Sketch Marks

Monkey Painting

2010-09-01T03:01:00.000-07:00

This is something I finished yesterday for my sister's sister-in-law, who also cuts my hair. So this painting is worth at least three years of haircuts. I'm planning to make this a two piece set with a night scene. The second will help keep me looking good for the next three years. Alllllll-right! Giggity giggity goo!!

if you're curious it's 10x8, acrylic

Hypnotized Hamsters

2010-07-08T02:03:00.000-07:00

Did this drawing for a friend's art blog Hamsters and Hippos. Awesome drawing topic. Check out the blog. There's some fun contributions.

Matcha Latte Media

2010-03-10T02:16:00.000-08:00

Designed a logo for my friend's business, Matcha Latte Media. He's become an expert on cultural differences between Japan and the World. With that experience and knowledge he helps small companies bring and market their products across international borders.

Don't let language barriers and cultural differences limit the success of your products.

www.mlatte.com Dozo!

88 Tees

2010-03-10T02:11:00.000-08:00

Here's the latest 88 Tees design. A wrap around design inspired by School House Rock.

Busy Bees Hawaii

2009-11-28T16:17:00.000-08:00

I'm proud to announce that Busy Bees Hawaii is now up and running! I've been working very hard on the site with my sister and friends at Mix Plate Media to build our online store. Busy Bees Hawaii is the company started by my family and I to sell clothes with original characters and designs by yours truly. :)

Although we're originally focused on baby and infant clothing, we do provide adult sizes. Become a facebook fan of BusyBeesHawaii if you like our stuff.

I hope everyone is having a great thanksgiving holiday!!

You can click the following link to visit BusyBeesHawaii.

88 Tees

2009-11-11T22:37:00.000-08:00

The past few months I've been designing t-shirts for a company called 88 Tees. They're a small chain of stores with a Japanese urban/pop/rebel feel that sells vintage clothes. In the states they're not that famous. I believe they're not even that famous among the locals of Hawaii. It's like you've heard of them, but never been there. Well, apparently, they're extremely famous in Japan. It's like a top 5 destination for Japanese tourists. Which was confirmed by my friends living in Japan. I had absolutely no idea.

They have a set of characters that they own and use. I was asked to design shirts specifically with those characters, but in my style. The following poster is based on one of the shirts I designed for them. I heard that it is selling well!

Hope you like it.

Been awhile

2009-10-10T19:44:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone. Work has been extremely busy lately. So much so that I had to stop volunteering at the hospital. I'm hoping to work out a regular schedule so I can continue drawing with the patients and their families again.

But a Flash project I've been working on last week is up and live! I was asked to fully produce a 15 second Flash animation of a Yorkshire Terrier digging a bone from the ground for the Florida Lottery's latest game. You can watch it here http://www.flalottery.com/ at the Florida Lottery website. It was a crazy and intense production as I helped create the storyboards, animatic, character design, and final flash animation within a week. It was a great experience with great clients to help see how much I could push myself. Also, I have to give my thanks to my friend, Aaron, for being available. His presence helped me keep a good work pace so I didn't burn out too quickly. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Cheers

Sheepa

2009-04-23T02:20:00.001-07:00

This is a drawing I did for my sister's card company. His name is Sheepa and he likes to sleep.

Hospital Sketches

2009-04-17T02:32:00.001-07:00

These were with a handful of kids two weeks ago. They were loads of fun. As you'll see, I was the subject of another future illustrator. Not only that, I'm buff and have a 5 o'clock stach. I also challenged the kids to draw along with me, and we drew chocolate chip cookies.

Sketchcrawl 2009

2009-04-17T01:27:00.000-07:00

Met a handful of new artists at the Honolulu Sketchcrawl. I was a bad crawler though. The Hawaii State Art Museum, I discovered, has a family arts and crafts event called Second Saturdays, and I ended up spending most of the crawl talking to the events coordinators about the program and volunteering. For the later part of the crawl, I re-joined the group and managed to make this painting. My first water color ... ever (not counting water color pencils)!!!

nephew birthday card

2009-03-21T21:46:00.000-07:00

My nephew's first birthday card. Happy Birthday Buddy!
Front and Back

Hospital Sketch

2009-03-16T03:43:00.000-07:00

It was pretty busy at the hospital today. So I only had the time to draw, as my friend might say, one "freaky."

I'm flattered but WTF!!

2009-03-09T02:00:00.001-07:00

Hello Peeps. That thing I mentioned about people stealing your work.
Look-ie at what I found!!!! This guy/girl was trying to steal my character and sell it as their own. I am terribly, terribly troubled by this.

