back in business...sort of

long time for not posting but here are a few doodads until i upload sketches from a bunch of class stuff etc. the first one is from last year for one of the children's theater projects. that one was for the grinch but they didn't have the rights for the image of the iconic chuck jones animated grinch so it was interesting trying to say grinch without showing the grinch. then they found out they had no rights to it whatsoever and it fell through because they couldn't do the show.

The second is a piece for the train station here in Lancaster that has some remodeling going on so they needed art to be blown up to 6' by 8' to cover 12 concrete barriers of the same size while they work on the train station. the 3/4 circle on the left and 1/4 circle on the right of the composition were adjoining elements that each piece had to have so that there was a common strand linking the pieces together like some weird mural. Obviously it had to have trains in it but the rest was open to whatever so i did a period piece on the civil war. It's the biggest painting i've ever done at 1' by 2' but the more i look at it the more i see everything that is wrong with it and never want to see it again. It was a good learning experience though.

The third was for my children's book illustration elective last year. I won't say the story i was writing for fear of prying eyes even though i doubt i will do anything with it for quite some time if at all but here is one of the paintings i thought didn't turn out so bad from it.

Crash and Burn

So my computer has been completely dead for a while now and i have no idea when i'll be getting a new one. HOPEFULLY within the next few weeks. Right now i am at the folks' house for christmas things so i finally have a little bit of access to updating although all that i can do for now is take pictures with my camera. No scans to be had which is a downer but at least things will partially be updated again on a haphazard basis. Next update coming whenever i take pictures.

Hobobug

apparently the original concept wasn't hobo enough so here is the final color concept of a humbug hobo style.

bah, humbug

Character concept for the Humbug from "The Phantom Tollbooth". A basic, bare-bones turn-around for class.

The Doctor Is In

Some random stuff for school. Out of the three projects chosen for me to do for a client 2 of them were closed down at the last minute because of copyrights that the theater failed to properly get and the third painting wasn't chosen thus eliminating any hopes i could have had to get published for that project. Boosh. Only one of them is shown here and it's the Jungle Book painting. The rest is just stuff from other classes. There is plenty more for me to post but i'm lazy so this is all you get.

Some Doodiddlins

a random sketch from forever ago that somehow got from my sketchbook to my computer for one reason or the other, not all of the sketches that i need to put up here but that will have to wait till later. Then there's a preliminary sketch for an upcoming painting. Also a couple variations on a flyer for a friend of mine's band's gig.

Done? only time will tell

This might be as far as this one gets to go but it was definitely a learning experience. It taught me to not try painting black metal and large sweeping clouds only look good in my head. I'm not disappointed in the result though. It was my first attempts at painting dark metal and big clouds and such so it taught me some thangs.