RSC Illustration

IF: Highlight

2012-01-01T19:30:00.005-05:00

Highlights in her hair. A quick pen sketch painted in Painter mostly conte & charcoal brushes.

I recently visited a local museum that was having an exhibit of original art by illustrators. There were original sketches and paintings by Maurice Sendak, Dr. Suess, Leo & Diane Dillon among others.

It was great to see the original pieces. It did make me realize that it is going to more rare in this digital age. With Photoshop and Painter and everything heading toward ebooks there will be far less "tradtional media" art. I like working in Painter (no muss & no fuss) but I do miss having something tangible to hold when finished with a piece.

IF: Messenger

2011-12-23T17:12:00.007-05:00

Hermes...or as his friends call him, Herms. Messenger of the Gods.

DRAGON: Rough Color Sketch

2011-11-25T14:28:00.001-05:00

Dragon

2011-11-16T18:15:00.001-05:00

Otter

2011-11-16T18:14:00.000-05:00

Panda

2011-11-16T18:13:00.001-05:00

DRACULA

2011-10-15T11:06:00.000-04:00

LADY BUG

2011-03-20T14:12:00.002-04:00

FALL COLOR

2011-03-20T14:07:00.005-04:00

This is from a sketch I did some time ago and finally added some color to it.

SKETCH

2011-03-20T14:07:00.001-04:00

SKETCH

2011-03-20T14:03:00.002-04:00

Fox & Turtle

2010-02-21T16:46:00.002-05:00

Painted in Corel Painter using mostly conte, pastel and watercolor brushes.

SKETCH: Fox & Turtle

2010-02-19T13:14:00.001-05:00

Sketch: Octopus

2010-02-12T09:29:00.000-05:00

SKETCH: Wizard

2010-02-12T09:28:00.000-05:00

SKETCH: Little Fox

2010-02-12T09:25:00.001-05:00

SKETCH: Girl & frog - color wip

2009-09-27T16:24:00.001-04:00

SKETCH: Girl & frog

2009-09-25T11:01:00.001-04:00

SKETCH: When the bough breaks

2009-09-25T10:58:00.001-04:00

SKETCH: Paul Bunyan

2009-09-19T10:31:00.001-04:00

SKETCH: Snowball

2009-09-19T10:30:00.000-04:00

SKETCH: Giraffe

2009-09-19T10:28:00.000-04:00

SKETCH: RACCOON II

2009-09-13T11:13:00.005-04:00

A quick color sketch done in Painter from an earlier pencil sketch. I used conte and charcoal brushes.

SKETCH: Farmer

2009-09-13T11:13:00.002-04:00

SKETCH: Fall

2009-08-09T13:26:00.004-04:00

It's not that I am particularly fond of pigs but for some reason I like to draw them. Maybe it's their snouts that make them fun to draw.

A quick little sketch done with an ink pen.

SKETCH: Mad Hatter

2009-07-06T10:06:00.004-04:00

I'm kind of anxious to see what Tim Burton does with Alice in Wonderland. I love the look of his movies. It has inspired me to see what my characters for the story might look like. I never really know until I actually draw them.

Here is a sketch for the Mad Hatter. It was colored in Painter IX using Wet Acrylic and Conte from a scanned pencil drawing.

I would like to eventually try to do a spread of the whole tea party.

IF: Unfold

2009-06-14T22:33:00.008-04:00

The First Little Pig said, "Forget the house! I made these wings instead. When the Wolf comes around I just unfold them and fly off."

IF: Cracked

2009-05-25T21:08:00.007-04:00

Pencil drawing colored in Painter IX. Still a work in progress.

SKETCH: Study

2009-05-16T16:16:00.002-04:00

SKETCH

2009-04-26T11:01:00.000-04:00

SKECTH: Puppy Love

2009-04-17T11:49:00.001-04:00

SKETCH: Raccoon

2009-03-22T17:50:00.003-04:00

SKETCH: SPRING

2009-03-22T12:40:00.002-04:00

SKETCH: RAT

2009-03-22T12:39:00.002-04:00

SKETCH: Kids

2008-11-02T10:10:00.000-05:00

SKETCH

2008-11-02T10:06:00.000-05:00

SKETCH

2008-11-02T10:05:00.001-05:00

SKETCH

2008-11-02T10:01:00.000-05:00

SKETCH: Toad Pencil & Color

2008-11-02T09:59:00.002-05:00

SKETCH

2008-11-02T09:45:00.001-05:00

SKETCH: Triceratops

2008-07-14T19:30:00.001-04:00

SKECTH: T Rex

2008-07-12T11:17:00.002-04:00

SKECTH: Otter

2008-07-12T11:14:00.001-04:00

SKETCH: Tin Man

2008-04-06T10:21:00.002-04:00

IF: Pet Peeves

2008-03-22T13:31:00.009-04:00

PET PEEVE FREE TO GOOD HOME.

