A sketch of Princess Mononoke made with a Pentel Color Brush Pen and crappy colored pencils from my daughters’ art supply box.
Year: 2014
Levitating Nuns – Handmade Accordion Fold Book and Envelope
While I was teaching a comic book class for Upper Elementary and Middle School students, I doodled some little gags about levitating nuns. I turned it into this little book which is now available in my store for $4.00.
Baba Yaga’s Hut
I was always intrigued by the imagery of Baba Yaga’s hut. I started playing with it a bit one day in my sketchbook. I kept adding layers of tracing paper to the sketch and refining the image.
Finally, I took the top layer and put it on a light box. I inked it on a sheet of bristol board.
The image still seemed lacking, so I brought it into Photoshop and added layers of creepy tree branches to act as a frame of sorts.
Forest Guardian
Throwback Thursday – June 26, 2014
Here’s what I was doing around this time last year:
Grant Thomas draws Green Arrow in his sketchbook (and uses the Book of Common Prayer as a paper weight)
45 minutes of drawing compressed into 6 minutes
More practice sketching . . .
Mary Marvel: The Mightiest Girl on Earth
I always felt like Mary Marvel got ripped off. Billy Batson says “SHAZAM!” and he turns into a muscular grown man, but poor Mary only turns into middle school kid when she speaks the name of the wizard.
I decided to set things right and put her in her early 20s.
You can buy prints of Mary Marvel in blue or green at my Society6 store.
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Image Research
Here’s a little glimpse of some of the images I’ve bee collecting as I research for various projects.
John Bauer makes the greatest Trolls I’ve ever seen. I wonder Bauer’s illustrations had an influence on Brian Froud‘s work on Labyrinth.
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Troll Queen Character Designs
mountain sunrise – faux woodcut in photoshop
