A work in progress

Here I am in my bloggy again! Here's a little update on my pen n crayon series, letter C:

Didn't quite turn out like I had hoped, but oh well. The purpose of this little project is just to get me to step out of my comfort zone a little bit, and to let go of any preconceived notion of reality. Am I doing that? Yes.

The focus of the week has turned to the laptop skin I'm designing for Devin. His parents gave him a groupon for one for his birthday, and it expires at the end of the month. So I need to get this done! It's mostly born from his ideas, with some of my own tweakings...what I'm doing is drawing the "bones" on paper, then transferring these drawings to Photoshop for color, shading, and texture. The scene that we've come up with is a blue whale, falling out of the sky, with lava shooting from his blowhole, eating birds and planes. Yep, pretty crazy! So here's what the whale (we've named him Arthur) looks like right now:

Creating the lava will be interesting. His skin also needs to look rougher. But between drawing time and Photoshop play time, this took about 45 minutes to complete. 

Yesterday I drew most of the other elements. Here we have the birds:

Naturally the scene will have more than 5 birds...I will just take these basic positions and repeat them in different locations and sizes.

And here we have 3 biplanes, whose pilots are presumably freaking out:

This last guy will be trying his damnedest to escape Arthur's mouth! Will he succeed?? Nobody knows...

So my hope with this is to keep cooking up silly ideas with Devin, and making them into something marketable and purchaseable...laptop skins, iPhone skins, desktop backgrounds, etc. My Zenfolio site actually allows me to sell "digital products" like this, so it could end up being a decent side project. I'm also hoping to start submitting t-shirt designs to Threadless. Here's hoping I can corner the digital market!

TTFN, readers. I'm off to spend the next half hour putting these planes into the file with Arthur...hopefully he'll resist the urge to eat them...