the wall at a big meeting with about 10 people to go over all the ideas. The sketches below charmed everyone. Someone should hire me to do an ad in exactly my style! (I came really close once with Microsoft, they wanted to do an animated ad in my style, but changed their mind at the last minute).

How to color in coloring books

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:19:00 +0000

To the great delight of my two sons, I colored Oscar from Sesame Street, and Peppermint Patty from Charlie Brown/Peanuts like this:

Evil Peppermint Patty on fire and burning a Christmas list.

Murderous Oscar with Blood and a skull.

The star says 'just listen.'

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:23:00 +0000

with "srsly" dropped in.

The heart must climb to the top..

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:35:00 +0000

..and we really would not have it any other way.

I love you -- so much!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:46:00 +0000

I really really do! It is crazy how much I do!

happy new year!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:33:00 +0000

really quick and dirty, but my heart is in it!

Small Pirate, Small Boat.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:33:00 +0000

I have to write stuff down.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:31:00 +0000

star flowers, guy with mug

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:59:00 +0000

professor guy

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:58:00 +0000

Bad Drink.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:56:00 +0000

the bad drinks will get you for sure.

hearts girl pig-tails

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:06:00 +0000

there's those pig-tails again.

XOXO stage

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:04:00 +0000

As with the majority of these, I honestly have no idea what this is about.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Sparks) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:54:00 +0000

the winner has more eyes, arms, and legs than normal people.

The star says 'hi' in a subdued mood.