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

June 2008

Touch Base with Gregg Sween!

June 4, 2008

Thanks to Owen Morris for animating our artwork for this promo! July 11th7-11pmFivepoints Arthouse50 A Bannam PlaceSan Francisco, CA94133 Pat does the voice for Gregg Sween and I do the guests and the announcer…Hurrah! See you there!

Three Brothers

Commissioned drawing for Singapore designer Casey Chen …Prismacolor colored pencils on paper, 16.5 x 23.4 inches. Casey and I became friends on Flickr. Thanks Casey!

MC Big Fizz

June 3, 2008

MC Big Fizz was born Yancy Shuehorne on a hot 1974 summer day in the heart of Gary, Indiana. He was discovered at the age of 18 by a talent scout while performing an acapella set at an open mic event held at Shemp’s Shanty, a local cafe/tanning salon/movie rental shop. The young Shuehorne was [...]

John Seymour of Mechanicsburg, OH

June 1, 2008

Visiting San Francisco! Hey John, what do you think about the city? “Well, I just decided to come here because I heard about…Fisherman’s WHERF, it’s…pretty cool, smells a little bad…and there was a man with a bush attached to his body that jumped at me and uh, i’ll prolly never go back there again. Went [...]