OK, so I’m mostly a developer/programmer professionally these days, but every once in a while, I find myself doing a little bit of character illustration. Here are a couple recent works, and some notes about how they were received.

First of all, here’s a character I drew for a certain bank headquartered here in the Queen City… They had asked for a genie like “I dream of Genie.” They decided my genie was a little bit too hot for their conservative banking audience, and decided just to use a smoking lamp instead. Oh well.

And this one is a character for a telecom client. I was hesitant to turn him in, because he came out looking more ghetto fabulous than I meant, but the client loved him.

Just got a new PC with Vista and installed CS3. There were a few hiccups (Illustrator not saving, Wacom tablet lost pressure sensitivity), but all is good now.

Also I realized I should have been coloring Niobe’s lips green all along. Much more natural with her skin. Anyways, here’s a little practice image…

And if you’re interested, a print is available.

My fellow conspirator Andrew is back, and he’s provided some text for this teaser image. Click to enlarge.