Showing posts with label #2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #2018. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

D-Bot: Developing a Main Character for a Picture Book II

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Hard to believe it's been about two years since I created this story and character while doing jury duty. The long hours waiting was the...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

D-Bot: Developing a Main Character for a Picture Book

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UPDATE: New Type for Title I'm playing around with type, trying to develop a title design for the book. Placed the type on a lower l...
Monday, October 1, 2018

Inktober 2018 - Day 01: Poison

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My quickie image for Inktober2018 for Day  01  for prompted word: Poison. Thought Process: I basically thought of a poison bottle. That...

How different pens create different images

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Someone wrote to me asking why I sometimes mention what pens I'm using for different illustrations. What you use often makes a significa...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Daily Quick Sketch: Charli Bean Travel Mug

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Created this concept for my wife, who loves coffee, has an Icelandic lineage and is a redhead. So I decided to make her a coffee travel mu...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Mermay 2018: Octo-Tail Mermaid

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This is the first year I'm doing the annual #MerMay online event where artists submit daily images of mermaids. Here's this week...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Daily Quick Sketch: Perry Wanna Kracker. the giant pirate parrot

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Today's quick sketch in pencil, brush pen and Copic markers. It is a supporting character for a little picture book story I wrote called...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Mermay 2018: Shark-Tail Mermaid

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The second image I did for the online event MerMay2018, where artists submit their mermaid illustration during the month of May. My fina...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Daily Quick Sketch: Picture Book Character Mash-up

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I had purchased new brushes for Photoshop last week, looking for brushes that give a more natural feel than the current brushes available in...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

YouTube's The Cozy Chair reads Bobby's Biggest Bubble

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Special thanks to Rebekah of YouTube's The Cozy Couch for reading Bobby's Biggest Bubble! She did an absolutely great job. She i...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Daily Quick Sketch: RokSok, Son of Mudsok

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Haven't drawn an underling in some time. These are characters to an underground world in a children's book I wrote a few years ago. ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

UPDATE Daily Quick Sketch: Cap'n Billy Buttons

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UPDATE So what's a pirate character without a parrot? I originally had a parrot on his shoulder, but really dislike the way it looked....
Friday, May 4, 2018

Mermay 2018: Flying Fish Mermaid

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This is the first year I'm doing the annual #MerMay online event where artists submit daily images of mermaids. I don't have the tim...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

Daily Quick Sketch: Fox on the Run

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Not sure why I sketched this image. Maybe it's because I need a fox character for a picture book manuscript I'm working on, or it...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Daily Quick Sketch: Fishface

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No idea when I did this sketch, but I found this old scanned pencil drawing in one of my archive drives. I dropped it into Painter 2018 and ...