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Availability

As of October 2010, Marty is working on the illustrations for two great books, two d20 manuals, three animated shorts, several logos, an avatar, three character illustrations, and too many other exciting things to count!

Oops! Marty has been so booked, he totally forgot to update his “booked through” date — that’s embarrassing! To make things easier, most of Marty’s projects are being handled through Ideaschema these days. If you’d like to set up an illustration project, check out Ideaschema.com (especially Creative Team in a Box). You can also drop Marty a note directly by clicking here.

Who the Hell is Martin Whitmore?

What an excellent question! Two cookies for you.

Martin Whitmore is a dangerous and brilliant evil illustrator who specializes in abstract concepts and character development, with a particular passion for anything that involves horror elements, hot scantily-clad pinup girls, D&D and adventure comics. He does lots of brilliant business illustration as well, including his work on The Usual Error (book page, illustration gallery) and illustrations for business websites, like the Raw Foods Witch, Sell What’s In Your Head, Linda Eaves’ Getting Off the Couch and Into the World, and dozens of others. He’s also done illustration work for Naomi Dunford’s IttyBiz SpeakEasy, Sonia Simone’s Remarkable Marketing Blueprint, countless small content illustrations, quite a few beautiful headers, and every now and then, an Evil Dead cast members portrait. He’s also illustrated a few really great ebooks, and he maintains a webcomic called Tasty Flesh about strippers surviving the zombie apocalypse.

More of Marty’s work:

• Flickrset: Commissioned Illustrations
• Flickrset: Icons & Avatars
• Flickrset: Idea Catalyst Kit Illustrations
• Flickrset: Against the Dead (d20 Zombie Carnage)

Teamwork!

Like any good superhero worth his salt, Marty is teaming up with others whose powers complement his own! You can hire these teams to accomplish superhuman feats of web design, animation, and marketing!

Creative Team in a Box

Marty & Megan’s Creative Team in a Box is a new way to add style to your website that will attract attention, convey your ideas in a manner that sticks with your visitors, and entertains at the same time it informs! Click here to see what all the buzz is about!

Blazonfire Animation

Paul Durban is a talented animator and motion graphics master, and he’s teaming up with Marty to supply artwork to create unique, powerful animations that get your message across loud and clear in a way that anyone can understand! You can see their first two collaborations here, and you can bet your ass there will be more to come! Visit Blazonfire.com to learn more about how you can get your own!

Flying Solo

Book Illustration

You’ve written your book, or your eBook, and you’re really excited about it… and you think maybe it’s missing something. A few illustrations here or there would really make it pop. But while you’re great at stick figures, you think something more professional would be just the ticket.

Among others, Marty’s done illustrations for:

• Ideaschema’s The Idea Catalyst Kit

and The Creative Spark Plug Lecture Series.

• Pace and Kyeli’s The Usual Error

Check out the illustration gallery for some examples of his illustration work.

Business Illustration

Having a business is all about branding. In this age of the internet, every business has more and more facets of itself
to put across to its customers.

For your online presence, Marty makes banners, website headers, custom avatars, and pretty much anything else you can dream up. He can put together a banner for your website that includes an image of you — and you can use that image as a custom avatar on your social networking sites. Now that’s branding.

He also makes beautiful hand-drawn illustrations for use on the packaging of your products, or in your business pamphlets, that all of your clients will comment on with admiration.

Check out the business illustration gallery for some examples of his business illustration work.

Custom Commissions

Do you have an image in your head, and you just love it, but you know your artistic skills are not up to the challenge of producing it to your satisfaction? Marty can take your wildest imaginings and put them to paper for you (or canvas) in pencil, ink or in full color.

Check out the commissioned art gallery for some examples of his commissioned works.

Interested in putting together your next project? Drop Marty a note!