Society of Illustrators

Here's just a little pre-sketch of my octopus for Society of Illustrators.




















Here's the pre-colored marker comp!
















The Society of Illustrators marker comp completed!

 Well I thought this one was done, but for you Rusty I'll add some freakin highlights!

To Kill a Mockingbird!

 So here is my composition for
my "To Kill a Mockingbird"
book cover. I drew each of the
pieces individually then placed
them together in Photoshop.

Here is my first crack at attempting to illustrate a night scene. . . ya . . I know.

 It's in the works!

 Dat da da da! And we have Scout, Jim, and the creepy guy whose name I can't remember because I haven't read the book in four years! The finished product, we have some yellow ochre on the birdy, some green on the little leafies, and the characters.

The Washington Post

This is my initial sketch for my carousel horse that represents the classical music song,
The Washington Post. I chose to do a carousel horse because The Washington Post use to play on the teeny three seat carousel in the old Kirksville Hardees that I use to ride on; if they still had it I would probably take it for another spin, sadly though, I think they got rid of it :(. Oh and in case you were wondering, yes, my sister and I did force Mom and Dad to eat in the back room every single time we ever ate at Hardees so that we could ride on the baby carousel. . . even when we were too big for it.


The marker comp turned out nicely for this one
. . . especially after you added some line art.

And in the end I was very pleased with the final art; it looked like the marker comp, but better!

World Record

So here we have some of the first stages of the world record illustration. I started with a sketch drawn form a number of reference images and then moved to the marker comp. This marker comp is actually the second marker comp; the first one will magically appear later. I started with a two page full bleed spread with the road spanning both pages and the pig just on the right page. But when your teacher continually hints about making it smaller and making the road more curvy and changing a bunch of little details, you do it. And if that teacher's name is Rusty and he's missing one finger, then it always turns out looking better than the original idea.

Dat da dada! The final piece is complete. I really liked how this one turned out. I wanted the colors to be bright and just kind of funny in general and I think that the bubblegum pink pig accomplished that!