Read it here!

WonderCon

2009-03-04T22:37:00.000-08:00

I just returned back home to the islands after spending a little over a week in the Bay Area and checking out the WonderCon! Good Times. Ate a ton of good food, found a new favorite coffee called Blue Bottle, chilled with friends, and GEEKED OUT at the WonderCon! Thanks to all my friends for letting me crash on their couches and floors, and even managing the time to hang out. I wish I could have stayed longer.

I bought a sketch book with the goal of filling it out during the trip ... i managed to make it through half the book. About 50 pages worth of doodles. I'm going to try and scan some of them in to share. So stay tuned!

Here's some bad-ass WonderCon costume Pics. BumbleBee was the show stopper for sure.

More Hospital Sketches

2009-02-11T22:56:00.000-08:00

Been drawing animals with goofy eyes lately. No real reason other than it makes me laugh.

LisaWongArt.Com

2009-02-09T23:24:00.000-08:00

No image post today, but I still wanted to share something with everyone. This past week Andy, a bad-ass web designer that I know, and I came together to created a website for a friend.

So, my friend and another talented artist, Lisa Wong just won a beauty pageant and because of her talent (which you've got to check out) she was recently invited as a guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Lisa asked if I would be able to design and construct a website for her, and of course I said "Hell, Yea!" ... Well, maybe not in such emphatic words, but I was definitely excited to make one for her. I asked Andy if he would be interested, and he was psyched to help.

Lisa's appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show was still open, but they were hoping to interview her within the week. After talking with Lisa, Andy and I started to design the site Wednesday night following our day-time jobs ... come Friday Lisa tells us that her interview was set for the upcoming Monday!! With our busy schedules we had to get the site done by Saturday. I cranked out the final visual designs by Saturday afternoon and Andy was able to finish programing the site by late Saturday evening. Boo Ya! There's a few things we need to set up, like her blog and getting Lisa's videos on the site, but otherwise we managed to build her website in about a good 20-something hours.

Here is a youtube clip of Lisa's talent, check it out:

Lisa's Talent Performance

and here's the website Andy and I were able to make:

www.LisaWongArt.com

a bunch more hospital sketches

2009-01-22T21:19:00.001-08:00

it's been a long time peeps. so here's a bunch of hospital sketches from the past three weeks. hope you like 'em.

the last three sketches were done by one of the kids. after drawing his shark he told me that he "decided to draw what was in front of him." to my great surprise he decided to draw me! not a very pretty subject, but he managed to do an amazing job!

Mele Kalikimaka

2008-12-23T06:57:00.001-08:00

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

More Hospital Sketches

2008-12-07T21:15:00.001-08:00

Swamp Creature

2008-12-05T01:46:00.001-08:00

Cleaned up one of the creatures from my Halloween sketch. I'm enjoying the color scheme on this one. Now I just need to draw him in a better pose so he's not so static.

Georgie the Elephant

2008-11-25T01:50:00.000-08:00

Been working on a children's story book with a buddy of mine. So I've been in a kind of story book mode lately. Hope you like this quick doodle.

Happy Halloween

2008-10-31T23:17:00.000-07:00

Have a safe and scary halloween! Here's a quick sketch I did yesterday.

more Hospital sketches

2008-10-19T19:13:00.000-07:00

Sorry for no post last week, but the ER was packed. It was difficult to leave and I ended up staying an extra 2 and a half hours. But this week was different by far. Only a few visitors, so there was a lot of sketching time. Whoo hoo!

more Hospital Sketches

2008-10-05T22:39:00.000-07:00

These were the sketches that I did today. It has been really slow the past two weeks, which is awesome. Cause that means there's less kids coming to the ER. Although it's been slow there was a great kid that was extremely interested in drawing. He could draw the bust of Scooby Doo from memory!! Amazing. Well he asked me to teach him how to draw the afro dude on the first sketch and with his direction we made a full body character of said afro dude. Both he and I drew the full body character. I took a picture of his dude, but can't figure out how to get it from my cel phone to the computer without a blue tooth connection. Damn you motorola!!!!! and damn me for being too cheap to buy blue tooth!!!!

More Hospital Sketches

2008-10-04T17:59:00.001-07:00

I should start taking pictures of the great things the kids create.

