sketches

Did a bit of sketching whilst watching television the other nite...

Sometimes the kids just want to help! :)

Leela packing on the pounds

My lil girl: Leela, is not so little these days.

The little porker is fast taking on the dynamic shape of an avocado.

Her love of sleep and food is fast catching up with her!

No if we could just stop her from being able to break in to the pantry!

Bolt

I bought Bolt on dvd today.

Definitely one of my favourite non Pixar CG films.

The lighting and backgrounds are fantastic, and as an animal lover, I absolutely love the characters.

Did a bit of sketching during the film, trying to capture the character of Bolt.

Scraggy and Poppy Ann

Did this sketch up for Emshia and Rory, who sent me an email and photos the other day of their pawphans in their travels around Australia.

Coffee shop sketch

Coffee shop sketch

Gift

Bought Alana one of those PVRs (Tivo like things) the other day. This was the illustration that accompanied it.

Bic: Express Yourself entry

Did up this sketch for the Bic: Express Yourself competition, where you had to create a drawing from a predetermined squiggle. I actually made a point to use only Bic products for this (4 colour pen, Kids colour pencils, and a 4x4 Grip Permanent marker). It certainly created some different challenges to drawing solely onto the computer with the wacom tablet.
I must say though I am a big fan of sketching with ballpoint pen.

Sketch in a Cafe

Have not had any time of late for any personal drawings but did manage to squeeze out this scribble the other day while I was sitting down at a cafe for coffee.

Cuddles and Blacky

Have got a bit of correspondence lately from some kids who have discovered that I did the designs for the Pawphans plush. Its always great to get letters, photos and illustrations from the kids who collect and play with the product. I reckon it has to be the primary motivating factor to what we do in the toy industry.
I always try to respond to their letters and draw them up a sketch with their own characters in.
Here's one I did just recently for a girl named Amy who sent me her sketches of her Pawphans "Cuddles" and Blacky".

Work in progress part 3

Added in the wierd looking dude on the left :)

Work In Progress: Part 2

Have now added Alana to the sketch

Work in progress

Xmas theme sketch of the dogs that we are planning to put on some home made xmas cards.
Work in progress...

Sam...

Quick scribble interpretation of my dog Sam as a pup.

Yves' close encounter

Some of you may remember a post I did awhile ago on a dog we affectionately dubbed "Tramp" due to his uncanny ability to jump up onto the fence when you walked past at lunch time.

Occasionally you can be in your own little world and Tramp can catch you a little off guard, as my fellow illustrator Yves discovered one day. this particularly incident inspired me at the time to whip up this scribble.

Sam and Leela

Working on a sketch of the family for the xmas card sketch. Started warming up with a 10 miute scribble of Sam and Leela.

Attempting to make xmas Cards

Alana had this great idea to do our own xmas cards for people this year. The idea was to photograph the puppies in reindeer antlers. Its was a great idea but logistically harder to pull off than first imagined. The photo session was interesting to say the least.
Check out some of the photos.

The Leela Manouvre

Wow, its been a while since the last post. Really getting slack.

Here's a quick series of scribbles that i di quickly yesterday to describe

to someone what i refer to as the Leela beanbag manouvre...

Rover coming together

Put in a little bit more time on rover today. He's starting to come together.