Mario In Progress

Here is a work in progress. It's the beginning of an illustration I am doing for Jeb Kennedy's "Super September Bros.", month of nintendo art. As hopefully you can see, it's stuff from the Mario Nintendo games placed to form the shape of his head. I plan on coloring it in a way that makes this even more obvious.

I started by getting a silhouette of Marios head and hat. Then I used a ton of reference images of characters and objects from Mario games. These images were a ton of help, and I could free hand the pieces together one at a time as I saw things that could fit into places.

(example of some source images)

Like I said, this is a work in progress, and the finished product will have some color or somethin'.

-KB

Kong's Comin'!

The King of Kong will be up soon! Only at Jeb Kennedy's Super September Bros.

Game in Progress

Over at Jeb Kennedy we are getting prepared to do "Super September Bros". All September we are going to be flooding the Jeb Kennedy website with only Nintendo-themed art. I have too many things in mind that I want to do, and I know I won't be able to do it all.

I have chosen to get started on a pair of illustrations based on my favorite documentary film, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Here's a little sneak peak of progress to get things started.

Billy Mitchell Rough Sketch:

Billy Mitchell 2nd Sketch

Steve Wiebe 2nd Sketch

That's all I'm willing to show for now, but the finished illustrations will be done soon. Thanks for taking a look.

South Africa and the "Lekker Board"

Hey guys and gals. Many of you know that I will be heading to South Africa tomorrow with two of my world's best pals in the world. We will there for the next month or so, just having a great time. Unfortunately, this means little to no blog updates until after, (heavy on the "no"). But when I get back, I promise to update with a vengeance.

Before I leave, however, I do want to post a deck that I painted recently to commemorate the trip. It's a long board I put together with my pal Mark Dewbre. Mark is from South Africa, and will be going with me on the trip.

I spray painted the South African flag on this bad boy.

Me and my pals, Mark and Daniel:

Mark                          Daniel                        Me

I Made a Clock

I made this clock, and I am strangely proud of it. It works and looks cool- the perfect combination.

(Take a look at a few posts down to see the illustrations up close and personal.)

New Book Covers

A while back I created some book covers for two of my favorite books, George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm. I enjoyed doing them a ton, and got a lot of good feedback, so recently I decided to do another set of two of my favorite books by John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

I thought a long time about the style of these, and what I could do to make them go together well. I always want to make these book covers something that pulls out something from the text that you would need to read to understand, instead of just illustrating the title. After some thought, it hit me that these books could be represented well individually by the tortoise and the hair, plus, they would go well together.

I plan on doing at least a third set of two, so if you have any suggestions for authors let me know!

So here's the first look at these covers you've been hearing about:

Here is a quick look at the old George Orwell covers:

New Paper Page Book Stuff

I probably shouldn't be showing this all so soon.