Hospital Sketches

2008-09-09T01:43:00.001-07:00

Hey peeps. So these aren't sketches of a hospital, but sketches done while at the hospital. I've begun volunteering at a Children's Hospital. The program is called "Art for Life" and the responsibilities are to create arts and crafts with the kids in the ER waiting room. The idea is to give them as positive of an experience as possible and to keep them and their siblings occupied until they're called in. More or less, it becomes a temporary day care, which is not a problem. I'm happy to help relieve a bit of burden from the distressed parents. It's been an enormous reward hearing their thanks and seeing them and their children leave with a smile. Anyways, these sketches are usually my warm ups to help me get into the creative mind set for the kids. I'm going to try to post my hospital sketches every week.

On a different note. I must apologize for the smaller scans and overlaying watermarks. The orphaned art issue is still out there and I've already seen a couple of artworks from other blogs being ripped off. And rather blatantly too. So watermarking and smaller scans provided me with enough peace of mind to continue posting.

Well thanks for passing by. I'll see you next week.

Retirement Card

2008-05-16T23:51:00.000-07:00

Here's a custom card I helped my sister create. It was created with layers of cutouts to give it some depth. I helped illustrate the character. I wish I could show you the card in person, the layers makes it look pretty damn cool.

Bring back the Hunter

2008-04-26T22:53:00.000-07:00

I decided to create the hunter I designed a while back in Flash. He's more or less broken down as a Flash puppet, and I'll see if I get around to animating him. There's a few polishing details on the hunter that I'd like to do, but I'd say he's about 85 percent done.

Mele Kalikimaka

2007-12-24T18:55:00.001-08:00

Silver Class: Final Fat Joe

2007-10-07T03:01:00.001-07:00

Ok, with the class at an end I plan to watch the course videos as much as I can and hope the knowledge sticks like glue or maybe like maple syrup cause it's all sweet! Here's my final assignment. Fat Joe is a character from the play The Long Voyage Home.

Busy Bees LLC

2007-09-15T19:47:00.000-07:00

Work has been fairly busy as I've been promoted to Lead Artist in my studio. It's an entirely new challenge juggling your own work and managing others. This is becoming a great exercise in learning how to be more articulate and concise in what I need to say.

Other than that. Stephen Silver's class has been incredible! I will be posting some of my assignments soon. Also the baby clothing company my sisters and i started has begun! Our equipment is set up and running. Now to dive into the business and work out our production process. Here's the latest version of the Busy Bees logo.

Submergency: Damp Summer Color

2007-08-13T22:20:00.000-07:00

Here's the final poster with color. By request of their cast, I added a dude to the group of chasers. All five characters are supposed to be fellow cast members. I've never met them in person, but used their web photos and youtube videos as reference. Go see them and you be the judge on my caricature skills!

Submergency: Damp Summer

2007-08-05T00:01:00.000-07:00

Here's the poster I'm designing for my friend. It's a continuation of their improv show Submergency. The actual drawing is about twice this size. The thing I'm happiest with is the feet! I've never been happy with my pedo-pencil skills.

Yo

2007-08-03T02:34:00.000-07:00

For those few that still check out my blog, my apologies for not posting in ... ay caramba ... four months?! Damn I suck. But I've been quite a busy bee lately. Currently working on another Submergency poster for my friend's improv show. Going to start a baby clothing line with my sisters using my cartoon characters. Hoping to redo my website testing how much Flash I've been learning at work. I've also just started my online class with Stephen Silver. The price was a hefty bullet to bite, but character designing classes with top notch teachers are hard to find in Hawaii. Plus it's frickin' Stephen Silver! It's got to be good. Anyways, I promise to be posting with an actually drawing real soon. ... I swear!

Crazy Turtle

2007-03-16T22:13:00.000-07:00

Some crazy turtle I drew at work a couple of days ago.

Wyatt's b-day card

2007-03-05T02:40:00.000-08:00

Here's the final invitation card for my nephew's birthday. Chrys did a wonderful job designing the card. Happy Birthday, buddy!

Figure Drawing

2007-03-03T00:53:00.000-08:00

I wanted to post more figure drawings, but the drawings are too big for the scanner. Even this image (drawn with tombo pen) was cropped by the scanner. Hoping to find the time to set up my digital camera, and then as my friend julian would say "we'd be rockin' tacos!"

IF: Communication

2007-02-25T20:25:00.000-08:00

Thought I'd try be a bit more experimental for Illustration Friday. Went for a more graphic style than my usual quick cartoons. Inspired by the artwork of Peter Stanick. Using a picture of Charlize Theron, I tried to emulate his style to explore silouette and form through minimal colors.

