Tag Archive for: sketch
The Picture of Oscar Wilde
character design, illustration processHere is the third in a series of three images for the Pittsburgh Public Theater‘s season brochure—specifically for the world premiere of L’Hôtel, a new comedy by Ed Dixon. The cast is stars from the recent and distant past. I showed you…
Jim Morrison
character design, illustration processHere is the second in a series of three images for the Pittsburgh Public Theater‘s season brochure—specifically for the world premiere of L’Hôtel, a new comedy by Ed Dixon. The cast is stars from the recent and distant past. Yesterday…
The Divine Sarah
character design, illustration career, illustration processThis past January I had the pleasure of creating images for the Pittsburgh Public Theater's season brochure—this time for the world premiere of L'Hôtel, a new comedy by Ed Dixon. The cast of characters is 6 stars from the recent and distant…
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…
More Mummy cover sketches
book promotion, illustration processBack cover of Where's My Mummy?—working out some sketch ideas, followed by the layout for the entire jacket. When an art director sends me a layout (sketch & text together in one piece of art) she's telling me to go ahead and start …
Dear T Rex cover
book promotion, illustration processMy computer had a nervous breakdown in March and I thought I'd lost all my images from this title, Dear Tyrannosaurus Rex. Here are some that follow the development of the cover art I found on a disk.
The story's about a girl who sends a…
Return of the Wizards
illustration processWay back when I was a student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, a bunch of us got together and founded a society devoted to nothing more than throwing parties. This was back before cable tv, gameboys, x-boxes, iPods—so we had to amuse…
Jacket art for Famous Nini
book promotion, illustration processOf all the images for a picture book, the jacket art gets the biggest going-over. I sent 4 rough thumbnail ideas to Kerry Martin, the senior design editor (in the olden days there was an art director and an editor; Kerry's title reflects the…
L’Imperatore d’Etiopia
book promotion, illustration processThe Famous Nini is due out June 7, but Amazon.com already has copies available.
A scene I particularly like: the Emperor of Ethiopia arrives in Venice to visit Nini the famous cat. Here's the thumbnail sketch—
Here is the sketch, built…
