Sketchery
To me, sketching is like thinking out loud but on paper. It is one of my favorite creative outlets and is a critical piece of drawing, designing, and creating. A trusty Blue Prismacolor Col-Erase pencil and some paper and I’m set. It’s fun to think and explore through the process of sketching, trying to figure out a story idea, character design idea or how something would work or look in/from a certain position or perspective. They are not always pretty, but almost always useful in some way.
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Above are a few sketches I did while working on a commercial for Planter’s Peanuts. Making some photograph props to be used in the stop-motion sets. My favorites are the “Mr. Inappropriate Peanut” and “Mr. Zombie Peanut.”
This is a sketch of the final design for my first headstone prop. To my delight, the final sculpted headstone turned out pretty good, although there are definitely some things that I would do differently.
This is a sketch that I did while working on a Honey Nut Cheerios spot, while drawing the hero I was also thinking about Beavis and Butthead, and wondered what Beavis might look like in the bee world. So here is a sketch of “Beevis.”
Below is the initial sketch of a reindeer for a set piece/prop to be used in the Harold & Kumar Christmas movie. This was used in a window display in the stop-motion set during the big “mayhem” shot in the stop-mo acid trip sequence in the film.
Below are sketches I made as study for my “Memento Vivere” cut tissue paper illustration. The final design is pretty close to these sketches, and I’m happy with all the little details I put in to the design.