Kung Hee Fat Choy

2007-02-22T00:47:00.000-08:00

Did this for the Chinese New Year. Kung Hee Fat Choy!

IF: Crash

2007-02-15T00:47:00.000-08:00

Little Jimmy was trying his best to salvage his plane from its inevitable crash.

figure drawing

2007-02-08T23:44:00.000-08:00

5 min and 10 min poses

crocodile

2007-02-06T04:51:00.000-08:00

Sprout

2007-02-04T23:08:00.000-08:00

So it's time I got back into Illustration Friday. Here's my quick sketch for "sprout."

figure drawing

2007-02-02T10:20:00.000-08:00

5 - 10 minute poses, ballpoint pen

sister's christmas card

2007-01-29T02:11:00.000-08:00

I found this in my computer and wanted to share it with everyone. It's my sister's Christmas card for this past year. She specializes in hand-made custom cards and invitations with our cousin. They both started a company a year ago called ElleSquare. I help them with any cartoon illustrations such as the reindeers (made using their fingerprints). Check them out at www.ellesquare.com.

Those pictured are my two nephews, Cory and Camren.

B-Dog

2007-01-25T01:20:00.000-08:00

A simple dog cartoon for my aunt.

Wyatt

2007-01-23T01:10:00.000-08:00

wyatt's 1st b-day

2007-01-15T10:20:00.000-08:00

My sister asked me to draw something for my nephew's 1st birthday card. Here's a preliminary sketch.

Dental T-rex

2007-01-08T23:22:00.000-08:00

Keiki Turtle

2007-01-01T12:01:00.000-08:00

Working on a mascot for my cousin's children dental practice. This little turtle is one of a few attempts. I've also designed a couple dinosaurs which I will post later. Happy New Years to everyone!

more moon-qi

2006-11-25T19:31:00.000-08:00

Moon-qi

2006-11-17T21:47:00.000-08:00

I designed this monkey, Moon-qi, for my cousin's new company which will sell products specifically for cell phones. This includes ring-tones, mobile web designs, and so on. I wish my best to their start off.

Submergency

2006-10-24T16:45:00.000-07:00

So I'm almost settled back in Hawaii. I've already picked up a big illustration job and have a couple of interviews going for me. Keep your fingers crossed for me. I feel guilty for neglecting my blog for a month, but once I get a new computer I'll be back with more drawings and animation.

Here's a drawing I've done for a group of friends. They will be running an improv show titled Submergency "I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas." They also have a podcast improv show which is pretty entertaining. Although podcasts are prerecorded, trust me these guys are hilarious in real life and there's no doubt that everything is improvised.

Radio Star Improv

Roaring 20s

2006-09-22T12:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been busy getting ready to move. But curse it all! I missed the last Illustration Friday. Shame on me. The current topic is pretty fun (phobia), so I'm curious to see what craziness comes out of the IF artists.

Well here's a small sketch I did. It's for the DrawingBoard's Roaring 20s topic, but I'm waiting til I have the time to fix a few things and color it before I post it there.

CowPie

2006-09-08T17:13:00.000-07:00

I designed this as a moji last week and I guess it really shows my sick sense of humor. But here's CowPie for Illustration Friday's "Farm" theme.

Safe

2006-09-06T01:49:00.000-07:00

The "Safe" theme for Illustration Friday reminded me of some childhood Safeway memories. I don't know if Safeway counts, especially since the stunts we pulled weren't so safe, but here yah go.

Sketches

2006-09-03T13:51:00.000-07:00

Spent an hour or so in J-Town yesterday.

Run Away

2006-08-31T14:01:00.000-07:00

This is my really, really lame sketch for Illustration Friday's "Run" theme. Didn't want to miss this week, even if it'll only be a few hours before the new topic. Bleh, this is what I get for not thinking about it. Terrible, terrible sketch. I promise the next one will be better.

Homer

2006-08-28T01:49:00.000-07:00

Been busy this past week doing a test for Film Roman Studios. Hopefully they'll like my work. For the moment here's a fun throw away doodle I did during my test. Got to catch up with my sketchbook exercises!

Boxing Match

2006-08-18T18:00:00.000-07:00

For Illustration Friday's "match" theme. Here's my quick sketch with old school Punch Out in mind. Obvious Pascal influence ... I couldn't help it.

