Closer and closer

Oh my Sainted trousers, our launch date is coming up in NINE DAYS! Pardon me whilst I perform a Kermit-flail (TM).

In the mean time . . . A duly appropriate graphic I designed for the launch email;

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PROCESS WORK;

Thumbnails for possible designs (my boss ended up picking #1);



Very quick colour study;



Pencil sketch;



Now I have to go drink copious amounts of tea in preparation for my driving lesson. Meep!

Moving right along

One of four e-cards I'm illustrating for the Otto and Anna website;

And now for something completely Dickens.

Life has been chaotic . . . Time for an update.

Something non-work related;



I've had to take it easy, owing to having undergone surgery. In the meantime, I've been rewatching the 2002 film, Nicholas Nickleby, one of my very favourites. In times like these, I think we can all appreciate a story like the one in this film, and I'm partial to friendship stories. So, here's a quick illo of Nicholas and Smike, an orphaned young man and the abused, crippled youth he takes under his wing. They're on a road to . . . the future! Whatever it may bring.

Doodled whilst in my bed of pain, ha ha, given a quick colour job today, my first day back at my laptop! Hurrah!

It's a really beautiful (and underrated) film. Trailer's here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVtU5Szhwko

More soon. Sorry, I've been swamped with . . . non-art related things as of late! Ack! That will change soon, if I have anything to say about it!

The Whole Kit and Kaboodle

Something more for the Otto and Anna website; My boss wants artist's renderings of the various Adventure Kits and what comes in them. Starting out, I wasn't entirely clear as to every exact detail of what was going in and what it would look like. In the mean time, I made a list of everything I could think of offhand that was in them and sketched from those lists (here is Russia, for example);



. . . I met with my boss the next day to iron everything out, and have since made revised drawings of the kits and their contents;



The final illustrations will be in colour once they go up on the website.

More stuff for the Otto and Anna website

It's a big, bright, beautiful tomorrow!

Just finished the splash image for the upcoming Otto and Anna website;

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Thumbnails for the actual image, plus thumb sketches for how it'll look on the actual website;



The intitial sketch;



And the final, coloured image;

Otto, Anna, Oopah!

Another poster I completed for the Otto and Anna project;


And the pencil sketch.

Juggling one's priorities. Or just . . . juggling.

Heh, Otto and Anna are fixing to take over this blog, aren't they? Well, this is likely due to the fact that I am working on them pretty much nonstop. I've barely even posted a sliver of a smidgeon of a bit of a fraction of all that I have done involving them O_O

So, yes! Here's a bit more!


(part of a poster I just finished)

Only somewhat unrelated, I finally updated VEGtotheTABLE. I'd really like to get the proverbial ball rolling with that thing over the summer, now that I'm not playing Atlas with schoolwork. Heh, now it's just Work!work, driving lessons, caring for my animals and yoga. Whooooo!

Anyway, you lot KNOW you want to learn how to make a delishimus sweet pepper tart. So go have a looksee at the recipe avec doofy photos. Go on, do; http://veg2thetable.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-have-said-it-before-i-will-say-it.html

Aaaand the colours.

I should have something witty to say, but . . . there is only so much wittiness to be had at midnight-thirty. In other words, there is precious little wittiness.

Thank you, and good-night.

Sketch comedy? Pah.

Sketch COOKIE. Har har.

(One of a series of four of these "adventure portraits" I am doing. They will be coloured next.)



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AND ALSO.



Behold, my old Niisan and my new Nissan (And no, that joke will never get old. Just so you know).

AND.



My old Niisan and my new . . . Er, Brindle. He he.

So yes. Those are just a few of the things that have been keeping me busy, Post-Ringling. How is everyone else doing?