Little Miss Perfect Logo

So earlier this year I was commissioned to draw up a logo for the second season of "Little Miss Perfect" tv show. The man behind the show, Mr. Michael Galanes, contacted me himself back in June about this idea. Funny thing is that during that time, he was a guest judge at the annual Mrs. Minnesota-America pageant in St. Paul while I was in his home state of Florida (Miami) as a guest of the Florida SuperCon convention. He's a very nice and funny guy--making me instantly comfortable just chatting with him on the phone--and is very passionate about pageants as he runs a few.

Anyway, he wanted a logo to go on various items for the contestants in Season 2 of the show (which will begin airing Wednesdays starting January 13th on WeTV), things like shirts and bags and such. I'm sure the illustration will be seen on TV, and supposedly I'll be given a credit somewhere--that would be cool!

Anyway, it was a tight, tight deadline (but what project isn't??), and he and I went back and forth over some of my sketches until we got what he wanted. Other than some last minute stress with the shirt printing (I was already headed out the door for my brother's wedding in Toronto) I was very happy with the outcome and very excited to see it on television as well as on various items that Mr. Galanes may want to put it on. I want to personally thank my buddy Robb Miller--who really helped bail me out at the last minute with some file compatibility issues after I'd sent the final version off. He really saved me on this one. Please check out this cartoonist's awesome blog. Without further ado, here are a few concept sketches as well as the final version:

Final version:

I also found this logo already floating around on the internet...my apologies for not jotting down the source when I ripped these off :( But it shows that the logo has indeed been seen and used:





Later dudes...
TOM

Rejected Art

Hey, it happens. This spread was supposed to be one of my chapter openers for my new book, "Incredible Comic Book Women With Tom Nguyen," but I was asked to replace it with something more colorful and superhero-oriented. I wanted to show an evolution of the female figure to kind of play off the idea of constructing a hot chick.

I know, it's kind of abrupt to go from the bikini-monkey to the younger girl, but I had only so much room to show the progression, and I was already pushing the size limit with the four stages here.

Camel Awesome