Tag Archive for: sketch

Color and costume for Stinker

Stinker and the Onion Princess is an updated Grimm's story set in Texas—but with a fairy tale quality.  I didn't want the characters to look too real, but they should be sort of modern-day.  To get the kind of vibe I was looking for, I turned…

Big Mama/Big Daddy

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Two more characters from Stinker and the Onion Princess. Big Mama and Big Daddy are tired of seeing their son lay around the house—they want him hitched so they can hear the pitter-patter of their grandkiddy's feet.

The Onion Princess

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Some more character designs from Stinker & The Onion Princess, the book that never got past the sketch stage. Here's the lovely Onion Princess, pictured here dressed for Big Daddy's barbecue party.  Big Daddy is hoping to get his son hitched. She's…

Stinker

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Some time ago, I got a fabulous manuscript to work on: Stinker and the Onion Princess.  Set in Texas, is was a retelling of the Grimm tale King Thrushbeard, but this time the proud and beautiful princess was replaced with a proud and handsome…

The Soldiers’ Night Before Christmas

A few posts ago I zeroed in on a book cover from the fifties showing Santa Claus smoking tobacco from a hookah.  Pretty unusual, right?  Nothing like what you'd see Santa doing in a kids' book nowadays.  Well, not so long ago I illustrated…

Steampunk character design

Rhonda Libbey is a talented friend of mine—she's pulled my carcass out of more than one scrape by helping me paint illustrations.  Please swing by her blog to see her lovely character sketches for the Doctor Ferretstein Project.

Crabby Santa character design

Cute kitties

Here are sketches for a strange little project I did for Silver Editions, a textbook publisher.

Dead man’s chest o’ books

Update: Welcome, Bittersweet Harvest readers! Now that it's December, I'm wistfully recalling the first hot weekend of last Spring, the one I used as an excuse to paint outdoors.  I created some surface decoration on this wooden bookcase,…

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…