This is part 2 of the work in progress of Milo and Ditch, part 1 is here!
I moved over to Illustrator to mock up some of the more detailed areas. I did some research on incredibly colorful poison dart frogs to help inspire a back design for Ditch.
Work in Progress Archive
A few months back, MINDstyle and Disney teamed up to launch Experiment 626, an international tour of customized Stitch vinyl figures from a wide variety of artists. Due to my schedule I was only able to recently crack open the big box of Stitch that had been sitting in my studio for months. Fortunately my piece is finally done, and will be joining many fine pieces in the tour in San Diego at the International Comic Con next week!
I figured this was a good opportunity to give you a quick behind the scenes look at my piece, “Milo and Ditch”.
First we start off with a nice piece of clean white rotocast vinyl direct from MINDStyle. Stitch is about about 11″ tall (with ears!).
I’m finally finishing up work on the last print of the first “season” of Print Club+. Judging from feedback and demand, it has been a rather successful run so far!
If you’ve been thinking about joining for potential future seasons please send me your name, e-mail address and shipping destination country. There is already a waiting list and very few spots available. Information will be going out in early July!
Bawwwk.. Here is a drawing of a rooster who crows at the moon. Silly Moon Rooster. I’m not sure if it’s done, but I am sure I won’t have time to work on it for a while! Here’s a detail view.
I have been busy finishing up some work for my show at Rivet Gallery opening on May 2nd! “It’s what’s inside that counts” will feature mostly small / affordable ink & acrylic based works.
Today I was working with my own spin on a traditional damask pattern that I like for a wall installation at the VIA and EXIT festivals in France. Here is a version of it that is part dragon, part shaggy dog, and a whole lot of love.
You could set it as a desktop, but you will probably go blind. Here is a larger and less contrasty version for such uses.
I’m working on some art for some walls that will be on display at the VIA festival in Maubeuge (Northern France) early March and then at the EXIT festival in Paris suburb Creteil later in the month. I had to vectorize a bunch of artwork, this is what my illustrator file looks like when I turn all my layers on. This has nothing to do with the final layout, I just thought it was fun! back to work!
Here’s a little animated version of progress from the 7th anniversary drawing! I’ll do a few of these now and then as people have often asked me to see progress. Here’s a quick breakdown:
- sketch in notebook (not shown)
- re-draw sketch bigger in pencil, scan
- bring into Illustrator, reduce opacity
- draw basic lines on top of sketch
- do basic fills, refine lines
- position, work on line weights and basic colors
- add shading, final colors, line work, background, etc
(this part takes the longest!)
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