Resident Bunneh

I started working on this one back in October, and yeah, I’ve just now gotten around to finishing it. Whoop.

I’m not even a big Resident Evil fan, but I can’t resist the need to draw Zombie Bunnehs. The Resident Evil love belongs entirely to my wonderful Fiance, who happens to be fighting off Zombunnehs beside me in this picture. <3 (full view on Portfolio page)

Been working slowly on my book still, but nothing’s finalized quite yet. Here’s some line art of the character Harmony, an incredibly powerful being whose whole existence is based around the workings of the Bubble Factory.

I’ve been drawing a lot of deer to get the right gesture right, and its starting to kick in. Deer legs are like stilts, and I find that when I try to give them too much detail, I lose the idea I’m going for. It took me almost a year to finally design Harmony, and I’m quite proud of her. I’ve cycled through idea after idea, sketch after sketch, and nothing ever seemed right. No matter how many different animals I decided to try her out in, nothing was ever right. She was like a shapeless ghost in my mind, such a powerful character to the story, and when she finally came to me I felt like I was finally at peace with this war of a character design. Why had I never thought to use a deer before? Simple: the story’s villain is also a deer.

Here’s a practice color version of the sketch I posted a few weeks back, of Discord threatening Thursday and Lobotomy Bunneh. It’s not my general coloring style, but I like to practice with this kind of work to get my hand used to the tablet again. I attacked this without adding any line art, another jump for me.

We’re a regular studio factory over here at the home we call The Klubhaus. Brendan’s been back to drawing, and I’ve been trying to pump out good work when I’m not keeping up with classes. I find it very strange to have strictly academic classes after being in art school for so long, but its still a nice change of pace. I guess I’m just a life time student.

What’s Up?

A scene from early in the story, in which Thursday finds Lobotomy Bunneh resting on the side walk in self-loathing. The flavor text here would be “I think… I lost my brain.”

Been on a pretty big musical kick the last few weeks. Has anyone seen the new movie Nine, with pretty much everyone you’ve ever loved in the cast? The story hits me pretty close to home, but I cant stop listening to the soundtrack. Ug, so good. Makes me want to watch Chicago again, too. These kind of things inspire me a great deal, so I’m glad I have them around.

I’m getting together the bits and pieces of an application I’m going to send off to MECA for their Art Education program. SMCC is nice, but it’s not going to fit in with my time frame or what I want to be doing after this semester. Once I’m teacher certified at least then I can get a job I’ll enjoy, and I wont have to slave away to retail ever again. After that I’ll see what direction I’m headed in. If anyone knows anything about this program please pass on the information, I’d appreciate it.

Back to work, Back to work!

My New Years resolution is simple: get back to work! This time last year I was jumping head first into my Thesis project at MECA; a 32 page story book of the Bubble Factory. It was rushed, and because of a million other things happening all at the same time, it wasn’t the exact outcome that I had wanted. I was happy with it at the time, but now I want to take another stab at it, so here I go.

The story is being re-written, most of the images are getting recycled, and the format will be a little different. I wrote down a lot of really great feedback from my end of semester review last spring (thanks to Rob Sullivan and Jamie Hogan), and I’m working with things accordingly.

This isnt the final, but its really close: just wanted to share with you all my first finished page for the book since I considered it done the first time. No text will be added.

This scene occurs after Thursday and Lobotomy Bunneh return to the bunneh village only to find it completely drained of its color and happiness. The bunneh’s are sad, sick, and slow, and there isn’t a drop of joy to be found. Thursday and LB are appalled; who could have done such a thing? Where do they go from here? You’ll have to stay tuned. (click image for bigger version)

Discord

Something I’ve been doodling with. More like a little warm up drawing, although it came out a little more finalized than I had intended.

Also felt like posting a sketch, and settled on this  for one of the page spreads to my second edition of Lobotomy Bunneh’s Bubble Factory; Part One.

Been having a beyond rough time lately. Drawing is all I can do to keep myself sane. Hopefully some good will come out of it all.

Merchandise

Finally got some quality work in again.. Head on over to the Store section of the site to see my newly revamped Etsy store and my brand new Zazzle! Lobotomy Bunneh loves monehs.

Time is Fleeting…

As promised, here is another Halloween costumed picture of Lobotomy Bunneh and Crew, and I’m starting to wonder about my sanity. Rocky Horror is a little over done, yes, but it’s a musical thats still dear to my heart, and I believe it’s one of those cultural phenomenons that everyone has to experience at some point during young adult-hood. Lobotomy Bunneh agrees with me.

Rocky Horror love aside, I did this image mostly for the challenge of trying to depict the Bunneh’s in their underwear. I feel like overall its a pretty healthy excersize to explore your characters and see just how far you can push them. For something as simple as the anatomy of the Bunneh, these little guys can be pushed pretty far.

Thanks for looking everyone, hope you enjoy this picture as much as I do 

(to see this picture bigger, visit the Portfolio page)

Werebunneh

Here are some more Halloween themed Bunneh’s for your amusement.

Werebunneh is the type of fellow I think I’d get along with.

October is for Bunnehs

I took a huge sigh of relief as I looked at the calender and realized September had indeed gone by, and I was in fact still alive. Mostly. I am a summer person, and I generally hate watching the cold rush in and the trees starts to shead. But I’ll admit it; I love October. I love the orange trees, and once I get used to it I even love the cool breezes. Mostly, I love Halloween, and how it seems to last longer and longer every year.

Does anyone remember, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”? I always remember the “I got a rock” scene, beacuse it cracked me up as a kid. I totally thought it was the best thing ever, and I every year on Halloween I try to recreate the same thing in some kind of doodle, and no one else ever thinks its as funny as I do. This year I wanted to know how Lobotomy Bunneh would act in this situation, and I think I found it. Here he is trick-or-treating with some fellow bunneh friends.

Finally, heres my newest digital image; Lobotomy Bunneh and I dressed up in 20’s fashion for Halloween. Expect more fun little couple costumes before the month is out!

Owl Bear

Ever play Dungeons and Dragons? No? Me either. But if you have, this is for you:

And a Bottle of Rum

More updates being done to the site. Been working on adding little images here and there for your amusement, and of course, actually putting together the portfolio page. That should start getting a little more professional in good time. Until then, enjoy this pirate bunneh.