More Produce Packages

Yesterday's post elicited a response from John Ball of BDG that included a bunch more examples of the packaging work that my illustration has been featured on.

I have done a combination of full color as well as line art pieces for John and it's always a fun challenge to take something as potentially dull as a cardboard box and make it lively and interesting.

This particular box has it's own story that I will have to save for another day. Let's just say that getting the character of the farmer right was a bit of a challenge. But hey, it's our job as illustrators to make the client happy, which in the end I believe I accomplished.

Psycho Raccoon

This is one of those things I have no idea where it came from. Just doodling in my sketchbook, I did a series of angry looking critters an it sort of grew from there. I posted one a while back where I took the same approach as this one - scan the drawing and then colorize and add textures in Photoshop. I may have gone overboard adding texture and grunge, but I was having so much fun. This sort of reminds me of the pair of squirrels that have committed suicide in my studio in the past year (I promise I am not making this up). Take the poll to the right and let me know if you want to hear the gory story. If I get enough votes, I'll write it up and post it later.

Graveyard

Graveyard - ink on bristol - 6" x 8"

I like to do line art, though I don't often get very many opportunities to create it for clients. This piece was my favorite of a series of pictures I did as online content for a fantasy publisher.