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Harlan's Portfolio
This page includes many work and practice samples I've done over the years, showing an overview of my skills and interests.
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Illustrations
Some black and white line drawings: gorilla . . bear . . jalopy . . dollar sign . . fisherman . . conversation . . county fair . . prize winner . . walk diary . . gallop . . cutting board . . snore . . snag . . stock market . . walk in the snow . . dirty boots . . reading . . hurry up and wait . . Medium: brush and ink (pencil underdrawing).Bud Clark, a cover illustration of an eccentric Portland mayor, drawn for Willamette Week. Medium: brush and ink.
Oregon Attorney General Dave Frohnmayer, another cover illustration for Willamette Week. Medium: brush and ink.
A popular Portland country music radio station was the subject of this cover illustration for This Week magazine. Painted with gouache (tempera) paint.
Fantasy hero is a brush and ink rendering.
For more samples of related art work, see my other web pages.
Graphic Design
(You'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDF files that follow.)Some PageMaker design projects: Fishing flies, a magazine page design . . Bookmarks . . Life Drawing flyer . . "Flow" flyer. (pdf files)
A redesigned community college schedule cover. Due to printing costs the cover is printed in two or three colors. These three alternative designs use full color: first...second...third. (.jpeg files)
Menus: Home Made Cafe . . Harry's Steakhouse and Seafood . . Samm's Burgers and Brew Pub (pdf files)
Seven business card designs (fast loading .gifs): Tile Awhile . . Delicious Desserts! . . Pet Grooming . . Rainy Day Outfitters . . Sunrise Remodelling . . Northeast Studios . . Irvington Realty
My first web site home page illustration and image map.
The River City Cafe logo (pdf file) was used as signage and labels for a remodeled eatery at the PCC Sylvania campus. Here's the fabricated sign.
A PCC panther ballrack design.
Writing
Teach yourself almost anything is a practical article on my favorite way of learning.Cartooning Tips is a one page handout I've used when teaching cartooning classes. If you've never tried printing a PDF file, try it on this page. The print quality is surprisingly good (depending on the quality of your printer).
Poetry Tips gives some brief advice on writing poetry for pleasure and personal expression. I also include a few of my own simple poems.
Harlan Simantel Paints Irvington is a short article I wrote for publication.
How To Write Complaint Letters That Get Results is a short article I wrote for "The Dollar Stretcher."
Oaxaca Adventure recounts my trip to Mexico with NW Medical Teams.
Bubble and Fly is a published article from 1977. It tells how to enjoy fly fishing without casting a fly rod.
How To Fish Small, Remote Lakes For Brook Trout is a short, unpublished article.
How to get out of a creative funk -- and get going is a practical article about how I get out of the doldrums. It just might help you, too.
A Prayer And A Kick is a true story about a dramatic answer to prayer.
Lose Weight The Easy Way offers my simple plan for getting thinner and making your clothes fit.
Animations
Mr. Scooter repeats the same cell in different positions, again giving the impression of movement.
Quake uses the same background image throughout, with some variation.
Signs & Displays
Various signs (98k PDF file), designed in PageMaker and Corel Draw. More signs.Banquet sign, brush lettered in tempera paint on cardboard.
Lydia's, a pizza snack bar sign, with raised foam letters.
River City Cafe, a sign I designed for Portland Community College, shown here fabricated in 3D.
A small display holds sign and photo elements in place with velcro fasteners. The three-fold unit can be carried under one arm, and elements easily removed or replaced as needed. Here's another simple placement using a different color theme.
Here is one of many outdoor hand painted signs I lettered when I worked for Hanna Car Wash. Medium: quill brush and "One-Shot" lettering enamel on mdo plywood.
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