City Island, SRQ

Fine way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

City Island, Sarasota FL. 

Graphite & Officeworks "Invisible Tape" in moleskin sketchbook. 

Hurakan, step by step

I recently jumped into one of the challenges over at ArtOrder.blogspot.com. The objective was to design a character starting with silhouette, go to detail, then color, and ultimately work up to a book cover, using a provided template. The specifics and requirements of the challenge are here: http://artorder.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-challenge.html

The character being addressed is the Mayan god of wind, storm, and fire: Hurakan.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huracan

And off we go!

1. Character Silhouettes

2. Character Thumbnails

3. B&W Character Detail, Book Cover Thumbnails

4. Character Color Rough, B&W Book Cover Detail

5. Final Character, Book Cover Color Rough

6. Final Book Cover + Art

And here's the cleaned-up version without the template and required formatting...

Big Sur

Watercolor sketch from Big Sur, CA.

As a side note, I fed a crow part of a scone, and he hung out with me while I painted.

Sunday sketch, pt. 2

le jardin

WIND

Assuredly, dear madame, we hear naught but the wind. 

running treebeast; color!

Trying a friendlier palette than I normally work with.
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running treebeast; linework

the girl has a leash attached to the treebeast; i haven't put the collar in yet.

started in pencil, cleaned in photoshop. determining color currently.

treeman

pencil & white gouache on lined paper, mild digital tomfoolery over top