Christmas Cards! 2013 edition.

I just sent our cards out to print...simple fun little illustration of Santa texting all the kids on his list apologizing for being late. It's like one of those 'sorry I missed your birthday' birthday cards. Although if the print turnaround is as fast as it has been, they might be on time! ...Which spoils the joke.

Anyhoo...

I started with the rough idea, chubby Santa sitting on the floor, texting. Really simple shapes. Piles of presents, a conveyor belt backing up, a frustrated elf.

Then I just jumped in, rendering the shapes, making line weights, and coloring. 

Fun, but it's just too much. I added some brush layers to separate the distances, some brush strokes to make it feel a bit less Adobe Illustrator-plasticky. And I decided to ditch the conveyor belt. Too distracting. This makes for an overall clearer, stronger illustration. 

2014 Calendars!

They went to print yesterday! Come by StART on the Station this weekend and pick one up. As always, a mix of old and new stuff, polished and formatted for your office cubicle! 

Here's a preview:

Chthulhu: digital painting start

Okay, after a few misfires, I've got this sort of on track. I'm pretty new to the digital painting thing, so this might be a bit too ambitious, but hey, fuck it. I'm learning something new.

Spent some time on the background, and working on the monster now, with the other pieces just roughed in loosely. You can also see my palette at the bottom, which is really maybe 5 colors tops, if you ignore the colors that are basically blends of other colors.

Cthulhu...take three

So I've been tossing this one around, trying to get the feel I want out of it. Earlier ideas weren't doing it for me, and the colors were kinda boring as well. I've chosen a different palette. Also, without two 'beings' in a piece there's no relationship. I usually like the idea of the human facing off against the monster, but here I want something different. A single, centered human possessed by the old god. The first of many, I'd imagine.

The 11th Doctor

Don't have a name, really. People just call him The Doctor. We'll call it finished, though there's so much more I'd love to jam into this. 

More soon. Working to finish that Cthulhu piece, as well as an outer spacey thing I haven't mentioned yet.

More progress on The Doctor...

Still gotta put more junk floating and put Rory and Amy's heads peeking out the door. And a few other things...

Saturday Morning Illustrator Sketch

After Work

That's a wrap. This was fun. I kept to that palette I'd selected and then punched up the colors universally afterward.

After Work update

A bit more progress. Just filling in the detritus of the room. Gotta get the barstool the way I want it. Add a few more barstools. Click to enlarge...

Kraken

Took forever, but here we are. Please click to enlarge.