WIP: A Little More Progress…

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021Leave a comment

Here’s some progress on my Claudette Colvin illustration. Lines are more-or-less final and I’ve done the colors and shading on Miss Colvin there in the middle.

More to come…

A work in progress image. It is to be an illustration of Claudette Colvin's refusal to yield her seat to a white woman in Montgomery, AL. The scene shows the interior of a segregated bus with Miss Colvin seated and defiant in her spot and the other passengers reacting to her according to their role in the event. The colors and shading are done on Miss Colvin, but the other characters have final lines, but no colors or shading.

WIP: With Sketchy People

July 21, 2021July 21, 2021Leave a comment

I was out of town last week, but now I’m back and here’s what I was working on today. You’ll recognize the same scene from my last post, but I’ve added a bit of highlights and shading and I sketched in all the characters.

This scene is to be an illustration of Claudette Colvin’s March 2, 1955 refusal to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus. You can see Miss Colvin there in the middle, with her schoolbooks and her righteous defiance.

I’ll post more as I work on it.

A work in progress illustration of Claudette Colvin refusing to yield her seat on a Montgomery Alabama bus in 1955. The interior of the bus is mostly complete, but the characters are only sketches on white backgrounds.

Character Sketch – Hitch 2

August 27, 2018August 23, 2018Leave a comment

Here’s Hitch, the bully in the anti-bullying book I’m starting work on for Learning A-Z. This is the second version where he’s in regular clothes and blonde.

Character Sketch - Hitch v2 - Web

Character Sketch – Hitch

August 26, 2018August 23, 20182 Comments

Here’s Hitch, the bully in the anti-bullying book I’m starting work on for Learning A-Z. This is the first version where he was supposed to be wearing army fatigues.

Character Sketch - Hitch - Web

Character Sketch – Marcus

August 25, 2018August 23, 20182 Comments

Here’s Marcus, the main character in the anti-bullying book I’m starting work on for Learning A-Z. He’s the bully’s victim.

Character Sketch - Marcus v2 - Web

Character Sketch – Evan

August 24, 2018August 23, 2018Leave a comment

I’m starting work on an anti-bullying book for Learning A-Z. The first step is to work out how that main characters are going to look. Here’s Evan, the bully’s friend.

Character Sketch - Evan - Web

Rocket Ships, an Abandoned Motorcycle, and Searchlights – WIP

April 18, 2018April 17, 2018Leave a comment

Here’s a bit more of the piece I’m working on. I think the scene is more-or-less complete, but no characters yet. It already looks exciting, doesn’t it?

Empty Scene w. Rockets wip

Rocket Ships

April 16, 2018April 16, 2018Leave a comment

Rockets

Here’s just part of a background I’m working on.

Now consider this. If we assume that these are rocket ships rather than missiles, this almost has to be an emergency evacuation. My logic is that those rockets are blasting off at nearly the same time and way too close together to be anything any prudent space program would approve of. Therefore, I think this depicts a, “Oh, holy crap! Everyone get the hell off the planet, now, now, now, NOW!” situation going on here.

And we can assume these are rocket ships rather than missiles because I drew them and I’m telling you those are ships.

What, do you ask, might be the emergency?

Guess you’ll have to wait and see the finished piece.

Treehouse WIP 3

March 17, 2018March 17, 2018Leave a comment

Here’s the scene with a few more leaves and the characters roughed in. I’ll adjust the placement a bit and work on the proportions a little. Need to figure out how to do the folds on the lower girl’s shirt. Then comes final lines and coloring.