Chris will be colorizing the art, and you can see one sample of it now on the Dice Hate Me website here.
]]>Teams 3 and 4 are further back, and I decided to draw them at a smaller scale rather drawing them at the same size and shrinking them down later. That would have given them more detail, but the line thickness would be very thin. I preferred to have it look more like all parts of one drawing rather than a composite.
]]>Also, another drawing of Team 2, trying to get a different angle.
Then I did this sketch in Photoshop (tracing a scanned pencil drawing) to try to get a final position of the two teams.
]]>Also, here's my take on the cart, which is a wagon that's been tricked out a bit.
Here's a sketch I did of the finish line, with Teams 2 and 3 racing neck and neck... but I read my notes wrong. It was supposed to be Teams 1 and 2.
]]>Team 4: a big gaggle of kids crammed onto one traditional soapbox car.
]]>Team 3: the greaser kid and poodle-skirt girl. My initial idea for their car was one made to look like a '57 Chevy.
]]>Here's another drawing of Teams 1 and 2, this time with an even more exaggerated cartoony style. (Team 1 — the kid and the dog — is Chris' team.)
]]>Trying out a design for Team 2: an Asian girl with goggles and scarf. (This is Cherilyn, really.) They wanted the kids to look a little younger than in my initial sketch, so here's take two.
]]>Here's the initial sketch of some of the characters and a few practice cars:
]]>I was commissioned to do this window painting for a Kansas Agriculture and Rural Leadership (KARL) fundraising auction. I decided to go with a Kansas wheat field and a windmill, both things that come to mind when I think about Kansas agriculture. I love driving by the fields and watching the rows appear and disappear as I line up with them.
I wasn't sure how the rows would turn out, but I sketched out the drawing with a China marker on the glass, and then painted over it. I like how the fields turned out, though it's tricky to plan ahead when the first thing you paint is going to be on the top "layer" and anything you add later will appear to be behind it.
I debated painting the sky blue behind the clouds, but I really like the 3D effect of the floating clouds, so I suggest painting your wall blue (or some other color of sky) behind the painting for the best effect.
]]>I've wanted to try painting on glass for a while, and when we did our house renovations and replaced a bunch of windows, I saved the windows for that very purpose. But then all my art supplies were packed away and we were busy getting everything finished, so I never got around to it.
Nothing like impending visitors to get you motivated, though—since my family is coming this week, we've been scrambling to get various things finished up, and I decided it would be a good time to give it a shot. I took one of the old windows, cleaned off the dust and gave the frame a fresh coat of paint, and then painted a simple little scene on the back.
I really like how it turned out, and I planned for it to be hung on this blue wall in the guest room. I'm hoping to do more of these as time allows and inspiration strikes.
]]>"That's no temari..."
This temari was made as a project for Geek Dad book 2, modeled on the Death Star. Completed August 2010.
]]>Another version of the Sunflower temari, with a slightly different color scheme. This one was made for the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians Foundation, as an item for their auction. Completed June 2010. (Compare to my earlier sunflower temari.)