Milton Caricature

My best friend’s dad asked if I could draw him. He’s essentially my “other dad” and he doesn’t ask for much, so I had to hop on this! I’m going to put some lighting on it tomorrow, and I think it will be good. Everything is put on hold until this is done!

Wonder Woman

I did this originally as a small sketch at work, but then I decided I might as well color it and digitally ink it in Illustrator to work on some of my new techniques I've been doing with my art. I have to say, now that it's all done, I really dig my WW illustration. Sometimes we surprised ourselves.

I'm glad I drew her, she is one I have only drawn once or twice at conventions for requests, and generally those don't look too hot under the time restraint and 360 degree distractions.
One final note, she needs her own movie Time Warner! Just watch that direct to video animated feature, it was amazing. I loved it! They seriously need her kicking ass in celluloid (well technically it's all digital film these days).

Making a Mascot

Last weekend I was approached by a coworker to design a mascot for his flag football team. The design will be screen-printed onto jerseys and a flag. I was pretty excited for the opportunity, and I figured it would be a good blog entry to share my process.

To start, I spoke with my friend about the design. His team is called "Empty Pockets" since they are a bunch of drinking 20 somethings with no money. I decided to go with a classic football player type with the leatherhead helmets. These were my initial pen sketches I did on scratch paper at work:

He really dug the idea, so I proceeded to sketch on a 9x12 piece of bristol. I inked the head, and that was enough of a sketch to start creating a vector illustration from.

I decided to use Adobe Illustrator because I wanted to have an ultra smooth vector illustration that would look great blown up on a giant flag. So I put this guy together.  For the fun of it, I also colored him just so my friend could have a cool phone background image.

He hasn't gotten the shirts back, but I decided to make a mock design for him. He told me the jerseys would be navy blue, and the design would be screen printed in gold. If they look anything like this, I'll be stoked.