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Chris Sanders, creator of Lilo and Stitch, is being interviewed by Bobby Chiu tomorrow and I can’t wait! He, like other interviewers, is offering up a piece of art to the winner of a big art contest on the site. This time the topic is Nightmares!  I couldn’t shake the whole idea of horses being involved so I centered the piece around them and tried to make them really spooky. I wrestled with it quite a bit but I really like how it turned out.

PS I’m sorry , Lucy, for making a teddy bear look so nasty. I promise “Pinky” would never look like that… ever!

I took an art break in the middle of doing more art… I love one toothed alligators .

Sketchoholic contest entry.  One hour and the topic was “One tooth”

No, I haven’t been fishing in Alaska but after working on these drawings I think it sounds incredible!  I was contacted through referral by John A., who needed some artwork for an instructional e-booklet on fishing the Kenai river for Red Salmon.  It sounds different from any fishing a Michigander might be accustomed to!  John has put his passion for Red Salmon fishing into an e-book in a effort to aid the ‘out of towners’ in their quest for Red Salmon.  As soon as I have a link for purchasing I will put it up here but meanwhile, here are a few illustrations I made for him.

Growing up my Dad used to enjoy the occasional monster movie.  I recall seeing Godzilla fight Gammorah on more than one occasion.  I think the thing that interested me most was that Godzilla had this strange relationship with the humans.  He always helped them out!  Crazy, water-sleeping, building smashing, man-in-a-monster-suit monster!  Anyway, I’m sure there were a couple where the monster had a strange connection with a small boy so here we have Godzilla playing catch with a little boy.

I’m not so thrilled with the way the color turned out on this one.  I may have to revisit this in the near future to see if I can improve the process a little. For now it’s time to move on!

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!

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.

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!

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 .