Tag: childrens book illustration
November 15th, 2011 – Sketchbook: Socrates Cafe
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Nov.17, 2011, under Friends, Sketchbook
Here’s a page depicting discussions our Socrates Cafe group had at Chelsea Coffee Company on Tuesday.
October 10th, 2011 – Step-by-Step Pioneer Days painting.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Oct.10, 2011, under Florida History!, Illusration, What's New?
Above is the prepped version of the illustration for watercolor. This is an illustration for the Pine Castle Pioneer Days. It’ll be used for the poster, sign and other collateral materials.
This is the watercolored version.
Here is the finished version.
August 29th, 2011 – More More Artwork!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.30, 2011, under Cartooning, Illusration, Sketchbook, What's New?
Was doing the live drawing again using Justin TV and in 3 hours got a ton done! below shows the lot drawn which includes Tuesday’s editorial cartoon, Tuesday’s Swampy’s Florida, a bunch of book illustrations for a client, a character sheet for another client, a drawing of Ronald Reagan for a Justin TV viewer, etc. The Sketch O’ Week is also in the mix and shown above. Contributing subjects were Joe Read, “Monkey” , and TDebondt, “Fire & Baseball”. That was a tough one, but I did draw it right on the spot after the subjects were provided.
March 23rd, 2011 – Sketch-A-day!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.23, 2011, under Cartooning, Celebrity Illustrations, Sketchbook
Here’s my Sketch-A-Day: March for today. Elements supplied by Andrea Schell! Thanks, Andrea!
Here’s the recording of this sketch:
I started talking about MArty Allen’s 89th birthday today when I realized folks wouldn’t know what I was talking about, so I did a quick sketch of him off the top of my head.
Here it is:
August 9th, 2010 – Playing with pens…
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.09, 2010, under Cartooning
I played with some gray markers and thought I’d post my doodling.
July 28th, 2010 – Cartooning!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.05, 2010, under Cartooning
Above is a pile of work I knocked out at the local coffee shop in about 2 hours.
July 11th, 2010 – Swampy’s Florida
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.11, 2010, under Caricatures, What's New?
Here’s some new art I’m doing for Swampy’s Florida. The new strip will be up Tuesday which begins a little trip for Swampy, Pasco Pete and Bunny. Starting a lot of trouble is Ma Watson who arrives looking to hunt Swamp Apes.
July 7th, 2010 – A Caricature Gift
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.07, 2010, under What's New?
This is a caricature illustration I did a few weeks ago for Donna Hartsfield, above. I met her at a restaurant near in Winter Park, Florida, and produced the entire piece there. I didn’t want to post the photo until the recipient received it. Jeff was presented with the art last weekend, so here’s the photo of Donna and the art.
July 2nd, 2010 – Artwork!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jul.03, 2010, under What's New?
Too much swirling around to work in the studio, so for the first time a quite a while I headed over to Chelsea Coffee and knocked a whole lot of artwork out in an hour and a half. Above is a photo of some of it.
June 16th, 2010 – Current Projects!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.16, 2010, under Cartooning, Illusration
I intend to post parts of projects I’m working on here and then forget. Here’s part of an illustration I’m working on.
New Florida Illustration!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.19, 2010, under Florida Outdoors!
My newest Florida illustration! Prints available soon!