Not quite sure if pet peeves are dogs or cats. They may be one of those Mexican Rats from the urban legend. (The story goes a couple found a stray dog while vacationing and brought it home to find out it was a rat)

Please help control the pet peeve population and have your pet peeve spade or neutered.

SKETCH: Fox

2008-01-25T09:19:00.001-05:00

SKETCH: Scarecrow

2008-01-25T09:15:00.000-05:00

SKETCH: Japanese Girl 2

2008-01-04T12:16:00.001-05:00

Previous post colored in Corel Painter using New Simple Water, Charcoal & Conte brushes.

SKETCH: Japanese Girl

2007-12-28T17:33:00.000-05:00

Just a quick sketch of a Japanese girl done with a very cheap red ink pen. They were about 50 cents for a bag of twenty but they are very nice to sketch with.

IF: Trick or Treat

2007-11-01T18:02:00.001-04:00

This started as a pencil drawing and finished in Painter using
the New Simple Water and Charcoal brushes.

IF: Momentum

2007-09-10T09:41:00.000-04:00

Glaznox are large lumbering creatures but once they get momentum going they are extremely fast and great transportation.

Just a quick sketch colored in Painter.

IF: Visitors

2007-08-28T01:48:00.000-04:00

There are still a lot of little things I want to touch up on this. If I do any more to it this week I'll update my post.

Done in Painter using new simple water, conte and charcoal brushes from a pencil drawing.

IF: Captain II

2007-08-23T10:29:00.000-04:00

Just a quick sketch of my idea of Captain Nemo that I thought I would post.

IF: Captain

2007-08-22T11:40:00.001-04:00

I was trying to decide between Captain Hook or

Captain Nemo this week. Hook just came out when I was sketching. This is rough color sketch done in Painter. I have also posted my initial sketch and the line drawing I used in Painter.

IF: Emergency

2007-08-13T10:09:00.000-04:00

It has been some time since I have posted anything. I want to try to get back in the habit of it. Like the commercial says 'life comes at you fast' and so many of the little things eat up time.

I really pictured this idea as a full spread for a

picture book. I wouldn't be able to put as much

detail into it as would have liked this week so I just did the characters for now. The elephant is the fireman at the zoo, using his trunk to put out the fires. This was done from a pencil drawing and colored in Painter.

IF: Cars

2007-05-30T12:16:00.000-04:00

An image of Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows came to mind for the theme of cars.

I want to experiment with a few things painting this Illustration. I won't get it done this week so I thought I would go ahead and post the drawing. If I finish it I'll post it later.

I also have a color sketch started. So far it has been done in Painter with the Simple Water & Watercolor brushes.

IF: Signs

2007-05-24T19:36:00.000-04:00

Just a last minute idea for a spot illustration.

A couple of tigers using sign language for "I love you".

Done in Painter from a pencil drawing.

IF: Remember

2007-05-01T18:17:00.000-04:00

Remember to take your medicine.

Maybe that is why the dinosaurs are extinct. They

forgot to take their medicine.

I didn't get to post my polar image last week. I didn't

get it finished. I still haven't finished it but I thought
I would post it as a work in progress. If you click here it will take you it.

I apologize for my first link. I thought I double checked it before I submitted it. I had too many http's in it.

IF: Fortune

2007-04-18T15:13:00.000-04:00

"It's good to be the King."

Mel Brooks - History of the World, Part I

If I had this kind of money I would wade in it and laugh maniacally too.

I tried experimenting with the acrylic brushes in Painter this week. I still need more practice to get the look I want. I added some shading and tone with the 'New Simple Water' brush on a gel layer

at about 50%.

