October Monster Madness 2011 - Day 18 - Dragon

Day 18 - Dragon.

Here's a little dragon that came to my mind yesterday. Sometimes I forget the original image in my mind. So to attempt to retain the image, I took out some paper and sketched a quick image closing my eyes and drawing some of him, so I could remember the first image in my head.

Artist Notes - Original sketch on paper with a 2B Derwent Graphic Pencil. Then captured it onto my Motorola Xoom and used Sketchbook Mobile Pro to trace the image and color it.

Magazine Artwork - Emerald Hills

Here's an illustrated version of Emerald Hills in Louisville, Kentucky where our headquarters are located for Team Expansion.  I made this using CorelDraw X5 for possible use in our organization's magazing coming out this autumn called, Tell.

Gone Camping

Here is a background scene that I made.  Click on it to see the full picture, it is apparently too wide to view on the main blog page.  I saw something the other day with a similar scene, so later that day I sketched in my moleskin sketchbook then worked on it CorelDraw.  After I finished it, I thought it might make a good Father's Day card.  So I made it into one, converted that to a pdf and am including that here so that other's can print it out and use it.  If you use cardstock it will even look better.  Let me know if you use it!!

Get your printable Father's Day card version by following this link: http://www.thecrossers.com/projects/happy_fathers_day_card_2010.pdf

October Monster Madness 2008 - #11

This is one of those forests that you wouldn't want to have to go through..... monster #11.

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Technical details: I used two Pilot Precise Rolling Ball pens, one V7 fine and one V5 extra fine. I didn't use any pencil, choosing to sketch with the pen. It creates a more improvisational line. Then I scanned them in and colored them using CorelDraw X4.

Halloween Children's Book - Update Pencils

Here are some pencils for the halloween themed children's book that I am working on. The title of the book is "Jack the Pumpkin Head". All of the pencil work is done, next is inking, erasing, rescanning, importing into Corel, Digital-tracing, staging, coloring, shading, finalizing each scene, exporting the final jpegs, setting the type for the book and laying out the pictures, then exporting the pdf to upload to my publisher. Whew, I was planning on finishing it in my days off and spare time over the next few weeks, seems like a lot left to do. Anyway, check out the pencils below....