Children's books for Paradise Press

These are some of the books I illustrated for Paradise Press. I designed all the characters, and had fun drawing them in their little adventures.

Concepts for Tomorrowland stage show

These are concept sketches I did back in 2006 for Disney Entertainment, for a "Meet the Robinsons" stage show that never materialized.

High hopes for "UP"

These are some images I penciled for the Up storybook. "Up" has been nominated for Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards! I don't think an animated film has had that honor since "Beauty and the Beast", back in 1991.

"Sistine Bears"

This was just something I drew in a friend's sketchbook, which was being passed around the studio during "Lilo and Stitch" to be drawn in for fun - sort of like a yearbook. I photocopied it and colored it with colored pencil. At the time, we were looking forward to working on "Brother Bear", and my wife and I had recently gone to Italy for our honeymoon (our "luna di miele") -so there were a couple of mixing influences!

"The Adventures of Lady" children's book

This is another book I had the pleasure of illustrating (again, with the painting talents of Bob Stanton) at Project Firefly. Based on a true story by Iris Pearson and Mike Merrill, it won the 2007 New York Book Festival award for best children's book.

"All of Life is a School" storybook

When I was with Project Firefly, I had the opportunity to illustrate a children's book (with Bob Stanton, who provided the wonderful color) based on a story by Kermit Weeks, about vintage aircraft at his Fantasy of Flight attraction in Polk County, Florida. To call it an "attraction" is an understatement - it's an amazing facility that celebrates the dreams and achievements of flight.
The website is http://www.fantasyofflight.com/. It was definitely a lot of fun to work on this book, and I learned quite a bit. Taking reference pictures while flying in a biplane added to the thrill, as well!

Wall-E storybook

This is one of the pages I penciled for the Wall-E storybook.

Cars

This is a clean-up I did a few years ago for the first art pool of the "Cars" storybook, for Disney Publishing.

Meet the Robinsons

A clean-up I did for the "Meet the Robinsons" storybook cover.

Cars illustration for upcoming book

I used Adobe Photoshop to paint the final background and character levels.

Here is the final pencil (I usually use a Tombow HB pencil or mechanical when necessary).

This is the rough layout I submitted first.

Ratatouille cover

The above is a rough layout of a Ratatouille book cover as I received it, prior to cleaning it up.

A Ratatouille cover I cleaned up for Random House via Disney Publishing.

Toy Story pins for Zoetrope set

These were drawn as part of a pin set about the Pixar zoetrope (which is spinning at Disney's California Adventure), in collaboration with Brett Brooks, who did the original concepts for the set.