Season's Greetings

Whew! Christmas is finally over, so this will be the last holiday-related post for a while. Before the holidays, I was commissioned to create this card for a private client. I'm happy with the way it turned out!

Santa Is Watching, Part Four

And here's the last one! Due to a mix-up at the printers, I didn't receive enough copies of this card, so not everyone on my list got one. At long last, here is the super-rare fourth Christmas card:

Santa Is Watching, Part Three

And here's the third one:

Santa Is Watching, Part Two

This is the second of the four Christmas cards I sent last year:

Santa Is Watching, Part One

I'm not sending Christmas cards this year (although I should have a little something just after New Year's), so I thought instead I'd show the series that I sent out last year. Here's the first of four:

Cowpoke

On a whim, I decided to take an older image from my portfolio and update it with my current coloring style. I think the colored outlines and various textures give the illustration more warmth and a "hand-made" quality that the old method lacked, while still retaining my trademark animation-influenced cartooniness.

See for yourself. Which do you prefer?

old version:

new version:

Birthday

This is a new style I'm working in: fast, bright, and really kid-friendly. It's not an actual silkscreen, but just a regular line drawing colored in Photoshop to emulate the silkscreen look.

Ka-Blam!

Here's the poster I designed for the Pittsburgh-based Toonseum's annual fundraiser, "Ka-Blam." This year's theme was "The Return of Saturday Mornings," so I wanted it to look like a cel setup from a 1960s/70s-era cartoon that exists only in my mind.