WILLY WONKA MEETS PETER CUSHING

I love to watch favorite movies while working.  It motivates and inspires. The Willy Wonka drawing is a section of a larger piece that I printed out on canvas for a charity auction.  The sketch of Peter Cushing was  done while watching one of his classic Hammer Horror films and because Peter Cushing is awesome.   (=^>

DREAMWORKS DRAGONS: THE EARLY YEARS

The first version of How to Train Your Dragon was very faithful to the book; Hiccup was young, Toothless was small and the dragons talked.  That's right, they talked.  Here's some more exploratory sketches based on this early take on the characters/world.  The dragon/viking pages were drawn with pen and water soluble colored pencils. The moments with Hiccup and Toothless and the Green Death were drawn and colored in Photoshop on a cintiq. Fun times!

 

STEALING THE tiny GOLDEN GOOSE

The Giant in, Puss in Boots was originally suppose to be a human, until I pitched the idea for the Giant Goose.  They were modeling the look of the Giant on super funny story guy, Mike Bell.  In the first sequence I was assigned, Humpty has managed to find the Giant's regular sized Golden Goose pet and runs into a bit of trouble trying to get to it.  I loved playing with the insane scale difference between all the characters.  And yes, in the transition section of Humpty trying to scale that ridiculously tall ladder, I did hum the Lawrence of Arabia theme music aloud when I pitched it...