Yippee Ki Kay

Made this print for our annual Die Hard Christmas Party.  A tradition held with our friends for 11 years now!

A Christmas Doodle

Lovely Elsie

Finally got around to drawing my favorite babe in Downton Abbey, the lovely Mrs. Hughes.

Who's Cook'n?

My first take on Daisy and Ms. Patmore (Dowton Abbey).

Mega Sketch

My attempt at Mega Man. Also a quick test with some brushes.

Chucky

My first attempt at Carson (the butler) from Downton Abbey.

Charles Carson is my favorite character. If I am able, I would like to draw the entire cast.

I Drink From The Well of Peter

Been watching a few films lately and realized that they all featured the same dude, Peter Weller (Robocop, Leviathan, Buckaroo Banzai and Star Trek: Into Darkness)

New Super Mario Bros. U Misadventures

A few of friends and I get together to play games on Saturday nights. Lately, we've been going through "New Super Mario Bros. U" and I've been doing a few drawings based on our experiences.

My friend Gabe kind of developed a reputation for throwing his fellow gamers (not always intentionally) into the lava.

I developed a reputation for mostly going through levels trapped in a bubble of my own self destruction.

We developed some "Mario Theology" from our friend Matt's attempts (via the Wii U GamePad) to help keep us out of the lava.

A Wonky Jabber

I recently got around to seeing Terry Gilliam's first film (apart from Monty Python) titled "Jabberwocky", which means that I have now see all of his films.  It clearly is Gilliam's first movie, mainly because it felt awkwardly put together.  The limited budget it was given didn't seem to help much, but the production team and actors did well with what they were given.  It does have that Gilliam "charm" to it and I found it entertaining.  Even though it was a clunky costume monster, I loved that they pulled-off the Jabberwocky creature at the end (great design)!

What I enjoyed most about this funny little film, were the costumes and wonderful character actors.  I did a few quick sketches of the characters I liked most.

Into Tribbles

SPOILER ALERT for Star Trek: Into Darkness

My wife and I collaborated on this.  She wrote the dialogue and I drew the image.  We finally saw the movie on Memorial Day and really wanted there to be a stinger like this after the credits but since there wasn't, we decided to make our own.

Star Trek: Into Darkness - Stinger

ShadowMask

Back in 2001, my friends and I had all recently began our college years.  So as a last "hurrah" before life took us our separate ways, we made a little film together.  A homage to the black and white "atomic age" films.

We decided to make the ultimate "home movie" and the rules basically were: everything must be provided by items from our homes (camera equipment, props, etc.) and all locations must be in our homes.

We didn't have access to editing equipment, so based on the script, we storyboarded out every shot and sequence.  All of our actors had stage experience, so they were great at memorizing lines and rehearsing actions.  This was helpful because we filmed every shot in the order you see, rehearsing every angle till we had it right because there were no 2nd takes.

So sit back, relax and hopefully you'll enjoy this fun, silly little production as much as we enjoyed making it.

BTW - I have had some filmmaker friends who have found Shadowmask to be therapeutic at times when they are feeling discouraged about their work.

eBooks Development

Some samples of my development work on Goldilocks and the Three Bear and The Three Little Pigs, two eBooks I illustrated for Nation9 and Amazon.

My initial character designs of Goldi and Papa Bear. This take on Goldilocks was mostly inspired by my daughter.

A background test for a Goldilocks interactive eBook I illustrated. This was to help figure out the color palette and overall "look" to the environments. The bears live in a 1950's lifestyle and everything in their home comes in sets of 3.

Click Here to get Goldilocks and the Three Bears

A couple of rough character sketches for The Three Little Pigs.  I had to draw this book almost 10 times faster then Goldilocks!

Click Here to get The Three Little Pigs

Both Goldilocks and 3 Pigs are available for the Kindle Fire and Android devices.

3 Piggy Bears

Last spring, I illustrated two interactive eBooks for Nation9.  Both are now available on Amazon.com

Click here to checkout Goldilocks on Amazon.

Click here to checkout 3 Little Pigs on Amazon.

I provided all the elements, which Nation9 took, adding animation and sound.  I'm very pleased with how they turned out!  Hopefully the kids will like 'em.