Hard Boiled Crime Eggs

I can't say what I particularly like about film-noir and crime stories. There's melodrama. Then gumshoes, femme-fatales, murder, mystery, action! And then the visual black and white with the dramatic shadows and angles. And the way they talked too.

All these things blend together to make something totally unique but also ubiquitous at the same time. I love it, but my knowledge of the genre I feel is lacking. Any good film-noir movie recommendations are welcome!

Giant Scary Ant Monster

Been doing a lot of sketching for King of the Jungle! Then as I was doing my sketches, I thought, "Ant monsters are cool." Violà.

Revisiting Dinosaurs (And my blog)

I put these illustrations up for anyone who is interested in seeing embarrassing work. You see, the idea for a dinosaur wanting to fly started over 3 years ago now. I left it alone for three years and only until this year I began revisiting this idea.

While a lot of visual ideas from three years ago has been chucked and reworked, this idea of a bunch of dinosaurs laughing at the little protagonist stuck. I even made a new illustration of this encounter. For fun, I thought it'd be fun to compare it to what I did three years ago. Let me say, seeing this illustration again MAKES ME CRINGE!!!!!!! Uggggh, what was I drawing?! The horrible line work, the splotchy background. YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!!!!!! I'm just happy that at the time I didn't get discouraged and stop. I kept working.

So let this be inspiration to any illustrator, writer, creative out there, if you keep working, you WILL get better and better!

3 years ago.

1 month ago.

(Note: the further back I go in this blog, the scarier the artwork gets. EEEEEEK!)

More Polar Bears

Here are some more Polar Bear and Penguin illustrations. I am looking forward to warm weather too already!

Polar Bear and Penguin Road Trip!

This is the first image of a number of pieces that I've been working on that will soon make its way here. When I was working on this, I was thinking cold and dreaming of a white Christmas. Unfortunately, 60° weather in December is putting a damper on that. Booooo. I'm sure Polar Bear and Penguin feel the same way about this dumb weather.

Candy candy candy candy candy!

It's getting close to that magical time of year to have lots and lots of candy. Halloween!!! Because it is the season and as I was working on something else, I had this drawing pop up in my head and put it down for fun. I even got to test my brand new scanner with this (IT WORKS BEAUTIFULLY!).

Now time to go get some candy corn and watch the Garfield Halloween special (Candy candy candy candy!).

"You got a pumpkin on your head."

Dino Montage.

The latest work from this weekend.

So Much News!

Soooooo it's been a really long while since I last posted.. Fall is finally here. People are back in school. It's getting colder. Oh, and I also signed my FIRST PICTURE BOOK CONTRACT! Coming in the near distant future of 2017 will be my 1st PICTURE BOOK, King of the Jungle!

Appropriately, Ben the lion and Sir Rhino will be published Amazon Two Lions (good coincidence!). I couldn't be more excited.

Alas, I have new projects being worked on and some new work to share.

This was me signing my picture book contract! What am I looking at?

 

 

 

Let's hear it for Ben and Sir Rhino!

The Dungeons

This is what I'm thinking every time I go down into the dungeons. . . I mean subways.

Preparing Positive Promotionals Plan (Post-Packing)

Well, I am back into the swing of things with the move. Have been since July 15th I'd say. It's been slow goings getting back into the groove with drawing. But this August I hope to be hitting the ground running! Some new and redone artwork since I came back.