“Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” ~ Don Quixote
The artistic tradition of Don Quixote is very rich. The above is an engraving of Don Quixote done by Gustave Dore. With disorderly, but grand notions of chivalry picked from books, you might go mad too. Probably not in a bad way.
You might know about Johnny Depp in Terry Gillian’s ill-fated production,
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote…..
I know you probably wanted me say something cyberpunk bad-ass, but I just have to ask you something. I dare you to stare into her eyes and tell her, “NO, I will not buy your girl scout cookies.”
I’ve been working on this character for my story that I have been showing you for the last week. I’m not sure if I know how I want her to look like yet in her true form but here is a bit of my process. Today’s sketch is just an idea. There is nothing set in stone as of yet. Below are some thumbnails and another sketch. I hope adding all these extras into each post makes up for the lack of daily sketches.
This doesn’t read like a comic book. These dueling cars storyboards are read up to down in each column. Start on the first column and when finished move to the next.
Sorry, if that was confusing. I drew these out of order and just put them together in Photoshop to post when I realized that most of you will probably read this like a comic book. Well, it’s posted already the way it so deal with it. If I can spare some time at some point, I’ll try to fix it.
These storyboards are based off of Duel, Steven Spielberg’s first movie.
I hear Speilberg was only 25 when he made it. I’m going to be 25 in Febuary and thinking about this makes me feel the pressure to do something at least as cool as Duel before another orbit of the Earth around the Sun declares me 26. Now, that doesn’t mean I want to do a movie but maybe a cool graphic novel or at least an idea for a movie.
Art school will be behind me in less than a year and time is on its neverending march. If Pixar or Dreamworks or some other studio doesn’t hire me on the spot right out of school, there may be an opportunity to do something a little more personal which would have its own advantages. Well….we’ll see what happens.
Out in the hot sun over the weekend, I went out to practice some perspective drawing at the 2009 Art Center Car Classic. The theme was “By Air, Land, and Sea” and as you might imagine, it was a pretty remarkable scene.
To have such an event at my school and the opportunity to inspect and draw all these very interestingly designed cars in a familiar setting, was really pretty cool.
This is a portrait I did of my father a few years back. It’s a bit smudged having hidden in one of my sketchbooks for while, but Dad’s are pure vintage anyway.
Dad is sitting on his familiar chair complete with a TiVo remote in hand. All in all this is pretty classic Dad for me.
So there he is, my pops. I hope everybody has a happy Father’s Day.
“Shocked and amazed at the wonders of necroflesh? You’re not alone. For a limited time only, you too can have this handsome epidermis for the eensy price of your soul and a buttload of pain.” ~ Clown in Spawn (1997)
Being a fan of Todd McFarland’s Spawn (Jay’s Sketch of Spawn), I couldn’t help but push my carnival series forward with my interpretation of Clown.
For the uninitiated, here is a peak from HBO’s superior animated series:
Clown is one sick son of gun no doubt! He is twisted and sadistic and pretty formative in my view of clowns in general. I guess if you spend too much time in “The Shadow of the Carnival” you are bound to end up in hell.
Rounding out space week, I present a piece of artwork that is near and dear to me. Today’s sketch of the day spawned from a children’s book idea I had about 6 years ago when I was still in high school. I wrote and illustrated it during my free time senior year. You might call it the product of my senioritis.
I don’t want to give away too much about how this piece fits within the context of my children’s book idea because I still plan to rework the story a bit. I love what I already have, but I still have some substantial revisions rattling around in my brain which I would need to address before I’d consider publishing it.
I’ll probably end up showing you a little bit here and there, but as of now even with this reveal, I plan to keep these cards pretty close to my vest. Some of these pieces made their way into the portfolio that got me into art school so I feel strongly that I have something here. Perhaps, with enough prodding from the Simian Nation, I’ll finally get off my ass and get it done. While my lips are sealed, feel free to hold my feet to the fire. Your support is sure to inspire.
I am illustrator in the entertainment arts focused on visual development, character design, layouts, concept art, and anything in the realm of visual storytelling. Around these parts though, I'm letting it loose Simian Style and devolving into a higher state of consciousness on the boundary of an infinite-dimensional manifold in quasi-time. There's plenty of room down this rabbit hole! Learn more About Me and check out the Portfolio.
