I haven’t titled this one yet, I have one in mind that sounds like a proverb and another that’s more straight forward…”Young Claude’s Dinner Date”.
Posts Tagged: butterbroda
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Jul 10
Up and away
I finished off the Dark Horse cover and decided to go back to an old sketch. The colored part is still very much in the “slop” stage, so the shapes haven’t been refined and the colors are subject to change, depending on the background that gets used.
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Jun 10
Cosmos Intruders WIP
This is another WIP for the Westerly Strut sub-series. I wanted to add some scifi elements, a robot was my first thought, but then I had this Space Invaders style idea the other night.
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Jun 10
The beehive Illustration
Title: “An Uninvited Advance Engenders Swift Resolution”
I planned on using bees as a theme for the “Westerly Strut” subset to “Butterbroda”, but decided to go with the main series…at least for this one.
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Jun 10
Norns Final Illustration
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Title: “A Trembled Thread Through Our Hands”
I thought I could get away with breaking this into three images, but after experimenting, I decided that breaking up the thread wasn’t working…so I’ll be selling this print as one 15″x7″ image rather than three 5″x7″s
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May 10
The Norns Sketch
I’ve been head deep in another job, specifically a comic book cover, which I can’t say much about right now, but it’s kept me from getting any personal work done. Before the cover, I had started sketching out a new triptych for Butterbroda with a depiction of The Norns. The Norns (similar to The Fates), are three maiden giantesses who decide the fates of men through their judicious twinning, measuring and cutting of the tread of fate, of each individual. I’ve drawn them standing in front of the World Tree (Yggdrasill), which is the blue squiggles in the back. Hopefully I’ll be able to get started on this during the weekend.
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Mar 10
Flipping the bird
I flipped the colors on this one, it started with the lighter pallet , but I felt it was getting a little lost…at least in the present composition. This is part of the “Westerly Strut” sub-series, but it could really go with Butterbroda “proper” as well. On a side note, I’ve started to color the “Felled” drawing, it still has along ways to go, but will post the WIP soon.
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Feb 10
Prairie Iguana
Title: Negotiating the Prairie Iguana
Originally this was meant to be a diptych,like the other I had done. Aside from liking triptych and diptych, there was also a practicality angle (in terms of shipping) bc I have the materials for shipping 5″x7″ prints, but not 8″x10″. But I decided that breaking the images into two halves doesn’t work for the flow of the composition. So I reformatted this as well as “We Shall Pop A Cap” to 8″x10″. I’ll likely have these printed on a glossy stock as it provides scratch protection, which these bigger prints may need. Once they’re under glass, the difference in surface finishing to the 5″x7″ becomes a non issue.
