Saturday, September 26, 2009

SCAREBRUSHED PUMPKINS


If you are ever in the Michigan / Ohio border area in October,
you have to go see my good buddy Nick "The Schnix" Hartzell
airbrushing pumpkins.
Nick will be appearing live every weekend in October, at Erie Orchard, Erie Michigan.
See his 10 pasche air-guns blazing out pumpkins with creepy faces
and sports logos.

See more of Nick's stuff here

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

First day of Autumn


Fall is here, and the Autumn Fairies are hard at work changing the leaves in my yard to their beautiful fall colors.
These Fairies are obviously of the yellow persuasion, Hopefully I will see some of the red ones.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Uncle Stanley, slayer of Evil!

I am well known for coming up with stories for cartoons and comics, starting story lines, creating characters and then doing absolutely nothing more with them, maybe this one might actually go
a little further...
Anyways, my son Jake and I started playing around with the idea of a
little old man (Uncle Stanley) who spends his time fighting hoards of evil entities and protecting his neighborhood or subdivision against being taken over by ultimate doom.
Uncle Stanley off course, is highly knowledgeable in this field and is surrounded with tons of magical items and weapons as well as some sort of bizarre mascot and maybe a big oaf nephew or something....haven't gotten that far yet.

On the other side of the spectrum is Uncle Stanley's arch enemy, the destroyer of all that is good, the unholy...well, i don't know yet... but, this entity will stop at nothing to take over the neighborhood because it holds the secret of...well, I don't know yet,
we still need to work a whole lot out. Here is my first pass at very rough concepts, not really even sold on anything, just some beginning thoughts.

Still not sure on a right look for Uncle Stanley, I want him old but how old? I like the idea of him being somewhat funny and eccentric and wearing a lab coat or more of a utility type jump suite with an exposed bow tie.

As for his arch Nemesis, a little dork who is very small in stature but believes he is, next to the Devil, the scariest being alive...is he a vampire? demon? I'm not sure,
like I said, we have a lot to work out yet.




Thursday, July 2, 2009

WHAT THE ?


What is this? What is it for? I don't know...been crazy busy with other stuff and with the exception of the beautifully sculpted Mermaid...or...I guess Merman above, I haven't had a chance to do much artwork lately other than this sketch of characters. Anyway other things are brewing and I plan to have some more exciting posts soon!

Monday, April 27, 2009

The Bug


This is a study for a illustration that I hope to get off my butt and finish...

Balance



Balance is a design that was produced in a very limited run of posters. It simply shows some of the simple Yins & Yangs of life.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

TRIO OF UGLY MUGS


A small collection of of ugly faces, the ticket holder was for a trade show booth graphics package
the other two were for personal fun stuff. Smile was a poster design that never went to far.