Illustration Friday: Spent

"It wasn't until young Buddy McGee got to the check out counter at the pet store did he realize that he had already spent all of his money."

Illustration Friday: Race

Yay, my second Illustration Friday entry in as many weeks! 

The hardest part about this illo was racking my brain and trying to decide what two animals to team up. I *almost* went with a grizzly and a pig, but the combo didn't seem right. Once I decided on a penguin though, the polar bear was the obvious choice. I guess you could call these guys Team Arctic. :)

Illustration Friday: Spooky

Hey, it's my first Illustration Friday entry in forever! I'm gonna really start making a better effort to participate. My art style is going through a bit of a transitionary phase at the moment, where I'm cutting down on the vector portions of my illustrations, and focusing much more on rendering almost everything in in Photoshop.

I hope you like it!

What I've Been Up To

Wow, has it really been almost a year and a half since my last post? Really? Really.

Anyway, just thought that I would share some random pages of my FIRST children's book, The Legend of Peli Claus. My boss at my office did the writing, I did the art and we wrapped it up around a month ago! It took a little over 7 months to get it finished, due to the fact that I was, for the most part, only able to work on it in my spare time, but it was totally worth it. By the last few spreads, I had the process down and was able to breeze through them.  Depending on how this book does, we actually have have an idea for a second one that I will (hopefully) wrap up next year.

Illustration Friday: Wide

MerMan open mouth wide to eat popsicles! Is good! Is good!

Illustration Friday: Horizon

Illustration Friday: Extremes

Extreme fullness.

Illustration Friday: Open

Say aaaaahhhhhhhhhh...

Illustration Friday: Green

After taking an extended break from IF, I'm back! This is a piece I did back in December as a gift for a friend's son. There's a ton of green in here sooooo... enjoy!

Illustration Friday: Smoke

A quickie this week... Robots rock!

Black & Orange Contest Entry

Here's my entry for the Penelope Dullaghan's Black & Orange contest. Happy Halloween guys!

Illustration Friday: Phobia

I had so many ideas for this week, I decided to combine several into one piece. Actually, I had enough do to do a second piece - there was snakes, the dark, dentists, etc etc etc lol.

Illustration Friday: Change

A random goblin shows off his change.. (and some spare pocket lint too)!

Illustration Friday: Farm

Illustration Friday: Safe

It's clobberin' time! The concept here is that the bully is about to pound the small kid, while having no idea that he's about to be pummeled by the kid's imaginary friend (thus making the kid SAFE).

Illustration Friday: Run

Illustration Friday: Match

Illustration Friday: Play

Illustration Friday: Capture

Illustration Friday: Clean

One day when I was in second grade, we had recess after a hard rain. As you can imagine, there were lots of mud puddles. As you can also probably imagine, many kids disregarded specific instructions NOT to play in them and got in deep trouble. It was not a pretty sight.

I hadn't thought about that day in years, but that was the first image that popped into my mind after finding out the topic for this week - seeing lots of kids waiting to go into the principal's office to tell their side of the story.

P.S. My son is the one all the way on the right. Enjoy!