"The Spooky Sound" available

I just received my copy of "The Spooky Sound", the Cars book that I had the pleasure to illustrate for Random House. It's available in stores now, so if you happen to check it out, please let me know what you think!

WDW Radio Podcast interview

Last year, while employed by the Disney Design Group, I was interviewed on the WDW Radio Podcast. If you're interested, please click on the link below:

http://www.wdwradio.com/2009/02/show-104-feb-1-2009/

Van Wrap

This is some art for one of the vans that advertises the Disney Water Parks. I inked the final art digitally with Adobe Illustrator and painted with Photoshop. This particular Ariel is a revised version of one of her standard poses, adjusted and freshly illustrated for better placement in the seat (though the vehicle is not exactly 18th century).

Toy Story illustrations

I illustrated a short story with the "Toy Story' characters for a children's math workbook; this involved rough layout and final pencils.

"Woody's Wild Adventure" - chapter book

Here are some pencils that I rendered with... pencil! Helping out on this book was Lotso fun.

Toy Story 3

I was invited to help draw "Toy Story 3" characters for people who had just seen a special screening of the film at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Here's hoping the movie's a big hit!

Water Parks Billboard

Here is some of my art for another new billboard for Disney's Water Parks, along with some of the concept sketches.

Billboard for Water Parks

This is an illustration that I sketched, inked and rendered (digitally) for Disney's Yellow Shoes creative group, promoting Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon. Just saw the final version today on a billboard!

New Cars book

Here's a cover I did recently for a new Step into Reading children's book. It will be available in January 2011. This involved pencil sketch, clean-up, and some Photoshop digital painting.

Hitchhiking Ghosts lanyard pin

I had a lot of fun with this lanyard pin. We so often see the Hitchhiking Ghosts (unofficially named Phineas, Ezra and Gus) represented just as they are in the Haunted Mansion, it's fun to give them a different pose once in a while... as long as they continue to thumb a ride to fill their quotas!

If you look closely at the art, I included their initials. See if you can find plump Phineas' "P", eerie Ezra's "E" and grandpa Gus' "G"!

The Incredibles storybook

This is an illustration I penciled for "The Incredibles" storybook art pool. (The officer on the far right is a caricature of Alex Topete, my first supervisor back at Walt Disney Feature Animation.)

Incredibles 5th Anniversary pin

This is one of the very last pins I designed for the Disney Design Group last year, about this time. I've always enjoyed interpreting the Pixar characters into 2D drawings - it's like re-imagining the films as if they were traditionally animated. The interesting thing about Pixar merchandise is that there are three levels of stylization: 3D computer-generated renderings from the studio, highly-detailed and accurate drawings used for creating sculptures or big figs, and simplified art like this pin. Most of my Pixar experience is from the opportunities I've had to work on children's book illustration, and I'll always be grateful for that.