Just drew some more characters. I used to draw the box with the M on his head all the time in my old sketch books, and I thought I'd do some more stuff with him that was really simple and my style. So I'm gonna work on a little story with this guy and his friends. In this picture the group is on a country vacation. The two on the right are excited to get out of the city, while the two on the left don't appreciate the living quarters they see.

Get this. I just drew a made up word, and FYI, words (especially cursive ones) are pretty tough to draw from scratch on Illustrator with just a track pad... So I'm feeling preeetty good.
WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I give you Mitasi!

Its just my first and last name put together.

UPDATE: Also Mitasi Man. A polite tv/microwave businessman.

Pretty much done with the Community Garden picture. I'm gonna let it sit for a couple of days, then I might change some stuff. Kind of want to do a strip of shops or some apartment buildings instead of just the house, and then have the text go above everything. And I still might change a bunch of colors...

Haven't posted anything for awhile. Been trying to learn Visual Web Developer, and it has been keeping me busy... So here is something different from what I typically post on this blog. A friend and I are planning on doing a comic book project in our spare time, where we trade off on every couple of pages, and try to make the change in art style work with the story if we can. Here is half of my first page without the text laid on top.

Another portion of the garden done this morning. This one is about done. Gonna draw some squirrels and rabbits running around. Maybe some more leaves and weeds. What a diverse city!!!

A while ago I was working on a community garden poster. I made a handful of characters for it, but I was over it by the time I was ready to start putting it all together. I decided to try to pick it back up again today, and do about an 8th of it at a time.

I'm going to change the plants in the plant box, a lot of colors and some layout, but for the most part this is how this portion is gonna look. I'm not crazy about it yet, but by the time it's done it should be a really fun picture.

BOO-YA! This was an kids book idea me and my buddy came up with when we were joking around, so I ran with it. So the premise is that BOO-YA Grandma is an extremely cool Grandma that just shatters all Age Discriminating stereotypes. She drives fast, voted for Ralph Nader, can drain the rock from downtown, occupied Wall-street... The list goes on. Shes a little pale under this spot light so I need to give her a tan. Maybe I'll wait for "Boo-Ya Grandma Hits the Beach" for continuity sake.

I drew some (made up) book covers for a website I'm making for a (made up) publishing company. Since I haven't made a site in a long time, and I'm looking to get into programming or web design, I thought it would be a good idea to refresh my mind a little before I start trying to learn anything new. Some of the images I drew today, and others you can find on the blog in older posts.

So, I wasn't very happy with the bulldozer I drew below. It seemed a bit overdone, and it took too long to make. So today, I tried to make something simple, quick, and fun, and I think I'm getting back on track. This is a little monster bulldozing on the moon.

Drew another vehicle today. I picked a Bulldozer. Kids love these! To be honest I'm not all that happy about how this one turned out. It doesn't look child-oriented or fun enough. There are just too many sharp lines and more dimension than it needs. At the same time this took me a while so I gotta post it. This whole blog is about me learning and getting better anyway right? Here it is:

If you are looking to get into illustration for children you just can't ignore automobiles of any kind. Drawing cars, trucks, cranes, bulldozers and some of the like are still on my to do list, but I took a couple hours to draw this lil' bus today! I always kind of cringe when people make "Short Bus" jokes. I know of some, but I haven't seen many kids books about being accepting of peers with learning disorders. Since the bus is a symbol of what sets them apart to a lot of younger folks, I thought it would be a good subject of a short story. SO here is my first attempt at an automobile!

Getting warm outside. That means bugs are coming to life. I have two pictures of Bees to share.

This first one I made for a little cute rhyming picture book I gave to my girlfriend. In all I had 12 or 13 pictures for it. Each Illustration had an opposite page with text.. "You're the honey, I'm the bee" and so on. All very minimal. I tried to use just a few colors on each, but got carried away on some. The simpler the better!

The next one I made for a site my buddy has, where I send mostly hand drawn stuff. I did several in this vein for an upcoming theme. The bee and the cone flower together are supposed to shape the letter 'B', but I bet you could gather that on your own... I hope. This is probably my least favorite, but I haven't posted anything drawn on this blog yet so why not!?

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!

Another book idea?! Yesterday I drew a picture of a bunch of ball shaped Sharks on boogie boards. I really like the drawing, there is a lot of fun stuff going on. For this picture I just traced one and repeated him a bunch, kind of like you would see in an end page on a kids book. I was trying to think of a fun story for these guys. All I know right now is that they live near the board walk and love funnel cake. I was thinking that some of my characters would make for a fun little game or app if I can figure out how to do that stuff eventually. Anyhow, here is the pic.

I've done a bunch of stuff over the last couple days. A lot of drawings. Some I may play with on the computer and see if they go anywhere. I need someone who can write for free so I can work on a book! Speaking of book ideas, I had one called Good Elephants Stay Put in Bed, but I drew about 5 pages and realized it wasn't going anywhere. Here is my favorite page, where Baby Elephant has waited long enough for Momma Elephant to fall asleep and is ready to party.

Also, I just joined some of my buddies on another blogger site @ Sharks Eat Meat. Some really talented people post here, so I'm pumped to be a part of it! So far I've sent them a few scans of my hand drawn stuff, poster and shirts designs and ideas. I'm all over the net!