WINGED-GLORY!

I took the minutes during today's meeting. They were less than customary.

Not really, I didn't take any minutes, I just drew a fat troll with wings! Come on!

The Photoshop Experiment: New Demo

New demo up for this piece.
Check it out already!

eagle vs. archaeopteryx

thyme flying

I Don't Wear Glassess

Seriously, I don't. Keep it professional, please.

Illustration Friday: "Captain"

Captain? Sir, that's not football, sir, it's a brown lemon with stitches.

An old one, from college.

Chapter Six

A detail from Jack & Inar, Chapter Six; interior illustration.

Walking Clock

Sort of!

Updated! Sort of!

I noticed that the Portland Studios, Inc. website has been updated, sort of! A couple new pieces in the portfolio section and some other stuff around. Enjoy.

TROLLS MUST EAT

Troll painting in progress.

Illustration Friday: "Emergency"

“Scavenger!” someone shouted over the noise. “We need a Scavenger!”

Another blast erupted out the side of the machine and blew hot bits of twisted metal and screws through the air. The gas bulbs that hung from the ceiling on thin wires trembled and flickered on and off and on again.

“Windows! Open the windows!”

“That’s against regulations!”

“Hang regulations! The whole floor’s going to blow!”

“Shut it off!” someone else called.

“It won’t turn off!”

“Scavenger!” another voice bellowed. “Where’s that blasted kid?”

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An illustration from my forthcoming children's novel, Jack & Inar. Publication is set for early 2008.

Here is this piece, from doodle to drawing to finished piece, time-lapsed:



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For more about the characters and story of Jack & Inar, click on the links to some previous Jack & Inar posts below:

Who is Adolphus M. Grimble?
The Factory
Filth means production and production means filth
Painting tutorial with "Jack"

return of POPCORN SHEEP!

yam, yam!

for an earlier tune of much the same melody, click here; sneak, sneak, sheep.

eeny-meeny-miney...

moe.

small painting

Worked without relying on line so much last night. Concentrating on shapes and watercolor.

P.S., Inc. Moving Day-- time lapsed!

I don't think that we really got a ton done. But. Oh well.
Enjoy.

Illustration Friday: "Missing"

"Dead Eye" yeah, that's what they called him. In his day.

new post?

Haven't been able to post anything in a while. That's obvious, you may say. Well, yes. It is obvious. But judge my unfortunate inactions kindly, as I have reasons.

One big reason being that Portland Studios have recently upgraded office space. You may imagine that I have acquired certain amounts of junk from the previous space. This is very true. And it has taken time to move.

However, the new space is even more luxurious.

The new view from my computer.

The new work on the new desk has also been, unfortunately, un-postable at this point. Lots of client work, as well as internal P.S., Inc. projects that have yet to be revealed.

Illustration Friday: "Poem"

"Sing! O muse, the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another."

The Iliad
Homer, 800 B.C.

old!

Behold! Uncovered in a recent dive: Old drawings and paintings dredged from the fiesty bowels of the Portland Studios Network.

All of these were completed approx. 3 - 5 years ago I think. During college years, at least.

Who is Adolphus M. Grimble?

Good question! Is Adolphus M. Grimble the next greatest literary character to appear in print? Will he go down in our collective memory as the oscillatingly sympathetic and delightfully hateable Proprietor of the Manufactory?

I don't know for sure but I am prepared to wait and find out.

He is, in fact, a person and character of my own creation. A strange mix of emotions, desires, and personal catastrophes. He is melancholic and explosive. He loves filth and pink muffins.

He has attained a position of importance in The Brothers Grimble: Jack & Inar, a story of my own writing and illustrating, set for print publication in the fall of 2007.

Adolphus has created a Facebook account and has set to demoralise those around him with insensitive personal remarks, unsolicited advice, and his overall ostentatious personality.

Request Adolphus M. Grimble to be your friend on Facebook and join the verbal abuse!

Below are some samples of his personality, congealed in actual comment form in response to writings on his Facebook wall.

Illustration Friday: "Discovery"

digital friend alliance

Look who has in fact joined the digital friend alliance, it's Adolphus M. Grimble, proprietor of the Manufactory, from the forthcoming Portland Studios book, written and illustrated by me, Jack & Inar.

You may click above to try and be friends with him on Facebook.

Tally-ho!

Onward and forward! Progress!
Abandon hopelessly narcissistic, Napoleonicly complex impluses!

Aspire to greatness! Seek the highest common denominator! Behold!

Illustration Friday: "Geeky"

Geeky? An overweight man dressed in flowing ribbons carrying a platter of fruit? Is that geeky? I don't really know.

But I do know that this picture of me from a year or so ago thinking I'm Harry Potter is geeky. I can admit that. And I'm ok with that.

The Tapestry

The Tapestry, book one: The Hound of Rowan

Here's the cover of a book coming in September from Random House. I had the privledge of designing and creating the cover. Their designer created and placed the text.

Basically they asked for something that felt like a "tapestry" and I took imagery from the interior illustrations (the author illustrated the book) and created the cover.

I hear tell that this title was the hot item at this year's BookExpo in Washington, D.C. Something about trilogies being dead and this collection reviving them. Something like that.

Maybe they just liked the picture.