Grant Gilliland :: 2008

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

February 2008

Sky Swimming

February 27, 2008

I recently did this live-art collaboration with artist Ursula Young during Fabric8′s 2 year store anniversary party. Ursula is well known around the SF area for her signature female characters, her painting style, and her depictions of classic San Francisco-style buildings…she did the background for this painting, and I provided the foreground fishie action! This [...]

Freelance gnome sculptor and his dog waiting for the UPS man…

February 20, 2008

No Reggie, he’s not here yet. … No, he’s STILL not here yet. … No, that wasn’t the doorbell… … NO…he’s not…Look, you’ll know when he’s here okay? THE DOORBELL WILL RING. I don’t know any more information than you do about the UPS man’s current location…i’m not about to go look either, that’s just [...]

The Grossest Flickr Page on the World of Wide Webs

February 19, 2008

New and improved for your eyeballs! TheGrossUncle Flickr Page!!! I have posted all the images ever posted on this here blogger-dandy over at Flickr…I am most happy and anxious inside to be a part of the Flickr commune, but I have yet to receive my membership forms or visor or free Flickr Frisbee…or Frisbr…whatever you [...]

Steeb and Jeribald at Fabric8!

February 17, 2008

Here are a few photos of my new painted wood characters at Fabric8…go see them in person!

Puppyback Ride…

February 13, 2008

Rusty, will you check to see if I missed any spots on the back of my head? Those hairclippers are tricky when you don’t have a power cord long enough to use it in front of a mirror. Please be honest…I want to impress my new boss today at the meeting…I have to speak there [...]

Perry Pupshirt!

Just taking Bonko for walkies…he’s really talkative today, especially towards seniors. He gets especially excited when he sees those popular euro-scooters that the web designers ride…and you know how many of those things are around nowadays? Like 68 or more. I’m bound to run across at least one while we are out, so I pretty [...]

Providing plentiful proportions of pups…presently performing preventative pandering practices

February 5, 2008

Hey man, do you guys still have those exploding doggie bones? Oh, my bad…am I thinking of another roadside stand? Well, i’ll just be on my way then…hey, before I go…do you have any wax candy? I’ll take a small pocketfull. Me and the boys are just going down to the record store…um, after that [...]

House of Commons + The Gross Uncle!

February 1, 2008

The House of Commons is a supremely superb store in the Las Vegas Nevada area (Henderson to be exact)…and I am very honored to have my work displayed there! Anyone going to be in the area around the 8th should hop on the closest razor scooter or hop into some really cushy running shoes and [...]

SF Indie Film Fest

I seriously broke the (piggy) bank on this film… For the SF Weekly’s Night & Day section…hitting the newsstands this Wednesday 2/6.