Tallahassee Artist and Designer

Welcome to a casual presentation of creative projects and random news. I’m pretty transparent about methods and techniques used for creating in Photoshop, Flash or wherever.  I’m college and military-trained in Visual Communications and Studio Art and have over 15 years of experience in graphics media production.

Utilize the “Leave a comment’ feature, or contact me at  whoebich@comcast.net

Warm regards,
Walter Hoebich

Specialty Sportswear and Promotions

Even though gallery images are still being collected, this website needed a face-lift as soon as possible.  Its main purpose? Lead people to online brand catalogs and encourage learning more about garments ideal for their needs. Even online ordering is possible with a link to a virtual design studio, and it lets you design your own tees and other apparel with a library of possible images. Adding text and color changes there is easy, too. The virtual design studio is ideal for school groups and organizations.

So check out the live site for Specialty Sportswear! Galleries will be added soon, when they get me the image content I’ve been requesting for a while. (They’re real busy over there and they keep me busy as well–developing the site, supporting the art department with illustration and color sep, also helping screen printers in the back.

Page Design, Graphics 

This Albany night club features three levels of entertainment. A visit to the website  will show you a cool place to be if you like to socialize. “Southwestern style and elegance” in presenting itself online to a young professional audience, this night club includes live entertainment with DJ Joey G and live musical acts. There’s a sports lounge, a VIP package you can get, too.

Nerd & Geek Culture from the heart of Zion!

Recent contact from Ben led to a project for him and his affiliates at Gang Green Productions in Utah. It was a hasty turnaround (1 week) for an event announcement of the SLC Nerd Concert and a great way to feature the new logo.

• A quick set of clicks to create a Utah-shaped polygon,
• added the glasses for sure (even though plenty of us nerds do wear contacts.)
• “Cities = zits” idea was almost immediate as well, largest one at SLC of course.

There was a horizontal version, too. Vacant space within the boring borders of Utah was so empty, the mouth had to be added with Lake Powell and Colorado River. I liked the expression caught with a fairly accurate depiction of the lake’s border. A funny and nerdy mouth shape forms in just the right spot. This was a fun task.

You can read more about the SLC Nerd Event on their Facebook page.

Four areas of production strength

I’m an asset to any media production room, providing four areas of production room strength. These are areas where I can operate independently if necessary, to complete requests from start to finish. Or the more desirable position of being part of a team of good talent—where everybody has serious skills that are integral for our success in the company cause.

You’ll see plenty of samples here on these pages, but there is a small site set up for viewing images, Flash movie clips and  web page links. It’s more organized than these casual posts and bullet lists. Currently, I’m working on image icons to click on instead of titles.

View work samples in categories

Cartoon portraits

In most cartoon cases, I’ll use white paper and create with black marker and colored pencils.

Most enjoyed is the black markers– bold, with thick contour and a thinner one for details.  With the 2 markers (and back-ups) I’m a happy camper.

This cartoon of Barney is a “Walta Special Light” because there are limited background details.

People describe crazy things to draw sometimes, when they share private jokes with the people they are ordering for.

Event Specials

These things are great for Retirements and Roasts as well. Recently, an 18×22″  was done to use on an easel at her 40th Birthday Party entrance and sign in.

There’s a website developed specifically for the cartoon-portraits offered. Enough are done that they needed to be classified and described. Visit ♥CartoonsMadePersonal.com

Cartoon sample in black and white

Sometimes black and white works well. This was created with a marker and scanned into Photoshop for some value on cheeks and eyes.

Black and white caricature sample

On Friday nights before home-games, Tallahassee partys downtown with food vendors, entertainers and sidewalks filled with people. Out-of-towners add to the downtown vibe and purchase tons of items. that have anything to do with the Noles.

To draw people? They’re about 5 minutes to draw with a marker in black and white. Ditching the preliminary pencil sketch is crucial. The art should be clean, with confident, bold lines. Plenty of my favorite work is a sketchy base with bold art built up on top, but every stroke of the hand is time—and time is what, boys and girls?

Through GoGonzalez, a DJ was served up with some website graphics and site design. Most of his clients are corporate in nature and a reserved appearance for the site was created through the use of a yoo theme template called Downtown. Images were replaced and modules were moved around to work best.

Click here to see the site.

Reunion in Tampa

Getting together with childhood friend and Ace-boom Drew is great.  He’s the most successful guy from the childhood ‘posse on Broadway’ —Avenue, that is.

Outside of drawing cartoons or playing drums this guy dazzles anyone with his people skills and knowledge on just about every topic. He can explain complex accounting issues to a huge audience of business moguls, replace an engine in his driveway or build a house. 

Jen took this picture in March, 2010. Wife and I laughed our butts off with Drew’s hilarious descriptions and recaps.  We talked about past & present craziness, our kids driving us bananas and more. We’ll hook up again soon.

Map illustrations supported articles

Tallahassee Magazine, pages 40-47 in MAY-JUN 2004 featured illustrated maps to support descriptions of  the most congested traffic spots in Tallahassee. Offered as a guide for T-Mag readers, the article also included tips for finding your way around these spots with alternative routes and time estimations.

With thoughts of Tallahassee gold and Seminole football, typical green or brown fills for land were avoided. Rather, a limited color scheme boasted Seminole gold surroundings.