The Newest Pirate

  Well, here's the newest pirate drawing. They wanted something a little more simplified, and sent me a drawing that was copyrighted, and I drew my version of a much simpler drawing than what she sent me. So, from their cartoon, I drew this one, in the same style but totally different in the way it looks! :-) 
  

Pirate T-shirt Designs

  Funny thing: Just fiinished watching Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the minute I finished workiing on designs for a pirate T-shirt.  Sometimes when I draw and paint I will watch movies and listen to music related to what I'm drawing. My brother's wife, Cassie, needed a design for a Relay for Life that her place where she works is doing for the American Cancer Society, and she asked if I would draw something for her. Both of these are done with the Wacom Tablet to save time, drawing and coloring straight into the computer, with Corel PainterXI and Photoshop CS3 Professional Suite.

A Basic design for a T-shirt for my brother's wife.



A second design that I made. Had to keep it all simple for the colors to show up well on a T-shirt.



Girl and Car Concept Art

   Here's a copy of a rough pen and ink sketch of a girl and a car that I was doing for a short film idea a friend of mine had about six years ago.

Concept Logo Design

  I've been working on a logo for a friend, who just started his own business. This is just some concept art, but will have the final art, pretty soon. This is just to get the idea on paper~well digital paper, that is~so I can see which direction I need to go, and what changes he wants, as well.

    Above, is the 2nd concept that I drew for the cartoon logo. It was the first of the drawings that started me in what I thought might be a possible direction to go with it.

  After finding a decent concept to start in a rough sketch, I redrew it again, and the result was this 3rd drawing, above.  It still has possibilities, and far from a refined finish, but it also gives me more ideas for a better drawing that will have better lines, and start to look like a cartoon logo should.  This is only two of the steps. Will continue to work on the logo in the computer and drawing with the Wacom tablet. It's so much faster doing concept and final art for things like this in the Wacom Tablet, and no scanning needed to transfer to the computer. Will update again, as soon as I get closer to the final design.