Super Quick Post

Just got those sketches scanned today -- have been spending hours on Illustrator lately which, while an excellent program, leaves me occasionally cranky when I just want to rough in my lines and instead have to determine just where I want them and then judge the correct angle of curve for my vector lines...it's just a very different way to create and somewhat counter-intuitive at times. 

I'll...probably post the couple things I'm doing...they aren't show stoppers...they are more just to show I can work in Illustrator, I suppose. They aren't as close to the style of the company's art work as they could be...but that is...hopefully okay. I keep saying 'they'. I have one of them 99% done. I'm deciding tonight which of two sketches I want to super rush to make into the second which I have yet to start. 

Anyway, here are a few sketches from trips across the country: 

Some ratspeakers inspired by Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. (The sketch cut off at the bottom was a very bad doodle done during a severe anxiety attack as an attempt to get myself out of my head. It was slightly successful but the stupid anxiety kept me from being able to go to my mind palace.) 

Inspired, respectively, by paper lanterns in a friend's apartment and watching Shaun of the Dead there.

These are pretty light. Can you see them? I was drawing foxes on a train in New Mexico. 

Funny story: shortly thereafter I came across a similar page of foxes I drew a few years ago. These foxes are...better. I have improved at showing movement and mass and figuring out the lines that are necessary.