Showing posts with label monsters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monsters. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
a new year in monster drawing
I spent the holiday break thinking of ways to incorporate more monsters into artwork for 2012. This is one!
Monday, August 29, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Monday, October 4, 2010
the power of myth!
Greek mythology: I just love it. The fantastical creatures! The romance and heroism! The savage and bloody wrath of gods and mere mortals! So you can imagine my excitement when Scholastic asked me to contribute to a classroom book on the subject. Stories covered were King Midas, Prometheus & Pandora, and Oedipus & The Sphinx.
Of course, I would have loved to play up more of the sexual tension between the Sphinx and Oedipus, shown Prometheus in chains, having his liver torn out and eaten by an eagle, and drawn some really nasty demons coming out of Pandora's box, but, ya know, kids! I had to keep it pretty clean. Still, as jobs go, the funnest.
don't be a-skeered, he's just misunderstood
This was a sweet gig to land. Penguin has asked me to do covers for some reprints of a few Eva Ibbotson novels. If'n you are unfamiliar with her work, she is a British author of some witty and winsome fantasy tales for the young'uns. This first cover is for a new book of hers called The Ogre Of Oglefort.
It's nice to get back to my roots and draw some good old-fashioned monsters again.
Update: Eva Ibbotson sadly passed away October 20th, making this her final novel. She seemed a pretty awesome lady, as noted here, and I'm honored to be an illustrator to her fantastic writings.
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