Spinyfin

 

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Spinyfin

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watercolor

For today's #sundayfishsketch I had chosen a deep sea fish before knowing that there were suggestions for the day. This was to be my sketch for last week and put it off for the Father's Day prompt. Lo and behold, this was the word suggestion for today. Perfect timing for this spiny fin denizen. Although, this one is a former life form, I thought it would be interesting with its ghostlike eyes in the darkness.

Jack Character Pose Sheet

 

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I'm getting a little behind in posting some stuff from the Children's Book Pro course that I've been taking through the Society of Visual Storytelling. I'm currently in the character design stage and this guy is my version of Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk. This is the character pose sheet, showing Jack in various situations from the story. I'm setting the story in a coastal village and all the characters will be anthropomorphized animals from the seashore and/or riverside. 

The instructors are Jake Parker, Will Terry and Lee White. All wonderful illustrators and the course has been very thorough and involved. I would highly recommend this to any illustrator.

Seahorse

 

Seahorse

9x12

watercolor on watercolor paper

So, over on Twitter, there is a thing called #sundayfishsketch started by an ichthyologist, who also happens to be an artist. I've been wanting to do up something for this for awhile, so today I did a fish thing. I was going to go with a deep sea dweller, but saw that there was a suggestion of doing fish where the male is known for parenting skills. You know, for Father's Day. So, not only do the male seahorses get pregnant, they also keep the newborns in a pouch for safe keeping. 

Sketch Card Commissions

 

These are a few sketch card commissions from late last year. These were fun to do and are from are from Aliens, Alien and The Clone Wars.

Joe Manchin

 

This guy...

Pipedreams #17

 

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This is the 17th Pipedreams strip that Darin Palmer and I created quite some time ago. We would often look up at the ceiling office of the plant manager (name somewhat changed to protect the guilty) and think that he must be daydreaming about just what a hero he thought he was. We knew the truth.

Scripted by Darin and I, penciled by me, inks by Darin.