Tag: childrens book illustration
May 16th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Color Ecuadoran Soccer!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.17, 2014, under Caricatures, Cartooning
Here’s the color version of the artwork shown earlier this week. I just finished coloring this after a very long day today.
I was out for the opening of a new bridge for hiking over the Withlacoochee River here in Florida. The path to the bridge was supposed to be a hiking trail, but ended up being a roadway for emergency vehicles and bicyclists. I have photos and wrote about it here.
May 15th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: A Fishing Veteran!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.15, 2014, under Cartooning
This is the inked version of art I did for an upcoming fishing event in Melbourne, Florida. It’s to salute American military veterans and help some get out and fish.
Click here to learn more and maybe you can join in and help!
My next step is to digitally color the artwork.
May 15th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board: Sketch Dailies – Alien!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.15, 2014, under Cartooning
Sketch Dailies had H.R. Giger as their subject of the day in honor of his death the day before. Giger was an artist known for his very sexually themed artwork. This included his designs of the alien in the film ‘Alien’. In fact, his sexual designs were meshed throughout the set of the alien’s lair in the original film. As the sequels were tacked on, the alien settings were toned down as was the alien and family members.
Back when the film came out it became a favorite topic amongst my friends Ken Cullota and Steve Gallancy and others. This was back in high school. It was at that time I attempted to work through Junior Achievement to create a humor magazine, much like Mad. Ken Culotta came up with a take off of the film renamed Alias. It was hilarious. Unfortunately, the funding part became pretty unreachable as I’m as incompetent in fiances then as I am now. We had an adviser that was also a publisher, but that didn’t help. It was just too much to pull off. I still have Ken’s script.
I picked up all I could of the film from movie books to Walt Simonson’s incredible graphic novel of the film. Thee best illustrated adaption of any film ever done, in my opinion. I’ve still got most all of it. The one thing I never got was a large Alien “action figure” around at the time.
Back then there was a comic book convention in Orlando that was run by, my friend, Jim Ivey. One of the guest artists was a local fellow, Ken Mitchroney. Mitchroney had a set of copies of his version of Alien that just blew me away! I’ll try to track them down and post them here. Mitchroney is still cartooning, but in California now. He just announced today his arrival at Warner Brothers Studio to work on a film. He’s a great cartoonist who should be better known.
Anyway, the Alien film obviously was a big part of my life after it came out for over a year and I got real good at drawing the critter. It’s been a rare time that I will draw the Alien character these days. When Sketch Dailies posted the opportunity, i grabbed it and tailored a bit of humor to go with it.
May 13th, 2014 – Today on the #Drawing Board – Inking Soccer!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on May.13, 2014, under Cartooning
Alex and I discussed ways to streamline the illustration and I offered to add likenesses to the players. Here’s the new inked version now in for a final check. I’ll post the color version when finished.
April 29th, 2014 – Cover art for upcoming Swampy’s Florida Free Comic Book Day comic.
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.29, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Here’s the cover art for the upcoming Swampy’s Florida comic book for Free Comic Book Day on May 3rd. This mini-comic is a short story of Swampy and better establishes that he has been around for a loooooong time. This story takes place in 1898 in Tampa. You’ll have to read the story to learn more.
April 20th, 2014 – Swampy’s Easter Feast!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.20, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Thought I would share this illustration I did to celebrate Easter for the Swampy’s Florida website.
As Easter winds down, Swampy and Zuber have devoured enough chocolate. Trilby, on the other hand is running out and may need to dip into reserves.
April 3rd, 2014 – Easter Egg Gator Surprise!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.03, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
This is the third of the Swampy’s Florida Easter card images.
This was penciled and inked on paper. Then scanned. Colored using Photoshop. I did the artwork about a month ago.
I’ll post a link to where you can purchase them when ready.
March 27th, 2014 – Cartooning Class!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.28, 2014, under Cartooning
Made my bi-annual stop at my friend’s George Pieper’s cartooning class to give a talk to his class about cartooning and caricature. Each time I take answers to a series of questions I give to the students and combine them into a drawing. Above is me and George and the drawing i drew based on the responses.
March 19th, 2014 – My Swampy’s Florida Easter card artwork!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.19, 2014, under Swampy's Florida
Soon three new Swampy’s #Florida Easter cards will be available! Above is one of the images I did of the cards. I’ll post a link when available so you can purchase some! – http://swampysflorida.com/?p=9837
March 10th, 2014 – Happy Easter Gator!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.09, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Here is one of two images available soon as Swampy’s Florida Easter cards! The cards will be available above in the Swampy store at the top of the website being handled by The Knowledge Exchange. The cards would also be available at Julianne’s Coastal Cottage in Mount Dora. I’ll be posting the other Easter card art later this week.
March 9th, 2014 – Swampy’s Florida: Silver Springs preview!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.09, 2014, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Here’ s a bit of art that will be in the upcoming ‘Swampy’s Florida: Silver Springs’ I’m working on! Putting the book together now and hope for it to be avaialble in about three weeks.