Getting A Head In The World

SUMMARY: There are 1001 good uses for illustrated portraits in advertising and design. What follows are three illustrations of my illustration heroes.

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Baron Von Münchhausen

Summary: A late night internet expedition leads to Doré, Terri Gilliam, absurd romanticism, and results in an illustration of Baron Von Münchhausen.   It was a dark and stormy night. Well, it was dark at least, and I was doing some late night internet ramblings into The Public Domain website which a friend had turned me on to. The […]

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Working on under lighting. #pencil #sketch #sketchbook

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Slappy the Squirrel

At the end of August, I began to make regular sketches of a character I’d thought of long ago. Slappy the Squirrel was first conceived of maybe 5 years ago amongst a whirlwind of story ideas I was dreaming up. Recently Slappy popped up again during the SCBWI’s LA conference Illustrators Intensive. After graduating in July, […]

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Slappy the Squirrel

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A wily sage. Sometimes my sketches take on a life of their own.

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Sketching, Traveling

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Balloon Journey; the Trees of Halloween

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Navigating by the Pole Star. A continuation of drifting journey...

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Journey #6 Reviving a sketch series that stated in 2012.

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This is how I think I think.

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It puzzled him to be here.

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The chill night slipped silently by.

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The Bowman takes aim at the Demons in his life.

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The Bowman.

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Along the way.

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The artist as vagabond.

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Sometimes the way forward is uncertain.

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Stranger in a strange land

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Color #Sketch

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