Illustrations

Clear Night

I wanted to recreate being in nature while camping and looking up to see a dark sky illuminated by the moonlight and stars. The trees are drawn with 05 micron pen and white gel pen. The background is spray paint, but the moon was covered slightly to create the illusion of moonlight. The stars were added at the end with white gel pen.

Movie Still

This still is from My Neighbor Totoro by Studio Ghibili. The two characters are a medium (chu) and a small (chibi) forest spirits (totoros) walking through a backyard. The sketches were flatted with layers of ink wash. After the ink dried, I lined the small totoros with micron pen and layered on charcoal. The cast shadow was created with condensed charcoal and the remainder of the background was vine charcoal.

Wavy Glass

The reference was a wavy glass bottle filled with water and has two paintbrushes inside. The light refracted through the glass which made some interesting highlights. I gravitated towards this bottle because of its unique shape. Everything was drawn with a white Prismacolor pencil.