Grant Gilliland

  • Bio:

    Grant Gilliland is an illustrator and character designer based out of San Francisco, California. He spends most of his free time thinking about funny proportions and animals with personalities. He can also lift about 500 sharpies, no spotter.

    Grant grew up in Dayton, Ohio, where he spent about 90% of his time reading Juxtapoz magazine or drawing cartoons when he was supposed to be doing math homework. Grant's disinterest in school ended abruptly after enrolling at The Columbus College of Art & Design, where he earned his Illustration BFA in 2005.

    A post-grad illustration career was initiated with the launch of Grant's blog The Gross Uncle in 2006. Serving as a platform for his wild style and humorous writing, the blog garnered him interest from early clients like JibJab and SF Weekly. Teaming up with Scott Hull Associates in 2007, Grant has since worked with major clients such as Weekly Reader, The United States Postal Service, Christopher Chadbourne and Associates, and Frog Design.

  • Clients Include:

    SF Weekly
    SF Station
    JibJab
    Weekly Reader

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  • July 2007


    A bit of ranting from Fizz Ed.

    July 26, 2007

    Fizz-Ed, ex-phys-ed teacher at the grocery…

    Pardon me, do you give a former gym teacher discount?
    An FGTD? Yeah…you know what I speak. The last grocery store club that I was in knocked off ten percent of the grande-grocery total due to my previous experience in the administration. Well, you see I was laid off a [...]

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    Fabric 8-live art session


    I attended an event at fabric8 this past weekend and was invited to do some live art with some talented SF local artists…Here are some shots of my section…I plan to go back and take a photo of this entire thing in it’s finished state…and get a head on shot of what I did. For [...]

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    Team Draw!

    July 18, 2007

    It’s time!

    We call it TEAM DRAW… and it’s fun!
    Gather ’round youngsters and oldsters alike and celebrate the wonderful thing that is spontaneous group sketchbook filling! No level of artistic skill is necessary for this event, you just need a few simple drawing tools and some free time on the last Sunday of every month…This month’s [...]

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    Apple Noggin, what else?

    July 17, 2007

    Ok Ralph, do your trick before we go home…
    Ralph…
    (Stupid animal!)
    RALPH!!!
    Do the apple trick buddy! Here y’go…C’MAWN! Balance it! You got it…you got…GOOD BOY! Keep it…keep it…keep…keep it…eat it! Hey, wha-? Is that cough syrup? elixir? Ok, Ralph, put down the bottle…put it down…Ralph, not now…no…no…sigh…no…n…
    (Hmm…kinda looks good)
    Hey, can I get a sip?
    Ralph?
    Chewy Bone?
    Trade? Chewy [...]

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    I need a drink after that one…

    July 16, 2007

    Stein Arbucher in the desert…en route to delivering his last package of the day. He couldn’t help but read the piece of paper that went along with this flower…it read:
    To the presumably single Misses Henny Ellingmash,
    I send you a flower to commemorate the one time in 1992 when we danced inappropriately at the ex-landlord convention…you [...]

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    Mostly vacant person…you know, MVP.

    July 15, 2007

    “Arnie in the Outfield”8×8 inacrylic on canvas2007
    Hey sportsfans! This painting of mine is currently available at fabric8, so pick it up while the paint is still wet! Also, there is an event going on at the “8″ next Sunday the 22nd…and yours truly will be there doing some live-style artmaking and peddling some of my [...]

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    Okay, we need to talk…

    July 14, 2007

    Gartholomew-Bertrand the Third!!!
    HOW many times must I remind you that your water bowl is ALL you are to be drinking out of in this household! That’s why it has your name on it, okay? And might I remind you how hard it was to find a cat bowl with that name on it? I leave [...]

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    Jooth and Myoothik!

    July 13, 2007
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    This is for your own good, Nedson.

    July 9, 2007

    “Bad Kitty”8×8 inacrylic on canvas2007
    Oh kitty!This particular painting can actually be seen in “real life” and also purchased with some coinage at the always interesting Fabric 8 (http://www.fabric8.com) San Francisco store! This is a great source of wonderful hand made artist products and some choice threads…not only that, but they have a nice inviting feel [...]

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    Rented out the bar to show you this…

    July 5, 2007

    Video artist and part-time guidance counselor Randall Fabian (red bandana) rented out a neighborhood bar n’ grill to showcase his latest video piece “peanut butter melting down wall (pt25 of 60)”. Although many invitations were sent out through the mail over the previous month, the only attendees that night were the five members of his [...]

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    Commiserating with Arby…

    July 3, 2007

    Tuesday, 2:13 pm…
    We find Germaine and his dog Arby at Collen Dubose memorial park, meeting up for the first time since Germaine left home in 2002 for djembe college in Halifax.

    I’m awfully sorry to hear about your business going under while I was away, man. I mean, you were a couple-thousand-deep just two months into [...]

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    Long Iss-lands and quiet time

    July 2, 2007

    Shhh…Okay, okay. Yes, I see the flower…so pra-tty.

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