Illustration Friday: GREEN

2007-04-10T11:28:00.000-04:00

For the topic green an image of Mother Nature came to mind
bringing spring and lots of green with her. If you live in the
eastern U.S. you know she played a trick on us last week.
Summer one day and it was winter the next.

I still have dozens of little touches that I would like to finish
on this. Shading, highlights and so on. I don't know if I will
have time to do it this week so I thought I would go ahead and post it. I really wanted to try this in actual watercolor. I may go back sometime and try it.

I did this in the Painter once again with the charcoal and conte
brushes.

I always like to see people's sketches and how pieces progress
to the final image so I thought I would show mine on this. If you click here it will take you to a page showing the thumbnails.

Illustration Friday: I Spy

2007-03-27T00:24:00.000-04:00

"I spy a clue Watson!"

This is just a little pencil

drawing that I finished in

Painter.

Illustration Friday: TOTAL

2007-03-20T11:00:00.000-04:00

This little bunny tripped over his garden hoe and spilled his basket of carrots everywhere. Can you help him pick them up by counting them? There should be a total of 12 carrots.

It was kind of a tough topic this week. I racked my brain most of the weekend trying to think of something. About the only thing I could come up with was what might be a sample page from a counting book.

Again, I did this in Painter. I used mostly the charcoal, conte & chalk brushes.

Illustration Friday: WIRED

2007-03-13T23:54:00.001-04:00

Not everyone is as happy to get braces but this little guy is glad to have his teeth wired. He knows he will need good choppers to cut down trees and work at the dam when he gets older.

This is just a quick little spot sketch I did and painted in Painter with the 'simple water' brush and conte brushes.

I apologize to everyone that has tried to view my entry this week and it wasn't there. I am not sure what is wrong. It is there one time and gone the next.

Illustration Friday: HIDE

2007-03-06T00:02:00.000-05:00

I'm sure we can all remember doing something
wrong when we were kids and thinking if you

could hide long enough it would go away.

Don't worry that was an old lamp...Momma
Skunk wasn't too mad.

I tried something a little different this week.
I wanted to get more of a classic style. I did a
pencil drawing and used mostly the 'new simple
water' brush in Painter for the color.

IF: Communication

2007-02-26T17:48:00.000-05:00

I noticed a few illustrations with the tin can phones.

I hope with all of the video games and other gadgets taking kids attention that they still try the old fashioned gizmos.

I rendered this in Painter IX from a scanned pencil drawing.

Illustration Friday: GRAVITY

2007-02-16T11:32:00.000-05:00

It was no accident Humpty fell off that wall. He was pushed. Apparently he knew too much.Do you know pushed him? Here's a hint, he is wanted for stalking a little girl wearing red, harassing three pigs and causing property damage.

I actually did this illustration for last week's topic but it

fits this week's also....so since I did two last week I thought
I would resubmit this one. If I find some inspiration and
time I might try another illustration for this week.

This was painted in Painter IX using pastel and charcoal brushes.

Illustration Friday: CRASH 2

2007-02-14T12:08:00.000-05:00

I had a couple of ideas for IF this week

so I thought I would go ahead and try

them both.

This is a little different look than I have

been trying for. I wanted it to look more like

a poster.

I was going to do a more elaborate scene with

other mice looking at the poster but I wouldn't

have time to complete it right now.

Illustration Friday: CRASH

2007-02-12T16:29:00.000-05:00

Illustration Friday: SPROUT

2007-02-07T15:45:00.000-05:00

Illustration Friday: RED

2007-01-31T18:18:00.000-05:00

I have been wanting to try to break into
children's book illustration for awhile.
I thought I might use the topics on IF to
inspire me to build up my portfolio.
I scanned in pencil drawing and used
Painter to add color. I tried to stick with
the pastel & chalk brushes to give it a
little texture.

2007-01-23T16:13:00.000-05:00

Illustration Friday: SUPERHERO

This is my first submission to IF
as well as my first Blog. Hopefully
I will have more to this site as time
goes by. I painted a pencil drawing
using Painter IX and added the
lettering and lens flares with
other programs.

The program I used to create the
lettering and glow was CorelDraw,
a vector program like Illustrator.
I used the drop shadow tool for the
glow behind the lettering & burst.
I also used Corel Photo-paint for
lens flares.