Ginger M. Toast Miester - Study Sketch

Hey Friends...
So my good Swedish friend from BlogLovin Mattias came down to stay with us this weekend.
Mattias is a big fan of Surfing,
So we hung out at the beach all weekend,
Needless to say, i'm painfully sunburnt!
My stomach is bright red right now... hahaha

The Painting today is a Study Sketch of Ginger Marmalade Toast Miester.
If you don't know, Ginger Marmalade Toast Miester is a kid's story written by Sophie Ward that i am doing the artwork for.
This was a Early character Development sketch i did for it.
We ended up going in a different direction with it,
but i really like his glasses and his suit...
He's like the 007 cat! haha
Well anyways, i hope you like it. :)

Mr. Toastmeister

Wow, oh wow!
It seems like yesterday that my friend Sophie Ward and i started planning out
how her great story, "The Ginger Marmalade Toastmeister", would look...
I remember sitting at this amazing coffee shop in Santa Monica,
huddling around rough thumbnail sketches,
and brain storming all the little subtle touches we could add to it...
aw i miss those days!

I realized it was almost a year to the day since i started working on the book.
And don't worry, i will finish it really soon.
That is my goal! i'm closing in on it.
My friend Jason Jones hand wrote all the type for it!
This picture is a little sneak peak of page 13 out of it. :)
Let me know what you think!

Cat Eyes

Good morning. :)
Thank you to all who commented about Miette.
We talked to the pet hospital and she will be released this afternoon!
Hopefully, she will have a steady recovery. :)

This drawing is another study sketch of Joey as Ginger Marmalade Toastmeister.
i was seeing what cat eyes would look like on him...
haha Hope you likes it. :)

Joey

Hey there friends.
The drawing up there is a early concept sketch i did for Sophie Ward's kids book.
She had the idea of basing the cat character of this boy i coach named Joey.
This was me trying to figure out how to do that.... hahah
Don't worry, Joey makes an appearance a few pages into the book... :)

The Time Machine.

So i'm not much for multitasking....
but here i am working on twenty things at once.
Working on this big illustration for a online fashion community in Australia right now.
i'll show you when i'm done.

My brain feels really scattered today,
so do forgive me if i jump topic a few times. haha.
Well, the pictures i posted above are the unfinished version of one of my drawings from the children's book i'm doing with Sophie Ward.
I can't wait to have it done. Really excited about it.

Oh, made some improvements on the site,
just on the About me and the Blogger portraits so far.
i wrote a little bit about how it came about.

On the Prints ...
Yes, i have international shipping for all you lovely friends all over the world.
Thanks for the votes. i used them and am printing the top 4 you all voted for.
i'm trying to get the ball rolling for ya. :)

On the video on the Self Portrait process, should be up, i hope, in the next few days.

wow.... Do any of you have a time machine that i could borrow?
Need to figure out how to fit 48 hours in one day.
Oh my, that would be so nice.
i just get lost in music and my drawing world and hours fly by too fast...

How are you all doing today?
i hope everything is going amazing for you all!
Good day!