Grandpa, Caution and Me

By Rod Funston

Final art for recent book project in the studio.

 

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Cool thing about this is Jack Davis is a childhood pal of Mr. Funston and did the cover art.

The interior art below is my contribution. 

Nutmeg Ballet Sessions Extended

Thanks again to the Nutmeg Ballet and Five Points Gallery for extending the sessions.

Worked large again. I have reworked some of the previous large short poses and will post them soon.

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Some Drama

Current project, a little run in with nature....

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Harley process

Harley Process  

I received positive responses to a recent Facebook post of a Harley Davidson I drew for a children's book I have in the works.

Thought I'd show the stages I go through.




T-Nail doodle

SketchUp is a great resource for reference material. You can download almost anything mechanical or structural free from their library.  Download the software first there is a free version as well.  Also a fun program to work with (I did NOT do the bike in SketchUp just downloaded an existing file).

Printed the SketchUp image at about 6x6" and worked over on tracing paper. This was sent with the rest of the images for approval.

Client wanted a more specific bike so they sent some reference photos and I revised and refined in Painter.

Nailed the final line art in Painter.

Added grey washes.  I'll add color washes to this after I bring the rest of the art to this stage.

Nutmeg Ballet Large

Nutmeg Ballet Session

This time I went big

Thanks to The Nutmeg Conservatory and Five Points Gallery for arranging the sessions. 

Worked on larger paper (20x24) this session.  Took a while to get comfortable at that scale and tried a variety of larger charcoal sticks.

First three were 5 min. poses the last was three 15 min. poses.


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Look Locked for Grandpa, Caution and Me

Settled on the final art.  All digital using Painter and Photoshop in a way that looks like I didn't.  For current project in the studio.

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More to come soon.  The adventure involves a motorcycle ride
so i get to draw a Harley! 

The Nutmeg Ballet Session 3

The Nutmeg Ballet

Last session with the dancers.  Thanks again to the Nutmeg Ballet and Five Points Gallery for this wonderful opportunity.

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Nutmeg Ballet Session 2

Another wonderful session with the dancers. Two to twenty minute poses.

Thanks again to The Nutmeg Ballet and Five Points Gallery
for the opportunity.

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Some of the following were from the previous session.

Session One Nutmeg Ballet 

Fortunate to be apart of their drawing session today, hoping to make the text two as well.  The dancers were superb, their training and skills makes it impossible for them
to strike a bad pose.  There were as many as 10 in the room the most difficult aspect for me was which pose to choose. 

Poses were from 2 -10 minutes.

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Hector's Heroic Day preview

Images from the recently published

HECTOR'S HEROIC DAY

Written by Patrick Jones

Illustrations your's truly

Link below to more!

https://sites.google.com/site/ladstudiohectorart/