Saturday, November 20, 2010

Born to Ride

Because we all know Michael Cera is a bad boy at heart ;D

Maybe

The boy and his robot nanny dream of what the world looks like beyond their boarded up windows. One of the larger illustrations from "Stories".

Sumi ink + Photoshop + wacom

Maybe Not

One of the larger illustrations for "Stories".

Sumi ink + Photoshop + wacom

Stories

A somewhat mis-matched compilation of illustrations for a short story I wrote. The story revolves around a young boy whose father has kept him locked inside their house his whole life with nothing more than a robot nanny to keep him company. When he finally convinces the robot to let him go outside, what they see is not something either of them had been expecting. Drawings 2-4 basically depict his memory of the one time he was ever let out of the house (to attend a party honoring his father), and 6-8 are images spawned from his imagination as the robot tells him a story about what cities look like, even though the robot himself has never seen them.

Sumi ink + Photoshop + wacom

The Prince's Lair

In my appropriation of the "Bearskin" fairy tale, the prince, disguised as an ogre, kidnaps the vain princess and leaves her in a cave with only an enchanted bearskin for warmth. As soon as she puts on the bearskin, however, she is turned into a bear and realizes that no one will ever love her. It's fairly close to the original version of the story, except I've made the prince and the ogre the same person and everyone ends up losing in the end :D Why? Because I like dark endings.

Photoshop + wacom

The Bearskin Princess

A bit of character concept work for a project I did based on the French fairy tale "Bearskin". Photoshop painting, I am slowly but surely growing to love you!

Photoshop + wacom

January Day 4

Posted simply for nostalgic purposes :) This one is from 2008, but still one of my favorites. If I still had the patience to work with pens like that, life would be wonderful.

Copic pens + Prismacolor grey scale markers