If you scroll back in this blog a little, you'll see the sketch version of this Grover. Stare into his eyes and feel the creepiness... heh heh heh...
He's comin to getcha... he's goonna getcha... heeee's gonna getcha...
This is the sketch version of the Count. You'll see him farther down the line. I'm actually excited to color him up. I felt good about this sketch.
Oscar more grouchy than usual. I think I'll push him even more when I take him to vector.
Big Bird... I think I'll push him too.
This is Abby. I think I'll change her up a little when I take her to vector. A little too intense to be a Zombie.
This is Zoe. I'm liking the little bump for a mouth.
So, I went with it. You got to run with your guts, you know? I thought the angry Rubber Duckie should carry a strong enough of a visual to be amusing. They seemed to like it. Woot!
Elmo was my favorite of these two.
I like Ernie, but there are a few things I would change if I took it to a finish.
We were lucky enough to get to go to Comic Con this year with Sesame. This is my little tribute to the craziness. Storm Trooper Bert. 
Here's a little piece still running off of the last sketches I was playing with. Its supposed to be Grover... if its not obvious.
This is Elmo. It doesn't look like him without color, but what's the fun if you always follow the rules? 
Oscar! This is my favorite of this bunch. And, yes, the pupils were left out on purpose. 
I love playing with Bert. I should have left his pupils out too. Maybe, I'll take them out digitally and see what he looks like...
Cookie as Big Daddy. 
Bert as Red Mist. He's a little harder to read. I need to add some color to them... maybe, later.
Here's Elmo as Kick-Ass himself. These took more than one 30 min session. I just couldn't leave these guys super rough. 
Here's Abby as Hit Girl. I was thinking of using Zoe, but I thought Abby's features lend themselves to the character better.
Sorry, for the lack of posts lately. Life has been busy. Good busy. Main busy-ness were honeymoon and 2Bs. The image you see here is from my honeymoon. Crazy awesome. I got a new camera that I'm playing with, so you might see pix from time to time as I play. As far as 2B goes, I've got a few projects lined up that is keeping me busy just building characters. Plus, I'm developing some new items to go into our online store. And, working on bringing more eyes and fans to the 2B Facebook page. Click on the link or just search for 2Bnation on Facebook. Join us! So, as you can see, 2B is keeping me busy. If I'm not working on the 2B characters, I'm thinking of what can be done to spread the word. Anyway, a lot of good stuff going on, so stay tuned.
I just made my move into the DSLR realm. Because I paid a lot (what I think was "a lot") I feel like I have to shoot something everywhere I go. Bert is in the pose I feel like I'm in all the time these days. :)
This is Ernie is the style covered in the past few 30s. I don't think he came out as well as the some of the others. Eh, you get some, you miss some.
Not sure why I chose to do Ernie reacting to what comes out of a choco bunny, but it was what came to me when I sat before my Wacom tablet.
Continuing the series of... not sure what the style is... just continuing the look. Count everyone!
Here's Bert in the same style. Cookie is still my favorite of this series... so far.
Here's a little something I did for a concept to be used on a t-shirt that was to be used "in house". One of the other designs I did was picked to be used, so this is as far as this design got. This was actually sketched off of the puppet. So, the arm, leg,and body are more accurate to the actual puppet and not so much the illustrated versions of the characters. Enjoy!
The day job has been busy too. I know, its only one sketch. Weak. But, its in color...sort of. And, its Cookie!
This last week I started on a little business venture with a friend of mine. Our site is my2Bs.com. It's a design style we've played with for a while. They're called 2Bs. I've done some full custom work with it and thought that it took on likeness pretty well for a design that is quite limited in detail. So, we actually developed the line to work more towards toys at first. But, a business partner flaked out, so the idea sputtered. After some time and some more custom work with the design, the idea for doing custom products came about. We had some great feedback at craft fairs, so we decided to take it up a notch. And, here we are. We're still working the kinks out, but its moving. Stop by for a visit if you like the design. See what you think. Let us know what you think. And, if the mood strikes you, buy something. The piece you see above is our opening image. Something I threw together at the last minute because I didn't want to start the site off with a bunch of text only. 
I worked Cookie out in pencil form first. In the end, I liked the pencils more than the digital version. 
Then, went to Illustrator to throw some colors on it.
Elmo was actually the one I did first. I did a quick thumbnail sketch and went straight to Illustrator.
From the packaging...
To the product itself.
This is my favorite line on the sheet. Just the heads.
They're puffy! How awesome is that?
This is the sheet that sits behind the sheet of stickers. They even did a good job on that.
Here's Bert doing Conan's famous "String Dance". 
Ernie as Jay. Imagine his head bobbling a little. Heheh.
Ernie was my favorite. His features are the easiest to smooth out.
Cookie was fun too, but I took him a little farther.
Elmo took me the longest. The way his eyes work into his head gave me trouble. Just one of those days.
Ernie was pretty straight forward. I need to work on him some more.
Bert as a new year's baby! 
I traveled over our break from work. As some of you know, I have a Canon G9. I'm quite pleased with it. But, as I traveled, I saw more and more people with these huge cameras. Most of them didn't appear to even know what to do with them. But, I'm finding out that there is a image quality difference between my camera and the DSLRs. Simply due to the lens and sensor differences. Damn! Now, I'm working up a healthy big camera envy. Is it worth it?
