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the boy who is what he eats

Posted in Blatherings, Photoshop Painting, character design, childrens books, illustration, picture books on April 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »


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SCBWI in Washington state

Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, SCBWI, Work in progress, childrens books, illustration on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »

A newish piece from my portfolio.

I got back from the SCBWI conference in Seattle (well, actually it was in Bellevue).
They put on one great conference up there in the Mountains. They assembled an amazing list of speakers.
Mo Willems was one of the keynote speakers. He was an impressive speaker. Very funny with good timing [...]

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P is for…

Posted in Digital painting, Sketch, Work in progress, illustration on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »

See also: M is for…

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Still working…

Posted in Digital painting, Paintings, Sketch, Work in progress, illustration, picture books on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »

I’m still working on the cover. This time I will include the wrap around. I want to keep it straight forward, yet have some fun with the general idea of a collection of stories.

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Fantastic!

Posted in Paintings, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, childrens books, illustration, picture books on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is the cover for a personal project I have been working on for quite some time. It will contain 4 different short, illustrated stories. The first one is done, the other three are written and I am in the process of editing them and starting the art.
This cover might change one more time as [...]

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Frank and Mick

Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration, tagged , on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »

This was painted in arcyllic, then scanned in and repainted almost completely in Photoshop. it’s an older piece, that I seem to take out and add to every once in a while. A great reason to work digitally.

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Freelance Monday

Posted in Blatherings, SCBWI, freelancing, stay at home dad, tagged , , on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »

quick study - crow
Usually on Monday, I post a link to interesting online animation. But today I start a new feature called, Freelance Monday, or how I stopped worrying and became a freelancer and stay at home dad.
I was scared and not sure what I was getting myself into when we set off on the [...]

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Mean Roy

Posted in Illustration Techniques, Paintings, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, childrens books, illustration on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »

It’s an older drawing. Winthrop the cat. Mean Roy drinking his morning coffee. Need I say more?

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Silly drawing Friday

Posted in Digital painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Big monitors….how big is big enough to be too big?

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The crowd part 2

Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »

I’ve had a lot of traffic and emails about the crowd scene drawing I posted.
Well, here is an older painting that features a crowd as well. Now, this is older work, and hey, it’s not looking all that good. I did this about 5 years ago. And I actually did it 7 times. It was [...]

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