THE KING OF THE FOREST

This is the king/spirit of the forest, revealing himself in all of his clichéd glory.

This is part of my thesis. This is ridiculous.

Typewriter Operator

This is Humphrey. He's journeyed up north to write a book on snow for everyone back home. Right now he's writing a chapter on the pleasures of coffee after coming in from the cold.

He is made of sculpey. There's some paper in there, and some fabric too.

Yes.

Poor moon...

Yes.

Also, I've looked it up, the moon doesn't actually have another name... it really is just "the moon." So I guess the moon is just being a little neurotic.

BUSINESS FRENZY!!!

This is suitshark. Careful, just one drop of business in the water and he could go into a BUSINESS FRENZY.

Bird snake is GO!!!

More sketchbook pop-up madness. This is the majestic birdsnake. Native to the wonderful mountains of southern Canada. The bird snake patrols the wilderness for stray mounties to lead them back to the reservation. Or eat them. Birdsnake sightings are rare, but splendid experiences.

-Rob

Hello! I'm going to work!

More sketchbook enjoyment right here. This little fella is off to work. To do business. You can tell this by his briefcase, which is full of important documents. Yes.

Now in motion!

On another note I've been thinking... there seem to be a few too many Rob Chandlers out there. I was thinking of changing my name to Captain Destruction... thoughts?

Sketchbook Playtime

Been playing around in my sketchbook with making illustrations from sewn fabric. Here is experiment number one.

After I fell in the river but before I drowned

This was my final for Junior year Illustration with Thiel, an illustration for After I Fell in the Water but Before I Drowned by Dave Eggars. Sort of a difficult read (the image, not the story) but I think it works.

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Gouache


Watercolor

One watercolor and one gouache piece. This was my first time with gouache and it was honestly pretty neat stuff, nice, forgiving and easy to control. Watercolor and I, on the other hand, have a long and sorted history of not really getting along... I think this is probably the first time I've managed to actually make watercolor do what I want it to... sort of.

Also, I was talking to a friend about how gouache was spelled versus how gouache was pronounced. I wound up breaking it down to "gwash" which eventually we mutated to G-Wash, which is, of course, what you call gangster George Washington.

Then this happened:

G-Wash

The end.

Feathers eyes and teeth

So it's been a little while since I've posted anything. So, in attempt to fix that:

Anyway this was a sculpture for my advanced media class. There are parts of this I'm pleased with, but there are a lot of places where I really feel like I could have done a lot better with a little more time, but it had to be baked and painted for critique so... well, oh well.

These right here are the classy photos Don Brandes took of it, I have some less classy ones I took myself I might post soon of a couple other angles I liked that he didn't shoot from...

Anyway, more soon hopefully.

Droofus

Another round at stacked paper, this time the assignment was to re-do part of a childrens book. I did my favorite book from when I was a little kid, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head by Bill Peet ( here ). Here we have Droofus being nursed back to health after a crash by a little boy he befriended.

Mmm hmm.


For whatever reason whenever I upload this to the internet the color is flattening out, the whole thing gets gray... anyone know what's going on?

Made to Serenade

So, more robot love themed artwork from back in January. I really wanted to try doing some isometric drawing, so I thought this was a good time to do it.

The lady is based on an Underwood No. 5 because they're awesome.

Sketch dump

This is my sketchbook in progress I started sometime in November, I finally got around to scanning it.

Been having a lot of fun with this one, trying different things and playing around. Good times.

A brief story about a carrot

Quite moving, I know.

Until Gwen

An illustration for the story "Until Gwen" by Dennis Lehane. If I could find anywhere that seemed legitimate where I could link the story I would, I really recommend digging it up, it's pretty neat. Pretty dark, but neat.

I did this one with cut paper markers and a little bit of photoshop.

Sometime soon I should finally get around to scanning my sketchbook and photographing my paintings for figure painting, that should be a couple pretty lengthy posts...

2001: Playstation 3

I think I'm finally getting this whole dimensional illustration thing under control, and I'm having a grand old time with it. The prompt this time around was to do an illustration about a product, advertisement of sorts.

If I keep this up I'm going to have quite a collection of little figures...

Digital Illustration

Some work from digital illustration. Top one was a digital collage assignment. We were supposed to do a book cover, I did Blindness by Jose Saramago.

Next is a painter still life assignment.

Frankenstein

So in keeping with my last post, here's my next swipe at sculptural illustration. Given my past failures I did my best to learn from my mistakes, this time around I sculpted all of it, so if I decided to change angles it'd work, and I made everything underneath the clothes out of wire, so I could re-pose if necessary. I think it worked this time, definitely better than it has in the past at least... we'll see what Joe Thiel has to say about that though...

Doctor Frankenstein making a shopping list.

I have some videos of the process I might post later, I think they're pretty neat. That and I might be posting revisions, I'm still not completely comfortable with the whole thing.

Experiments

So I'm playing around with dimensional illustration again, seeing if I can sharpen that stick into something I can actually use... hoo boy. So this here was something I did to get back into the swing of it for Digital Illustration. The assignment was to read a personal add and try to make a portrait of them based on what you've read.

The add reads as follows:

Cougars Only - 24 - men seeking women
Single white male seeking cougars ONLY. Preferably 28+ but willing to go younger if I "like" you. Must be clean. I am 6'3", 210, dark brown hair, blue eyes and have plenty more pics if interested. Your place, not mine.

Now if that doesn't sound like a classy fellow, then I don't know what does.

Honestly this was a lot of fun, I might do more of these just for kicks.

Digital Illustration - Illustrator

So, digital illustration class is pretty neat. So far we've just been messing with Illustrator. Assignments one and two right here. One was to make themed icons.

I made fancy animals...

Two was to do a vector portrait.

Got a little ridiculous on that one.

More on the way