My sketch book has been out of town for the last couple of months trying to get me into a computer graphics/animation school, so that is my excuse for not posting more regularly. Oddly though, I feel more comfortable drawing on the regular printer paper I nab from my work's epsons.
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I made up a little story about a kid with a monster problem. Here are some ideas for monsters...I'm leaning toward the funny lookin multi-eyed blob in the lower left corner.
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Here are the first batch of tries for my kid's book character...some are pretty embarrassing, but it took some time to switch out of "monsters and heroes" mode.
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This is the final character I came up with for my kid's book.
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These are some thumbnails for a kid's book I'm making.
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This is a loin clothie enjoying some R and R after spearing the large snake-oid thing he's reclining against.
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A spell casting Undead...rawr!
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I saw a preview for a new wolfman movie coming out so I thought I'd better try to improve on the monster...He's looking pretty unoriginal at the moment, but I'm still working on it.
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A spider faced baddie.
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Just your classic hefty native, with a deep sea fish inspired head.
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Hulk in the "catching a transit bus" pose.
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Bit of a vertical format here...This dude's head is kinda hard to see but it is at lower end of the spine..He's leaning over.
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My brother Tim showed me these crazy/huge palm crabs on youtube...so I made my own version.
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Sticky note guy