More Paper Dolls, please!

After some experimentation, jointed paper dolls may become a forte of mine and, one hopes, a future source of modest income. More experimentation is needed, though. Bristol paper was used this time on Marcey and P.B. but the texture is all wrong, so I'm thinking I won't be using it again. The water color paper is not quite strong enough. Maybe if I reinforce it with something... These were made for my little sis :)

And they don't have clothes quite yet.

Kid's Menuuuu

Finished up that Kid's Menu for The Brown Palace!
Was so stoked about this and am still, as shown by the photograph below.

So classy.

It is time!

Sketches from Japan everybody! I really need to re-figure my template here...until then enjoy the exotically patterned set up of thumbnails on a grid too small.

Storyboards and Life

Storyboards for the next film are looking so good! And I did them all digitally!! Which....while not particularly impressive it's a big step for me in wrapping my brain around how to do digital art.

Lots of down shots. As far as life stuff goes, I was going to make a post about art and feelings and all the internal frowns that are going on, but you know, things are going pretty awesome. Not perfect, perfect will probably never be achieved. The point of perfect is to strive toward it, and in doing so get better and better all the time no matter how slow-going it might be. Let me tell you: it is excruciatingly slow going. All the time. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Swingy swing with griffins on the side

Trying to get back into updating once a week again. It got pretty bad here for a bit, with only occasional updates...

My boss has asked me to design a kids menu! I cannot even begin to describe how excited I am about this!! When he told me I just wanted to screech, but I didn't because I work in a quiet place and I'm supposed to be sophisticated there. Nevertheless! Look forward to some coloring pages soon. I'll want to see colored submissions from everyone. This will be a menu for our Ship Tavern featuring a young girl griffin named 'Elly' and she will be searching for treasure, that's what griffins love to do. Search it and then guard it.

Dean COMMAND: the puppet

I finished my Dean COMMAND puppet recently for the lovely Rosemary Travale. Check her out over here: http://www.rosemarytravale.ca/
It brought back so many wonderful memories of working on Thistle and making puppets.

In fact my plan is to make a whole bunch of differing naked Thistles, take them on my trip, and post pictures of them whilst I travel. It's gonna be amazing. Oh! Also! That pattern with the poisonous vials behind Dean was bought at my favorite crafts store, Fancy Tiger Crafts, so if you're ever in the Denver are you gotta go check 'em out and buy something too!

Crying Dragons All Over Here

This crying dragon sums up how I feel about this new blogger interface. I have no idea how this is working! Naw, but for really, this is another piece based of a Mary Poppins Comes Back illustration. Here are some of the various sketches I did before I got to that final piece:

I have this bad habit that when I start to get caught up in a large project (i.e. my film) I let all the smaller scale things I want to do fall by the way-side. This is a thing I need to continually improve upon and so I shall! These storyboards will be finished along with a fun little paper puppet guy too!