I’ve finally had the time to go back and start reworking this poster project. The previous incarnation to me felt a little stiff, like I’d forced so much stuff into the image none of it had room to move. So beyond a compositional reshuffle I tried to add a little more oomph to the characters. Especially bringing the main figure out more and making him more prominent. It should be noted a logo will be taking up that GIANT empty area at the bottom of the page.

I’ll stare at it a bit tomorrow, and then I’ll start laying paint down.

As always thoughts welcome!

It’s the double edged sword of personal work I guess. I have the luxury of no deadline staring me in the face telling me I can’t go back. But at the same time I have no deadline staring me in the face threatening to shoot if I retreat.

And that was at least one too many weapon metaphors for a single short paragraph.

So to sum up my last week for those playing along at home.

I’ve restarted a poster design, returning all the way to the thumbnail stage. After having the old style all the way to compositing and adding type.

Building up/refurbishing a mailing list. Terribly unexciting but terribly necessary.

Less talk more art soon I hope.

Recently there have been a lot of cool things developing that have pulled me away from this project. (A blog post will be coming soon).

However this is what was on my table tonight to paint.

A bit of a jump ahead from the last post. I’ve been a bit lacking in getting stuffed scanned for posting. Instead this is a photo taken from my phone of how this looks sitting on my drafting table. This is the first part of a larger project I’m working on. Ink, gouache, pencil, colored pencil on water color paper at 12″ x 18″.

Still more paintings to be done, scanning, compositing, type, and other post work to go.

But it’s a start.

After having the holidays, son’s birthday, and a particularly stubborn case of the annual Winter plague (a tradition I carry with me from my college days sadly). I’m still desperately trying to return to some semblance of schedule. For me it doesn’t take long before I start to feel the rust when I sit at my drawing boards. The likeness studies above certainly bear that truth for me fairly well. As a way to push myself back into a full production schedule I figure I’ll start sharing these process studies and drawings (warts and all) that lead up to a final.