Safari Dude

2006-08-16T21:59:00.000-07:00

So I'm in the middle of designing a safari huntsman for our next Flash test. We chose to do a lip-sync with a Sean Connery dialogue. The test is roughly boarded, and all we're waiting for is me to finish the design and build this dude's puppet.

dancing girl

2006-08-14T00:54:00.000-07:00

Did this drawing for the drawing board's dancing girls thread. What can I say? I'm addicted to the 80s, the decade of accessories. Funny thing is that without the background it looks like she might have been pulling some trixs.

Kera Expressions

2006-08-13T12:46:00.000-07:00

Been exploring facial expressions. It's tough designing certain emotions effectively with two beady eyes and no eye brows. So I had to look at a lot of artists for reference. My biggest influence was the infallible Calvin and Hobbes. If you look at a lot of the comic strips you'll notice that the people don't have eye brows!! Bill Watterson did a masterful job selectivly choosing when and when not to apply these "magically appearing" brows.

More Bus Ride Sketches

2006-08-13T12:44:00.000-07:00

Kera Crawl Animation

2006-08-11T16:49:00.000-07:00

You should check out my timeline. It's such a mess!

Kera Crawl

2006-08-10T14:43:00.000-07:00

Our next step in testing Kera will be a crawl test. Little bit more personality and a lot more fun!! Here's the puppet with a frame of our rough animation.

Kera's first animation

2006-08-10T01:13:00.000-07:00

Decided to post my first animation of Kera here. I think YouTube drops a few frames, or maybe it's cause it's a streaming video. I don't know, I'm not tech-suave by any means. Boingy boingy Boingy!

Quick Sketches of Kera

2006-08-07T00:03:00.000-07:00

Just playing with action poses to build a model sheet and help me figure out different perspectives of Kera.

The Monkey and The Monk

2006-08-01T11:52:00.000-07:00

Created that blog at

themonkeyandthemonk.blogspot.com

Kera's Flash Puppet

2006-07-31T21:13:00.000-07:00

So here's the Flash Puppet for Kera. There's even an image on how I've broken him down into parts. I'll need to run this by others to make sure this will work.

More Kera Sketches

2006-07-31T14:46:00.000-07:00

Scenerio for Kera has changed a bit. My friend and I have decided to explore Flash as a personal project to help us figure it out as a tool. For myself, I want to learn the nuances of Flash and how to "build" characters for better animation. So I'm throwing this in with my weekly drawing exercises. Actually I might start a new blog dedicated to our project. It will be called The Monkey and The Monk unless we think of something more creative down the line.

monkey study

2006-07-30T11:34:00.000-07:00

Just a study on the skeletal make up of a monkey. Should have sketched out more of the form, but I accidentally deleted my working file. Doh! I'll have to start over.

Kera

2006-07-27T12:00:00.000-07:00

So I'm starting to study the character designer, Ovi Nedelcu. The topic of choice is another monkey, Kera to be specific (Thanks Rini for the name!). I found a pose and attitude that will help me keep Kera in character. Currently I'm in the process of studying the anatomy of monkeys with heavy references and life drawing. After I've confidently gotten enough practice I'll start playing with design and proportions as I believe Ovi would have drawn Kera. Then create Kera in my own style with what I've learned. Here's a page of my initial studies and sketches to find Kera.

Sketch Exercise

2006-07-26T15:04:00.000-07:00

I was very fortunate to talk to a lot of my favorite artists while attending the Comic Con. So fortunate that they were willing to sit with me one-on-one and actually sketched out tips for me to consider every time I draw while they critiqued my work. It'll be my personal little project to adopt an art workout recommended by Bobby Chiu. It requires analyzing your favorite artist and then applying your discoveries with follow up sketching exercises. If you're interested in his workout, I encourage you to buy Bobby Chiu's book: Guy Sketches. He outlines his art workout there, plus it's in the middle of all his inspirational art!

Anyways I feel like my art has hit a certain plateau. The ratings I get for my characters have been mediocre to the most. On a mojizu scale of 1-10, I've been averaging a 5.5. No kidding, it's been dead in the middle, and it's progressively getting worse. So every week or two I'll be choosing one of my favorite artists to emulate. The object isn't to copy their work, but to use it to build upon my own skills. I'm posting this note in hopes of keeping myself honest and disciplined. So three times a week I should be posting. I think I'll start studying the artists in the order of how I met them throughout the Comic Con, so I can immediately apply their tips. Well, we'll see how it goes. Cheers!

