Thursday, August 22, 2013

A Quiet Place to Perch



          Hope your day is going well. Here's a long necked gentle-bot, holding painfully still to provide a quiet place for our feathered friend to perch. Colored pencil on black Strathmore sketch paper. Enjoy the rest of your week.

-Cheers-
Daniel DePaolo

Monday, August 19, 2013

My Little Island



     I'm not sure how many times I've drawn some derivation of this image. Some funky little dude (kinda Calvin and Hobb's-ian, mixed with Looney Tunes, with just enough hip-hop sensibility) standing  on a small chunk of land, isolated yet content. It's a bit redundant, but it's always fascinating to see how the essence of the image changes with each rendition. As life moves on, we change, and some times it becomes evident through the subtle ways a 'formulaic' image is recreated/reimagined. I may be telling the same story, but the narrative has shifted and the character has more genuine life than it did before. To me it shows more maturity in my style and my sense of design, but it also gives me a point of reference for the next time I draw my little guy on his own little island.

-Have a good week interweb-
Daniel DePaolo

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Pistol Packin' Rocketman



          Working on multiple things at the moment, and unfortunately haven't been budgeting time to update my blog. With that being said, only good things coming post Summer 2013. For now enjoy a little space cowboy, who walks softly and carries a big gun...

-Cheers-
Daniel DePaolo