more thumbs...

i just wanted this post to count as two days so i broke it up.

The bird is the same bird, im just trying different colors on him.

thumbnail sketches

here are some final thumbnail sketches from my book Splotch. These will be put into a book dummy as soon as the rest of the sketches are complete.

Animals are my friends

I love animals. They are just awesome and interesting to me. I could literally spend countless hours at zoos or aquariums and have. Birds and fish are among my favorites to draw for the shear fact that there are so many species of each but I still love sketching household pets just the same. Here are a couple watercolor spot illustrations from the archives.

More animals coming soon...

Finished: Big Round Red

Sorry it's been a while since my last post, Im sure all, and by all I mean none, of you were concerned and or cared but I digress...
Here are the final versions of my Big Round Red short
Im planning on doing more of these short narratives that revolve around the theme of a color. So look forward to those in the near future.

 

Twilight Zone tribute

The classic late '50's - '60's television show created by the inimitable Rod Serling is one of my favorite shows of all time. The stories are still, even by today's standards, incredibly inventive, frightening and profound.

 I am working on a number of covers and key scenes from certain episodes. This is just a sketch of Mr. Smith(Burgess Meredith) from "The Printer's Devil" and a cover for "The Howling Man".

 

Big Round Red

these are the thumbnails for a short narrative I am submitting to a sequential art magazine called "Figments". I'll post the finished versions once I am done. The theme for the story is big round red.

I think some of the strongest stories are the one that don't require any words. Bill Watterson of Calvin & Hobbes and David Wiesner are masters of this method. Not that I am comparing myself to either one of those gentlemen.

this is the finished version...