Here’s Charlie
character design, illustration processTwenty-fourteen is a big year here in Oil City, Pennsylvania. It was 100 years ago, just a couple of doors up from my studio address, that Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie deal with Mack Sennett. Charlie was performing at the Lyric Theater…
3D Henry
character design, illustration processLook what I got in my inbox!
Mohamed from Egypt is learning 3d programs. He used my model sheet of Henry (from Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies) to create this beautiful digital image. I love the textures of the different articles of clothing—the…
Tony
book promotion, character designThis appeared in Publishers' Weekly. It's a spot illustration from Finnegan and Fox: The Ten-Foot Cop. Tony is one of the street vendors Finnegan sees on his beat every day. Long ago when I lived in New York City I worked with a designer whose…
Designing Finnegan and Fox
book promotion, character design, illustration process Finnegan and Fox: The Ten-Foot Cop will be available February 1st! You know what that means: I'll be showing you sketches and paintings in progress. Here are character studies for Finnegan, the police horse and Fox, his policeman.
Finnegan…
The jukebox with a broken heart
book promotion, character design, illustration processIn the great old mediæval fairytale, Jack & the Beanstalk, Jack steals a golden harp from the giant's castle. Eric Kimmel's update, Jack and the Giant Barbecue, sets the action in west Texas and replaces the harp with a jukebox.
I have…
Design for Jack
book promotion, character design, illustration processJack and the Giant Barbecue is officially in bookstores today! I had a great time designing these characters. Here's how Jack came to be.
The first drawing I do of a character is always too rough. I draw it just to get that drawing out of the…
