Valentine’s Day. A day of love, chocolates, fine dining, and… other stuff probably. Sometimes those romantic overtures can go a little sideways. This is one of those stories. Enjoy this little Birthday Street classic.
Music credit: “Warm Memories” – Emotional Inspiring Piano by Keys of Moon
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I wasn’t happy with an earlier version of this drawing so I did it over again. It’s important to properly depict the fantastical moment when a cat transforms into a girl or a girl transforms from a cat back into a girl. Maybe, hopefully, I can move on with my life now.
I’m reposting this because it’s timely, I added a new thumbnail image, a couple of new sound fx, a watermark, and some other little details you might not notice. You’re welcome and a Happy Sales Event Season to you all!!!
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I run an afterschool comic book club at my children’s school. I give a little presentation and outline for projects at the beginning of each meeting. When I talk about how to make comic book covers and splash pages it’s the first time that the students get to use markers and pens to ink their drawings. In order to demonstrate how to do this I prepare a number of sample penciled drawings and ink them in front of the students to show them what to do. Here are some pieces I couldn’t help myself from finishing after the session was over. One that’s a nod to one of my favorite artists growing up and some with K-Pop Demon Hunters vibes. Kudos to you if you can name that inspirational artist and the referenced cover. 😉
A little while ago I had the opportunity to work with a great team put together by Byrd Alley to create a series of animated commercials for a new drug to help people suffering from a list of illnesses related to “type 2 inflammation”. Matt Sutter did the character and background art and I did the animation. In these pieces each illness is personified by a member of an extended family living in the same apartment building. The fun part for me was figuring out how to do various morph animations that pop up in each piece (ie. dumpling -> cringe, flowers -> congestion, pizza -> blob monster). View all four animations on my portfolio page.
Playing bike polo is a lot of fun. I started playing it around 2008. The sport has existed as a hardcourt game for about 25 years (as a grass court game for over a century!) and has developed its own subculture. Slang, memes, personalities, global involvement; all there. I’ve designed t-shirts and other products to help my local club raise money in the past. Recently, I have felt an itch to also make some more things related to bike polo that didn’t pertain to my club. This inspired creating BikePolo.Me, a web store for fun Bike Polo apparel and accessories! Check it out. Join in on the fun!
Here is another animated interpretation of Eleanor’s book covers. This time it’s for “Magick In Theory & Practice” by Aleister Crowley. Hopefully, I’ve brought a little bit of magical feeling to the original art.
