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Illustration Friday – Twirl

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Was trying to convey the motion of a flamenco dancer.
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Illustration Friday – Chicken

Sunday, January 16th, 2011

Pretty cut and dry interpretation of this week’s theme…

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Kid Malone – Color Sample

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

As I’m starting to flush out the initial story, it sorta helps to start getting a clearer image of “Kid”. One of the things I learned in animation was to keep character development to pencil stretches until you got that “Ah-ha” moment where you knew what the coloration would be.

For me, I’ve always had a really crisp image of a character’s general look well in advance, but it helps to do these “color samples” ahead so other characters don’t get too similar.

I also wanted to toy with the idea of sidewalk chalk for her advertising purposes. It would be a cute routine for her to re-do it daily after the street washing every night.

Kid Malone, Investigator – Character Sketches

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Awhile back, when I just came off the amazing experience of getting kid’s books published Kid Malone was a character I became excited about. Originally a little boy whose folks worked on the Adamville Police force, I thought it would be fun to go through a number of “cases” with a touch of noir.

More recently, Kristen suggested Kid should be a girl and it just clicked.

While creating the female version of Kid, I also saw the necessity for a Watson to my new Heroine Holmes. Some in my family may see a certain similarity to the character “Red” among our wonderful circus of relatives.

I’ll keep posting updates and eventually as this project forms maybe even some more polished artwork.

Illustration Friday – Diary

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Spent a day or two contemplating this one, then remembered the end of Doogie Howser (sic). I love his episodic confession about his day of life lesson/s. This of course reminded me of this recent article about hospital robots. What’s better, some awkward kid stealing your gig, or a freaking ROBOT!

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Illustration Friday – Giant

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Stricken by overnight Gigantism, Torvald was mystified.

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Illustration Friday – Satellite

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

I don’t know, all I know is this was the first thing I thought of when I read satellite.

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Sketch Of Kristen

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

After a  long day, relaxing on the couch and sipping beer with Kristen. She actually painted the background using the tablet and ArtRage, and I sketched over the top. Teamwork.

Illustration Friday – Ripple

Monday, June 14th, 2010

For IllustrationFriday.com’s current theme, they joined up with a blog running a very smart and cool campaign to gather artwork and sell it on sketch cards for $10 each and then in turn donate that money to helping wildlife affected by the Gulf spill.

I know this piece doesn’t portray wildlife, but when I sat down to do the project all I could think about was that perspective of being underwater. Looking at video of the oil pumping, the water sort of rippled with the mixture of gasses streaming out with the oil.

Here’s a link to the ripple blog: http://ripplesketches.blogspot.com/

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Illustration Friday – “Dip”

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Especially with ocean swimming, but generally when taking a “dip” , I tend to feel this way.

Enjoyed this 40 minute draw-ring while sipping coffee. It’s been a while since I’ve even tried to draw.

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