Lazy Artist

I admit I have been an extremely lazy artist when it comes to my Sketch Blog. It has been a year since I posted anything. In my defense I've been busy with work (doing art) and my studio at home is a wreck, overran with toys.

To further the point I had started a mural on the wall of my work office during my lunch breaks. It was meant to be just a line drawing, as you can see it still needs to be completed. I even had people here that would come in and try to follow my pencils on the wall and help paint during their lunch break, but they gave up as I was taking lunch to work on work.

I always meant for this blog to be a sketch book online of things that were going through my head, drawings that I just wanted to do for fun. So hang in there as I get the sketches organized and make some time to do some more.

Gears Plush

Well the logo went over so well, that the company decided that Gears would get his own amusement family. This is one of the "natural" prototypes, the actual line (released 2007) was all in neon colors.

How many people can say they have a toy of their puppy?

Gears!

Gears is a mascot that I came up with for Toy Factory. He is based on one of our Bassets named Squee.

Click here to see an image of Squee!

Aquaman

As a thank you to a friend for a really generous act, I came up with a colored sketch of his favorite character. I knew I had a limited time to get this done, so I took it straight from my really, really rough thumbnails straight to Illustrator. I then did all my adjustments and tweaks in the computer, instead of flushing out more "finished" sketches by hand.

I thought it would be nice to show the thumbnails next to the finished piece. To see more of Aquaman visit the Aquaman Shrine here, and to see what spurred this sketch visit here.

Playing with Colors

This one is taking a little bit of time, I have been working on it when I need a break, 5 minutes here and there, maybe over lunch. Gives me some time to think about options since it's not a deadline piece, more of a fun one.

Progress with Basset

Here's a progress shot showing the buildup of the illustration.

Pose with Basset

Your standard Justice League heroine pose with a basset. I will be cleaning this up soon, maybe trying a no black outline approach.