Sketches....sketches.......sketches!

Here are some of the many sketches either in the many drawing sessions with my children or roughs for clients.

-thew

A new member of Monkadia has appeared! "Hellonian" a disfigured madmonkey with some serious issues. He wears a suit to cover his appearance and hide his identity (sort of Darth Vaderish). In the scheme of things before his brain was impaired to its evil doing dilerium he was just a simple court jester! go figure...............

-Thew

Just finished this tonight! Its going to be a cover for a DVD for "Twiggers Holiday"
a series from Channel 101.

cheers
-Thew

Here is a little sample of an illustration that got the ball dropped out.
I have been messing around with it here and there just for experimenting with subtle color!

-Thew

I made Editor's Choice on Illustration Mundo! HERE

-Thew

This is just fricken' huge Frank Miller's 300 need I say more.
Excerpt from WB website:
Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy. The film brings Miller’s (Sin City) acclaimed graphic novel to life by combining live action with virtual backgrounds that capture his distinct vision of this ancient historic tale.

I'm going to loose my mind!!!!!

-Thew

I have to say that inbetween actual clients I work on my own illustration projects as well as animation. I am finding although that I'm beginning to have a huge amount of unfinished illustrations I should start finishing. I decided to go through them and take 8 of my favorites and begin only working on those when time permits and make a dent (one is pictured, an alien named Krocker). I also went back and changed the coloring on my old "Supercooper" illustration because it was one of my fav's from 2004. In the meantime look foreward to some animation and new illustration coming to this blog.............

-Thew

I'm starting a new illustration for the Twigger's Holiday DVD. If you are not
familiar with Channel 101, your missing out!
These guys started there own internet site of 5 minute pilot episodes and it has
recieved some acclaim, Jack Black, Andy Samberg (SNL) have both appeared in Channel 101
shows. I dont have to say much about a site that features a parody of reality tv called
"Kicked in the Nuts"........

-Thew

Here is the cover for the Magazine down in Florida I did last week.

-Thew

Its late, and I'm going to bed, sorry about the missing super Hulk Thursday, I had this tight deadline to finish up! I just finished this cover for a Magazine down in Florida!

cheers
Thew

Hey guys I came up with all these new characters for Mojizu, all of them are primates in Monkadia some living in a city called Chimpopolis. I even came up with a fake poster for a pretend Saturday morning cartoon. I envision snow monkeys as having these young chimps who they teach peaceful telepathic skills for bringing peace back to all primates.

-Thew

Here are more pics of my cast sculptures unfinished!

-Thew

I was cleaning out my art studio and thought it might be cool to
post some pictures of some of my past sculpture.
Some of these are just busts I sculpted, and some are actually for
a chess set I designed featuring aliens against zombies!
All my sculptures including the mugs are sculpted out of modeling
clay and then cast in plaster. I have tons of molds made and I can cast any of my sculptures in ceramic and fire them in my mother-in-laws Kiln!

enjoy!
-Thew

My wife found this on the internet and what a wonderful addition it
is to Super Hulk Thursday. It totally sucks that the weather here in the
midwest is cooling off, man does that look like fun.
swim safe folks!!!
Happy Super Hulk Thursday!!!!!

-Thew

A unfinished piecef I'm working on. A dark portrait of gorgeous Shay. This is why I only watch the morning news with two dark cups of coffee pressed coffee!
2am folks thats my normal bedtime........7:30am to 2am.........nice long days with a little catnap somewhere in the middle, most likley during Barney or Barbie? Throw those Televisions away, brainrot......brainrot!

-Thew

recently I was rumaging through old files when I came across this space ship I did awhile back.
The Racmot, was a ship I was going to feature in a stopmotion film I put on the backburner.
I'm not sure if I will ever get back to the film, but the illustration was something I dont do very often, and thats ship design!

-Thew

I used a character I created called Mileo for a Mojizu t-shirt idea
"Headhunting its not just for Breakfast"

-Thew

I decided to start creating a puppet theatre for my kids for Christmas!
I decided to name it the "Know Legs Puppet Theatre", I also plan to construct all the puppets as rod puppets with sticks for each arm.
This is an illustration that will be printed out large and decoupage it onto the wood.
I'll post more pictures as this project progresses.

-Thew

I finally finished the "Spacesuits & Sixguns" magazine cover, here it is.
They had also asked me to design the header for the magazine as well.

-Thew

My friend Ali over at Liquidsheep did a nice little write up
on me HERE

Check out this site as well, he posts some great stuff about artist events, cool gadgets, animators, artist marketing sites, and more!!!!!

-Thew

Because its Thursday and I'm feeling Happy I decided to run a CONTEST, submit a picture of yourself as the HULK to bment@tds.net no later than Oct. 31st 2006, I will choose a winner out of all submitted photo's and the lucky individual to be chosen will have the have a portrait of themself illustrated by ME represented as there favorite Superhero!!!!!!!
Enter Today!
Remember to enclose your Name and Contact info!!!!

Happy Super Hulk Thursday!!!!

-Thew

I'm not done as of yet, but here it is so far!
Spacesuits & Sixguns..........

-Thew

I'm designing banner art to run across the top of a science fiction magazine.
It will feature stories and articles of the science fiction genre.
I was simply just playing around with different color variations when the
front image changes.

-thew

Here is a color drop layout just showing some blocks of color for a project for a science fiction magazine upstart.

-Thew

The third of the series of four illustrations "Bound for Happiness" for the dog rescue group! One more still to come!

-Thew

A friend asked me to come up with some logos for a club
called "Dye-Inkables" I have all kinds of ideas buzzing through my
head this is the first!

-Thew

Sometimes it takes a girlfriend or wife to get you all Hulked up!
Happy Super Hulk Thursday freaks!!!!

-Thew

Here is the new and revised Carmen Miranda dog more simplified for
the dog save project I'm working on!
I will post more from these illustrations as soon as they are finished!

-Thew

Here is a new illustration for the dog save. The design is a more simple approach for apparel and coffee mugs. I plan to re-do the Carmen Miranda dog as well in the blog below to figure in this bolder simpler idea!

-thew

The Show was alot of fun and a big success! The drink of the night was
a green river and I had many!
Sheri is going to be painting a bunch more paintings at a commission with
the owner so we are very excited about that.
Here are our paintings:
mine is slightly different than the illustration so its called Swingin'
Sheri's is entitled Violet Femme!