Too Big For A Big Wheel

Artist Bio

My name is Amanda Mallardo (a.k.a. armed star) and I am a designer/illustrator currently residing in the Chicago area.

I was initially inspired as a young child by my older brother who used to sit and draw along with the cartoons on Saturday mornings, or he would pop in the “Hobbit” or “The Last Unicorn” and draw the characters from it. He was a big dude, and I was a little one – I just remember laying on his back with my color crayons and paper and drawing along with him.

Later on in middle school, I became involved with skateboarding and snowboarding and the graphics associated with the board designs and magazine layouts. I would make finger boards out of the cardboard backs of my notebooks and draw the popular graphics and sell them to my classmates for a dime a piece. Ever since then I’ve been drawing and designing in some way, shape, or form.

The shirt design came about when my husband told me about his idea of being in a band called Too Big for a Big Wheel. With that in mind, this drawing came from a random day of sketching when I was bored. I thought it was cool, so I brought it into Photoshop and made an illustration out it.