The 'Lil Loose Limbed Krew™

Some recent sketches.

SPEED SKETCHING A (cute) MONSTER 6

Here's the second of a new bunch of cute monster characters I started sketching the other day...did little sketches that I've expanded upon in these speed sketch videos.

SPEED SKETCHING A (cute) MONSTER 5

Had some fun with this dude...started as a small sketch on regular printer paper...I've got a bunch more in this style..a bunch of friends for him. I'll get around to drawing some of those guys next.

SPEED SKETCHING A MONSTER 4

Here's a movie I made of me drawing a horned demon beast dude, drawn on toned scrapbooking paper. It works well with the white-out pen, but soaks up the lower numbered Copic grays. Finally figured out I needed to go to at least a Cool gray 6 for it to be effective. Total actual time was around 25 min. Music is The Chronomancer II - Nemesis, by The Sword from their album Warp Riders.

SPEED SKETCHING A MONSTER 3

Finally got around to filming this one more properly, with a tripod mounted camera, directly over the drawing. Total real time was around 20 min.

SPEED SKETCHING A MONSTER 2

This was actually the first video I shot, and, unfortunately, my hand obscures most of the actual drawing process. Total real time was around 15min.

SPEED SKETCHING A MONSTER 1

I've finally gotten around to filming myself drawing 'live' and posting to YouTube, joining the ranks of the many others that have done the same. Many of those are done in Photoshop or some other computer drawing program, but mine are done traditionally, using paper, pencil, ink and a white-out pen. This first video was done before I had access to a tripod, hence the angled view of the art. The next one was filmed with the camera mounted on a tripod directly overhead for a better viewing experience. I've sped up the actual process by 400% in IMovie..the actual drawing time for this one was about 15 min.

INKADINKADO CLING STAMP DESIGNS

One of the projects I worked on last year at EK Success was for their stamp division, Inkadinkado. Myself and my co-worker, Craig Parrillo were given just a couple of weeks to produce around 45 stamp designs, some of them pretty intricate florals and flower illustrations. We did pencils and finished vectors on many of them, but luckily, another illustrator, Kaitie Kunsman, at the time working in a separate department, was brought in to help us out with finishing the vectors. She was able to complete a large number of designs in a very short time,  allowing us to finish the project on time. All the Spring designs we did are now in Michael's, AC Moore and other crafts stores and can be seen here on the Inkadinkado website:

Inkadinkado Stamp Designs-new releases-Spring 2011

Beginning from the bottom of page 3, through page 5, all the designs in green, are the ones we worked on.

Shown here are some of my pencils and finished vectors (aside from the filigree in the bottom left, which was vectored by Craig) for a few of them.

RECOLLECTIONS-COWBOY

This is the last of the designs, currently in Michael's stores,  that I worked on,  from the 13 that they chose out of the initial 48 created.  There are three more sku's in the stores, though, from this line, which were designed by Dan Fenelon. Those are seashells, track and field and poker.  For this one, I did the pencils and Dan did the vectors. Some of the elements on this include gold foil, gold thread (around the brim of the hat), thread for the tassles on the vest, and actual rope. You'll notice on the pencils and the vectors, that the rope was drawn. At that point, we didn't know how these would end up when completed by the factory. Kind of funny, considering more time was probably spent drawing that icon, than any of the rest of them.

RECOLLECTIONS-SWIM TEAM

Pencils by me, vectors by Craig Parrillo. Featuring actual cloth for the towel, epoxy on the timer and goggles and gold foil for the medal and whistle.  What's interesting, is that when we were first designing these, we really weren't too familiar with the type of product and weren't 100% sure what it would even look like when produced by the factory. We left it up to them to decide where the layering would take place and how the dimensionality would work. We did decide what would be epoxy and foiled, etc, but still there was a good degree of guesswork involved in how it would ultimately look. So, with that in mind, everything that was an element was vectored as if it would be recreated in print. However, as you can see, the towel, which was penciled and then vectored wound up just being a piece of actual cloth! That happened on at least one other sku, that I'll post soon. It was a cowboy one where I drew a very detailed rope, which was then carefully vectored, only to be replaced by the factory with an actual piece of rope!

RECOLLECTIONS-BIKING

Pencils by me, vectors by Dan Fenelon. This one has lots of silver foil on the air pump, bike spokes and chrome parts and the lock. The helmet, water bottle and the air pump have a clear epoxy treatment on them.

RECOLLECTIONS-MARCHING BAND

Pencils by me, vectors by Dan Fenelon. This one features a bit of feather for the hat, as well as a gem, gold and silver foil and gold stitching on the jacket.

RECOLLECTIONS-MARATHON RUNNER

Pencils and vectors by me. This one features felt on the 'Finish' sign, gold foil on the medal, and epoxy on the timer, water bottle and energy bar.

RECOLLECTIONS-LONDON

Pencils and vectors by me, aside from Big Ben, which was vectored by Dan Fenelon. This one features gems for the bus' headlights and on the crown, gold foil on Big Ben and the crown, felt for the beefeater's hat and embossing and debossing on the faux coins. You can see on the original rough I placed actual photos of money that we were going to use, but we decided against it and went instead with the generic pound symbols on the coins.

RECOLLECTIONS-TALENT SHOW

Pencils by me, vectors by Craig Parrillo.

RECOLLECTIONS-PICNIC

Just in time for Spring/Summer!  Pencils by myself, vectors by Dan Fenelon.

RECOLLECTIONS-EQUESTRIAN

Now out at Michael's stores ($3.99 retail)....all pencils and vectors by me.