Leela and the little beast

Because I'm so late with this upload you get a mega upload.

These here are all concept work from my sketchbook, the story thus far is that the little girl is growing up  with a large horrible foster family and she meets this little beast in the woods and agrees to be his friend in return for 3 wishes:

ladies related to the sea

Hope everyone's christmas was a smashing success

here;s a pirate doodle:

and here's a cutie in a bikini:
her feet are messed up, but it's only a sketch so meh.

familiar faces from familiar places

two more sketch pages... you may recognize some of the people in the top sketch... namely Mr. Bennet...

this page was actually concept work that i did in transit... 

I haven't worked on the concept since then so I guess we put in the vault for now

Bandit

Happy Illustration Sunday!

this is a concept piece for a character I'm working on named

"Bandit P. Reeves":

the idea is that he's kinda a normal guy who happens to be named after a less than ideal cartoon character (the dog from Johnny Quest), and suddenly when he gets into college all these wacky things start happening (unicorns, pirate battles, love potions,... you know, normal college stuff)

obviously there are still a bunch of kinks to work out.

Arabella and the Angry Chef

I was going through one of my sketchbooks from last year when I ran into the planning sketches for this picture.

as you can see I originally had planned to illustrate the whole room. But, due to my teachers insistence, I only focused on Arabella in the final.

And then we have this...

a doodle so obviously inspired by Ratatouille that Pixar is already sending me cease and desist letters:
I imagine the situation is that this guy came to apply at a fancy New York town house for the position of private  chef, and instead they decided to hire him as a baby sitter.

He is so angry.

also, this marks the return of sketchbook posts that actually look like they came from my sketchbook.

groovy huh?

Then I says:

Man, this took me forever to upload, usually I do my art entries a week in advance, but with all the work I was doing on my animation I didn't have the time.

Here's something I'm working on (still in progress):

I love salon talk, I kinda want to do a project were i sit in different salons and take notes of what is going on there all day.

I'll be leaving my apartment for about two weeks (it being Christmas and all),

 but luckily I'm about to start scanning for my regularly scheduled auto updates.

and now, I'm out

Something for Everyone

And now, for some media of the mixed variety:

lonely swamp beast was done in silk screen, with additional detail added with marker, gouache, and Alivn Penstix .

I have this idea for a series based on lonely monsters, the wolfman started it off...

I might make a book of these things next year.

fantastic!

Call it an apology

sorry for not updating yesterday

here's my apology present...

a look at some of the progress I'm making on my animation

(click the link to see)

oh the pain, the agony

I'm currently up to my eyelids drowning in finals. (Curse you Hans Christian Andersen!!)

So due to my painful workload I really can't guarantee any updates this week... I will try my hardest though.

as a consolation prize I offer this piece of work I did last year... it's a digital traditional collage

yeah.

Avada Kadavra

Happy friday!... two things from the sketchbook:

a happy couple-

harry potter is angry! (and swearing, yikes!)-

I take secret (well maybe not that secret) enjoyment in

drawing silly pictures of the harry potter kids...

maybe i'll post more sometime?

I have a great picture of Harry hanging on my cereal cabinet...

I think that's be a good one to show.

Wolfman is nervous

This is Wolfman:

he's nervous because he has a big date tonight... which is a rarity in his world

this is a planning sketch I did for another screenpint

he looks worried doesn't he?

Mambo

Happy Sunday!

and now, a screenprint:

If you can't tell, the words are obviously photoshopped in.

i think it's a nice sentiment though... right?

More Science?

imaginary jellies and squids:

Giving Thanks

in honor of thanksgiving here's a hand turkey:

happy holiday!

SCIENCE!

more stuff from the Field Museum:

A Burchell's Zebra

Some bugs.... sexy sexy bugs

'bit of science for you

I'm at the Field Museum almost every tuesday drawing.

This entirely scientific comic was inspired by what is written next to

the narwhal display in the basement:

The display itself is in an out of the way area. It's one of the sunken vending areas near the basement gift shop. I may post a few of my museum sketches this week, or maybe something else.

CRAZY!

Rawk

A work in progress of sorts:

he was influenced by Valhallen from "the Justice friends"

among other things

woohoooo

Elegant ladies

Here's some groovy ladies that I've been doodling:

I think her name should be Minerva

the background textures/patterns are origami paper I have scanned.

these are extra awesome to make up for any slacking off that will happen soon

-cheers

Conor

main character for my comic:

Prelude to a finished book

Because of all the time I've been spending working on my comic project (which should be done right around Thanksgiving/Christmas) I thought it'd be keen to post some of my planning work.

So, here are two of the early pages (5 and 6 i believe):

 

on friday I'm thinking character concept sketches.

Exciting!

Storyboards

Here's some of my original storyboards for my current animation project.

I've actually changed a lot of the plot so many of these don't figure in the way they used too, but still i enjoyed making them:

Friday Sketches

In the words of my favorite member of the Chicago homeless "happy friday!"

Here are the sketches:

this chick is getting ready to jazzercise 

and a doodle of my tall friend Trina

woohoo

Sketchbook 2: Super Couples

Found these two cute couples in my sketchbook:

Martin/Martinique

Japanese work spouses

bam!

greek tragedy

Another one for the illustration file.

The line work is actually from a screenprint I've been working on, the rest was added in photoshop:

I'm hoping to maintain a tuesday, friday, sunday update schedule... 

with color works every or every other sunday and sketchbook works on tuesdays and fridays.

here's hoping!

Sketch Book Post 1

Some pages from the sketchbook I drew while in Japan:

this concept art for a comic I was considering making on my return from Japan.

notice the many erased heads floating behind "Kelsey?"

and these are some Japanese high school girls, whom I may or may not have seen on the train.

Illustrations

Here's some work from my illustration journal:

Steam punk carriage driver demon

The princess and the frog (having a heart to heart on the sofa)

-cheers

Art Blog?

I recently realized that I need an art blog, separate from my personal journal.

Something that i could pretend was my professional web page until i actually make a

professional webpage.

so, here we go...

self portrait 

a comic:

success?