yo!
been a while...here's some rough rough sketches done for happen...a non profit
that teaches art classes to kids...Happen Inc ...during the summer they're teaching
underprivileged kids the ins and outs of movie making...i got to talk with the kids
last week about story boarding your ideas out before "the shoot" so they can think
through the story and have a better idea of what they want to do with their actors,
sets, and crew. it was pretty fun!

color options

dropped the color in. the shadowy figure in the front was done by joel b.
joel drew the front cover of the cd. his color version is pretty sweet.

d val is going to take these images and mess with them...good stuff.
hopefully i can post the final image when he's done with it.

color version

colors were based on what finger paint we had available.

a look back

found this in the archives while cleaning up at work...so it doesn't count as
new work...but i think it's cool. drew this and enlarged it so it was about 12
feet tall and 25 feet wide. divided it up into copy paper size tiles and then
handed out the tiles to kids that weekend in kid's club. they used finger paint
and their thumb(s) and filled it in. it was a big fill paint by number...the lesson
being we are all unique (thumbprints) and that together we form a better
picture of christ. it was a fun project...although i should have numbered
all the pieces...not all of them were before the kids got them or the numbers
got covered by paint...so we had a huge puzzle to figure out before the next
weekend because we hung the picture up on the wall.
fun stuff.
boo yah

cd music back....in progress

right off the scanner. There's a bunch of stuff to clean up. not worrying about getting
the lines right the first time is soooo freeing. final drawings have never really been
my thing...i'm more of a rough sketch kind of guy. but it's been fun so far...haven't
really done a illustration like this before so have gotten to do a lot of research
architecture wise. fun stuff.

next up...cleaning it up and then dropping in some color.

Album rough sketches

superhero themed music cd...well...the music is superhero themed...just the design.
that's about it for me.
ole!

mantis in progress

need to look at some reference photos for more color hints...but in
the mean time i know there's a lot of green.

randomness

not much to say...pretty draining day.

bug(s)

found a couple of books at the library on some cool looking bugs...
been a busy week of parties, graduations, weddings...and the world cup!
GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

oh thursday my thursday

a 3 day weekend is coming up since squirt is graduating! sweet!
found an illustrator by the name of david christiana while searching
for cool reference material...this guy is amazing with watercolor and
colored pencils...very fresh and energetic. i looked around for my
colored pencils but couldn't find'em (must be at work) so my copies
of him are...well...kinda rough because of the pens. regardless it was fun.

area 56...finished

they picked what they liked so this is the final "brand"...the different logos
are all in the same family but will be used in different settings...some are
for signage and others are better in print pieces (parent letters, brochures,
etc.) and then some are for the female portion of the population. interesting
thing i learned from d-val is that for church stuff the stuff should be
deliberately created to be attractive to men...since men are less likely to
feel comfortable enough to come...women don't care and will come regardless.

the rule stays true for the younger kids too.

this one is done

onward...