Once upon a time…well, a few years back anyway, I created a superhero duo called, Nausea Guy and Wicked Boy. They were your typical down-and-out superheroes. Living in a one bedroom in Los Angeles, they had given up fighting against the really big crimes in society and concentrated on things like; people with loud [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Wicked Boy and Nausea Guy
Posted in Adobe After Effects, Animation Artists, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, character design, comic books, superheroes on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Animation Monday, Serge Bloch
Posted in Animation Artists, Animation Monday, Cartoonists, Illustrators, Mariscal, Serge Bloch, animated features, animated short, animation, animation art, character design, childrens books, illustration, picture books on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A link to some short animations from Serge Bloch. He is also an illustrator, one of my favorite illustrators, and you can see his work here. Beautiful line work, funny, inspirational. His style reminds me of another of my all time favorites Javier Mariscal.
This collection of animation uses his style. I’m not sure if [...]
And this drawing is about cats
Posted in Illustration Techniques, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, books, character design, childrens books, illustration, picture books on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
OK. The Drawing above is not about cats. It’s about Little Frank. He’s explaining his newest experiment.
The news I have to share is that I will be starting a picture book with Tricycle Press. It’s a great manuscript, funny and dark. I can’t show any of the work until the book is completed [...]
M is For…
Posted in Alphabet, Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Photoshop Painting, cartoons, character design, childrens books, doodle, illustration, kids books, picture books on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
M if for the monster that maimed Matilda.
This is the ‘M’ page (ah, yah…) from my alphabet book. Which I have been working on for like 6 years… It’s almost embarrassing. It has changed styles and content, at least 40 times. And instead of sending it out to publishers and agents, who see 945,628 of [...]
Animation Monday
Posted in Animation Artists, Animation Monday, Blogs and Sites, Michael Sporn, animated features, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This Animation Monday is a link to Michael Sporn’s Blog or Splog. His company has made dozens of shorts and half hours, many animated adaptations of children’s books (for those readers counting, this post combines two topics we all love, kids books and animation)
The Sblog has lots of great scanned images and info about classical/traditional [...]
quick sketch – tough guys?
Posted in Sketch, character design, doodle, gesture drawing, quick sketch, sketch book on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some quick sketches from yesterday.Tough guys is where I started from. I think the middle one is retired to the coast.
Character quick sketches
Posted in Digital painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, childrens books, graphic novels, illustration, picture books, sketch book on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are some REALLY rough sketches from a project that went from animated short, to animated feature pitch to comic/graphic novel. I was working on two different characters, and these were in a stack of stuff I was throwing out this past weekend. But I liked them enough to scan them.
These are just quick drawings [...]
Animation Monday
Posted in Animation Artists, Chris Sanders, Comic Strips, Walt Disney, animated features, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, character design on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s animation time here on my illustration blog. Is that weird? Animation and illustration together? Like peanut butter and bananas?
Well, no intro really needed for Chris Sanders. The co-director of Lilo and Stitch , who is now hard at work at Dreamworks on a new film (I think developed from a John Cleese pitch, [...]
Monster’s Night Out
Posted in Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, character design, childrens books, halloween, illustration, picture books on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a piece I did a while back and sold prints of. I dug it out a few days ago for another project. It was painted in Photoshop. When I look at it now, I can see I have made some improvement since I did this. And I might tackle this same subject [...]
Story book art – from portfolio
Posted in Digital painting, Illustration Techniques, Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, childrens books, illustration, picture books on February 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few pieces from a story book in progress. Painted in Photoshop.
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