Kitten Kidnapping

Something silly from my sketchbook based on a friend's children' book pitch, though the kidnapping part is purely accidental on my part based on how I drew the yarn around her hands. Oh well.

Small Foxes Painting Progress

A small update on what I'm working on with a series of images: a concept sketch, a color study, and the final under-drawing on the actual final painting. Experimenting with canine forms, watercolor, and multi media, and the finished will be watercolor/ acrylic mixed media. The end product will hopefully be a starting point for a style guide for my own personal childrens book still being roughed out. (It involves ferrets, not foxes, but more on that later.)

Some of the more notable sketches done during a week long camping trip for the Boy Scout Troop I volunteer as an adult leader for. First couple are playful logos of the sub camp mascot we were under, and the bottom two are of the fantastic man made lake dead center in camp. The cyber eagle is just a cyber eagle, enjoy it.

Leaf Imp Girl Concept Paintings

Hey, its been roughly a month since my last post, but I have been working trust me. May into July is full of family and holiday convergences that end up being much busier than even Christmas for me on top of the heat wave that we have been getting.

Here are the finished concept paintings for this little imp character that I have drawn for..oh over a year now for a personal project. Nursing an idea is great for mental excercise, but now its time to focus on the applying this idea to a finished product down the line. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth it in the end you know?

Leaf Imp redesign Spring 2012 through Summer 2013

Quick redesign of an imp race I'm planning to use for an online graphic novel, it sure has changed alot since her conception last spring on the forested island of Lokrum, Croatia.

Both interchange anatomy and details from multiple redesigns below.

Its amazing how much this one character has changed in just over a year. Just as I had learned years ago, strong world building overall helps characters develop especially well, but not the other way around. Her design as a result was slow and steady as I tried hammering out the basic idea of what story I want to illustrate.

spring 2012

                                                                          summer

                                                                               fall

                                                                             Winter

                                                                     spring 2013

My Dear Aunt

Shooting Star

Something neat from my sketchbook. I have several other works in progress that will be dumped soon.