Benjamin Birdie's First Flight

I have just started my next book and I'm loving the way its coming out so far, I really feel like I am using more of my skills in this book, I really am a draftsman. I didn't touch color until high school and even then I preferred things in black and white! Also, some Sketch_Dailies I did-- I have been trying really hard to sketch in my sketchbook at least once a day. Its going well... so far!

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*~• Sigh •~*

I am at a cross-roads of sorts at the moment. I am working on a Children's book, I have been doing some character Designs for Little Airplane Productions, all the while I of course have a huge influx of Bark Point Studio commissions. With the holidays coming everything seems magnified and I feel the stress of it falling over me like a blanket of snow. I have been trying really hard to sketch more, but the more I sketch the more I realize I don't know if I love the style of work I do on a regular basis. My drawings always have so much more life to them then my finished illustrations... I have had this problem my entire life. I suppose what I really want to do is have some time to work on my personal work and decide how to market that style instead of this cutex1000 stuff I do.... Hmm..

Another Sketch_dailies and Hammer Cont'd

I have introduced a NEW style to my Bark Point Studio options. I am now taking commissions for Doggie Doodles-- they are $15.00 sketches like the image below. I did this because Bark Point Studio started at $20.00 per pet and $10.00 for every additional pet. It was exciting and the amount of work I got immediately, was shocking to me! However those prices were not sustainable.. For the amount of time and care I began putting into these commissions I had to raise my prices. For a "caricature", that I am now calling Illustrations, it is $49.00 per pet and it includes a Generic Background. (Clients can choose from 8 choices or pay an additional $15.00 to Personalize the Background with their own photos or ideas.) I wanted to be able to still appeal to an audience that doesn't want to spend more than $20.00 but can appreciate the look of a sketch. So I am loving the Doggie Doodles thus far!

I have now drawn my second @Sketch_Dailies ! The topic is #IronMan, so of course I drew Tony Bark, aka Jax dressed as Iron Man.

This below illustration has a PG-13/R reason behind its creation, but I actually think its my favorite thing I've done maybe ever. I feel like this little Corgi could be hanging out with Disney's Bolt. Its not an original style but I just love that I captured the disney look and had a blast doing it.

Hammer Spreads continued! Only 4 more spreads to go and I will have completed my first Children's Book. 

October 2011

At the suggestion of my favorite fellow SU illustration major (Anna Rettberg), I bought a moleskin sketchbook. It has been great so far, its easy to carry because its so small. I have been drawing more because I can bring it everywhere with me! Here are a few pages from it so far. Nothing too great but its certainly better than my other sketchbook!





Last week I was lucky enough to get to work in a script writing workshop with Rob Edwards (scriptwriter for Princess and the Frog and Treasure Planet). It was amazing, I learned so much about what it takes to create a successful story for film. There were only about 8 of us in the group so we all got some one on one time with him. Below is some sketches from a story I started thinking of while in the workshop. Of course its about dogs, and of course the main character is Kiba the Shiba.




For my Concepts class I had to design Athena (the greek goddess). I have been having some trouble with it, I am not really in love with any of my ideas so far but hopefully by next Monday I will come up with something good.


This is the finished painting I did for the NYC Bus Trip Poster. The Poster itself looks good, but different than I had anticipated. I thought they would take advantage of the white space I purposefully left them, but they didnt. Hmm.



This is the cover of the two-page comic I did a few weeks ago.


This is supposed to be my promotional piece for my postcards, but I sort of hate it. I don't think I'll be getting any jobs with this one! Haha.