Sketches – MonkeyWorks Illustration

Mr. Beaver

May 29, 2012 By Dave Mott 3 Comments

From The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis.
This week’s contribution to the AlphaBooks project for Letter B.
Prints of the color version are now available in the shop.

Filed Under: Animals, Art, Children's Book, Sketches, Sketches From Movies, Wildlife Tagged With: Beaver, Mr. Beaver, Narnia, Narnia creatures, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Totoro and Woody

May 22, 2012 By Dave Mott 5 Comments

Daily Sketch, I bought The Art of Pixar this weekend. Amazing book, and it really made me appreciate the movies even more. So that’s why this sketch was Pixar themed.

Filed Under: Animals, Art, Character Design, Character Sketches, Illustration, Pencil Sketch, Pencil Sketches, sketchbook, Sketches, Sketches From Movies Tagged With: Pencil Drawing, Pixar, Totoro, Toy Story 3, Woody

Bear

May 20, 2012 By Dave Mott 1 Comment

I’m using Procreate on the iPad, just experimenting with the brushes and textures. So far I really like the app, it does a great job with the wet brush.

Filed Under: Art, Illustration, Sketches, Character Sketches, Children's Book, Animals, Character Design, Bears Tagged With: Children's Book Illustration, Illustration, Bear Drawing, Bear Illustration, Kid's Room Ideas, children's Book

Tiki Girl

May 19, 2012 By Dave Mott 3 Comments

Another tiki set, going thru my African masks book and getting so much inspiration there.

Filed Under: Animals, Art, Character Design, Character Sketches, Children's Book, Illustration, Pencil Sketch, Pencil Sketches, sketchbook, Sketches, Tiki Tagged With: African sculpture, masks, Tiki, Tikis, turtles

Polynesian Sea

May 17, 2012 By Dave Mott 2 Comments

This AM’s sketch, still working a story out in my head.

Filed Under: Animals, Art, Character Sketches, Pencil Sketch, Pencil Sketches, sketchbook, Sketches, Tiki, Wildlife Tagged With: Polynesian sea, sea turtle, Tiki, Tiki Illustration, Tikis, turtles

Tiki Love

May 15, 2012 By Dave Mott 1 Comment

More character development for the Tiki characters.

Filed Under: Animals, Art, Character Design, Character Sketches, Children's Book, Illustration, Sketches, Sketches From Movies, Tiki Tagged With: Character Development, Illustration, Tiki, tiki characters, Tiki Illustration, Tikis

Tiki Girl Sketches

May 14, 2012 By Dave Mott 2 Comments

Filed Under: Animals, Art, Character Design, Character Sketches, sketchbook, Sketches Tagged With: Sketches, Tiki, Tiki Sketch, Tikis

Distracted Dinosaur

May 14, 2012 By Dave Mott 1 Comment

Today’s Daily Sketch, the T-Rex who was easily distracted.

Filed Under: Animals, Character Design, Character Sketches, Illustration, sketchbook, Sketches, Wildlife Tagged With: butterfly, Dinosaur, Dinosaur Drawing, dinosaur sketch, distracted dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, tyrant lizard

Bilbo and the Trolls

May 10, 2012 By Dave Mott 4 Comments

Filed Under: Character Design, Character Sketches, Illustration, sketchbook, Sketches, Sketches From Movies Tagged With: Bilbo Baggins, JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit

Assembly Time

May 3, 2012 By Dave Mott Leave a Comment

Almost Avenger time. I’m still a Batman fanatic, but the Hulk was always a favorite. I was working in downtown Cleveland when they had the set going for this movie, it was interesting to see the street and destruction they had going there. Looks to be an entertaining movie.

Filed Under: Art, Character Sketches, Comic, Sketches, Sketches From Movies Tagged With: Avengers, Avengers Assemble, Captain America, Geek Art, Iron Man, Marvel, Shield, Superhero Illustrations, Superheroes, The Avengers, The Hulk

Rue’s Song

May 1, 2012 By Dave Mott 5 Comments

Daily sketch after finishing the Hunger Games this weekend. Definitely an exciting read. Still have to see the movie. I still have to read the next 2, but I am distracted by really wanting to read the Hobbit. The first shot is a process shot of the bird working in Manga Studio. I’m enjoying these brushes that Ray Frenden created. Such an amazing artist, check out his work.

Filed Under: Animals, Art, sketchbook, Sketches, Sketches From Movies, Wildlife Tagged With: District 12, Katniss, Katniss Everdeen, Mockingjay, Peeta Mellark, Rue, Rue's Song, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Morning bears

April 26, 2012 By Dave Mott Leave a Comment

This morning’s sketch, starting the day off with some bears.

Filed Under: Art, Bears, Pencil Sketch, Pencil Sketches, Sketches, Wildlife Tagged With: Bear Drawing, Bear Sketch, Bears

Moebius Hommage Tribute

April 24, 2012 By Dave Mott 2 Comments

Jean Giraud
1938 – 2012

It’s hard to not be compelled to draw something in honor of someone who inspired you. I’m doing a sketch based on the Moebius art for Metal Hurlant #4. It’s just my own take but with the subject of the master. So, here’s where I started last night.