IF: Frozen in ice

This is my sketch for Frozen:

I'm hoping to get it cleaned up and colored for real...but we'll see...

postcard finished...?

This is the first 'finished' version of the postcard...I'm thinking of a couple of things I could do to the card, so there might be some changes...but this is it for now...

This is the front and the back of the postcard. The idea was to have the animals bursting through a plain piece of paper and you can see into their world -and the back of the postcard is the backs of them. Ideally it'd be nice to have a mirror there so when you turn the card around you actually see yourself or what they would see from that angle...but instead it's the whiteness of nothing...or something like that...

Postcards...

These are getting closer to being finished - I just have to do the breaking through the paper bit of it...but the characters themselves are cleaned up and colored. I thought it'd be smarter to do the entire character (rather than just the bit that showed through) in case I wanted to move them around any...

My friends will catch me

This was an alternate to the other postcard that I'm currently working on for the SCBWI Illustrator's Day 2009 in November (in Los Angeles). I liked the idea of this rough because there was much more going on than the breaking through the paper idea of the other postcard idea.

This, clearly, isn't sized for a postcard like the other one is, I only drew the characters as my roughs...which meant that after I was done cleaning them up I realized that I needed to put them into some sort of environment - the idea of a path in a park is a theme running through my square animal characters...so I continued with that...

The back of the pig character is still (obviously) a very unfinished rough...

SCBWI contest: postcards

There's this SCBWI event in November called Illustrator's Day 2009. They're doing a postcard contest, so I thought I'd see about throwing something out there with my characters.

My idea consisted of having my two square animal characters waving through the torn paper on the front, and then when you turn the postcard over, it's the back of the characters. I'm still working with it, and am currently thinking about redrawing the skunk character...


The due date is coming up pretty quickly (it was originally due on the 2nd of October and has been pushed back to the 7th)...so I think I'm going to finish up this postcard and then, given time, I'll see about reworking the skunk character...