Farmyard Characters

When I start a new character design, I almost always start with the face. The face is the most expressive with personality. I then move on to the body, giving it the same gestural feeling that the face expresses. All of these are done in my primary medium of watercolor and ink. I love the medium because it is so fluid and it keeps you loose and painterly.

Smug Chicken.

Composition Studies

I tend to spend a lot of time in the initial stages of developing a composition. I work up thumbnail sketches but very quickly get into full watercolor paintings, as I want to feel the way the characters and colors are going to interact in the final illustration. Here are some composition studies done in watercolor and ink.

Spring

Happy spring everyone.