More Moji's

2006-07-24T23:46:00.000-07:00

Uni Brow

More Moji's

2006-07-24T23:41:00.000-07:00

Honu

Harley Quinn

2006-07-14T19:03:00.000-07:00

Harley Quinn and Batman

I won't be posting art for atleast a week as I prepare for the Comic Con next week. I'll be sure to draw a lot of sketches when I'm down there. So there won't be a lack of drawings when I come back! Cheers.

Menehunes

2006-07-12T23:21:00.000-07:00

Playing Hawaiian frisbee on the beach.

2006-07-12T23:16:00.000-07:00

Figure you might want to see the final photoshop painting before I added the little people.

CafePress

2006-07-12T14:55:00.000-07:00

After frequent suggestions, I've decided to apply my drawings to t-shirts and stuff. So I opened a CafePress Shop. If you have any advise or preference of characters/products, please let me know. The shop is a work in progress and I'd like to make it as best as possible. You can access my shop by clicking the image below.

http://cafepress.com/sketchmark

Bananas

2006-07-11T14:12:00.000-07:00

I've joined this website called Mojizu. It's an online character design community where creative artists share their characters. Mojizu is a very fun site with great little characters of many styles. I've submitted my first Moji character and I shall name him Bananas. ... cause I can't think of anything wittier.

Wyatt

2006-07-07T11:58:00.000-07:00

This is a drawing of my nephew Wyatt.

Uma

2006-07-05T16:09:00.000-07:00

It's supposed to be a caricature of Uma for the Drawing Board forums. Not quite a caricature and not quite Uma.

happy weiner

2006-06-27T21:18:00.000-07:00

Menehune Color

2006-06-24T20:25:00.000-07:00

Menehunes Ink

2006-06-21T15:39:00.000-07:00

Baby on Board

2006-06-14T10:46:00.000-07:00

A little baby girl I saw on my flight to Indy.

Guy at Union Square

2006-06-08T00:31:00.000-07:00

Back to the Future

2006-06-06T19:13:00.000-07:00

Tried to do a quick sketch of the Doc.

Niener the wiener

2006-06-06T01:33:00.000-07:00

Sketch of my friend's mini dachshund, Nina.

Kaimana Klassik XX

2006-06-01T15:03:00.000-07:00

There's a big Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Hawaii. They were asking for disc designs, so I tried. I submitted a couple of Menehunes chasing a frisbee. My sketches weren't picked, but it's always fun drawing the little hawaiian people.

Crossroads Color

2006-05-20T10:54:00.000-07:00

Here's my crossroads piece with color. I used Photoshop CS2 with a wacom tablet. Wacom's make a world of a difference in your photoshop experience compared to using the mouse!!

sketch blog banner

2006-05-17T01:03:00.000-07:00

Decided to spruce up my sketch blog. Created a banner.

Figure Drawing

2006-05-14T15:47:00.000-07:00

Just practicing figure drawing with a charcoal pencil.

Attitude

2006-05-08T14:24:00.000-07:00

Dialogue animation test

Crossroads Ink

2006-04-12T21:07:00.000-07:00

Inking Phase (or in Chasing Amy terms the Tracing Phase)

I just finished the inking of my foreground and midground elements, so in a way the print is still "hot from the press." I found the details that I liked in the pencil drawing, so it's usually in the inking phase that's my favorite because I get to tie down all the details. Here the only thing I tend to play with is line weight, otherwise it's a pretty straight foreward transfer to ink. I used Micron 0.1 and 0.05 on vellum.

The color may take a while. I've been caught up in a number of projects and will have to find the time to do it, but hopefully I'll manage the time to get it together soon!

Crossroads Pencil

2006-04-12T20:57:00.000-07:00

Pencil Phase

After finding a thumbnail I'm satisfied with I usually go straight to inking for my characters. But since this is designed for an animation background or layout, I decided to do a cleaner pencil drawing to figure out the finer details. I used an ordinary blue drafting pencil on vellum.

Crossroads Thumbnail

2006-04-12T20:31:00.000-07:00

So I've titled this cow piece "crossroads" because this becomes the point in my character's story when he has to decide whether to stay with his developed pastures or head west towards the desert.

Cow Steps

2006-03-25T19:00:00.000-08:00

You know it really helps me to post whatever I wish on this blog because I don't believe that many people look at it. Bwah ha ha! No inhibitions. Anyways, I've decided to post the progression of one of my layouts. If you've seen my website, it's the illustration-layout with the cow on the hill. So this will include thumbnail to final color.

Chicken Dance part deux

2006-03-17T22:06:00.000-08:00

So this is my color trial of the roosters. Hopefully my sister likes them.