Gallery Update: Some old “Wilhelm” Concept Art
Prior to my wife lovingly strong-arming me into the digital art world, I had been tentatively dipping my toes into those waters for several years. Like many, I had started out by doing traditional graphite or charcoal drawings and then scanning them and trying to color them digitally. This process was clunky for a lot of reasons, but a major road block for me had been trying to do all that Photoshop coloring and whatnot with a mouse rather than a stylus. At one point I tried to incorporate another traditional aspect one of my college professors, illustrator and teacher
Studio Stuff: Mr. Handface
Mr. Handface resting at home amongst friends. It appears that Monday is becoming Studio Stuff Day. At least for now. I'm still getting my blog legs under me (betcha didn't know blogs had legs, didja?), but I'm trying to find some level of consistency that doesn't interfere too much with, you know, actually being productive in my studio. Anywho, today's entry is: Mr. Handface. At least, that's what I call him right now. Everything is subject to change in Toby's Brain. Mr. Handface is actually just a cool, quirky "ring"/pair of googly eyes. See? They were
Sketchbook: Revery concept sketches
While I've been working on several other projects, trying to get this site up and going, trying to get the Etsy shop started, and other "stuff", I've had my in-the-works graphic novel Revery on my mind. A lot. I'm itching to get back to work on it, and maybe, I dunno, finish it. I have more ideas for that world that I want to eventually get to, but I have to finish volume 1 first. I had pretty much figured I was done writing and thumbnailing it, but last night, on our way over to our local mountain for some
Gallery Update: Random Doodle-age
As I mentioned sometime last week, I've opted to put 10 Things on hold for a bit and put some effort into a handful of t-shirt designs so I can get my Etsy store up and running. I have 3, in addition to the It's Plunger Monkey Dynamo Time shirt, PMD designs that are almost done, another one that's in sketch form, and then several non-PMD more graphic designs that I think might be cool.The original plan was to pump them all out in a week, but I grossly underestimated how much time my obsessive self would take to finish
Studio Stuff/Influences: Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes
I'm adding a sub-category to this Studio Stuff installment called Influences. No matter who you are or what you do, someone or something has influenced you along the way. As an artist, I have many influences, but one of the biggest has to be Bill Watterson and his brilliant Calvin and Hobbes newspaper strip. My original Calvin and Hobbes collection...I think this is all of them. I let the kids have access to them, so they frequently disappear and get left in odd places...which has a certain Calvin spirit to it. If you don't love Calvin and Hobbes,
Seven…thousand…flippin’…Macedonians…
Well, I think I'm going to call this page done for now, other than some tweaks I'll do when I go back through all the pages of this children's book... Please, no more Macedonians... I don't even know how many hours I put into this page, but it's got to be close to the combined total for all the preceding pages, even with all the cut and paste "cheats" Photoshop affords me. For those who don't remember, I'm trying to illustrate a children's book based on The Announcer's test, partially popularized by Jerry Lewis, that I learned at
Please let me know what you think, it makes my brain happy.