Here is another Sarasota-inspired illustration, this one done as an interior page for a book I’m illustrating.

Since the issue just came out, I wanted to share my latest illustration for Sarasota Magazine!

https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/articles/2017/3/1/welcome-to-sarasota-texas

Had a bit of a rough weekend so instead of “Superhero Monday,” here is a recent illustration that I think better captures the mood…

After doing a few novel covers in a row, I’m back to a children’s book assignment. Here’s the cover for an upcoming project, featuring caricatures of my wife and her best friend Kate as the two sisters!

Was trying to decide what to draw for Star Wars Wednesday and decided on Leia, but couldn’t decide on doing what! So, I took to Google and came across the Star Wars Infinity interpretation of her and thought that would be fun to try…

Some of the best results come about because of complete accidents. For this book cover, my intention was to have everything be either in red, orange, or yellow (because the client requested a red, orange, and yellow dragon) with the only other color being green for her eyes.

So I did up the background in mostly orange, then did this yellow flame design on top to separate the dragon and figure a bit. With the flame layer selected, I started scrolling through the Photoshop layer effects and one of them did this to the background, which instantly changed my mind about the whole color theory of the piece.

Didn’t save the original version, and have flattened the artwork so I can’t go back and undo the layer effect, so you’ll just have to take my word for it that this is better!

Or, if you don’t like this, take my word for it that the original was better…

Good Monday to you all! Hope everyone had an awesome weekend.

We wound up watching Deadpool again last night so Megan suggested a ‘Pool for today’s Superhero Monday!