From Concept To Reality

Sometimes your art looks a lot like the final product!I thought the team did a nice job tranlating my art into the real deal. Florida and Anaheim are a bit different from each other due to location issues.

Too Funny!

I came across this article on the Pop Sugar site with a couple of my renderings for the Jungle Cruise attraction in Florida and Anaheim. They seem to think Marc Davis did these from the grave!

Tokyo DisneySea Posters

Long time no posts! Since my website imploded a year or so ago I thought I'd repost these on the blog no one sees! I don't get much of my Disney art approved to share since it's mostly concept art, but these are out there for anyone to look at.They were done about 2000 for the 2001 opening of Tokyo DisneySea park,one of the most visually stunning parks Disney has ever done. I worked on tons of concept art for 20,000 Leagues with art director Scott Sherman, with a good bit of those pieces on display in the ride queue.This was pre-digital, so I used a technique I'd never done before to try and get the look of old illustrations. If I were a good pen and ink guy I would have gone that route. Instead,I used a hybrid style of black and brown Prisma pencil on heavy tracing paper, then ran that through a brownline copier (like a blueprint machine) at full poster size. I then tined the pieces with marker refill color for a watercolor look and went back over the linework to punch it up a bit. Finally some white gouache for detail and then it was sent to graphics for the text. If I did these today the computer would have made my life much easier, but that's how it goes. Considering these were the only 2 finished park posters I got to do, I'm happy with them. Captain Nemo approved them anyway!

Vintage Figure Drawing 1997

Krikey, long time no posts! Here are some workshop drawings of lovely model Jan Schmidt from '97. Great figure model and amazing jazz singer!

Madness!

Another piece that could be a book cover, I was channeling some of the Italian horror artists. Plenty of gore on this one! Did she really kill someone, or is she simply...INSANE?!!

Stranded!

Here's one that was languishing half finished in my "I'll get around to it" folder. Based on a couple of combined sketches of the amazing Stacy Walker from our WDI art workshop (that's been shut down for almost a year now, stupid Covid) I thought rather than just a regular image I'd do it as an old cover for Amazing Stories.Fun to do, anyway! Thanks Stacy!

Assassin X

I did post this to my Facebook page as a banner, I don't know why I didn't post here.My shot (heh) at a wrap around book cover. Undercover agent takes out South American dictator.

And Even more Storyboards...

Another mixed bag of boards and comps, a couple are actual people I of course had reference for. Mr. Spielberg and Tom Skerritt. And Cher. Sort of. For some reason Skerritt was selling housing developements.

More Storyboards

Here are a few more in the same vein.On the lighter side.

Storyboards from the Past

Once upon a time, I used to draw for a living (Before Photoshop came along). I would go in-house to work at Los Angeles area ad agencies doing comps for print ads and storyboards for TV commercials. Fast and furious, my art buddies and I would crank out 8, 10, 16 frame storyboards in a day, often full color! I couldn't keep up that pace these days, but did so for about 15 years before the theme park biz grabbed me full time. Anyway, I'll post a bunch of typical sketches I did over the years, just remember most of these were without reference material and were done at light speed! Enjoy.

Flight Control

So here's a design exercise just for fun, a retro future piece. I tried a little of the the old pulp magazine color schemes to give it an older feel like the covers of Amazing Stories or Weird Tales. Speaking of story, it's a bit thin, but I think it looks pretty good, and that's enough for me!

Her Full Measure

I did this piece in the style of First World War posters, the field nurse giving her all to protect the wounded Tommy from the Hun. Huzzah!

More New Sketches

Here are a few more recent sketches, thanks to Shadia, Sara and Debra!

Catching Up

It's been a while but here are some newer sketches from the workshop. The amazing Stacy Walker as a saloon girl, Mather Louth as a rock 'n roll goddess, and the ever fashionable Daniella Traub as Mrs. Peel from The Avengers. Thanks to all our great models as usual, and Happy Holidays!

Just Beachy

A great new model (to us anyway),Eve Mobley did a nice retro beach set for us a few weeks back, here are some of the sketches. Thanks Eve!

Summer Fun

Rachel Bailit joined us last week with some cool summery fashions. Thanks Rachel!