Tag Archive for: art

Happy Thanksgiving!

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My friend Vince Dorse, the über-talented artist who colorized Two Bad Pilgrims, spills the secrets of his technique here. Here's hoping you enjoy a blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends.

A wee spot

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Here's a fun little spot illustration I did for the Renaissance & Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, this time to promote a concert of ancient Scottish and Irish music—both sacred (church liturgy) and profane (drinking songs).  The costume…

The Mayflower

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Another spread from Two Bad Pilgrims.  This is the big splashy first glimpse of the Mayflower. Here is the thumbnail sketch: Everything's there that needs to be, but I was concerned that the direction of the drawing didn't show the Billingtons…

Five not-too-bad cover ideas

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People do judge a book by its cover.  Or at least, it's the cover that gets people to pick up the book in the bookstore and see whether they like it.  Here are rough cover ideas for Two Bad Pilgrims. Art Director Jim Hoover liked…

Samoset

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The costume color indication for Samoset, for Two Bad Pilgrims.  Not that there's much costume.  Samoset walked into Plymouth Plantation in the middle of March wearing hardly anything at all.  He was showing the pilgrims he had no concealed…

Master of the Mayflower

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Here's my costume color indication for Master Jones for Two Bad Pilgrims.  'Master' was what they called the ship's captain back in the 1600s. I couldn't find a contemporary picture of him, like an engraving—so I made him up.  I tried to…

Plymouth Plantation

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It's November—time to start thinking about Thanksgiving and pilgrims!  Here's another scene from Two Bad Pilgrims.  This one shows the pilgrims beginning construction of Plymouth Plantation.  The first thing they built was the common house/fort. …

Hide and shriek!

Here's the opening spread from Where's My Mummy? This scene shows Mama Mummy getting Baby Mummy ready for bed—but Baby wants to play one more round of hide & shriek. Since they're mummies, I designed an interior to look like the inside…

H is for Haunted House

from Merrily Kutner's Z Is For Zombies.

G is for Ghost

…from Z Is For Zombie.