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Monkey Island Cover Sketch - Part 2
Here's the promised second comp with the strange Guybrush and Elaine stand-ins. I guess at the point this sketch was done I had less of a handle on who these characters were supposed to be. There...
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Remember the Pencil?
These aren't quite storyboards, more like key frames from an expired development project I was involved in. I still have acres of this kind of stuff in my newly, somewhat organized flat files. I...
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"The Crow's Nest"
This painting is my contribution to Art Blocks for Ghana, a charity of The Picture Book Project Foundation with the goal of building a children's home in Ghana. Artists in the Animation and...
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"Draw something nice..."
When you grow up drawing monsters, sometimes along the way your Mom might ask if you can draw flowers or something "nice." I eventually got around to painting some "nice" things for Mom. Here is an...
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Christmas Past
Done in 2005 as one of the internal cards for Pixar employees. Acrylic 8X10--Starchie
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Monster
Years ago I spent a lot of time doing storyboards, beat boards, and a bit of design on an animated monster movie that was ultimately cancelled. These images are beat boards which tend to be more...
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Dial-a-Pirate Tattoo Sheet!
Happened across this sheet of Dial-a-Pirate ink drawings. The final versions of these heads were painted for the Monkey Island copy protection wheel. With all the Monkey Island tattoos that have been...
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Monsterey
Here are a few lovable monster designs from a feature project. I like doing character concepts and most of the ones I've done professionally have been more of the stylized cartooney animated character...
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Diligence
Here's an auction piece from a few months back for the Mother Hen Project. The auction was to benefit Chicks in Crisis, which supports unwed mothers and facilitates adoptions.Acrylic 6X9--Starchie
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A Stone Monkey Head
I don't see this one online right now. It was painted for The Adventurer, LucasArts game fan newsletter. When we drew the screen art for Secret of Monkey Island we had only a handful of ghastly colors...
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The Bloody Lip
Speaking of Monkey Island; here's a rough sketch from one of the backgrounds for LeChuck's Revenge, the Bloody Lip Bar in downtown Wood Tick. Due to my severe brain cel loss and lead poisoning I don't...
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BUY ME!
Posting this image again because the auctions have gone live this week. Click here for this one. Check out all the pieces - there are some really great paintings up for auction and the proceeds go to a...
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The Kid
Here's my part of an overdue barter exchange. It'll be nice to finally have it off the books. I wanted to do some kind of pulpy western cover but cute. Or as cute as I can manage. I like working in...
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PotO
Can't stop drawing the Phantom of the Opera. These were drawn last week during a hugely important meeting. I have stacks of them numbering in the hundreds. I might compile them in a book, use them to...
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I Love to say Monkey
Sometimes an early character design is like a first draft of a story. There are some obvious choices made and much unrealized potential. I still like this little painting but it's the first draft of...
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Love Them Monsters
If you've spent any time looking through these pages you already know that I love to draw monsters. I've drawn a lot of monsters and other characters in various capacities over the years. These are...
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My Li'l Monkey
At the risk of ratting myself out as some kind of kit-basher I occasionally decide to mutate one toy into another. I used to keep the normal version of this monkey doll in my car to wave at kids in...
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The Li'lest X-Wing Pilot
At the risk of further ratting myself out as a kit basher or doll maker here's another impulse project. This little person head came extra with a Billiken vinyl Saucer Man model - supposedly depicting...
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Brave
I did this piece over a couple of evenings for a charity auction for the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. I'm pretty happy with the colors otherwise there are some other issues that I would treat...
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Digital PofO
Here's a quick Phantom to get used to my new tablet. I'm not planning to switch over completely since I enjoy the tangible aspect of painting on paper. This device is a great tool for blocking in ideas...
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