Category Archives: process

The Cow Farmer

Noooo, he’s not a farmer of cows, silly. He’s a farmer who is a cow! Anyway, here’s a video describing the process I used to create this illustrations. Have fun, and let me know what you think! (oh yeah, it’s better to watch in HD).

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Circus Models

Just the models, that’s it. No texturing/lighting, etc. yet. From a project I’m currently working on.

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Roscoe Wizzle

Here’s the cover I recently did for David Elliott’s hilarious book The Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle. Click here to see how the whole cover creation process happened.

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Indiana Jones Step by Step in Photoshop

First up is the zippy, light hearted, and spirit lifting version.   And now we have the sloooooow, so you actually see what’s happening, but would probably be boring for anyone who doesn’t care about photoshop layer settings, version.

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Popeye!

To celebrate the new breadwig.com design (which is basically just a much simpler/cleaner version of the old breadwig.com), I decided to do an illustration of one of my favorite cartoon characters.  Click on VIEW FULL POST to see how I made it

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Woodcut Easter Illustration

This is based on sketch that I did in church on Easter. This is a little different than most of my work. I recorded myself making it, so you can watch the whole thing being created in the included video. Watch it full screen and let me know what you think.

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Making of The Thing…..

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Sounds scary don’t it? It do, it do. But it’s really just a short making of movie for my illustration of Ben Grimm from the Fantastic Four. I put it together for a talk I’m doing for the local chapter of Siggraph. Anyways, enjoy, and it really does look better in HD on Vimeo.

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Cat nesting doll test renders

Here’s a few renders of one of the nesting dolls. I also included his texture map and a section of his bump map, cuz I knew you’d want me to.

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Frankenphants

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I finally got around to coloring these old Frankenstein Elephant rejects last night. Click more for a little step by stepperino action.

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Pug Progression

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My friend Mindi asked if I ever drew pugs. I realized no, I had never drawn a pug. So I started drawing some. Here is my first pug sketch. Pretty standard. Kind of boring. But drawing things more representationally at first helps me figure out what is defining about it. If that makes any sense.  ...

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Where the Wild Things Are: Part Half Deux

Here’s my second Where The Wild Things Are tribute illustration for Terrible Yellow Eyes. If you scroll down a tad, there’s another process vid. If you watch it on Vimeo it’s even in HD! Oooooooo. (It really does look much better watching it there.)  

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Where the Wild Things Are: Part Deux

Well, my second WTWTA illustration will have to wait a few days. I’ve been requested to keep in on the down low until it gets featured on TerribleYellowEyes. So, in a couple days I’ll have the whole illustration a process back up. Until then, here’s a teaser. Doug, you got in early and it paid...

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Dragon along

This fearsome fellow was done for The League of Robots and Monsters.  I’m including some sketches and other making of stuff. First comes the sketch. I was going for a vile and ferocious beast, with just a hint of reptilian sophistication. Next I started modeling him in 3d based on the aforementioned sketch. A simple...

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Goose Stepping Out

That Mother Goose, what will she do next? Anyway, you’re in for a whole carriage full of process/making-of stuff! An initial drawing of Mother G. I really liked her face, but the rest wasn’t quite working for me. Here’s the final drawing. Much more protein, just the way I like it. Here’s ten panels showing a bunch...

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Freezing Tips

Abominable Snowman was the theme for Drawergeeks this week. Where else would a Yeti be more at home than a vintage household magazine?  At least that was my “thinking”. Lots and lots of making of stuff if’n you click on the “more” link. Click the image for some super yeti-zoom action.

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FEF

This week’s DrawerGeeks was Game Shows.  I don’t know why I decided to go with this, other than it was fun frying an egg and flopping it on the scanner. Read on to see some making of stuff. First up is the sketch. Sharpie on copier paper. Next up I fried an egg. Then I...

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Zannin’ it 3d

Well here he is. I tried some new shading stuff and it worked out pretty good I think. Read on for a lil’ bit of making of spiff. Here’s the base modeling of the scene.  Nice and blocky. And here’s the body smoothed out with the material applied.  I find this ridiculously disturbing. I hope...

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Galactus, 2d or 3d? You be the judge.

I did this for the latest drawergeeks. Read on to see a bunch o’ making of crap.   First up is the sketch. Drawn directly with a sharpie, no pencil scribblinz involved. Then… yeah, I went into Maya and drew out the curves/outlines. I thought about doing this in Photoshop or Illustrator, but you know,...

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a christmas bow

I did this for the latest DrawerGeeks. Click on the “more” link below the pic to see a whole buncha making of stuff if’n you like.

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flowering clown

For this clown illustration, I wanted to try something different. Keep reading for some of the process I used to create this guy. First came the sketch. Now for the coloring. I decided to take a bunch of flowers my daughter had pressed, and I scanned them in at a very high resolution. Then I...

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