54 Intercontinental Cuties!: The Process

I thought I'd share my working process for these cards and walk you through from initial sketch to final product. Here's how I did the playing card for Cuba.

STEP #1. Research.

Since this is a pinup playing card deck, I had to do the task of somewhere finding a photo of a sexy woman for reference. As you can imagine, this was practically impossible. There aren't pictures of beautiful women anywhere! I looked in magazines, books, advertisements, billboards, movies, calendars, tv shows, commercials, cereal boxes, newspapers, etc. If only there was some sort of world wide web that could be built for the sole purpose of sharing information around the globe, but instead of useful information, it would just have sexy lady pictures all over it, THAT would be useful right now. But instead I just took a photo of my smoking na-na and her conjoined twin. I'll make it work.



STEP #2. Macaroni and Cheese Bath.

You heard me right. There nothing more relaxing (or delicious) after a long day of research than a Macaroni and Cheese bath. I fill my tub with 10 gallons of boiling water, add macaroni from approximately 150 boxes of Kraft, let boil for 4 minutes then I open the drain to remove the water. Then I grab a shovel and mix in the 20 pounds of cheese powder and a 1/4 cup of milk.
Then I light some tea candles, disrobe, and it's Heaven. And the bath is over when I'm done eating all of it. This step can last up to 4 days.



STEP #3. Red Dead Redemption.

Because it's awesome.



STEP #4. Try to draw, but then doubt self and ability to accomplish anything.



REPEAT STEP #2 through STEP #4, build up a strong lather, rinse, and repeat.

STEP #5. Draw something that will have to do because you are running out of time.



STEP #6. Scan it into the fancy computer machine, and press the 'color' button. The computer does the rest for you.



Viola! You've made a playing card! Only 53 left to go!

Make sure to check out my comrade Bill Presing's playing card process. He doesn't go with the Macaroni and Cheese bath method, he's more of a Spaghetti-O's type.

Inappropriate Prints Speedy Delivery!

Just a heads up, due to an overwhelming response of print orders, and technical difficulties (a.k.a. my computer with all the files on it spontaneously exploding in a fiery display that was both tragic and yet oddly beautiful)..... please allow 2-3 weeks for shipping. We will be working to get them out much sooner than that, but in the mean time thank you for your patience.

54 Intercontinental Cuties: The Package Design!

Just wanted to show the box art for the girly playing cards I'm designing with Bill Presing, coming this July! Bill and I are REALLY excited about how these are turning out. And above is the rough design/ mock up of the box the cards are coming in. We knew from the get-go, we wanted to make 2 color cigarette box design packages for the cards to give it that "Grandpa's secret, naughty playing cards feel". Here's the dummy of what they will look like (without the art on it).

We thought about doing a flight attendant theme for the box since the cards each represent a different country, so Bill did these awesome drawings.



So here's a peek at the finished front and back design.

Lil' Inappropriate PRINTS!! now available!

Attention COOLEY! shoppers,

The first run of prints from the soon to be released, "Movies R Fun" book are now available in the brand spanking new COOLEY store! The entrance to the COOLEY! store is in button form, and located to the right. Or visit www.cooley.bigcartel.com

Signed 8.5x11 prints are available AND also a fine selection of Limited Edition 13x19 signed and numbered prints, that have a super fancy illustrated border that is so awesome, it will make everything else you have hanging on the wall look like crap.

When the book is ready, you will be able to find it in the store, alongside more prints from inside the book.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask one of our friendly, under-paid sales associates and thank you for shopping at COOLEY!:the store.

Inappropriate Golden Books: THE BOOK! (UPDATE!)

I've been having a lot of questions/inquiries about my golden book drawings recently, and I'm excited to say. YES! After 2 years of making them for fun, I finally compiled them, along with a couple new ones, into one place called a book. It's being printed as you read this in a magical land called "Hong Kong".
The book, "Movies R Fun" (part of the Lil' Inappropriate Book line) will be available at Comic-Con this year, hopefully APE in November, and here on my blog, alongside the 54 Intercontinental Cuties playing cards.
High quality, "classy" prints from the Inappropriate Golden Book will be available as well. Perfect for framing and placing into any child's nursery.





SPELLING UPDATE!

Thank you for all the coments about the accidental apostrophe that exists on my Silence of the Lambs drawing, and will exist in the book. I am ashamed. I come frum a long line of spellers. My grate, grate granfdather was the national spelling advisor to the Presedent of the United States, and his father before him wrote a little book you may have herd of called 'Webster's Dictionary", and his father before him invented the letter "K". So this horrible, unexcusable act has caused a unfixabull rift between me and my family, and needless to say, I've been ostrichsized. By law, I now have to go through town, whereing a rag of scarlet cloth in the shape of an apostrophe for all to see and judge me by. But I don't think this is write. How can one tiny, little, insignificant mark between a "t" and a"s" be that big a deel, when cats across the internet are writing 'i can has cheesburger' all the time? And 'all your base are belong to us'? And 'you've been P'WNED!!!!1' ? That last one has a NUMBER in the word! How is that OK? I die-gress. And appologize for the speling sin eye comited. Pleez knoo it whill haunnt mi sole fourever.
Tank ewe,
-Coolee'

MORE 54 Intercontinental Cuties!

More Roughs from the upcoming playing card set with Bill Presing.

Note: Not all the cards in the set will be Queen of Spades...only about half.
(The Queen symbol is only a place holder)








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54 Intercontinental Cuties!

How many times have you been playing a game of Crazy 8's or Go Fish with your Grandma, and wished you could be staring at sexy ladies instead? Well, ALACAZAM! Now you can do BOTH!

54 Intercontinental Cuties is a real playable deck of cards, with a unique pinup girl on each face representing a different country. The girly art was done by myself, Josh Cooley (visit cooleycooley.com, or don't, what do I care) and the Modern day Master of the Pinup, Bill Presing.

Bill asked me if I'd like to join him on this lil' project, which is like if you were a baseball fan...having Babe Ruth come up to you and ask if you want to draw a deck of girlie playing cards. So I said "uh...maybe". And we did. The cards will be ready in time for Comic-Con, and available on both of our blogs for sale.

So here's some rough ruffs from the card set. And before you send an angry email explaining to me that "Texas is not a country"... know that I just found that out. (Thank you Wikipedia) What can I say I'm a product of the California public school system.

More to Come!