My “Art of Brave” book came yesterday, and now every second of down-time, I can’t help but draw this character! The book is absolutely gorgeous - I think it’s one of the most comprehensive “art-of” books produced yet; and the quality of the work is just so top-notch. Everyone should buy this book. I’m so in love with this character design - now I need to find a Merida costume.
The witch’s angry stove. Trying to develop a quicker, more graphic style for story beats… and failing. I’ll get it next time.
Avengers was awesome, so of course for my work-break-doodle I googled all the Avengers screen captures I could find. Okay, really I just googled all the Black Widow images I could find. I’m very pleased that this year there is an abundance of bad-ass red-headed heroines in the box office - now I have so many characters to choose from for my Halloween costume!
Going through ye olde hardrive and cleaning out junk sketches. Some old stuff from my Hansel and Gretel project.
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” ― Maurice Sendak
It occurred to me that I never posted this on the tumblr, though it has been on the portfolio site for ages. Some early style-finding concept art for a children’s book I worked on. I think in the end the project may go a different direction, but it was good exploration. I got rather attached to the style, but sometimes that happens where you and the art director don’t see eye-to-eye… which many times is a blessing in disguise, because it forces you to break out of your comfort zone. On a side note, for all you science nerds out there, yes, I realize you wouldn’t see stars within the crescent of the moon, but I don’t much care… Call it artist’s prerogative or creative license or something. Anyway, happy Monday everyone. These next few weeks are going to be a whirlwind of work for me (hence the posting of old art), but hopefully I’ll be able to get a few work-break doodles in for the tumblr folk. Exciting stuff happening! Cheers!
A work-break-doodle that got a little out of hand. I’ve been drawing Princess Merida all week; and she’s so fun to draw, I’m sure I’ll be drawing her for a long time to come! Instant classic!
Lumos!
I wish I had time to play Pottermore, but silly work is getting in the way. I did manage to get sorted into Gryffindor, which I was quite excited about. So, since I can’t play Pottermore, might as well do a Harry warm-up sketch!
Quick Katniss sketch for the morning’s before-work warm-up!