Sooooo tired….

My marathon illustration run is almost over and it couldn’t come too soon. I am so tired. Here’s another one. Enjoy!

Too tired to type more, must sleep.

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Getting there…

I’m sure it doesn’t make much sense right now, but I just started coloring so it’s not supposed to. It’s been too many consecutive late nights so I will leave this one undone until tomorrow night.

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Changing course

I had to take break from the other story for a day so I did this one last night. It goes with a poem about a guy who was in the shower too long and came out looking like a raisin, obviously. I had been working on it for about an hour when [...]

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One to go!

I timed myself again, and this one took about 7 hours total. That includes sketching, inking, scanning, fixing and coloring. Here ‘tis!

This is the screenshot I did right as I finished it. And I even had three minutes to spare before midnight, just enough time for a celebratory burrito!

I had to do a [...]

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Whew, 5 hours later…

So, I timed myself and it took longer than I thought! Five hours just to do the coloring for this page. That doesn’t include the time I spend sketching up the idea and at least an hour to ink it. I would guess I would have to add two hours on top of that. That’s [...]

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Step by step

I do these screencaps from time to time because everyone seems to love them.

Here’s the inked drawing after I have scanned it in, bumped up the contrast to get rid of any stray pencil marks and fixed anything that I goofed up earlier.

Next I start laying down the base colors. I always get nervous [...]

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Busy busy…

I have had so much time on my hands that I have been sawing through the illustrations for my childrens book. I reworked most of the first few pages, (I need to get this thing done so I will stop tweaking with it) and finished two more, quite a feat considering how much dang time [...]

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Mmmmm…. Cake!

Sorry for the delay, I was out of town for a few days. We’re always so busy whenever we go on vacation I feel like I need a rest when I get back home. The rest of the crew are still in Utah so I am being forced into bachelorhood for another week. [...]

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Childrens books

I have had a childrens book on the back burner for several years now. The biggest problem is that it takes me so long to make progress on it that by the time I have a new illustration done, I look back and want to change everything I did previously. So, this is [...]

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