BACKGROUND DESIGNS

Top: Batman beyond; Batman, Superman, and three Batman backgrounds.

A cargo hold for the Ultimate Avengers, Marvel Lionsgate Productions
A castle in pen and ink






These are Background roughs for a children fairytale theme. These are not as "Precise" as some of the more technical backgrounds, but have a vibrancy of their own, I think.

This is a boy detective inserted on to a rough background, both pen and ink. The boy has added tone.
Above is a quick marker sketch.




This is a Background sketch for a show that never made it: Malice in Underland.

Pen and ink, a London scene.


The above drawings were done for the Wolverine show, for Kickstart Productions in affiliation with Marvel Comics. the last two are a blue pencil rough and the pen and ink clean up.




Above is the original colour pencil and marker drawing which was later cleaned up (earlier in Blog)

The image above is a backstage drawing for the Batman series at Warner Bros.
This was done for Marvel Lionsgate, a simple one point perspective with a wide angle curve. It is drawn entirely in pen and ink.
Two scenes from the story "Three Billy Goats Gruff"

This was a colour assignment for Marvel Lionsgate, "Planet Hulk". The white area is a viewing screen.

CRAZY QUICK SKETCHES

Above are two very quick city sketches with a futuristic scene based on a story idea.

Above are two quick sketches of two architects; top: Frank Lloyd Wright, below: Le Corbusier. Wright advocated an integrated design approach emulating nature in the abstract; Le Corbusier advocated experimenting with minimal free form that was steadfastly separate from nature.

A really quick scribble on a paper towel. I was just getting down shapes onto paper.
Giganotosaurus. I contend that Dinotopia made this the king, by virtue of size. However,T-rex was bulkier, had far larger teeth, much more powerful jaws and better binocular vision. It would have ripped this one up.

Really quick sketch on a paper towel. Yes, looks like the Aries craft, but spheres are a very logical shape for space flight.

Moon Craft on a paper towel
A tribute to who some consider the greatest of the traditional animators, Milt Kahl. Perhaps too much of a scribble, it captured an idea at least.

The above is a very quick drawing idea for X-men Evolution. Sometimes pumping out volumes of ideas works, sometimes it gives one too much to choose from.

Scribbled ideas

A very quick character idea from a notebook.

A crude presentation from my notebook again-two characters I scribbled while thinking out a story

The four founders are pen and ink drawings, while the documents are copies thrown in.
Obviously I spent a little more time on this one-especially the cut and paste documents.
The above was a drawing on a napkin at a Borders coffee spot. I scanned and typed the caption, which was originally scribbled by hand--it is the type of silly humor that would make--only me--laugh.

These were also scribbled less than a minute apiece. These particular ones are not all my ideas, but established future cars that I wanted the basic shapes of as speculative notes, because they are possible-as opposed to merely fantastic.

While I am making notes on a story, I often like to do very quick sketch notes.

Another crazy quick scribble in a notebook.


This is a very quick pen and ink sketch in a sketchbook.

OTHER DEVELOPMENT STUFF

Above is an idea for a scene in a story idea that was composed then thrown together.

I tool the London street drawing, put a character in it and coloured it for an easel ad.
Above is an idea. The rough for the character was scribbled separately on a paper towel then cleaned up later and placed in the background.

Originally this was a colour pencil and marker drawing. I cleaned it in Photoshop, except for the rocks, which remain in pencil and marker.
The two above drawings were designs for the second "Crash Bandicoot Game.





Two blue pencil drawings for "Santa's Workshop" in a show for Bardel.

PROPS

Taking a break from Background Design, here is a prop I did for "Ultimate Avengers". They are now making the live action series. This is a Nazi train for Captain America's nemesis.
Space Monkey fighter from various angles. This was more difficult than it looks at first. The shape is somewhat amorphous.
Space monkey fuselage from a few angles.
This Russian cab was drawn for MLG. It is simple pen and ink.


This is a Tempera Watercolor painting designed to resemble a snap shot in space. Indeed it would have been, had it, but for the not of which it actually had.

ARCHITECTURAL RENDERING

Above is an idea that was first a pen and ink drawing (top) that I did, then I cleaned it and coloured it in photoshop (bottom)
Above is a poster done for a peace organization. It is in space above the Himalayas. There are three shuttles, which are adjusted stock, and a space station that I created in Photoshop.
The original thumbnail for this was a scribble with a roughly worked out perspective. Some of the pipe shapes are regular, some irregular. I realize that there are a lot of ovals put in perspective as well as circular discs. This may create visual confusion in the design. The theme involves a semi mechanized city.

GRAPHICS

T-shirts celebrating the fourth of July; a graphic eagle with Independence Hall going through the center of it from the background, and the Declaration of Independence on top. To the side is the date of that event.

A brochure for a Frank Lloyd Wright event.

Proposed logo ideas for a business,showing rough sketches and final logos.


A brochure rendered in photoshop for a family business.

A closing graphic for a family business.


The rendering above is a black and white digital comp I did on top of one of my line drawings, which shows through.
The rendering below is a black and white digital comp I did for XLT . Notice that the rug is on a different perspective plane than the rest of the picture. I did two drawings in pen and ink of the same subject, with slightly different perspective planes. To save time, the two renderings were combined.