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I found some old sketches for the comic I'm putting together, and I decided to do some color tests with them. I probably wont be working on this much more before 2010 - it sounds like instead I might be illustrating a children's book my uncle is trying to publish! Could be fun - I'm very excited! More that later.
Hope you are doing well!
Today I went to the coolest bookstore: The Little Shop of Stories! I stopped in there on my train ride home because I heard they were giving away tickets for their Neil Gaiman event. (He is speaking at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and then signing books. More here)
Anyhow - They aren't giving out tickets till Monday - but I'm SO excited I stopped in their shop. I knew they were an independent bookstore, but I didn't realize their specialty was children's books! How cool is that?! They had a really good selection and the guys working were very nice. I ended up buying the comic book "Spiral-Bound" by Aaron Renier - which has amazing illustrations and an adorable cover concept... The book is set up to look like it's inside a top secret journal. Eee! How fun!
I can't wait to go back Monday to get my tickets and browse some more books - I really enjoy looking at illustrated children's books. It inspires me a lot :) I also sketched a ton of raccoons today over brunch, but my hand is hurting a little bit so I haven't finalized them yet. Here is my favorite:
Bandit - the sneaky Raccoon!
For those of you celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow - I hope you have a lovely holiday!
Just a little art update! I thought I'd drop in some stuff I did recently. The above is based off of a tweet my friend Seth made. I was saying how he should totally get the Bowser surfing while playing guitar (from the Whitest guys I know skit), and he replied saying he would much rather get a tattoo of "A skeleton riding a zombie unicorn farting rainbows". I was like - that is so ridiculous - it MUST be drawn! Now I just need to peer pressure him into actually getting it... ;)
And a few quick little scribbles. The above are little animals from my new "Joo Zoo" planner by Jetoy. And below are some Totoro scribbles I did after a few glasses of wine. I looooove Totoro!
This Friday I was invited to the Planet Shark exhibit here at the Atlanta Aquarium. I had really been wanting to check this out, so I was super excited! There aren't any live sharks in the exhibit - but there are TONS of life size replicas, fossils and even a frozen mako shark on display.
That crazy metal thing on my arm is part of a suit that protects divers from sharks. The entire suit is around 40lbs. Can you imagine being underwater with that on? Yikes.
Did any of you go see New Moon this weekend? Other than awesome aquarium trips, I basically worked on illustration stuff the rest of the time. I hope to go see it next weekend... The Twilight series is one of my secret guilty pleasures! ;)
I wanted to thank you guys for all the awesome responses on my last post! Your suggestions will help me tons :D (if you didn't see my last post, please go check it out! I'm looking for input on some products I'm going to make) I also wanted to apologize for the lack of posts in the past few days. It bums me out when I'm too busy to update here, its one of my favorite hobbies. :< I will probably be making a Things I love Thursday post this evening, but for now, here are some doodles!
The above is a really quick sketch for a comic book I'm hoping to make in 2010. Its kinda rough... I'm still trying to figure out the character designs and learning how to draw scooters - so I didn't spend a lot of time on details. I dropped some coffee illustrations in as a background - they are from a cafe event I just recently wrapped up for work.
Aren't they cuuute? I love drawing coffee items.
More later!
