On my way to Cocoa Beach on January 24th to perform for a wedding I felt a developing cold. By the time I got there, I had a cold – and still have it. But, the show must go on! But could I continue my further altering my approach to caricature to some thing a bit more comic-booky illustration?

Somehow I did, in between sneezing and feeling awful. After the 24th event I rested and did all I could to be prepared for the next event on the 27th. Still sick for this event near Clermont, I really worked at not having a set place for the head and working harder to get each person’s story into the illustration….in between a runny nose and taking in many cough drops.

The 27th event had a lot of young people at it and worked on the larger paper for each. Three of those are the last of the pictures here.

Please let me know how you like this approach. I love, my friend, Trisha Kirby’s response of this approach. “It’s like an entire comic book or illustrated novel wrapped into one image.”

Here are a few from both events:

Just finished a piece involving a whole lotta water! Here’s a section of the illustration.

Travelled to Dade City, Florida, for the bi-monthly Pasco County Historical Society meeting, of which I’m a member. Being a bit buried in work at the moment knew I had to get some work done while there. So, during, guest speaker, Susan NcManus’ talk I did scribble some work out!

Here’s a peek at my annual Christmas card in progress! A bunny and a mouse. More to come!

Here’s a colored version of the inked version I posted last week! This is only part of a larger illustration for a client to use to advertise their Christmas party.

Here is part of a larger illustration for a client that involves a shocked Santa!

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|This is part of a larger illustration for a client. It’s an example of rushing through coloring with Photoshop. 🙂 Off towards Jacksonville Tuesday morning!

Here’s an inked version of part of a multi-illustration project I’m in the process of coloring. Simplicity and truncating the actual look of a train was key. Fun to try and balance that. I’ve extracted some of the illustration work to post it here.