Drawn to Distraction http://kevinparks.com/blog Kevin Parks | sketch blog Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:03:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Hero http://kevinparks.com/blog/2012/04/hero/ http://kevinparks.com/blog/2012/04/hero/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:46:08 +0000 Kevin Parks http://kevinparks.com/blog/?p=838 One of my best buddies Christopher Fritschi wrote his first novel last year titled “Hero-The Unknown Territories” and asked me to design the cover. It’s a really funny and entertaining romp through familiar sword and sorcery but in his unique way Chris turns it sideways and makes the genre really fresh and fun. I had a lot on my plate but after reading the manuscript I had to take a stab at it, ultimately it didn’t work out  I didn’t quite get the imagery he had in mind and I got really bogged down with my regular clients so he had another artist complete the project but I hope to illustrate the volume for him in the future. You can find the book here and I highly recommend you not waste any time and read it today as a matter of fact you should purchase several copies to hand down to your grand children.

You can find Chris’ website here.

The sketches were some of the character concepts I liked and below them are the first few cover roughs, now go butter up Chris with compliments so he gets volume 2 written faster.

Tilgar character concepts

 

Dimished Tilgar in his armor

 

Tilgar's gauntlet

 

 

 

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]]> http://kevinparks.com/blog/2012/03/masked/feed/ 2 Zace’s Zombies http://kevinparks.com/blog/2012/02/zaces-zombies/ http://kevinparks.com/blog/2012/02/zaces-zombies/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:22:34 +0000 Kevin Parks http://kevinparks.com/blog/?p=802 I recently finished Abby “Zace” Zsarnay’s new deck, we started playing with a 2012 “End of the World” theme and wound up on zombies.

Skaaaaaaate

We did a bunch of comps on this one trying out different ideas like an ancient Mayan skater and an alien invasion. If anyone is interested I will post them too, just leave a comment.

]]> http://kevinparks.com/blog/2012/02/zaces-zombies/feed/ 1 Les Triolets http://kevinparks.com/blog/2012/01/les-triolets/ http://kevinparks.com/blog/2012/01/les-triolets/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:27:25 +0000 Kevin Parks http://kevinparks.com/blog/?p=789 I just came across this “rubber hose” style animation by the great Carlos Nine and his son Lucas. Carlos Nine (pronounced Neenyay) is an amazing Argentine artist who publishes most of his work via France. His work is wonderfully strange and sensual and seems to come from a different era, I really love this guys stuff.

-and check out Carlos Nine’s website too.

-also check the comments for another cartoon link sent by Lucas created by his brother, what a talented family.
-here is Lucas’ website (thanx Lucas!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY22p68crCw

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zombie babies need love too

maybe they could find a home on the "Raisin Brain Crunch" cereal box

 

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forget something?

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the Hero and the Reverend

Assorted Town-Folk

Assorted Town-Folk too

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