Student Works. Spring 2011.

The Shadow: Dark of Night.

11x17. Ink, Blueline, Photoshop, Printed Digital Zip-A-Tone, and Sand Paper on 80lbs. Xerox Expressions cardstock.

This past week I was thinking about my personal art techniques, and I decided to try a few new things. I haven't draw the Shadow in a while, so I made the decision to use him as the test subject.

I have included the final piece, the color original art scan, and the original sketch.

My Tribute to Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000)

According to

http://www.schulzmuseum.org/


Biography
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, Charles M. Schulz was the only child of Dena and Carl Schulz. From birth, comics played an important role in Schulz’s life. At just two days old, an uncle nicknamed him “Sparky” after the horse Spark Plug from the Barney Google comic strip, and throughout his youth he and his father shared a Sunday morning ritual reading the funnies. Schulz always knew he wanted to be a cartoonist and was very proud when Ripley’s newspaper feature, Believe it or Not, published his drawing of the family dog in 1937. The Schulz family moved to Needles, California, in the summer of 1929, when Sparky was six years old; they only stayed there for about a year before returning to Minnesota.

Schulz put his artistic ambitions on hold during World War II while serving as a machine-gun squad leader, though he regularly sketched episodes of daily army life in his sketchbook. Following his discharge in 1945, Schulz returned to St. Paul to pursue a cartooning career. Between 1947 and 1950, he drew a weekly comic panel for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and also sold seventeen comic gags to The Saturday Evening Post. After many rejection slips, Schulz finally realized his dream of creating a nationally-syndicated daily comic strip when Peanuts debuted in seven newspapers on October 2, 1950. By 1965, Schulz was twice honored with the Reuben Award by the National Cartoonists Society for his talents, and Peanuts was an international success.

Schulz once described his thoughts on the art of cartooning as this: "Drawing cartoons is a great way to share your ideas. A cartoonist is no different from any other type of artist—he or she wants to express him/herself. There is a joy in playing the piano or painting a wonderful watercolor. There is also a joy in communicating a thought, whether serious or funny, to another person." (1996)

When Schulz announced his retirement for health reasons in December 1999, Peanuts was in more than 2,600 newspapers worldwide; he died shortly thereafter, on Saturday, February 12, 2000, just hours before the final Peanuts Sunday strip appeared in newspapers. The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California, opened in his honor in August 2002, with the mission of preserving, displaying, and interpreting the art of this legendary cartoonist.

Dr. John Watson, Victorian Badass!

Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb! Part Six.

Finished art and design of the May issue of A Sandusky Bay Journal for the Sherlock Holmes feature.

Also, Watson's preliminary drawing.

Indiana Jones sketch no. 1

I'm a huge Indy Fan. I finished my first Indy sketch.

I am going to expand on this, and illustrate my own Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie poster image.

If you're an Indy Fan and have never listened to the Indy Cast, you need to check it out here:

http://www.forcecast.net/c-indycastnews.asp

or on iTunes!

TEETH "I Dig Your Grave" reboot.

Here is the colored art for page three of the expanded six page story written by Eric Palicki, illustrated by myself, and colored by Kyle Parker.

More TEETH to come as the year unfolds.

Indiana Jones sketch no. 1

For those of you that know me really well, you know I'm a huge Indy Fan.

I was thinking about Indy the other day and realized that I have never draw him. I started my first Indy sketch today at work. I will post further developments.

Hope you like...

If you're an Indy Fan and have never listened to the Indy Cast, you need to check it out here:

http://www.forcecast.net/c-indycastnews.asp

or on iTunes!

TEETH "I Dig Your Grave" reboot.

Here is the colored art for page two of the expanded six page story written by Eric Palicki, illustrated by myself, and colored by Kyle Parker.

More TEETH to come as the year unfolds.

Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb! Part Five.

Finished art and design of the May issue of A Sandusky Bay Journal for the Sherlock Holmes feature.

Sketch for part of the upcoming May 2011 Sherlock Holmes Illustration.

Ink Preview for part of the upcoming May 2011 Sherlock Holmes Illustration.

Sketch for part of the upcoming May 2011 Sherlock Holmes Illustration.

TEETH "I Dig Your Grave" reboot.

Here is the colored art for page one of the expanded six page story by Eric Palicki and myself.

We have found our colorist, Kyle Parker.

Eric is expanding the script.

Still Life in Graphite & Charcoal Student Work 4.11.11

World Citizen Organization.
by
Greulich, Kuntz, & Stephenson http://www.worldcitizenorganization.com/

Full Name: Laurel Melinda Preston
WCO Filing #: 1715328
Status: Field Operative
Specialty: Tracking, Crime Scene Investigation, Psychological Profiling

Laurel Preston was raised with all the best. Coming from a wealthy family in upstate New York, she never wanted for anything and spoiled would be an understatement. Sometime around age 18, Laurel discovered that she was ½ Seneca Indian, a secret her family had kept from her. Laurel was not seen or heard from for 10 years until she re-emerged a full member of the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma. Little if anything is known about her activities or training on the reservation, but she returned with a never before seen ambition. Laurel declined the easy path of taking over the family business and instead went on to earn a masters in criminology at Yale. She was recruited by the FBI and her star rose quickly after several high-profile and successful manhunts. She has proven herself to be an invaluable asset in the field.

Director’s Note: “Laurel Preston is, simply put, the best living tracker on the planet. I’m not sure how she does it, but she has an intangible knack for locating even the most elusive of targets. Which in our line of work does not come easy, as the people and things we are looking for often do not wish to be found. I daresay her recruitment might be one of the best actions ever taken by the WCO”