Storyboards - Feeding the 5000

Storyboards

Here's some images we're going to drop into the "Super School" videos. "Stratos"...the
older wiser kid at school has the ability to project images while he tells stories...one
more way to keep the kids attracted to the teaching. They're all my "get'er done quick"
style...will drop some color on them...no shadows or highlights...

Tree 02 - first drops of color

Tree 01 - more color

Tree 02 inks - part 1

not sure if i'm going to add more line work to this...the original is mostly color enhanced.

Tree01 Color in progress

Trees

I feel the need to draw trees for a while. Anything and everything remotely
associated with trees will be worked on for a while. I'm not sure how long this
"tree phase" is going to last. First...the ways other illustrators do their trees
will be copied (great way to learn for me). Eventually...I'll develop my own trees.

no set style

lunchtime doodle

Got to skyline a little early for lunch with J.

meeting notes

I'm not sure if people believe me that I can sketch and listen at the same
time. But the truth is I can...most of my meeting sketches are sketches I've
done thousands of times. Everything looks boxy because I just draw lots
and lots of boxes and circles in perspective...it's a warm exercise they
had us do lots and lots in college. Lots....

Tuesday

the video shoots start next week so most of my work time has been getting ready for
them and prepping everyone else involved...which means all the sketch/design time is
over until the next theme starts. here's some randomness. the tattoo looking thing is
from this image i saw online...of a manta ray tattoo...the original is much cooler...i
need to take the time to do light sketches or in blue pencil...the pen isn't the most
sublte (sp?) of drawing instruments...take for example the second sketch...this one
could take a while with the details...i should have used a blue pencil or some light gray
scale markers to set up the composition...might just scrap this and start over.

boo yah

You saw the cart...here's the horse(s)

should have posted the super school sketches before the final logo
options...but...i didn't

so here goes...kind of a quick turn around time so the amount of
ideation is less that ideal but the final product turned out pretty
well (my opinion) so no worries.

Shrimpola

This is a illustrated version of the puppet we've got to play one of the "kids"...Shrimpola.

Super School

Super School is the theme for september/october in the kindergarten
through fourth grade rooms. We're going to be shooting videos in a
couple weeks that will be used to show some of the kids and the
experiences they go through

At super school kids go...like regular high school...but they're got
special powers...fun stuff...like Tate...he's able to put his hands together
and form hand fulls of whatever he wants...candy...paper clips...fun stuff
like that. But he's not fully in control yet so when he makes a pb&j he
gets the peanut butter and jelly on the outside of the sandwich...

Anyway...these are some logo options for the theme...the stage and
other print materials are going to be worked on after one of these
gets approved.

Kid's Club Baptism Brand

So a baptism is a gift from God...at least that's the stance we're taking
here. Which to be a Christ following organizationi...it's a good way to go.
Kid's Club is getting away from reinventing the wheel for everything
we do... and the baptism experience is one of those things.

Which is great because we can come up with a kick ass program and
then just reuse the reuseable pieces...which leaves us more time to
work on other things and everything up to awesome...but just not
all at the same time.

The "brand/whatever corporate bs term you can think of" is celebration
and we want everyone (parents, kids, onlookers) to know that that
when you get baptised it's a fantastically huge deal.

shrimpola's zambonie library book shelving machine

so...we've got a theme coming up called "superhero school"...all of the
characters go to a school...and they all have super powers...i know i
know...pretty self explanatory.

well one of the story lines is how our size or what we look like doesn't
matter...we're all created differently...shrimpola...the main character...
wants to shelve books at the school library but he's not strong enough.

end resolution is he uses his brain (a gift from God) to create a machine
to help him.

here's a sketch of the machine...needs to be big enough to fit the person
who's going to be controlling the puppet...and quick and simple to
construct since we're on a time crunch.

random sketches

Some of this I did a while ago...but it never added up to enough
to post...you could argue it's still not enough...but i gotta put it up.

more to come.

Dval took it from here

Dval added color and all the cool design stuff.

new sketch for cd case

the last one i posted (only a few posts ago...i've been slacking) didn't
work out so one of rough sketches i had done earlier (only a post or two
ealier that the final color one...yes...me am slacker) got done up. D-Val is
adding the color to is...hopefully i can get that image and post it...the whole
thing looks really great so being asked to do something for the project
was cool.

what's really cool (well...depends on you point of view) is that the cd is
coming out soon...like...the cds are already done...now the packaging
has to be done.

in other news...paige pooped! she was holding out for a while (4 days?).
praying for poop is just about the craziest thing so far. i know it will be
trumped eventually...but for now praying for poop is sitting on top of the hill.

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...