Hooray for Jake Lawrence!

If you don’t know who Jake Lawrence (aka The Time Cowboy) is, you’re in for a real treat. I recently commissioned him to provide a snazzy new logo for Chic Pixel, and look what he came up with! I love it to pieces and I’m so happy to finally have a cohesive look for this blog. Perhaps it’ll inspire me to write more? We’ll see about that…

Well, in honor of this awesome fellow, I wanted to take a minute and post some of my favorite pieces of his. If you’re interested in having him draw you whatever your heart desires, he’s still open for commissions! Check out his art blog here or go directly to his commission page here. Now, on to the art!

I should mention that if you follow Jake on Twitter he’ll often ask his followers for sketch/pixel art suggestions. He drew this after I asked for a picture of Swadloon. It’s pretty much my favorite Swadloon picture ever.

He also drew a pixelated kappa upon my suggestion! I’m clearly sucking up all his creativity and hoarding it to myself, so you better follow him and get your ideas out there, quick!

Jake is probably most famous for his Animal Crossing comics. I’ll let them speak for themselves:

Equally funny is his caption: “Seabass, the disappointements of the sea.”

He does all sorts of things, though, really. Here are some more of my favorites:

So thanks again, Jake, for the awesome banner! I’ll cherish it as long as this blog still stands. But enough about me –– how do you all like the new look?

About Anne

Also known as apricotsushi. Anne can be written with the kanji for apricot (杏), and sushi was the most quintessentially Japanese thing I could think of when I was 13, resulting in my goofy, albeit memorable, nickname.

7 thoughts on “Hooray for Jake Lawrence!”

  2. Alois – Oh, don’t I know it. We’d could all, like, totally hang out! It’d be tubular!

    By the way, I’m pretty sure I met Jake through you on Twitter, so thanks for that! 😉

  3. AWESOME! I really, really love it, Anne. And I have to give a “great job!” to ol’ Jake (if he’s reading this).

    I’ve actually been thinking of switching up my banner for the last year or so. I’d even reached out to Drew Green after falling in love with his style, and we are all set to go ahead with it … when I ran out of money. I think I may hit him up again later this year, if he’s available. As much as I like my current header, I’d like to change things up a bit, you know?

    Anyway, back to your blog and your new banner/header: Like I said earlier, I LOVE it. Also love that Swadloon drawing. So. Freakin. Cute. XD

  4. Bryan – So glad you like it! I’m really happy with it, and we managed to come up with three great icons that represent me pretty darn well (though I couldn’t think of an easy way to represent yaoi, unfortunately).

    I absolutely love your current header, but I can see how you might want to change it after a few years with the same thing. I won’t ask what you had in mind since you probably don’t want to spoil the surprise, but I can’t wait to see it if you decide to do it! Drew Green is a great choice to work on it, too. I’m sure whatever he’d make would be awesome.

    As for Swadloon, I have this weird attraction to his/her grouchy face these days. I had a heart-to-heart with myself when asked what my favorite Pokemon was, and now I reckon Swadloon is up there in the top three, for sure!

  5. Ah, I didn’t even think about your new banner missing a yaoi icon. Hmmm, I’m not sure how you’d depict that either!

    As for my banner: I’m kind of torn on it, to tell you the truth. I really like it, it was free, made by my awesome sister-in-law, etc. But I’d also like something new. I wonder, though, if the folks who visit my blog would appreciate the change?

    I can’t tell you what I/we had in mind for the design, BTW, but not because I don’t want to give anything away. Actually, I was going to let Drew do pretty much what he wanted. He’s been to my site and knows what I like (retro games, cute games, etc.), so I was pretty comfortable with that. Anyway, hopefully we’ll be able to try again in the future.

    Do you mind me asking what your favorite Pokemon are? I honestly don’t know which ones are my favorites. I mean, I guess if you laid them all out in front of me, I could point to the ones that interest me most, but I don’t have names in my head, etc.

    I will admit to being pretty fond of the ice cream Pokemon found in Black/White. I know that’s kind of blasphemous (I think a lot of Pokemon lifers hate them, don’t they?), but I don’t care. I like ice cream cones! 😛

    I also tend to like leafy Pokemon, like Swadloon 🙂

  6. Bryan – Well, I do have to admit that your current banner is pretty iconic! Some might be adverse to the change, but it is your blog, after all! I bet whatever you decide to do will look great.

    Oh man, I can’t believe you’re asking for my favorite Pokemon. That has to be THE toughest question!

    I’m really partial to grass Pokemon, for whatever reason. I tend to think they have the best designs, I guess! I really like good ‘ol Bulbasaur, and Swadloon, of course. Either than that… I’m really partial to Mantyke, the manta ray Pokemon, and Shinx is pretty cute, too. But honestly, I think so many of them are great, it’s hard to choose!

    I do agree with you about the ice cream Pokemon. They’re great! I actually am quite fond of a lot of the Black/White Pokemon, even though they can get pretty weird. Darumaka has grown on me a lot, as he’s got a permanent place in my White party 🙂

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