Patch Together

I've just submitted this design to PatchTogether.com, and need your voting support for selection to be possibly produced as a toy. Could you find it in your big hearts to sign up with PatchTogether and vote on my design and maybe even leave a friendly comment.

This particular design is for the Cutest Animal Warrior contest, but I also have the Trojan bug posted as well, you could vote for him too!

Have a look here.

The Real World

No robots or space birds in this post. Nope, just quick concept designs for a 20' x 30' trade show exhibit. Here's hoping to get the full design and build contract. The client is a manufacturer of industrial lasers and wants to see what could be done to have a wide open, clean and inviting booth space

on a ( as everyone these days) tight budget and time line.

Portrait

Kind of a side view portrait of a kinda bug shelled, cow, dragon thing...
I did a post like this back last April called "The Bug" where I wanted sort of this weird creature portrait set against this sort of beautiful back drop
and never really had gotten any further with it.
This painting started out where I was going to pick up on the bug painting but, I only ended up with just using the same shell and started changing everything else.

Aquatic Oddities

Just some more random studies in Photoshop painting with the Wacom tablet. Playing around with brush sizes and details, loose and a little tighter... some more thought out stuff coming soon!

Thomas Lettuce, " The Hammer Head " Johnston

Nothing to brag about, a somewhat crappie photoshop painting.... just have a couple of beers and see what happens. OK Tom, you space cowboy, with your flying four legged marmet...save the universe.

Sneak Peak

Here is a shot of a piece in progress I am thinking about using as a t-shirt design if it turns out OK.
I think I might take this and a few other things and put them up as shirt designs over at redbubble.
Stay tuned, I'll keep you posted.

A Few More Freaks!

Here's a couple more quick Photoshop paintings...

Nothing preconceived, just sit down, think of something and start painting. I kinda like the swamp guy, became bored with the robot and didn't really finish much on him but thought he was worth a show.

What do ya think?

What do space birds dream of?

A quick little Photoshop painting...

Go Vipers!

Just finished this little project up, been doing a lot of vector art lately and thought this might be a nice simple loose step by step.

My good friend Greg McMillin asked me to design a logo for his son Hank's hockey team, Greg had some ideas of what he liked and showed me some other Viper logos that had elements in them that he thought were interesting, but wanted me to do a custom one based on his ideas.

Here are the rough thumbnail sketches, I will usually do a page or two of all sorts of concept directions, but Greg gave pretty good direction on what he wanted to see. After checking these out, he went with option A.





Now that I know he wants this direction, I do a tighter pencil...
by tighter I don't mean finished art line work, tighter meaning overall design, getting all the curves and details of the snake and positions where I like them.

Once I'm OK with the pencil, I scan this and bring it into Illustrator.





Now that it's in Illustrator, I place it on it's own layer and lock it. I also like to make my pencil layer really transparent, about 15%-20% opacity, this way I can still see it but it will not compete visually with the vector lines I am drawing.

I throw a layer over the top of this and start drawing vector lines.





Here is the finished vector logo, hope you like it!