For Illustration Friday – Round from the rotund man himself. Started to make him in snow globe but wasn’t liking the reindeer being inside the circle.
Crazy On You
November 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Why We Do This
November 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
Whenever I don’t feel like making anything or a creative block, I look at this and am reminded why I want to do this for life. 2 very important reasons, being creative is a lifestyle and the constant drive to make a difference. This image stirs up so much emotion for me, having grown up with these characters and learning so much from crazy, beautiful people like Jim Henson and Frank Oz.
I ran across this on http://www.imagineeringdisney.com/ Great site, great inspiration.
The Forest Horse
November 24, 2011 By 4 Comments
This drawing is all about an old fun park where I grew up called Idora Park. Idora Park was in Youngstown, Ohio which came on hard times many years ago. It was one of many steel towns that busted in the 80s. Idora Park was set in Mill Creek Park, which is still a beautiful park that is worth a drive. This park had an amazing carousel. The carousel was built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. The horses and carousel have been beautifully restored and are now Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn New York.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Milo/Snowy from Tin Tin
November 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some character head sketches/personality of Snowy from The Adventures of Tin Tin.
Sketching Mr. Incredible
November 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some sketches of Mr. Incredible and his many expressions.
Captain Haddock Character Sketches
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Some studies of Captain Haddock from the Adventures of Tin Tin by Hergé.
Vanity
November 19, 2011 By 10 Comments
Illustration Friday Topic: Vanity – Illustration, the Vain Fox.
Illustration Friday: Silent
November 18, 2011 By 7 Comments
This weeks’ Illustration Friday Topic – Silent. In this case, Silently Fishing.
Max, the king of ferocious beasts and his best friend, sat silently waiting for the fish to bite.
Sketching Spirited Away
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Spirited Away is one of the strangest, beautiful movies I’ve ever seen. I remember getting that uneasy feeling like Alice in Wonderland gave me, beautiful weirdness. So many incredible characters. On the landscape sketch, I experimented with blurring the background, with the grittiness of the paper it makes a nice contrast. It gives it a pop-up book effect.
Polar
November 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
Finally colored the Polar bear illustration for this years’ Christmas & New Years’ card.
Paul R. Bear, Arctic Photographer
November 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Combining Bear sketches with some beautiful antique cameras. I ran across this page, about Antique Wood Camera Collector Rob Niederman. I find old wooden cameras to be so rustic and interesting. Sampled on the right of my sketch are a couple from Rob’s page. The look of these cameras fits right in with some of the bears I’ve been drawing. There’s something to be said for the craftsmanship of these cameras, hand-made and custom-built of leather, brass and wood. They are functional works of art from photographic history.
Lomography Bear
November 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
Grizzly bear working with a completely analog camera. This week’s Bears with Cameras illustration.
