Gollum - From Beginning to End

Once again, showing you my progress on Gollum, but this time it has a happy ending! I'm DONE! Finally, finally done. While this has been super fun to work on, it's also been a LOT of work, which isn't a bad thing, just a lot of late nights! Ready to move onto the next project!

So here we go, from the first sketch to the final product:

Getting into character :)

I liked his face just fine but the shadowing didn't make sense, so off went his head.

I hadn't used any reference up until now so I decided it was time to get my Gollum/Smeagol figurine out. He's angry....

But then he got over it when I gave him a fish.

Pretty soon he was following me everywhere. Here he is in the bathroom. Well, his head, anyways.

and here my friends, is the final product:

If you feel like it, head over to the official website and rate it! Thanks :)

Illustration Friday- "Book"

I worked so many hours on this illustration and I ended up starting over because it wasn't turning out how I would have liked. Then I worked like crazy on the second one, and then it was too late to submit to Illustration Friday.

The topic was "book" and I immediately thought about how a good book takes you to a completely different place, as if you're actually in the story. Then the image of my daughter reading "The Little Mermaid" popped into my head, and this is what I came up with:

Thursday is almost Friday!

This is a pen and ink drawing I did for Tom of our little family.
{Please forgive the bad quality}

The third and final illustration from "The Awesome Robots" movie.