Sketchies and Scribbles

I recently moved up to San Francisco and have been trying to get out a little bit more to sketch. These are a few pages of scribbles, mainly from Dolores Park. The city lends itself well to drawing people...

Robot Fun!!

I was recently asked to play around with some robot designs for a possible iPad game/ property idea. In the end, they ended up going another direction, but I thought I'd post these just for fun. I have fairly little experience when it comes to robots so it was fun to get out of my comfort zone a little bit.

Happy Holidays!

This time of year always makes me want to do some santa pieces of some sort, so here are a couple I thought I'd post.

The first one started out as just a doodle and I ended up finishing it up. I couldn't decide whether to give him a red or a green bag, so I went with both. I thought it would be cool if it had sort of a "quilted" look, like maybe Mrs. Claus made it for him.

The second piece is based on a guy I saw on a bus in SF a few weekends ago (photo included). I don't know if he was a Mall Santa who just got off duty, or just a guy who recongnized his striking resemblance and just went for it, but I loved it either way.

Hope you guys enjoy.
Merry Christmas!

*I know that "N. Polk" is not actually a stop but my brother joked about him wanting to go to the "North Pole", not "North Polk" and I thought it was good, so I wanted to throw it in the painting.

Interview!!

Hey everyone-

Sorry it's been so long in between posts, but it's been busy at work these past few weeks/months. I promise, I will try to get something new up soon.

In the meantime, I wanted to post this interview that I did for www.reviewstl.com (St. Louis is my hometown).

Check it out by clicking the link above, and scrolling down the left side of the page, or click below to jump straight to it!!

Cheers!

http://www.reviewstl.com/hometown-hero-interview-tim-heitz-stlouis-megamind-1104/

Giddy'up

Haven't had a chance to play with the western stuff for a while, so thought I'd get back to it today.
Another possible character in the western story I hope to someday turn into a comic...

Hope you enjoy!...

I Love Kiwi

Some of my work is currently being featured on the kiwilicious blog at

http://blog.kiwilicious.com/

It's a beautiful site with tons of great artwork and photos.

Check it out!!

Also, while you're there check out the stuff by my former classmate Erik Otto.
He's one of the best artists in the Bay Area (I've even had the pleasure of participating in a gallery show with him)--amazing work.

-Tim

Double A to the B

So I've been feeling inspired lately by a lot of poster art, mainly related to bands and music and what not. I figured what I'd do, is I'd start making some posters of the shows and concerts I've been to this year...So to kick it off, my A.A. Bondy poster. This one came out a bit more "cartoony" than I actually had in mind to begin with, but I'm hoping to play around with some different styles and looks. Stay tuned for more to come...

Hypothetically Speaking

This was just something I was playing around with for a band that I don't believe really exists.

A hypothetical band poster, if you will.

*After a search on iTunes, I did find a band called "Hollow Bones", but this is in no way related to them.

Light Fiction #2

Light Fiction

So my good friend Tawnee just joined a band and she asked me to do a drawing for website/album art/what-have-you. This is one of what will probably be a few different images still to come. Also go check out their first couple of recordings at lightfictionmusic. They have a little bit of an old-timey sound to their music that makes me think of sitting in an old classy jazz club or speakeasy, where everyone dresses up and sips on cocktails while smoking cigarettes on those long cigarette holders. But maybe that's just me.

Abominable Snow Yeti

My friend/coworker Josh Lieberman decided to dub this month "Yeti December" and is trying to get as many people as he can to post their own Yetis on their blogs. If you decide to do so, send him your link at http://www.kn8ian.blogspot.com/

Whoooooooooo's Ready??

Ready or not, here he comes...

YeeHaw

Back to designing cowboys.

Hope you enjoy!

Outside Lands

So this past weekend I went to a 3 day music festival at Golden Gate park in San Francisco.

Jack White was there with his new band "The Dead Weather", and they were without a doubt one of the most captivating performances there. They may not have been my favorite band of the festival, but they completely owned the stage.

I've been re-watching some of the videos on youtube, and did this doodle in the meantime...

Back To The West

Here are some more doodles for the western project I'm (slowly) working on.
Most of these are not finished pieces or anything- just playing with ideas.

Hope you like em.

Giddyup.

Sketchcrawl Scrawlings

Just some pages from Sketchcrawl last weekend.  Some good, some not so good... All fun.

Sketchcrawl

My friend from work Goro Fujita put together a video of our time at Sketchcrawl on Saturday in SF. Check it out!


22nd SketchCrawl San Francisco from Goro on Vimeo.

I will be posting drawings from the day as soon as I can get to it, and I've posted some pictures on my photo blog that you can check out now if you're so inclined...

A New Outlet

So I'm starting up a new photo blog in an effort to take more pictures.
Please stop by and check it out if you have a second.

http://www.theitzphoto.blogspot.com/

Here's a sneak peak

Sketches!

Recently, we had a mini comic-convention at DreamWorks where a bunch of amazing artists set up booths and showed off their personal work.

In preparation for the con, I had a number of "sketchbooks" printed off consisting of work from my blog and sketchbooks.

The PDI-Con (as it was called) has passed, and I have some left over.

If anyone is interested, I'm selling them for $10 a book.

Each book is 27 pages and comes with a free postcard!

If you would like one, please email me at spguy_25@yahoo.com, and we'll work out the details!

Ps--Just went to my first WonderCon in San Francisco---boy was it inspiring!!

Out With The Old, In With The New...

I was having a difficult time figuring out how I wanted this villain to look, but I think I'm finally happy with this guy...

Some expressions for the Janitor. I think he might look a little older here than I want him to be...

Every Bar needs a Tender...
Not quite sure who this guy is, but for some reason...I kinda like him.

Seeing as how we're well on our way through January, and February is fast approaching, I thought it was time to get Santa off the top of my page.

These are some sketches I've been doing for a personal project I'm working on. I'll post more as I have them...