Just got a seven book “children’s series” illustration job. 7 thirty two page books where I am to do illustrations of tiny kids crawling all over photos of orangutans or birds or trash or whatever the next book is. HA!! Should be a lot of fun. Start tomorrow. If only people will leave me alone. Unless they have money, then they can bug me. But no one else! :)
View Larger Trying to get it to look less like an illustration in photoshop, if only i was a better painter and less of a natural illustrator… Grrrrr.
View Larger Sorry I haven’t posted, it’s been a MADHOUSE here with freelance work. I had a job come back that had been gone a month or so.Then I had a few small jobs from regular clients and some other nonsense. But it all makes money, so I am happy.
Last week I started on the cleaver guy and today I knocked out the other two. tomorrow after everything is dry, I will scan and tweak them.
View Larger First step in painting. Bristol board (heavy paper) and some 1/4” wood backers. I wet the paper to get rid of any sheen, then tape it down with special water activated tape (the giant roll on the right). as it all dries, it USUALLY pulls the paper tight. I hope the one on the right pulls up. Should be good and dry by morning.
Sorry sculpting fans, we’re taking a slight detour…. BUT on a sculpting note, I saw there is a show coming up at gallery 924 for clay artists in July. I will have to apply. Depending on how this painting goes, we may get back to sculpting sooner than expected…
View Larger They approved the mockup today! Here is the VHS box and the way the DVD case would translate. They wanted it to look like the old straight to video covers you’d see in the early 90’s. I’ll start tomorrow.
In real life, I am a graphic artist and am swamped, so the sculpts are going to take a back seat for a week or so. I have 10 book covers to layout by Friday the 13th. And then I have to do a cover painting for a VHS (yes VHS tape) case ASAP. I’ll put that progress up when I get into it. Should be fun! The movie was as awful as it was supposed to be. The description was that they wanted it “lurid and exploitive”. YAY! :)
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— Phil
View Larger Piece I did for the Damian center for aids awareness which got me the show I am in today.
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View Larger Here it is. done as it’s going to get before the show this afternoon.
I’m entering it as “work in progress” because the base needs sanded, there are lots of little things here and there that need worked on, but overall, it’s a marketing piece so as long as they know it’s in progress, it should be fine.
Not bad for a two week deadline.
View Larger People have been concerned about the neck. So here you go. and a monocle!
busted the cane. Now it’s a separate cast. Unless I just make it a handle and the buyer has to drill a hole and put in a rod. Is that too much of a pain?
View Larger a little further. I need to pick up the pace tho to have this ready to display on Monday!!!!!!
