Was trying to convey the motion of a flamenco dancer.
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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.

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.

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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Stricken by overnight Gigantism, Torvald was mystified.

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

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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.

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.

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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.