Progress shot

Well, visiting family comes first so my progress is a little slow as of late. This week has been spent with Ash's family and and next week is dedicated to my family, so who knows when I'll finally finish this thing. I am mostly pleased with my progress though. Working with charcoal has its own rewards and punishing punishments (especially with the paper). I am enjoying slowly building up the glowing quality of the boys night light and the dramatic shadows it allows for. Unfortunately I am going to have to lose the glow on the dragon's neck, which I fell in love with and can't bring myself to darken up.

Charcoal!!

I have re-discovered a long lost medium! Aparantly its called charcoal and involves drawing with burnt sticks!! It is absolutely wonderful to draw with. I decided to take a brief break from my children's book and do a big charcoal drawing for the fun of it. And I am having a LOT of fun with. The drawing is 22 x 30, so it is going to take some time. But, I am about half way done in two days of intensive drawing.

Vote for MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

This is my design for a T-shirt for www.threadless.com, all 5 people that look at this blog should join the sight, and vote for me(in a week hopefully, once the site clears it for voting). It's called "Tyranosaurus Rex in Sheep's Clothing". If I win, maybe I'll send you a t-shirt!

Busy Day

Well, it seems the bottle opener was a great success, since I just finished my 4th children's book painting. That makes me....ONE QUARTER OF THE WAY THERE!!!!

Character Sketch

I found out that publishing companies recomend illustrating a popular fairytale as part of the application process. Made sense to me, so I started sketching up a design for my version of "The Emperor's New Clothes". Not quite enough foppish arrogance, but its a start.

Studio Improvement!

As a struggling artist, I find it important to make your studio environment as inviting as possible. That way, you WANT to spend all your freetime there, and hopefully while you're in there you create somehing. That said, I have installed the official Three Redhead Studios bottle opener conveniently located next to my drafting table.

Dog Art

Now, whenever people ask: "Why on earth would you get an art degree? Isn't that just for chumps?" I can laugh in their face and point to my success as a DOG ARTIST!!! For the second year I was asked to design the artwork for the pint glasses for the Pug Crawl....this year the theme is Pugstock. Get it? Its like Woodstock but for pugs. Oh success, you taste so sweet.