Tag: childrens illustration
June 19th, 2014 – Today on the drawing board – Orange County Regional History Center’s Sara Van Arsdel retirement card!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.19, 2014, under Caricatures, Cartooning
Really the title should be – “A Few Days Ago on the Drawing Board”. Working waaaay to late Tuesday night had me miss the Orlando Remembered, a board I serve on, meeting at the Orange County Regional History Center early Wednesday morning. Sara Van Arsdel, curator of the museum for the past twenty eight years is retiring. I remember her taking the position so many years ago as, Orlando native, Jean Yothers stepped down after ten years in the position. Hard to imagine so much time has passed!!! I sure admit I have not been a fan of certain activities at the museum. I have been a cheerleader of the unbelievable job Sara did of keeping the history museum in the 1920’s former Orange County Courthouse. A tough task, especially when Orange County was seeking office space for an expanding government in years past. It took her having exhibits that I hated to keep the museum in the courthouse alive. Kudos to Sara for that and for being in charge of the museum for 28 years!
This painting was done last week and passed on to long time dear friend Grace Chewning on Sunday, thanks to help from my father. Grace carted the card for folks to sign and the photo above was taken.
June 17th, 2014 – Today on the drawing board: Airboat in color!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.18, 2014, under Cartooning
Here’s the color version of the airboat art. This is to be used on tishirts involving this musician. I’ll let you all know how to get a t-shirt here, when it’s available, if you all would like.
June 13th, 2014 – Today on the drawing board: Inked on an airboat!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.14, 2014, under Cartooning
Here’s the inked version of the pencils posted earlier this week. Approved and ready for color, which I’ll get to next week.
June 10th, 2014 – Today on the drawing board: Hiking cartoon in progress!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.11, 2014, under Cartooning
This is the inked version of a gag cartoon I’m working on at the moment. My approach is a lot looser than I normally ink. I know that the color needs to tell part of the story, so I backed off tighter inking. The cartoon is due this week and I still have to format in a panel template and then color. I have a set of cartoons to color and plan to color them all at the same time.
May 29th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board – ‘Oranges in Pine Castle’ painting.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.29, 2014, under Illusration, Swampy's Florida
A few days ago I posted the setup for this watercolor painting. Here’s the finished artwork. It’s for a show of Florida artists at the Pine Castle Women’s Club in south Orange County starting June 1st. This will also be available as a Swampy’s Florida print (#38) soon.
The Pine Castle Women’s Club art show is comprised of Florida artists presenting Florida history in various mediums.
Announcing Swampy’s Florida Kickstarter program!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.27, 2014, under Cartooning, Florida History!, Florida Outdoors!, Swampy's Florida
Announcing a Swampy’s Florida Kickstarter program to get five Swampy’s Florida books produced! In the past three years I’ve produced 14 Swampy books, 37 prints, 2 DVDs and seven cards. There’s lots more to come! However, I’ve poured a ton of time in all of this and have more than run out of resources to produce more without backing. Funding will ensure more educational and activity books available to help young people know more about the great state of Florida.
Click here to head over to Kickstarter!
There’s a goal to get five funded by June 21st! Lots of goodies! I’ll even try to hand deliver the goodies if the donor falls within my travels this Fall.
The five books are:
– Historical Women of Florida
– Florida History Puzzles and Games
– A Short History of trains in Florida
– Birds of Florida
– Fish and Aquatic Life in Florida
All five will be coloring and travel guide books and able to be used in home schooling or just for fun!
There will be constant updates here as I build all five books.
But wait! There’s more!
There are four other books involved that are left over prior to the new arrangement with The Knowledge Exchange. These four will also be completed at the same time:
– Polk County- Titusville
– Dunnellon
– Marion County ABC
The funding will also loosen my time to wrap up these four books.
All will be available by Fall.
Thank you to The Knowledge Exchange, for so much help, and Dave Stewart, who produced the video on the site and gave sage advice, for all their help putting this together. I’ll have to share the video here as the next month goes along.
Thank you to all that donate to this project!
I’ll be posting updates here as this Kickstarter program continues!
May 26th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Critters on the Run!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.26, 2014, under Cartooning, Florida Outdoors!
Today penciled and inked this illustration for a five mile run – for people – coming up this fall in Silver Springs State Park in Florida.
May 25th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board – A Fishing Salute!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.26, 2014, under Cartooning
Here is the colored version of artwork for the Stick Marsh Veterans Bass Challenge being put on by the Veterans Resource Committee of the Melbourne Regional Chamber of East Central Florida. HEre’s the post with the black and white artwork – https://robsmithjr.com/blog/?p=7260
May 21st, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board: Batman!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.22, 2014, under Caricatures, Cartooning, What's New?
It was day 2 of my drawing in a booth of HMS during the Blue Cross and Blue Shield conference at the Marriott World Center in south Orange County. Besides caricatures, I drew this Batman for the husband of the person who organized the HMS booth. He’s a huge Batman fan and collector. I rarely get a chance to drawing superheroes these days and this Batman sure shows it. Proportion off as are the legs.
Below are a couple of the caricatures I drew with a suprehero theme.
May 20th, 2014 – Today on the #drawing board: Tradeshow caricatures with a superhero twist today & tomorrow!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.21, 2014, under Caricatures
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by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.19, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
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