Calendar progress

Its been taking up my life for a month now and I'm the only one who notices. It probably won't sell to anyone but my mom and my close friends but at least now I have the start of a brand new portfolio. I had long thought I had the ability to digital paint, but that was before I figured out two things.

1. Light sources are important to focus (DUH.)

2. Photoshop is the best program for digital painting. Period. Seriously. Don't whine to me about your Corels or your Paint Shop Pro's. Photoshop is THE painting program.

I haven't posted in this thing in forever because I've been too busy and stressed to just do plain sketches or pictures that won't go in a portfolio, but I hope to get back to that soon. I noted that two of my favorite artists in the whole wide world both have art blogs now. Vera Brosgol the internets own child star(who works over at Laika in my hometown...small world!) and Lissa Treiman http://www.lissabt.blogspot.com (shes going to be famous someday you mark my words)

Over the next few days i'll finally be posting some calandar images. In the meantime...a picture of Death, Evermore and Claudia. yay.

Hey lets go!

a lil page of totoro sketches. This movie has been one of my very favorites since I was tiny. It was one of those you say inspired you into the profession you are in today.

Big Ole Post

Character Designs for a comic project about Werewolf Gloves. When asked how she lost that arm the werewolf girl up top tells people it got trapped in a car door and she had to gnaw it off.




Childrens Book sketch. Part of an old African fable about how the Zebra got its stripes.






Random creature sketches.



Big inked image with several different kinds of Irish Fae. I like the Pooka (goat monster) and the hedgehog monster.

So good its SCARY

Here is a color layout I did for a scene from Felidae's second book Felidae: On The Road
The cult of wild blind sewer cats are amassing here to worship what little light they get in their underground world.




This color layout is from a scene in my comic Portillo: Horse Knight the cottage he is looking at is actually Baba Yaga's fabled chicken hut just before it rears up on its legs.

In cartoon news I saw Monster House and DAMN...

It is in a word fantastic. It's a shining light in the abyssmal land of stagnant popular culture riddled scripts that we see so much of today. The writing was a breath of fresh air there was no band of the week songs, no fart jokes, no obvious product placement or pushed celebrity voice endorsements. And best of all, it was scary. I don't think kids get scared like they used to be when I was a kid. We coddle them with soppy goo goo toons that look pretty but have no heart to them at all. The movie did have some problems with its motion capture process sometimes most notably with its secondary motion. But all is forgiven for its beautiful ending and...morbidly strange twists.
(Fun Fact- Rob Schrab the mind behind comic Scud: The Disposable Assassin was a co-writer on this script. http://www.scud.com/)

Felidae prt 1

An illustration and two Character designs for two of my favorite books, Felidae and its sequal Felidae: On the Road (written by Akif Pirincci). They books are both out of print and extremely hard to find in english (they were originally printed in German) The first Felidae book was actually made into an animated film in Germany(also hard to find but WELL worth the effort to locate and purchase, its good in every sense of the word.)

In the top illustration Francis the Cat Detective (Felidae's main character and narrator)encounters a GIGANTIC eyeless persian cat named Rhoades. He is part of a cult of blind cats that roam sewers and catacombs rescuing unwanted kittens people try to drown.

The last two images are of Pascal and Bluebeard, cat characters from the first book. The author is always very specific about breed, I think it adds to their character overall and makes it even more fun to design them.

Portillo 06/26/06

All drawings and character concepts for a comic book I've been working on off and on entitled Portillo-Story of the Horse Knight. I hope it gets somehow magically done and published eventually. The top three designs for the Tax Collectors horse, the Lady in Waiting's horse and the Black Knights horse were all done in flash. Color and all.

06/22/06

The first design was made for a friend's website idea which has not been created yet. The website will be entitled "ReallyBigHorns. com" I liked the visual so much I created a logo that eventually should be colored and placed on a t-shirt. If you are interested in said shirt tell me about it and I'll pass on the information.
The second image is a page of daily sketches. You have no idea the sheer amount of horses I can doodle in one day. Stick around and I'll prove it. You won't even be able to fathom it. I'm serious. It will scare you a little.
The last image is a painting in its first stages. It was just a daily doodle I liked enough to paint. Eventually I will sell the finished painting as a print. I love drawing animals with gigantic googly eyes going different directions.