Digital revamp of Dicky Dinosaur book

Digital revamp of Dicky Dinosaur book

Social Story

I was asked by a speech therapist, who works in the same school district as me, to make a social story for a non-verbal preschool student. She needed a way to help this student identify where he got hurt. So she made a template with the writing half already in place and I added the illustrations. Being that the student is non-verbal his understanding of the book comes mostly from the visuals.

Here are some excerpts from the book:

January Sketchbook Pages #2, Digital Drawings

 

 

I know character-wise it would make more sense for Plankton to be Darth Vader, but I thought this mash-up would be funnier.

 This was a cool idea I had for a character design and a chance to use some of the new brushes in Skecthbook.

November Sketchbook Pages #1, Eddie Flagrante Design

Designs for Eddie Flagrante from Zombie Prom.

Sketch Dump (after months of no posting)

June/July Sketchbook Pages #1

Picture on the left from Posespace.com. Figure drawing on the right. If you need figure/gestural drawing models for practice I would highly recommend Pose Space or Croquis Cafe.

 I felt her bum looked to angular in the original drawing (above) so I rounded it off in the below drawing.

March Sketchbook Pages #1, School Mascot on T-shirt, Digital Sketches

October Sketchbook Pages #2 & More Digital Sketches

Found a blog called Cup O' Doodle, where they upload a doodle or several doodles for artists to create sketches or designs from. This is a method I already love to use for warm ups or to spark ideas so I'm glad I stumbled upon Cup O' Doodle.

Original doodle

Sketches done on top of doodle

Original doodle

Sketch done on top of doodle

Digital Sketches October

Dance Thumbnails 2/3 done

May Sketchbook Pages, Frog Types, Kid Design

Super quick sketches drawn using a brush pen. I had the idea to use a random word generator to practice making quick yet clear drawings. Using the generator keeps things quick because I'm not slowed down by having to think of what to draw next. I also get the chance to practice thinking on my toes. I got the idea from games like Drawful, Pictionary and Sketch from Game & Wario, that give you a random prompt and a short amount of time to visually depict it.

I'm working on making several different "enemies" based off of different types of frogs.

My design trials for the daughter from my 2D dialogue animation.