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2. Alien Invasion!


I've really been neglecting this blog! I've been creating a couple of funny Alien characters every week over on my social media links. I've created postcards, posters and birthday cards with them as well.

If you want to be up to date on my new projects and regular doses of deep space denizens then head here-

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3. Zombies Glow Stickers and Valentines Cards!


Peaceable Kingdom has been hiring me to create some fun zombie themed products for them. Here's the latest- Zombie Valentine's Day Bookmark Cards

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Kiddly Winks
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and Zombie Glow in the Dark Stickers!

Purchase here-
Kiddly Winks
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Also apologies for the neglected blog! It's been over a year posting here. All of my news now goes on all my social media links-

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4. Pirate Temporary Tattoos!



 Super fun pirate themed temporary tattoos created for Gumtoo.

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Gumtoo
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Also apologies for the neglected blog! It's been over a year posting here. All of my news now goes on all my social media links-

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5. Game of Thrones Poster!



Game of Thrones Poster!



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6. Homework

As a kid in school, I was never really great at doing homework. I mean, I did it – oh yes I was quite the miss goodie two shoes, but I never managed to get super high grades for the subjects I wasn’t into that much. The only homework I never procrastinated on was for art class. Nothing much has changed over the years. I really enjoyed doing this week’s Sketchbook Skool homework in the brand new kourse “Polishing”, in which Danny Gregory shows us how to use everyday things and conversations to create pages in your sketchbook graphic novel style.As headmaster and headmistress of Sketchbook Skool, Danny and I want to learn from the amazing fakulty, so each week, we alternate doing the homework assignments from “Polishing”.

As headmaster and headmistress of Sketchbook Skool, Danny and I want to learn from the amazing fakulty, so each week, we alternate doing the homework assignments from “Polishing”.
You can, by the way, still sign up for it! Sign up at Sketchbookskool.com

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7. 10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the new Game of Thrones...



10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the new Game of Thrones season I’ll be posting a new illustration everyday… today is Ygritte!



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8. 10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the new Game of Thrones...



10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the new Game of Thrones season I’ll be posting a new illustration everyday… today is White Walker!



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9. 10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the finale Game of...



10 Days of Thrones: in anticipation of the finale Game of Thrones season I’ll be posting a new illustration everyday… today is Sam Tarly!



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10. A super quick robin hood for planet pulp’s march challenge!



A super quick robin hood for planet pulp’s march challenge!



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11. Illustrator Submission :: Daniel Arriaga

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Daniel Arriaga is an illustrator based in the USA whose work often tells a narrative, depicting fun characters. He has worked in various departments at Pixar, and also Disney. He has helped to produce films such as Wall-E, Up!, and Wreck-It-Ralph. Arriaga combines digital art with a subtle painterly style to bring his work to life, and his clever colour palettes create a nice ambiance in all his work.

If you’d like to see more illustrations by Daniel Arriaga, please visit his portfolio.

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12. Mr. Hyde in colour


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13. Don’t Look at This Character Or You’ll Get Fat, Researchers Claim

A dumb research study says that looking at round cartoon characters can make you obese.

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14. Illustrator Submission :: Stefano Colferai

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Stefano Colferai is an artist, illustrator and character designer born and based in Milan. His work depicts personality-packed and humorous characters brought to life through plasticine. The traditional media gives his work a quirky, unique edge and adjustments are made using digital software.

If you would like to see more of Stefano Colferai’s work, please view his portfolio.

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15. Comics Illustrator of the Week :: Ben Caldwell

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Ben Caldwell dazzles us this week with his eye-popping cover art for Catwoman’s Teen Titans GO! variant. In addition to comics, Caldwell has worked as a toy designer, on various animation/video-game projects, and childrens book illustration. He also writes and draws a popular series of “how to” books called Action! Cartooning. It’s nice to see more and more artists like Caldwell bringing their “animation-style” to comics. It makes perfect sense since there’s so much crossover nowadays between comics & the TV/movie industry.

Ben Caldwell is also known for The Dare Detectives! series of graphic novels, The Wizard of Oz All-Action Classics adaptation, and Star Wars Clone War Adventures comics.

Caldwell graduated from the Parsons School of Design for Illustration and currently lives in New York with his family.

You can see the latest sketches and project updates by following Mr. Caldwell on his twitter page here.

For more comics related art, you can follow me on my website comicstavern.com – Andy Yates

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16. Henri!, Character design concept.



Henri!, Character design concept.



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17. Two More Wizards!

Willow the Squirrel

Rowena the Porcupine

Greeting blog friends! Do you remember the game, Wizards of the Wild which I helped illustrate that was funded on Kickstarter back in March and April? Well, since the Kickstarter campaign reached so many stretch goals, I was able to make two new characters for the game. This time two female wizards. 

Introducing: Willow the Squirrel and Rowena the Porcupine! These characters were so fun to do, and I learned a lot while doing them.


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18. Working on character


I can't show most of what I'm working on right now, but one thing I can show is this little lady. She's currently starring in a story I'm working on. I think she's up to no good.

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19. Mr. Willy Wonka

Trying to put my new understanding of character design to work on some more characters. This is one of my favourite characters from one of my favourite films (I haven't read the book). I love both the original and the more recent Burton version, but being an 80's kid, Gene Wilder will always be the real Willy Wonka to me. For this design I wanted to forget both of these films. 


I based it loosely on Frank Lloyd Wright.


One of the things I loved most about Wonka in the original film and wanted to capture was his ambivalence. I remember as a kid not quite knowing whether he could be trusted or not. I hope that my design has some of that quality in it.


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20. Jekyll & Hyde - WIP

Hyde character design process sketches
Hyde character design process sketches
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Jekyll character design process sketches

Here are more design process sketches for Jekyll & Hyde. Doing all this research is a worthwhile discipline which I'm not used to doing as thoroughly as this.


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21. Jekyll & Hyde gestures

 
I still have quite a bit of work to do in clarifying the designs, but I thought it might help to flesh out their personalities if I did these quick story/gesture sketches first.

My idea for a fresh take on Jekyll & Hyde was to make Jekyll a Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor who's obsessed with potency herbs. Hyde would be his wild party-animal state after taking the concoction of herbs.

4 weeks in, and the course has been a lot of fun, a lot of drawing, and a lot of eye-opening. My biggest challenge has been simplifying the design and making it read clearly. The biggest eye-opener has been thinking more of shape than anatomy.

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22. Wizards of the Wild on Kickstarter!



I'm happy to announce that the game, Wizards of the Wild, for which I was one of the illustrators is now funding on Kickstarter! Click here to go to the Kickstarter page!

I had the great opportunity to participate in this fun project! I illustrated the cover, the character cards and some of the magic cards. I especially loved creating the characters! I am posting the full illustrations of the characters below. Enjoy! And please come help back the game and pass the word along! I would love to see this game be published!









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23. I’ve always loved the makeup & costuming on these movies...



I’ve always loved the makeup & costuming on these movies they did for Padmé.



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24. more character sketches

 
 

Here are some of my other ideas for the Walter Chipwitther character back in week 1. You can see the initial sketches here for the designs I chose to take further.

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25. After playing some street fighter at an arcade recently, I just...



After playing some street fighter at an arcade recently, I just had to recreate this guy! I love Dhalsim! 



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