Sketchbook

some Brian Froud musings and a couple pen and ink.

Johnny Cash from the portrait sketchbook

I'll never understand why people keep falling for idiotic destructive ideologies...

Pols are really just having us on....

A good start, now I have to polish...

I think the monarchy metaphor has a lot of miles in it these days.

one more

A few Sketches for political cartoons and/or coloring books...

Line work for a potential coloring page...

 First layer or color for the Tigris and a first mock-up for a Dung Beetle PSA

 Hand drawn stippled beetle. I have a couple of these being colored and a tree frog that is up for sale in my web store.

 Finished doggy. This one vexed me a bit but my client was happy

 First in a new line of ink drawings I've been working on

this is a composite illustration. Finished to client specs.

The layout for a composite illustration of the a movie character...

Couple graphic novel mock ups from The Shield of Asi

 

Studio pics from Torso, and Shade Tree on my sculpture page.

After the "Liberty Bear" I'll get to "Sock squid which I've been letting marinate in the back of my brain.

The plan is to approach it like the other illustrations on my Cartoons page.

Simple. Line and a little stipple.

 Another approach is to try to make every little organic element into a solid feeling structure.

I used the shape of an amaryllis leaf to create all the shapes in "Koi-zilla"

I normally focus on color in my work.

This was a very complicated dress. I think I'm the only one who put in the time after the model session to come up with a solution that describes the essence of all the folds and tiny wrinkles.

 It's amazing what one can do with one still object