Swamp Beasts

So I guess drawing alligators is a secret love of mine...









probably because I fear them....

Villains

It's an age old rule: your heros are only ever as good as your villains and so I thought it appropriate to dedicate a post to the opposition:

A shady pet store owner with an appropriate mustache ...




A washed up magician also sporting a sinister mustache...



A man of science who had it then lost it all...



A nazi bus driver...



A mean lady bully yukin' it up at the expense of the weak...




Big mean boys who play sports...



And the blind angry masses always out for blood...




Just an angry few out of Tesana's rouge gallery in A Home for Mr.Easter

We'll get to know them a little better in the near future...
specifically whenever I get my home work done... which is at the moment a very real villain.

p.s.
LOVIN' this song and you might too:

IM FINISHED!

FINALLY the unveiling of a project that's been eating my life for a year: A Home for Mr. Easter! It's slated to come out in April and is being put out by NBM! woop woop!

I actually finished two days ago, but I have just recovered from an 18 hour sleep fest... which by the way really hurts waking up from, how do the bears do it every winter?

For pre orders and a preview click this here link:  http://www.nbmpub.com/comingup/comapril.html

And for blog posts on the NBM blog you can get there this way:

http://nbmpub.com/blog/

I'm so tempted to write something on one of Trondheim's little nothings posts... but everything I think of seems dumb and screams fanboy, so I'll lay low and gather courage and cleverness for that day.

I'm planning on attending MoCCA and may be selling copies then, who knows, it's a world of possibilities!

THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE HELP and SUPPORT! You all helped me to the finish line and it wouldn't have happened with out you! 

IM FINISHED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1PYp-fsZOA

Race Bannon colored for action

I'd fight frogmen on a ship wreck with Race Bannon... or go out to dinner... 

Something Old Something New

I know I shouldn't but I am... 

Here's a character from a few years ago I used for the school newspaper with a shiny new design (for better or worse) that I've got secret plans for.... so secret at the moment I myself don't know.

AESOP LAMB of VENGEANCE -->

A vigilante lamb who speaks softly and carries a big stick... 

Dream Boat Mondays...

So with the start of the new year Chris and I are beginning Sexy Sundays and Dream Boat Mondays where we pick a theme, in this case Johnny Quest, and then we each choose a character that we in our heart of hearts know is far too sexy/dreamy to not have an illustration dedicated to their splendor. 

Chris has Sundays and will honor the sabbath every week with his personal pick and I have the joy of uploading on Mondays with the ultimate goal to make mondays not suck quite so much.

So this week I picked Race Bannon, of course, and Ill post it officially in colored glory next monday when we get to see who Chris will award his sexy pick to... Dr. Zim perhaps? One can only hope.

Luberons

For concept class we designed creatures, called luberons,  for a fake expansion of Oblivion.

From left to right: a warrior (looks suspiciously like a digimon) a civilian, a shaman, and a chieftain. 

FURIOUS FAUNA

Eames Kitty Catalogue

Christmas present for a friend  AKA another excuse to draw a kitty.

France sketchs

It's nearly been a year since having the good fortune to hang out in Lacoste France for a quarter and study art. Here's a few sketchs of my favorite places. 

forest behind Le Chateau des Sade, Lacoste  ball point pen 

Pitot Garden and roof top, Lacoste (pencil)

Pathway leading to a residential garden (ballpoint pen)

Les Bories dry corbelled hut village just outside of Gordes.  People lived in this little cave village with the one communal oven until the early 1900s. They had sheep, pigs, and farmed silk ...  after checking them out first hand I derived with scientific precision : living there would get old really quick... unless of course you had a dinosaur for a pet in which case it would be fantastic.  (on site watercolor sketch)

Lookit this tree! My teacher didnt much like this one, but its a nice reminder of one of my favorite trees in the village (ball point pen)

The Pitot Lounge, one of the most important rooms on campus because it was the only place with a vending machine and a promise of  Wifi. (ball point pen)

Hey its the library which is a renovated bakery. The dome igloo shaped structure behind the chair was the oven original to the building (with just enough space between it and the walls to for kitties to sleep in the winter, thereby keeping rats and mice away from the bread).

The library was awesome... though the books were mostly in french.

(pencil sketch)

Rue du Four* Lacoste. This road went up to the library and down to the cafe. In the opposite direction it leads down to studio 4 and out of the village... and steep as the road seems... I swear it was steeper. (pencil)