At my dayjob, my department does these “creative challenges” every week or month just for fun. Sometimes it can be brainstorm-y. Sometimes it’s just experimental. Right now we’re in the middle of a fairy tales run (and I get to pick the next one… not sure which would be intresting yet).
Anyway, I decided I wanted to showcase a particular flash interface template that my colleague, Dan, created for high school math. We’ve been using this template a lot in the past year to help kids work through equations visually step by step. But I wanted to show off what else it could do so I put the entirety of “The Princess and the Pea” into it. I dashed off the illustrations really quickly between last night and this afternoon to be able to showcase it for the meeting today so it’s really not my best work. But it did allow me to loosen up my style a bit both in the penciling and the painting. This is all part of my plan to be able to get to draw more in my day job. I can’t post the interface here since it’s owned by my company, but I can post the illustrations. The full story text is here.
What part of “Meow” didn’t you get?
This past weekend we saw the show currently known as “Teller’s Macbeth” (though it’s actually co-directed by Aaron Posner). It was the best staging of Macbeth I’ve seen to date and it’s currently sold out through the end of the run. I was inspired by the production to draw this heavy – Lady Macbeth. To be clear, she was NOT portrayed in the play the way I have sketched her here. I decided I wanted her to be very young (too young to gauge the consequences of her action appropriately), ambitious, and super sexy (so that an older Macbeth would be captivated into pleasing her). So yeah I think my lady M is a bit of a rock star.
I did this sketch all digitally and very quickly (so it’s still very unfinished and still just a sketch). I tried another loose technique which started with my tracing a photograph of myself.
We’ve started a new set of creative challenges at work. This is my rather standard treatment of Red Riding Hood. I didn’t really finish in time – I really had wanted to put in the wolf – but I think it’s ok as it is.
The crocuses in the yard are croaking. Happy Spring! I made a new card for GCU.
I finally finished what was supposed to have been my holiday card this past year. Yep, I’m still behind in just about everything from 2007. I just uploaded it to GCU for Christmas 2008.