Soccer Park Sketches

PRINCE CHIRPIO Costume and Cover Concept Work

These are some of the first sketches I'm doing with Michelle Burke, my editor at Tommy Nelson, for my new project PRINCE CHIRPIO. They are stories for children based on biblical parables or principles. Michelle wanted me to focus on the costume, and have Chirpio's garment be vest-like, being open at the bottom so his little "tushy" and tail feathers can show (don't worry he doesn't mind). For King Fluffbelly, she wanted me to have his garment be like a robe that opens in the front.

Sample Painting for "Robot Penguin" Work in Progress

A sample painting from the dummy I will be sending to editors shortly. Wish me luck! I love this character. A marriage of Leonardo da Vinci and a penguin!

Project ROBOT PENGUIN Character Studies

So, I'm working on this project about a robot/inventor/dreamer penguin. I have several working titles me and my agent have come up with, including ROBOT PENGUIN, CHILLY da VINCI, and the latest, courtesy of my agent, LEO. CHILLY title and LEO obviously play off Leonardo da Vinci, which has become a strong base for this character, a renaissance dreamer who builds machines from old and new ship wreckage, machines with the purpose of escaping this character's limited and monotonous iceberg. Interested publishing houses include Little, Brown and Company and Harcourt Houghton Mifflin.

Character Study for King BigMane

Character Study for PRINCE CHIRPIO

Robot Bear