Steel workin' man

This is a design of john henry done in the style of douglas fraser. More to come....

Drawing at the Airport

I love the airport. It's a good time to find a spot, sit back, pull out the ol' sketchbook and a pen--and do some hardcore spying on people. Here's some people I drew on my last visit to the airport....

The Pack of Wolves

The objective of this project was to design a pack of wolves, and to do a landscape painting which included the pack. In the pack, there was supposed to be a "jokester" wolf, a blind wolf, and an older wolf. In preparing for the project I watched a documentary called "Living with Wolves", and was surprised to see just how gentle and family oriented they could be. They operate on a "class" system with one wolf being in charge of the others (The Alpha Wolf). The Alpha Wolf calls the pack together, leads them around, and even designates when the other wolves are going to eat. Many times this mostly effects the "Omega Wolf", or the wolf with the lowest ranking of the pack. Many things can factor into who becomes the Alpha wolf, and who becomes the Omega wolf, but it never seems to be based on one specific thing.

Anyway, the documentary actually commented on one wolf who actually played the role of a "Jokester" to alleviate tension in the group. I thought that was pretty interesting....

In preparation of the landscape painting I did a couple landscape color studys just to get myself thinking in those terms. I think some of those actually came out stronger than the final painting.

Hope you dig!

~Tim

The Venetian Pickpockets

These designs are based on a story about 3 kids who are pickpockets in 1900's Venice. They are overseen by a corrupt priest who runs a pawnshop out of his confessional, and keeps the earnings for himself.....kinda strange, but there it is. The designs are still a work in progress, and i plan on taking these further, as time permits......I'll also include some of the thumbnails for good measure......enjoy!

~Tim

La Mancha!!

These are some designs for the character "Aldonza" in the play "The Man of La Mancha"...

Henry, Steve, and Gang

Here are some character designs and some other concept artwork i did for a short film project I'm working on right now. More to come....

Some Concept work...

These are some concept pieces I did for a take on Hansel and Gretel...just some different ideas as far as style and character design...

Happy Turkey Day!

Following years of tradition, i woke up and turned on the Macy's parade this morning. This character is loosely based on an actor that was in one of the musical numbers...
Happy Thanksgiving!

Pip Pip Cheerio!

This is just a drawing I did in my sketchbook-not based on anybody from life. It's funny what a little thing can do to a drawing. He started out as sort of an office manager, with a tie, white shirt and clipboard, and then I added the mustache, and the whole character had to change. This is what it evolved into....

Hey Hey Hey!

Hey Everyone,
I'm Tim and I'm new at this so bear with me. I plan on using this site to start uploading artwork and what not, so we'll see what happens. One of the things I'm going to start doing is memory drawings, or drawings based on people I see throughout the day and then draw later from memory, trying to catch their personality as closely as I can. I can't take credit for this idea, as it was given to me by the incredible character designer Stephen Silver, when he came to give a lecture at our school the other day. Anyway, to kick off this site I'm going to post a memory drawing I just did of a grumpy manager that I saw at Office Max earlier today. I ended up going to Kinkos;).......