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Hello everyone!
Here are some recent pictures created for a storybook proposal. These were completed on a short deadline, it was great fun to jump right into idea generation, create the character, then draw him interacting with different objects. Click each image for a bigger view!
The paper moose patrols the borders of sketchbookland, beware his smokey snort, guard against the rattle of his crusty paper-antlers.
I have lately been keeping myself very busy, although I have nothing new that I am able to show for a while, so I am going to put up another page from my graphical interpretation of the Burial Of The Dead by T.S. Elliot, I give you fear, in a handful of dust.
My graphic interpretation of ‘The Burial Of The Dead‘, the first quarter of ‘The Waste Land‘ by T.S. Elliot which is featured in issue 22.1 of the Gulf Coast Literary Journal. You can check out the whole thing by picking up a copy of the magazine.
Also, to mix things up a bit and show a little bit of my process here on the blog, here is one of my rough pages from when I was working on The Waste Land project. This page looks very similar to the final, which isn’t always the case, we were happy with the atmosphere captured in this sketch and wanted to maintain that in the final artwork. My roughs are messy.
Denny Nuts the local butcher, Hilly Bunn the friendly baker and Arthur Wicks the candlestick maker. Click for a bigger view!
I don’t often work in greyscale, so I worked up these little drawings just to remind myself how much fun I can have with it. They are: Adventurer’s Tent, Forest Dungeon Entrance and Woodland Campfire. These three pieces are available on illodeli.com under a single use license, if you are into that kinda thing!
Happy Easter everyone!
Today we have been decorating eggs to get into the spirit of things, here is my little illustrated egg. It features a house with it’s own letter box, a rope bridge, a wishing well, a large tree, a holiday cottage on stilts complete with washing line and a fishing pool (below the bridge), everything you need for an adventure!
The world beneath the wishing well, a bit of experimenting in this piece, a couple of new things learned on the road to better work 
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“An ambitious farmer explores ways to feed the villagers of Afar by propagated farming.“
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“Cast adrift down the awash river; uncle Monakle was one of the greatest explorers of Afar, he dared to venture into untouched jungles and braved dangerous worlds in search of the unknown!“
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“In the marshlands of Afar you must walk with caution, for quickmud lies at the roots of many a tree.”
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