Over the last few months I have been listening to the unabridged Blackstone Audio of Moby Dick. Along the way the story has seeped into my thoughts and drawings. I present to you some work that I made along the way. As it turns out, I am a little obsessed with illustrating stories. Hmm, perhaps there a […]
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Summary: An illustration based on my visit to the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
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Summary: An illustration based on my visit to the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
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After seeing some fan art in a comic book, I decide to do some of my own of the Kevin Cross' character Monkey Mod.
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Summary: I Share a character study and a video of my watercolor painting. Happy New Year! A few of you may have seen via my Instagram or Twitter feed that I was developing a character study for my Sherlock Holmes character. For those who were paying particular attention, you would have noticed that I did it twice! The […]
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Summary: The beginning of a series of posts about my Sherlock Holmes thesis project showing preliminary sketches.
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I did this sketch in my sketchbook. I guess I was feeling a little maudlin… Then I found this quote, which made me feel a little better. “Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful — be concerned with doing good […]
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Summary: I share some of my process creating a faux Rolling Stone magazine cover of the Ramones. Giclee prints of the image are also made available! One of the assignments for my MFA program is that we are asked to create an illustration by look back into illustration history and finding an artist whom we admire, then we […]
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Summary: This blog post covers a book project that I worked on from the end of 2014 to the beginning of 2105. I was hired to create a cover illustration and a number of black and white interior illustrations for the book The Hole Story of Kirby the Sneak and Arlo the True.
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Wow!! This is wonderful, Brian!! I especially love how the cover turned out… very cool!!
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The Boyler Kat a illustrated response to my MFA related New York City visit last November. These are some some pictures from the creative process.
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Thank you Leah!
The visit to SF was full of experiences and it was a challenge to fit many of them into one piece.
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San Francisco and squirrels… two of my favorite things!! Love everything about this piece… beautiful!!
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Greetings, I want to share a recent illustration that completed for my MFA program. The program has us traveling around the country for different contact periods twice a year, spring and fall. We always return to home base which is the Hartford Univeristy in Connecticut in the summer time. Last fall we traveled to New York […]
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Thanks Patrick! It’s so easy to be “too busy” for figure drawing… but dang it’s good for the soul!
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A friend and I use the buddy system to get ourselves out to a local life drawing session, and I show my sketches. It’s great to get out to a life drawing session. It is a bit like going to the gym in that I find it helps to keep my hands and eyes in shape. Just […]
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[…] site by Brian Bowes, shows more detailed steps on how to create a color script starting with images found on the web. […]
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Recently I decided to follow Mr. Badger along as he paid a visit to a friend in Mythwood.
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The Story of the Fisherman is a letterpress book that is hand bound and hand colored. The limited edition of 117 (101 of which are for sale) is a project that is produced by Foolscap Press.
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