Dork Knight

I've been working on a magazine illustration. I had an art director ask me to pitch him an idea for a spot illustration, for a single page article titled "Bipolar Batman."

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Dramatic hamster

Here are last weeks warm-up sketches. HammStarr's facial expressions ended up being way tougher than I thought. I didn't like any of the sketches that went too far from the worried look, but he can't be worried all they time or can he?  Click on the images for a closer look!

Fish eye lens

Today's warm-up sketch was Pleco the fish. The duck was tough. But not a lot to work with there either. I think the fish and the duck will be fun to draw in some situations, trying to figure out just the right way to convey certain emotions with fins and beaks, and very little human features to use other than their eyes. At least with the lead character, a Hamster there's a mouth in the equation.

Duck seasoning...

It was a pretty busy summer, and I'm just now getting back to a daily warm-up sketch, for the next while, the morning warm-ups will all be all characters and incidental elements from a comic strip I'm working on.

Today was some facial expressions for Quark the Space Duck...

coveralls

More warm-up sketches. Working out the look for an All-terrain Robot Scout Vehicle that gets converted into a prosthetic body for a fish. For tomorrow I'm thinkin' more Dinosaurs! Click on the images for a closer look! 

Rough sketch

Warm-up sketch. Starting limited myself to 20 minutes. 

Neo-galactic Raygun Association:

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Dragon dentistry

These are some rough ideas for some dragon tooth extraction tools, keep in mind they would all be roughly the size of a standard shovel or garden rake. I'm developing a whole bunch of dragonslayer tools for a larger series of book illustrations. Click on the image for a closer look!

Now that's a knife

Today's warm-up sketch. Quark the space duck's boss, Hammstarr, also armed with Intergalactic Veterinarian Transport standard issue survival knife. Click on the image for a closer look! 

 

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry

In a weird mood today as I sat down to draw today's warm-up sketch. Quark the space duck in an homage to Howard the Duck, fas seen on Marvel Treasury Edition #12. Click on the images for a closer look!

Sketchosaurus

More warm-up sketches. Dinosaurs Click on the images for a closer look!