Seahorses

So it's been awhile since I posted much of anything here on this blog, but for good reasons! I've been busy writing and illustrating some children book stories I've kept in my back pocket and finally putting ideas to paper. Unfortunately I can't share much of anything at the moment involving those projects but I'll keep you all updated and maybe a sketch or two. (Sneak-peek) And the ultimate goal is to get published and I'll share and post a bunch it that happens. Fingers crossed. Until then I'm putting BIC, butt-in-chair to good practice. I have too many stories and not enough hands. so one at a time I go...And here I go!

Bedtime Story

                                    
                                                 Promo card??? I think so.
                                          

Boxer Obama

Barack Obama as a boxer...with George W. Bush's mouth? - Sketchbook 

Burning

 

IF Burning

 

Sketch with digital color. Went for a watercolory look, since that's what I normally work in but using PS. 

A little, very simple animation of my sketch being "burned" (I brought you into this world and I can take you out!)

My goal is to slowly but surely move into animating my illustrations. Some sketches some finished watercolors. So starting small and getting more complex as time goes on and I get more comfortable with the medium. I see myself working a more traditional style of animation. Hands on, I need that! The computer is nice but I need to step away from it every now and then plus the computer tries to imitate watercolor and other traditional mediums but just isn't the same as the real thing.

I'm doing this because as many know print is slowly dying and technology is taking over! da da da! And it's just not going away...Although I'm saddened by this I've got to come to terms that this is reality. Gotta make those illustrations move! Thought it might be a good idea to teach myself how to animate but still keep my style in tact. Animated watercolors could be very neat and fluid. Definitely a learning process and will take some time but I'm quite excited to see my illustrations come alive. Hope you are too! Stick around for more! Enjoy!

An example of illustrated watercolors might be the Red Bull commercials.

Simple, but extremely effective.

Unsure of where this could go, but determined to find out!

First Pitch to The New Yorker

This is a sketch for the first cover I'm sending off to The New Yorker. Hopefully it runs! Fingers crossed, if not I'll have another one for Christmas! Enjoy!

Promo Piece!

Promotion! One of many! Lettcha know when something exciting happens!

Meet Rusty the Raptor!

Now to get on with writing the story. Derby the Penguin, Sam the turtle and Rusty the Raptor adventures! Title needs a little work.