I’ve hand-picked some of my favorite illustrations from the book for posters, and they’re available through my Rots’ Zazzle store. Here’s a preview of “Dom” from Cleaver Overachiever. As an aside: I received an encouraging comment this week from a friend who said that Dom “lingers in my mind…” -Cara Armstrong (Please correct me if that wasn’t the direct quote.) My first …
Another graphic short illustration up
Finished another page for the graphic short, “The T Rex and the Hare.” Posted on the Hairy Eyeballs site for your amusement. http://www.hairyeyeballs.com/extrasIllos.html
Bad, bad kerning
If you’re carving it in stone…
Killer Birds
We have a hiking boot birdhouse (see top inset) that has attracted house wrens every summer since we first hung it a few years ago. It’s just in the shape of a boot (child-size), so I’m not entirely sure what’s attracting them. This spring, we successfully hatched (and launched) a full nest, and within days of their departure, the nest was being rebuilt and, apparently, …
Keri Smith
When I want to feel like an incompetent, underworked artist, I visit Keri Smith’s Web site.
TTFN
If you’ve read my last entry, you already know about the frustration yada yada. After some soul searching and decision-making, I’ve decided to allow the kid’s illustration part of my life to take a back burner. I’m finding it difficult to justify pouring money and time into a part of my career that has no intentions of going anywhere anytime …
Doc Chocolate
Here’s another illustration that I redrew in graphite for the book. Originally, he was created specifically for greeting cards back in 2006, and these two images are the before and after shots. He looks very different (I’ve learned a lot) and, I think, very improved.
Not bothering to bother
I admit it: I’ve been shirking my kid’s illustration duties lately. When frustration and discouragement sets in, it’s hard to keep banging your head against the wall. It just feels so good when you stop. I’ve been leaning lately in a direction where I am getting positive feedback, and where I don’t feel like what I’m creating is getting sucked …
Humpty drawing before and after
Some of the illustrations I’ll be adding to the book I decided to redraw so everything will look consistent. The first do-over I posted back in March was called “Bombs Away.” The illustration I drew for the “Humpty” story in the book actually started a few years ago with the illustration you see at right, on top. I just drew it in pencil one day …
Mexican Restaurant likes the signage
I finished the first of several signs I’ll be working on for a Mexican Restaurant located inside Westmoreland Mall. Their name is Madres Mexican, and they specialize in build-your-own orders. This one will be 96″x30″ when it’s biggie-sized. Yeah. Pretty big file.
Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein in progress
I’ve been keeping track of Gris Grimly’s career since I happened to find his book Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Madness in our local Barnes & Noble a few years back. He’s a prolific illustrator. I’m not sure how else to describe his work. He’s incredibly gifted and has determined ideas of how his books should look. I’m …
T Rex and Hare new illustration
I finished the fifth page of “The T-Rex and the Hare” graphic novel for the book, and I’ve uploaded it to the Hairy Eyeballs site. This one has a bit of a fantasy sequence on the part of Rex. Roll over the button that looks like the image here to see the full page. Seventy-six pages complete!