Bug in the Jar

This is a piece I created for trade of services for some new friends of mine, Jay and Evelyn Larsen.

Barring final confirmation of details, it's all done now.  It was back in September when I agreed to complete this piece, but the idea was solidified about a month ago, and the project time has been over the last two weeks, a little bit at a time.

This was bright, flashy, and fun to make.

Jay and Evelyn are class-acts when it comes to bargaining for work!  I will absolutely be ordering more from them in the future, in fact I already have my next idea in mind.  Check them out at www.larsengeekery.com

- J.

Lot-Zilla

This design is pretty fun. 

The client came to me with this concept, and it was fantastic to see that it was
such a well thought out description of what he wanted to see.

This design is actually VERY small, as it is specifically for a deeply-cut metal
pin with color inlays and a clearcoat, as I understand it the process.

Here is the final design.

When the pin is manufactured I will update this entry with the link to where you
may purchase it, and also a finished photo of the pin itself!

Exciting!

- J.

Reggie's Corvette

Animations are fun to make.  This one was from what I would term "not recent" but I don't think it was very long ago that I had made it.

At the time I was managing and building my own online forum for localized discussion for a group of involved citizens in the area, and as an incentive to join I was making these little avatars to drum up enthusiasm in my site.

If you ever decide to put aside your graphic design career to focus on arbitrarily maintaining and promoting a site which you don't really need taking up hours per day of your life, be sure to use it as an excuse to produce stuff as OFTEN as possible!

- J.

This is the image I chose to use for my new November Month Challenge.

I'm really very concerned by the amount of time the November Challenge takes to complete.

This challenge is something which takes 30 days and which takes a great deal of planning.

Ready set let's go.   Here are LAST year's directions, this is my second time around.

- J.

24 Hour Krys

This morning was the first free time I had to work on the 24 Hour Comic from, what, 9 days ago?  Geez.  There you have it though.  So what I did was take my single unfinished page and finish it.

Previously I was at 15 hours, so now I'm at 16 with this page finished.  Two pages are 3/4 way finished being penciled at an hour there too, so that's 17 hours.  Those two are a centerfold double spread which means I can begin to determine page numbering, of which there is none "concrete" yet.

Tomorrow ostensibly is a BIG project day for one major contracted project which has been concluded and restarted, so we're going to try and make it all in one big sitting.

- J.

Snake Eyes 3

What got me to thinking about this character is the "acting" which good writers can get him to do.

This guy is a mute, right?  No speech abilities, no grunts.  Occasionally breath noises under exertion but not really often.  Little quiet steps like a small cat, silent weapons.

Well, the impressiveness really pays off with that sort of thing pretty quickly.

So tonight I'm doing the new piece for this... it occurred to me that he should actually be in the midst of a thought-out routine of motions in such a way that you can try and interpret what he might do next.  I will update this piece tonight again within an hour or so with the final step in the process up.

- J.

Snake Eyes 2

This guy is either one of the least popular, or most popular characters of the 80's.

I greatly appreciate the complicated history presented by him,
which is quite strongly offset by his silent, straightforward action hero tendencies of him.

It is almost as though he already made all of his choices in his past,
in his history, and now all he has to do is sort out all the problems as they fall on him.

This was drawn for a fan of my art online 6 years ago but I've always liked the motion of it,
and I colored it today to match yesterday's post.  Tonight I'm drawing and tomorrow I will
color another, 3rd drawing of this same guy.

- J.