Tag Archive for: bunnies

Henry on the wine dark sea!

How fun is this? Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates has been translated into Greek!  Kudos to the designer who morphed my title lettering into Greek characters. UPDATE—my friend Trip (who is a pastor and studied Greek in seminary) says…

Nibble Yer Greens!

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For a truly rip-roaring sea-shanty singalong, you can't beat this old buccaneer bunny favourite. Nautical rabbits have enjoyed this one for centuries, and can oft be heard belting out a chorus in lusty bunny voices (to the tune of Blow the Man…

The Wreck of the Salty Carrot

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These images from Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies are up on my website, but they're kind of small.  I thought you might like to see them here, so you can embiggen simply by clicking on them. For the shipwreck scene, I wanted to mimic antique…

Henry model sheet

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Here's the model sheet I came up with for Henry. This was a few years ago.  I was working along the lines of classic model sheets for say, a Disney character, with the proportion lines and head-height.  Nowadays my model sheets are a lot looser,…

More Henry sketches

Here's the thumbnail sketch for the opening spread of Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates.  Like in a movie, this establishing shot offers a broad swathe of visual information that tells the reader where the story takes place.  The crew…

Storyboard

Leda writes:  “I'm curious, John, just how detailed your story boards are. Can you post a portion of one?” Here’s a complete storyboard for a coloring book idea I had to promote Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies.  This is only 12 pages;…

Prepare to repel boarders!

A pox on't! Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates is finally here!  Just click on the title to get a copy of your own. As Drake said to his men before Nombre de Dios in 1572, 'Blame nobody but yourselves if you go away empty!'

Designing a cover for the new Henry

Sponge out your cannons!  Prepare to repel boarders!  Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates will storm bookstores on August 11th! Many eager customers are even now camped out in front of those bookstores, awaiting the big day.  For those…

This one is near, that one is far

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When I talk about perspective, I'm talking about how an artist creates the illusion of distance in a flat drawing or painting.  Two ways to do that are 1) make the nearer object big and the farther object small, and 2) make the nearer object…