Beginning: Jonathan

After a week from hell, I finally have the day off and came into the coffee shop to get back at it. I am so happy to be back to sketching and painting. Anyway, I sketched this bro up today, pretty excited to see what comes of him. I'm thinking some kind of black beetle body. Other than than I'm not fully sure on his colors yet. Just going to see what comes out I guess. 

Here is the rough sketch of what I'm thinking. Some kind of cave structure around him (green probably) and then him just chillin on the inside.

Mixing it up a little and going horizontal with this deck, so we'll see how this turns out over all.

Final: Wilhelmina

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WIP: Wilhelmina

I'm a little further than this but this is my most updated photo. I need to clean her up in some and add her name still, but I am definitely happy with the progress. 

Beginning: Wilhelmina

Yeah, I know I said I was going to go off and start those face boards, but this started instead. I'll get to the faces when I feel like it. I started this lovely lady today. Actually I drew her up last night while watching Admission (Paul Rudd is awesome in it).  

Decided today I'd get all pro and tape the edges of the board, hopefully that'll give me cleaner edges...

Preview of the board thus far.

Final: Timothy

Not hundred percent sure how I'm feeling about this... I like him, but he feels incomplete? Like something is missing. I think anyway. Maybe I should just leave him alone for awhile and if I still feel that way about him then, I'll work on him then. For now I'll let him be.

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New Idea

So remember how I took that old Timothy board and just painted the whole board blue?

(picture in case you don't)

Well I'm thinking of starting a series of boards with the faces I use to draw. This is Doug:

This is actually a relief print I did of him, the actually drawing of him I don't have a picture of, so I'm just using this. Anyway, I went through this face of drawing all these weird alien like faces, they all had names just like the characters I have been developing, however, these guys are more human like than the ones I've been working on. 

Anyway, this is just a working idea. The paint on this board is totally screwed up, Its uneven and you can just messy, so I plan to use it as a tester. So yeah... I'll keep you posted on what I end up doing with it. 

WIP: Timothy Re-Do

Did not really plan on getting this far today, but I did. It was suppose to look like a cracked egg, but that didn't happen. I'm not upset with what came of it though. I'll keep the egg idea in storage for now and use it later. I actually like how it has turned out.

Next will be to put Timothy in and figure out where to put his name. I'm not even a hundred percent sold on the idea of using Timothy... maybe I'll use an only drawing or making something new... Not sure yet, I've got plenty of time though.

Oh yeah, I know I was planning on using the blue board for Timothy, originally anyway, but I changed my mind. I like having the woodgrain, I just feel like something about it needs to stay. So I've got another idea for the blue board.

WIP: Timothy Re-Do

This is what I've got. I'm thinking some kind of egg design with the broken shell on both the bottom and top. I haven't decided yet if I like his name being where it's at, but it's a working progress. Pretty excited to get started soon though.

Timothy: Re-Do

So I love the Timothy design, however, it doesn't hold as much as the other board I have recently been working on and have decided to go back and change it.

You probably can't tell but I tried sanding the image some, just to flatten the already painted area some. It did not work very well, but helped some.

Here I spray painted the entire board. My plan from here is redesign the entire board with Timothy still included. I haven't yet worked on a solid colored board, I've always kept the woodgrain so we'll see how this plays out.

Final: Jeanette

Finished! Finally!

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