Archive for June, 2009

Here’s the character designs for the next 40pg kids book I did for Rubicon Publishing!

These actually went through some small revisions. Here, I removed the bully’s stubble:

Here’s the main character with “younger” looking glasses and a longer shirt. In the story, his father passed away and I wanted to imply that he had kept his father’s shirt and wore it every day.

Here’s the female friend with a more current style of dress. She actually appears in a quite a few different outfits in the book, but this is my favorite.

And finally, here’s the superhero in the book, The Hawk!

I tried to make the costume as simple and iconic as possible. I wound up losing the pirate boots and went with simpler, skin-tight boots in the final book.

Here’s The Hawk when the main character draws him:

To get the effect of a drawing, I just quickly draw the figure with no under drawing and then color it with a brilliant brush in Photoshop that kinda simulates those crappy color markers you get when you’re a kid.

I had a lot of fun designing these characters!