Whoa! Another round of Sketchoholic this afternoon. What a rush! A lot of great entries and I ended up coming in 2nd! Woo hew! One of these days I will claim the coveted Bobby Chui sketch 
. These one hour sketch throw-downs are so intense and I actually learn alot about how to get ideas down quickly and how to make some quick decisions. If you like to draw and like the encouragement that comes from sketching with a group of people be sure to check it out!
This past winter was pretty busy! Attached below are several images from an upcoming book called Alfred the Clever Crow by Peggy Carey. Alfred is a curious little crow whose curiosity gets him into trouble. Throughout the book he learns that his Mother is there to protect him and that he needs to listen to her rather than venturing off on his own . I’ll post a link when it’s available!
Had a great time sketching today with The Intensity Club at Imaginism Studios. Voted top by the other artists so thanks! Looking forward to the next sketch.
This past winter I illustrated a book called Cop’s Night Before Christmas, by Michael Harrison. It’s a great story about a policeman whose duties call him to serve on Christmas Eve, away from his family. I really enjoyed illustrating it and can’t wait to see the final product! I just found out that Michael Harrison will be featured in American Profile magazine in 2011!
American Profile will run a feature on Michael Harrison, author of Cop’s Night Before Christmas for Christmas Eve 2011. The story will mostly be about police officers working on Christmas Eve and Michael has worked more Christmas Eves than most police officers. The book will be mentioned in conjunction with the story.
American Profile is a weekly, four-color magazine that circulates within community newspapers nationwide.
To get ready for its release this fall I’m posting a few of my favorite images… check back in September for a few more!
These guys have been getting a lot of play lately… two whole illustrations and they are still walking along. The sketch for them is below.
Sketchoholic.com, one of Bobby Chui’s web sites has had another contest. The theme of this one centered around sculpture and interpreting something classical. I went around and around with this one and finally settled on the caryatids in Greece.
It seemed like a good idea… then I decided to make this my next promotional mailer (gotta make the art work for me 
. So my thought was to make a postcard with a fun spot on the back to tie the whole thing together. So here we go …
My wife’s a big fan of Audrey Hepburn (and who wouldn’t be) so, after a lot of noodling I thought maybe the caryatid had run off with some other piece of classic sculpture for a holiday . I’m kinda diggin this one . Thanks for stopping by!
Well, not quite . This was a quick cartoon for one of my clients to advertise their services.
And now for something a little different! I was asked to do this retro-styled piece for one of my clients and thought it sounded like a good challenge! I’d love to dig into this technique a little more and see where it takes me. I’ve also been taking some figure drawing classes at the KIA and those have definitely been helping me identify problem areas in my art.
Till next time! Thanks for stopping by.
Hey Ya’ll (ala’ Paula Dean), today’s my birfday so I took the day off! Woo! Hoo! Had a little Lee’s chicken, downloaded some iPod apps, and did a drawing for sketchoholic.com. Today Bobby Chui is interviewing Humberto Ramos so I’m doing a fun drawing for the related drawing contest.
While you are here check out the book page I’ve added to the site! I’ve linked most of the books I’ve worked on and it’s neat to see everything in one place .
