I am working on a project that has been on the backburner for a couple years. It is a relief to finally be taking some time for it. After a lot of thought, I determined that it didn’t make sense to try to carry a full time job during the rest of school. The first year went entirely too quickly and I don’t think that it will benefit me to keep working through the second. So that said I have been able to devote a little more time to projects that have been left by the wayside.
One such project is a children’s book that I have been meaning to work on with an amazing writer whose name will remain unspoken until more work is done on the book. For now I have some character sketches for you to view.
I am really enamored with these two sketches. The second one is a self portrait as flying squirrel, which just make me giggle like a school girl. The first was an opportunity to do something with a squirrel besides just having him sit on a tree limb. Versatility is the name of the game.
The bunny is really supposed to be cute. Super cute. So cute it makes you kind of feel ill, like if you have way too much chocolate or banana cream pie. I might need to make him cuter.
This last one is a two headed beast. Well yes there are three heads, but what I mean is it serves as sketches for character studies of two dimensional creatures and I am currently sculpting this totem out of bass wood with the help of a set of chisels or two that my father donated to me.
There’s a lot going on. I’ll be back soon with some more images. Til then.
Peace
-Mike