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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. 2016.

Digital.

Commission to kick off the Christmas rush!

Giblin Family Christmas

Commissioned caricatures for a Christmas family portrait complete with the parents, their kids, the kid's spouses, the grandchildren and the dogs!

Warm Hugs for the End of Summer

Continuing with the commissions that I posted last week, Emily was eager to have me draw some other Disney characters as well. In her request for Olaf, I saw an opportunity to polish up a sketch I had done earlier this summer. I may tinker with this one a bit more, I could really stand to experiment with my application of color.

Another animated Disney sidekick who stole the show that Emily was looking to have drawn was Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy done up in this Alphonse Mucha Art Noveau style. 

I had hoped to make this a do a double theme with Olaf and Groot both giving hugs. Although tree huggers are likely to come away with plenty of splinters from Groot. Ouch! 

I may come back to that some time later, but its September now, so I'm starting to brainstorm ideas on what I should do for Halloween next month.

Please make any suggestions you would like to see in the comments!


Sketch ya' later!

Cartoon Commissions

This just in, Shawn took my sketch of the Green Ranger from Doctor Who Day and had it signed by Jason David Frank! Thanks guys!

More recently I've been working on a series of illustrations for "Emily", who saw my work at the last day of the Midland County Fair and asked for some commissions of cartoon characters, like this one of Dory and Marlin from "Finding Nemo".

Inspired by glow-in-the-dark overlay posters made by Mondo Tees, I also made this text heavy variant. 

Then I followed that up with the Minions from "Despicable Me".

Originally I had dreamed up a comic involving a gag of one minion discovering another minion dressed up like a banana. Instead I opted for something simpler because it was taking a lot of time to much sure I was drawing these guys on-model. Maybe I'll revisit this sometime later.

Speaking of revisiting, I've still got two more commissions to do for Emily. Come back next week and I'll probably have those finished.


Sketch ya' later!

August Updates (featuring Groot!)

Good news this week is that after posting all these sketch events I've been doing for the past month online, I'm finally seeing some interest in commissions!

The sketch card I did with Rocket and Groot attracted enough attention that I was asked to work on another drawing of Groot. Just need to decide between Groot Noveau and Groot Hug.

But the Guardians aren't the only Disney characters I've been commissioned to draw.

Meantime I'm still juggling my own ideas, like this birthday card I've been designing to share with my friends on Facebook.

And the "Ceiling Fan Fight" from last month is something I'm working on new thumbnails and would like to come back to sooner rather than later.

 

Sketch ya' later!

Calvin's Canadian Cave of Cool Comic Cover

My latest commission for Kal and his blog "Calvin's Canadian Cave of Cool". The cover features a lot of things that he loves; comic book covers from the 70s, outer space adventuring, Lasers, Jetpacks, Selena Gomez and his cat, Admiral Fluffy, all attacking the deadly cephalopod menace!

This was a real joy of a project to take on since it proclaims my own love for old comics, but also gave me a chance to real dig through my archives and find all manner of crazy inspirational images. The works of Wally Wood were particularly influential. Here are a few examples to give you an idea were I was coming from with my thought process.

 

Looking back, it seems like this could be seen as a more refined version of my old college piece, "Dex Deadfall: Astronaut Archeologist". I guess the influence followed me all these years later.

Deficit Debbie

Ordinarily I don't like to be too political with my work, but I just couldn't turn down the opportunity to draw this political cartoon commission about Michigan State Representative Debbie Stabenow and her spending habits.