In no real order of appearance, here're a number of things I helped design for last night's The Crazy Ones. The episode can be seen there too. From lady razors to shamrock parade floats - ah, the days of advertising I so miss!
On the last Crazy One's I was asked to help with a fun print ad that was in a competition amongst an ad done by Simon (Robin's character) and a techy co-worker. The tech guy's ad had the Millennium Falcon hidden in the ice sculpture along with some other hidden elements. The story art that came in later had to look as if it were done by Robin's temporary cell-mate over a night in jail...
Here are a couple more for the classes I'm taking. With the character design it was medieval knights in good, silhouettes from simple shapes and gag cartoons from the storyboarding class.
I have a couple classes going now with one in Character Design by Nate Wragg and another in Storyboard Art from Steven MacLeod. Below are a couple submissions from each. The assignments being a medieval knight in a nice, silhouetted pose based on a simple shape, and the other a gag cartoon.
This bit of Story Art came about once we put a tadpole tank together in our daughter's room. I got to thinking, what if there were a Monster of a pet, sort of tadpole-like, that had it's heart in the right place...but its appetite was ALL over the place? This is "The Pet...A monster pet with one scary appetite."
I was drawn to advertising long before I illustrated. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I first worked as an Art Director with ad agencies Leo Burnett, Chicago, and with Saatchi & Saatchi, New York. But working with and hiring all my favorite illustrators through the help of being an Art Director gave me an intoxicating look into their side of the business. I have loved illustrating a number of children's books including Gopher Up Your Sleeve, written by Tony Johnston, Trout, Trout, Trout! (A Fish Chant), Ant, Ant, Ant! (The Insect Chant), both written by April Pulley Sayre, and the recent 16-book series, Rotten School, written by R. L. Stine. I've also helped develop characters and animate commercials for AT&T, PBS, Nickelodeon, Zoloft, McDonald's, California State Fair, Blue Sky Studios (on character design for some features in development), and ironically back with Leo Burnett (my first ad agency) on their new animated campaign for McDonald's.