Sesame Bit - Singing with the Stars - Strip #1

It's that time again.  These are the pencils to the most recent Sesame Bits strip. 

I changed up the layout a little on this one.  Playing around and seeing what works.  I did pencils and colors were done by Mark and Diana(staff artists at Sesame Workshop).  

Sesame Bits - Big Elmo Fun strip #2

These are the pencils for strip #2 for the Big Elmo Fun DVD promotion.  This time Telly and Elmo are checking out bugs in front of 123 Sesame. 

More copy than I would usually want, but it was necessary.  The bugs and magnifying glass were the fun parts to figure out on this one.  Enjoy!

Art of - Sesame Zombies

Here's a little look behind he scenes of creating the Sesame Zombies.



This is where I'm building the digital version over the scanned blueline sketch version of zombie Count. If the project allows for it, I like working out my characters in pencil first.

Sesame Bit - Big Elmo Fun strip 1

Here's the latest Sesame Bits comic strip that I penciled.  This one was based off one of the segments on the Big Elmo Fun DVD.  

BAAWK BAAAAWK!!  Love those chickens!  Enjoy!

Sesame Bits - BG

Hey there folks, here's a little "behind the scenes" view of the most recent Sesame Bits.  This is a look at the background.  11x17, copy paper, and blue pencil.  Nothing fancy.  

This is the full background before characters, props, details, speech balloons, and dotted path were added.

Here's a closer look at Mr. Hooper's store.  On the finished strip there is a tree added in front of the store.
 

This is the 123 Sesame brownstone.  Also had a tree in front of it in the finished strip. 

Sesame Bits - Pencils

Here it is folks.  These are my pencils for this edition of Sesame Bits.  This time around I was inspired by the dotted path stylings of Bil Keane's Family Circus comics.  Loved these when I was young, so it was fun to create my own interpretation of the idea for Sesame.  

 

This was a beast to pencil.  Now I have an idea why we didn't see more of these.  The addition of the detailed background is a lot more work than adding hints of a background to a regular panel comic layout.  Which I did in the past few Sesame Bits.  I used Illustrator to create the balloons and the dotted path.  Everything else was pencil to paper.  This one worked my drawing hand out thoroughly.  Sore for days, but well worth it!  

Hope y'alls enjoy!

Strip numero 2

Here are the pencils as I submitted them for the most recent Sesame Street DVD comic strip. 

The final layout, color, and finishing touches that you see in the final product was done by Diana Leto and Mark Magner.