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

April 2008

"I bet we’d do much better if we didn’t have this darn squirrel for a tour guide…"

April 28, 2008

Seven dogs and their squirrel tour guide hit the streets to collect postcards, ride the trolley, and sniff some new friends out…

My portfolio site…freshly updated

April 23, 2008

It’s my pleasure to announce that i’ve just finished giving my portfolio site a long-overdue image overhaul! I updated my illustrations section and my sketches section with some of my favorite works that have been posted on this blog over the past year. Check it out! www.seegrantdraw.com

Heavy Hitterz be hittin’ those swift underhand pitches…

April 21, 2008

I’m back again to plug my favorite traveling group show, Heavy Hitterz! Go figures. What you are currently feasting your eyes on is the flyer for the Heavy Hitterz Manila show…Also, be sure to check out the microsite for Heavy Hitterz Manila, because it’s quite “frosh”…and it resembles this flyer quite nicely…but with cool tunes [...]

MC Nature Ned in full effect…

April 15, 2008

Hey y’all…be sure to catch my new album when it drops…i’m still putting the finishing touches in the mix…adding all sorts of dynamic bush-rustlin’ and acorn poppin’ noises. Also, don’t miss the cameo of my boy DJ Wobbly-twiglegs on the 1′s and 2′s on the title track “Loincloth Excursion”…I’ll be maxin’ in the forest ’till [...]

The Vans Blog!

April 4, 2008

Last month, Nikki Scoggins, the brains behind The Vans Blog did a little feature on yours truly! The write-up included an old bio of mine, and as Nikki pointed out, my use of the word “wylde” was a bit questionable…ah, yes, how foolish I was in my youth. Looking back now, I can say that [...]

Doghead Jones with his $80 yellow turtleneck

“Dear UPS man, I am home…please ring the doorbell. I have been waiting for the last two days for a package of gourmet “Saucy Nibblins” dog food, and you guys just keep putting that dad-gum “Sorry we missed you” thing up on the door. Do you even knock more than once? At least try to [...]

Dear goof man, please stop looking at the camera.

I was recently interviewed by Emeri Gelle for SF Station TV in Mission Dolores Park. Dolores Park is a great place for an interview and also is my favorite place to lay in the grass and have frisbee-chasing dogs run full force into my head. Needless to say, it was an obvious choice for our [...]