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

  • Links:

    The Gross Uncle

    • August 2007


    Summer of Love (color)

    August 29, 2007
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    It’s a brand new funny purple day

    August 27, 2007

    This is a colored pencil sketch for a piece I recently finished for the SF Weekly paper…I’ll post the full color piece on Wednesday when it’s printed and smelling like fresh ink on the newsstands. This piece was created with the Summer of Love fest in mind, which often includes many different versions of this [...]

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    Yea, and could you tattoo the word "milk" real small on my wrist? I always draw a blank when I get to the corner store

    August 22, 2007

    In the Night and Day section of this week’s SF Weekly!

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    Team Draw! Sun 8.26.2007

    August 21, 2007

    Eet’s Tyme!

    This month’s Team Draw event is being held in Dolores Park…as per usual…Look for the group of people drawing somewhat near the big green dumpster by the usually-sketchy bathroom building. Just come with something to draw with and something to draw on. Last time, someone came with a sketchbook made out of brown paper [...]

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    Electro-Steve and his magic clack shoes

    August 16, 2007
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    Me an’ pupp at the yard sale…

    August 14, 2007

    Stevery Plummpunch here…Just wanted to let you know what kind of things are for sale at 6670 Gulletbulge lane…I picked up some plastic plants with my pupp, and he got a man-purse with a plastic water bottle stuffed in it…

    Now I will list the items in order of price, from most expensive to the cheapest.
    -Overbaked [...]

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    A rather large depiction of friendship at sea

    August 11, 2007

    Here is a painting I recently finished for a friend…It’s acrylic on canvas and it measures 24×48 in.

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    Whether you prefer a Jib or a Jab, they have something for you

    August 10, 2007

    These illustrations were done specifically for my friends at the JibJab entertainment epicenter of the universe relatively near that corner store that sells really good falafel and cheap bruised fruit but has crappy hours©…I’ve been telling them that they need to shorten it to just JibJab…I hope they listen someday.

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    Celebration Suds…

    August 7, 2007

    Yeah, I usually use stilts to reach the pedals…why?

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    Hi there.

    August 6, 2007

    I noticed you were staring at me when we were together at the bus stop…

    Why is this?
    I do not exactly know why I am of such interest to you…however, I can formulate these five options as of right now. Please let me know by email as to why you could not look at the bus [...]

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