Frederick Heidbrink

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Scared Panda is a new Chicago t-shirt company featuring designs from local artists pertaining to the culture of the city. They donate 10% of shirt profits to local charities chosen by the t-shirt designers. I created this design for them, to illustrate the argument of which city’s pizza is better; New York thin crust or Chicago deep dish ?

10% of the sales of this American Apparel t-shirt go to The Anti-Cruelty Society; For more than 100 years, the Anti-Cruelty Society has been committed to serving the needs of companion animals and the humans who care for them.

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My friend Hugo Aguilar contacted me to submit an illustration for his upcoming chronicle, Unterkunst Magazine. They are looking to promote midwestern artists and to have content ranging from political satire to film reviews.


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Boomie, a character for the sequel to JAMS, created in pencil and then modeled in polygons with Autodesk 3DS Max. Part of a series of characters for my short animation.

An advertising concept that I worked on with Gene Han while interning at RPM Visual Media for subsidiary company, VIRO. Two concepts were pitched, both corporate and university demographics targeted. Storyboards created with pencil and Photoshop.

This illustration was created from a reference photo taken in Amsterdam of my close friend Liam Hodges, who I traveled to Amsterdam with while studying abroad in the UK. The figure in the center is me taking the photograph. I’ve included the rough linework in the gallery below as well as the finished art and the reference photo – notice the creative change I made ? Drawn with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter.

+ Launch Reverse Mermaid IIllustration

A quick sketch, scanned and colored in Photoshop. Quite random, this is just part of a series of quick illustrations.