The Journey

Had an idea for this before the new year so I wanted to knock this out to start off 2012 with a new illustration. Can you find your favorite member of the fellowship?

Here is the initial comp with rough sketches:

I have another idea in mind for these whacky guys but that might need to be put on hold. I have a long list of illustrations I want to do so stay tuned. Also, I will be making "Storytime" available as a print--below is an image of it. Beginning next week it will be available at the Happy Six store and you always have the option of ordering it directly from me. Email me for details.

Thanks! More news to come especially for the Book Release Party coming up next weekend, Feb. 11!

BIG NEWS

So this is what I have been waiting to share with all of you! After 4 years in the making my buddy, Kevin Staniec, and I are releasing a children's book. Our company name is "TREEHOUSE BANDITS" and here is the cover:

We will be doing a book release party---selling and signing the books for only $10. We will have two posters for sale as well as an exclusive print available only on this day.

Here is the info:
Saturday, February 11, 2012
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Happy Six, 2115 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025

RSVP@TreehouseBandits.com

To keep up-to-date with Treehouse Bandits and to preview some pages from the book please visit us at

http://treehousebandits.com/

Many thanks to everyone for all the support, we are very eager to share this with all of you!

SKETCHES AND MORE

While in London I had the opportunity to visit the Imperial War Museum. One word...WOW! This place was a military nerd's dream come true. It was packed with different military vehicles from WWI and WWII as well as an entire floor dedicated to the uniforms, armament, and memorabilia from that time. Guess what...it was all free too! That's right ladies and gents, no admission fee! If you are in London I highly recommend you visit this place. I spent all day there and it was still not enough time. I wanted to draw everything inside, alas, there are only so many hours in a day. 

Here are a few of the sketches I managed to squeeze out. All drawn on site.

Below are a few more sketchbook pages from the trip. 

And lastly, this wasn't on the trip (that would have been cool) but it is a creature demo from my last term that I started to render up a little bit just for a change of pace.

Enjoy and thank you for stopping by. Stay tuned for Monday, I will have some exciting news to blog about!

-Patrick

CHALLENGE!

As we traveled around each city of course I would have my sketchbook handy and be drawing everything in sight or try to that is. My wife is very patient and gives me the time needed to complete these drawings, however, one day she decided to change it up for me.

While in a London coffeeshop hanging out she looks at me and says CHALLENGE. I looked at her and said what challenge. She was calling me out and pointed to an area of the street and said draw it! I looked at her a little confused then said OK. Below is the first challenge.

From city to city she would walk around the sites find a spot and beckon me over and say challenge. This was actually quite liberating because I would just have to sit down and draw. Here are the rest of the challenges. All were drawn on site, no rulers just a lot of patience and a lot of prayers for a good drawing.

 Interior of the coffeeshop.

First Church I drew on the trip.

Interior of a tapas bar in Madrid.

Book store in Porto, Portugal that inspired the aesthetics of Harry Potter.

Majestic Cafe, where J.K. wrote Harry Potter, Porto, Portugal.

Church altar detail.

Some exterior sites in Cordoba.

Mezquita.

Tapas bar, I had a few too many canas while drawing this.

Alcazar, holy crap I was cold while drawing this. I wanted to stop but the wifey told me to suck it up.

Alhambra, Granada, Spain.

THe tomb of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel. 

Barcelona cafe.

Sagrada in Barcelona.

Detail studies of lamps and tombs in Barcelona.

I will be posting more sketches and images from the trip in the coming weeks. Next post I will show some new art I am working on to shake things up. Enjoy!

SIESTA FOREVER

Me again, one thing good about jet lag is that it makes you wake up early. Bad thing is that I am hurting for sleep right now. Anyways, while on the trip we had limited internet access and most of the times no T.V. in the room. Some may be bored but it was actually very liberating for me. Made me realize how much time I waste looking at stuff on the net, checking my email, etc... This year I am trying to do less of that and draw more each day. The proof behind this is that in 3 weeks time I went through 4 pens, 4 markers and 2 sketchbooks. This is more drawing than I did in the previous 2-3 months. Well, I scanned all the drawings which took a while and when laid out it looks something like this:

This is a trend I am planning to keep up. So far it's been pretty good but then again I am only 2 days back into the grind at my computer. To get off on another good note the next two images were drawings I did at two different restaurants. The following was done in Lisbon (Portugal) at a restaurant called Decadente. This was done Christmas night, everything was closed the night before so our Christmas eve dinner was McDonalds. The food at Decadente more than made up for that night and the people at the restaurant were so awesome and friendly. It really made our Christmas night away from home special. Shout out to my new friends Alex and Rafaela!

The next sketches I drew in Cordoba (Spain) at a restaurant called Bodegas Mezquita.  We took a train for a day trip to visit the Mezquita. This page was done at a tapas bar because I was going mad with hunger. Luckily I had a cerveza and some fried baby squid so I was a happy camper.

Next up I decided to spruce up the drawings with a little touch of color.

Like I said before, good times, great food and great people.

FELIZ ANO

Well I just got back from what felt like a 3 year trip. My wife and I spent the last 3 weeks in London, Madrid, Lisbon, Porto, Seville, Granada, Cordoba, and Barcelona. I have so many pictures, stories and several drawings to share from my travels. We met a lot of cool people, reunited with old friends and ate a whole lotta food. To get things started this is a drawing I did in the guestbook of a B & B we stayed at in Lisbon, Portugal. The second image was the view I looked at every morning after breakfast.

I love Portugal, great city, friendly people and awesome POLVO!

It's nice to be back home and I can't wait to share more with you all.

Let's get 2012 started right!

-Patrick

Character Studies

First off HAPPY NEW YEAR.

I will post some more fun stuff a little later on but here are some character studies that I did for a short storyboard sequence that I did just for the heck of it. Like I said I will post that later so keep your pants, boxers, whatever you wear ON. If you go commando TMI ( Too Much Information).

-Patrick