Posted in Dong Kingman, Higgins Ink, Illustration Techniques, Illustrators, Tracy Sugarman, William Longyear, illustration on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Apple, Creeps, Digital painting, Icons, OSX Icons, Photoshop Painting on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
The above art are samples from a set of icons for OSX called CREEPS. I made them back in 2003 for an icon contest. It seems to me, I didn’t do that well in the contest, as most people in the Icon world like clean, photo realistic icons, and I am way too messy [...]
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 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Digital painting, Holiday Card, Illustrators, Photoshop Painting, character design, holiday cards, illustration on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
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.
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 unique style, and shot [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Animation Artists, Disney Feature Animation, Treasure Planet, Walt Disney, animated features, animation, animation art, character design, pencil test on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
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 when someone finds or [...]
Posted in Blatherings, Blogs and Sites, Facebook, Internet, Mark Zuckerberg, off topic, online waste of time on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 | No Comments »
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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