I have a large collection of old illustration magazines and manuals. They can be funny to read, descriptive text from the 1920’s ETC has a very pronounced style. But they have a ton of amazing, beautiful art samples. I will upload a few from time-to-time if people are interested. The above catalog was published [...]
Archive for December, 2007
techniques
Posted in Dong Kingman, Higgins Ink, Illustration Techniques, Illustrators, Tracy Sugarman, William Longyear, illustration on December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Animation Visual Development
Posted in Digital painting, Hugh, Photoshop Painting, Visual Development, Work in progress, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, illustration on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Above are two pieces I’ve done for a new animated short I am working on. When will it be done? …well, I am hopeful March or April of next year. But we will see.I’m not 100% sure of the overall visual look/art direction yet. I have locked the script and the board is about [...]
Tis The Season…Tisn’t it?
Posted in Digital painting, Holiday Card, Illustrators, Photoshop Painting, character design, holiday cards, illustration on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some card art from 2004. The traditional Holiday cat, duck and wolf. The ageless Christmas tale of how they learned to skate. In other words, I wanted to draw our cat, a duck and our husky.
Animation Monday Part 5
Posted in Academy Award Nominee, Animation Artists, Don Hertzfeldt, Rejected, animated short, animation, animation art on December 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Animation Monday is proud to introduce Don Hertzfeldt. Rejected is a great animated short (an Oscar nominated short from 2000). I’m sure most people who stop by this blog have seen it and most probably own it on DVD. Anyway, a great short, funny, with unexpected turns all done in his [...]
crowd scenes
Posted in Paintings, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, childrens books, illustration, sketch book on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The sketch above is from a book project. It is a big crowd scene. I love to draw crowd scenes. And I do it differently then I used to. As I do all my finished art on the computer it allows me to easily mix sketches and play with a composition at lightning [...]
Animation Monday
Posted in Animation Artists, Disney Feature Animation, Treasure Planet, Walt Disney, animated features, animation, animation art, character design, pencil test on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Back on schedule. Animation Monday will be posted on Sunday as I won’t be posting on Monday. So here is animation Monday!
Pencil tests. You Tube offers a great variety of pencil tests. Some are copies of original test shoots by animators, others are, I would guess, reshoots of cycles and scenes [...]
Off Topic Sunday presents- Facebook
Posted in Blatherings, Blogs and Sites, Facebook, Internet, Mark Zuckerberg, off topic, online waste of time on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s off-topic Sunday! Where I, well, you know, write an off topic post. Today it’s Facebook.
So I have a Facebook account. After 6 people emailed me in like a two week span, I gave in and got me one. I don’t know exactly why it fascinates me. I’ve grown to think of it as a [...]
Alien school bus
Posted in Digital painting, Lake Oswego, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, aliens, all ages comics, animation, books, cartoons, character design, childrens books, graphic novels on December 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Saturday must be Old Art Saturday. As I can’t show you the stuff I am working on right now (but I will be able to shortly) I decided to post an older piece. This is work from a graphic novel I am working on. It’s pretty self explanatory. Kids, aliens, a school bus in space…you [...]
Selling Picture Books
Posted in Aw Flaherty, Borders Books, Loch Ness Monster, Portland Oregon, Powells Boks, Scott Magoon, childrens books, picture books, retail sales on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve had a few emails from people about my posting on Borders. They all felt the same way. That many bookstores don’t know how to sell picture books. That the picture book has a unique selling ability – the cover. And, I have proof.
I went down to Powell’s City of Books in Portland last [...]
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