Treasure Map

Moving back to pirates from monsters for this morning’s warm up sketch. #characterdesign #illustration #storyartist #visdev #visualdevelopment #kidlitart #conceptart #pirate

Happy Save the Koala Day!

Happy Save the Koala Day! In honor of today being Save the Koala day (don’t worry, I didn’t know until I saw it on this morning’s news either), I thought I’d do a morning warm up sketch of this little guy. Have an awesome Koala day! 😊

Prankster

Another morning warm up sketch. Inspired by 2 kittens that “adopted” us a couple of months ago. 😊

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Riverstreet Scene in Savannah, GA

I finished up that concept art piece with the street scene from Riverstreet in Savannah, Ga. The inspiration for the style was the background art from the Disney movies, 101 Dalmations, The Aristocats and Lady and the Tramp.

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Work-In-Progress - Savannah, GA Riverstreet Scene

I’m taking a great course by Izzy Burton on Domestika called Cinematic Digital Illustration. The project for the course is to use photographic reference and create a scene that could be part of an animated film. I chose to base mine on a photo of a man sweeping in front of his store on Riverstreet in Savannah, Georgia that I took while in school at SCAD. In my concept, I changed the scene to a night scene where a kindly older man is cleaning up before closing his Italian restaurant for the evening. I’m very inspired by the art and backgrounds of the older Disney movies 101 Dalmatians, The Aristocats and Lady and the Tramp. Here are a few work-in-progress images including the original photo.