Book Roughs...

Can't tell you the story names or ideas (though I think you can guess for the most part) but I am allowed to share a few roughs of work in progress of the 2 books I am currently working on illustrating, they will be available online and as soon as I know more I will pass it along...

These are really rough, they will be full color when finished, still going the rounds with the authors etc...

Dustin

Sneek Peek, This n That...Ramble, Babble etc...

So this past Saturday I had the opportunity to sit thru another Dance Competition, this one was a little shorter, 10 hrs. and my 5 yr old wasn't there to entertain. So in the spare moments between my daughters dances I came up with these. The Dragon one was inspired by the movie "How to train your Dragon"... awesome movie, my 5 yr old didn't move or ask to go potty once during the whole film, believe me that's a miracle in itself. The other cards of course inspired by my favorite movie this year and the animated version is probably my number one film of all time, I love the story of "Alice"...

 Closer versions of the cards.

More...

And one more

I also had the chance to work on some new art...

Just a rough of a few bugs...

The bunny and turtle I call "Toby" and "Buster" I think you can figure out which is which, I have about 6 more of these guys together, looking for springtime suggestions that they could be doing together, I have Spring/Cabin Fever and am sooooo ready for it to be permanently warm, it's been warm here but snow and rain off an on and tomorrow we are supposed to get more of both...YUCK!!!

I haven't paid attention to how many followers I have had lately and was surprised to see that I have 982, once I get to 1000 I will have a special treat for all, so the sooner you can get a friend to "follow" my blog the sooner you can get a goodie...I can't believe Easter is this Sunday. This year is flying by fast. Doesn't help that March I have dance classes, dance competitions, extra dance practices as well as soccer practice and games, and my oldest is returning to Lagoon to work for the summer, so there's pre-season stuff too. Busy, Busy busy, but hey it keeps me out of trouble, Oh yes and a High Hopes Release sometime soon...

Thanks for sticking with me, I can be flakey and unresponsive at times...

Dustin

Dino Kid

Here is one I didn't show after roughing him out on the flight from Utah to California. Here is the rough version and a final colored version...

Been away...

Just got back from a quick trip this past weekend. Friday we flew from Salt Lake to San Francisco. We went to Santa Cruz where I got to ride the "Giant Dipper", something I have always wanted to do since seeing the Lost Boys. Sunday we went to see "Wicked" at the Orpheum theater in San Fran, Monday we went to one of my favorite theme parks, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom...On the flights there and home I had a few minutes to sketch out some things...whirlwind trip....