Intermediate sketch for a Wall Street Journal illustration. The article talked about a troublesome moment in the McDonalds conglomerate's expansion. Burger King had tried and failed at introducing products that emphasized vegetables. This confused marketers because studies proved loud and clear that healthy eating was very much on the mind of the public. McDonalds was starting to feel the pressure to add similar products but was holding back on investing in the trend. From hind sight we can see they're still holding back. Pencil, 1999.

Intermediate character sketch of Capt. Quirke of the good ship "Frowsty Dophin". This and not the earlier thumbnail post is the quality of sketch I like to show the client. I've worked out the underlying shape and how that expresses the character's personality, I get how the character moves, I've added some light sources, leaving very little for the client to find ambiguous. I have no problems if they  want to make changes, what I don't like is when I've not presented a product that is mostly realized from my perspective. Pencil, 2009.

Character study for Capt. Quirke of the good ship "Frowsty Dolphin". This is primarily a thumbnail page in which I work out the underlying shapes that make up the overall form of the character. From here I'd choose the shape that best expresses the character's personality. In this case I dug the sketch in the upper middle and started to render him here rather than moving on to an intermediate sketch page. I did that later, however, and will post that one too. Pencil, 2008.

Happy Birthday to Mohandas K. Gandhi! He turned 143 years young yesterday. Long live Gandhi-ji and his message of love! Oil on panel, 4.5' x 2', 2010.

Final art for "Stand Tall Abe Lincoln" written by Judith St. George, illus.d by me and publ.d by Phylomel/Penguin&Putnam. That's Abe and his sister Sarah right down front and next to the teacher. I had fun designing and painting the various kid's faces, specially the weisenheimers. Water color, gouache, 2004.

Guess I was in a D and D/bathroom cleaning kind of mood when I did this. 

I'm thinking that I did this to show my son Gabriel Faulkner (he was 12 at the time) how I really felt about toilet maintenance. Drawing can be such fun! Pencil, 2004.

F and G sheet (folded and gathered) for the book "Because I Could Not Stop My Bike" by Karen Jo Shapiro and illus.d by me, publ.d by Charlesbridge. This was a fun book to work on- classic poems re-tooled by Karen to make them a little more accessible to kids. Gouache, water color, 2003.