King sized...

Here's a drawing that I put together for a picture book idea I'm working on.  I wanted to see what I could do with a limited palette, and flat colors.  I like the way this turned out.

Aliens driving little cars...

Yeah.  More of this nonsense.

Here's the same drawing with a colored line.

Robots...

...and some more aliens.  A continuation of the previous post.

Aliens...

This is a page from my sketchbook that I colored digitally.  It's from another large idea I'm working on. I'm starting to like some of these guys.

Cowboy Sketch

While I spend most of my time these days working on Fangbone!, I am also still trying out new illustration ideas, and trying to get comfortable working 100% digitally.  This is based on a photo of Billy the Kidd.

Astronaut #20 and #21

Two more space goers for my ongoing Astronaut series.  This first one is a follow up to the book idea from a few posts ago.

This second one is something that I'm working on for a new animation project.  Both pieces are 100% digital.

Fangbone! VR Goggles

In one of the forthcoming episodes of the Fangbone TV show, Fangbone and Bill use these odd Skullbanian Virtual Reality goggles.  This is one of the first things that I drew using the Wacom Cintiq.  At the moment it looks like the show will be hitting Canada in March, and on Disney XD in the US sometime in the fall.

Wexler

A few years ago I wrote a picture book called "Wexler."  It's about a strange little animal that keeps being sold by a pet shop, only be returned the next day for various reasons.  I think at one point he pooped on someone's ceiling.  I started thinking about the story again last summer and did this drawing of the main character.

More Unit 77

I noticed that I have a big pile of stand alone drawings that don't really fit into any one category. I think I'm just going to start putting them up with no real order or agenda.  This is a finished drawing of the clone character "Unit 77." I like this one, but I didn't pursue this design of him much further.

Shortly after I drew this first image, I started working on a Wacom Cintiq.  This version of Unit 77 was one of the first things I drew on it.

Version 2...

One thing that irks me about the blog format is that when you update something, it ends up above the earlier one...oh well...

Goofy sketch...

I had this little image pop into my head last night, and wanted to get it down fast as possible. It looks like it could be some sort of early reader book.  Who knows?  I like the flat colors and the line work.

Quick post...

I just finished my first 100% digital illustration.  It's fun, and competent, but I have a long way to go.

First Fangbone!

Aside from a few doodles, this is really the "first" Fangbone drawing I ever completed.  It's still very rough, and sketchy, but this image nailed down what I was thinking about.  "Bonesword" was the kid barbarian's name for a short while, but was changed to Fangbone very early in the project.

Bill also became bolder, and a more important part of the story.  In this drawing he looks like the just tags along being scared.

I think that original title of the book was "Bonesword and Bill" for a bit as well.  The main reason "Bonesword" was changed is that it was a tough word to read correctly.  It could be read as "Bone-sword" which was correct, but people also read it as "Bone's-word" which was not my inattention at all.

I like this drawing.  When I was first thinking about this idea, it was more of an illustrated chapter book, and not a comic, so this detailed, fussy style might have worked.

Sketchbook and updates...

Again, I can't believe how much time has passed since my last update.  I finished the last Icky Ricky book (#6), and went right into drawing a new picture book.  Animation has started on the Fangbone! TV show, we've got a large chunk of the 50, 11-minute scripts written, and episodes are in all different stages of production.  It's a lot to keep up with.  I've also completed my school visits for the year.

I'm going to post a few sketchbook pieces just to keep up with this, but I am planning a few specific updates soon.

With no particular logic here are some kids, an old car, and some raggedy aliens...

Fangbone! wins!

I'm very happy to announce that the Fangbone! pilot won the 2015 Kidscreen award for Best One-Off, Special or TV Movie.  We're off and running!