CandyCORNKilla

CandyCORNKilla, originally uploaded by saxtonmoore.

This is a new creep character in the spirit of Halloween. If you see him while trick or treating, RUN!

HALLOWEEEN TEES ARE AVAILABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just in time for the Halloween season. Get your kids into the Halloween spirit by ordering them a spooky T-shirt. These fun custom designs are sure to bring smiles and laughter to kids everywhere. Click on the image and get yours now!!!

Comes in guys/ girls/ and kids sizes. Multiple color shirts available.

Comes in Kids sizes only. (Black or Orange)

Dropped off signed copies.

I dropped off signed copies of my new Halloween book @ the local indy toy store WORLD OF MIRTH. If you live in Richmond VA and you swing buy to buy the book, you get a signed print to boot.

BirdsOfAFeather_T-Shirt

BirdsOfAFeather_T-Shirt, originally uploaded by saxtonmoore.

Here's a new design I did for my new line of t-shirts. This one's for the birds, I mean girls. My daughters wanted me to do a cute girls t-shirt so I came up with this composition. Leave a comment and lemme know what you think.

13 Rooms of Halloween book

Sorry I haven't been posting much as of late. Moved once again to a new city and swamped with freelance. In the meantime here's a new Halloween book I've illustrated for Penguin Publishing. I've seen it available online to order, so get your spooky copy now before Halloween gets here. Hopefully when I get a case of books I will be able to sell a few on the blog with signed limited edition prints as gift. keep checking back for updates. I will try to post new news at least once a week now. (cross your fingers)

Here's a look at an interior page of the book.

This is a rough sketch layout of the above image.






Order on Amazon
on Barnes and Noble
directly from Penguin Publishing
or here at Borders books

SPREAD 12 (Step)

As I posted before, above is my layout sketch for spread #12 of my book. I roughed it out in photoshop on my computer, adding shadows here and there. I used the shadows to frame up the main focus which is the unsuspecting dog walking by. The buildings in the background also frame up the text and help bring focus to the yo-yo that's knocking over the paint.

Here I sketched out various poodles in my sketchbook. I knew there would be a poodle on this page, but had no clue what it would look like. I started by using a light blue Tombow brush and drew vague poodle like shapes across the book. I then thought about the attitude of the dog and took a black pen to begin sketching different kind of stuck up poodles around the blue blobs of color. I ultimately chose the dog in the middle.

Next I needed to find a color palette. For this, I chose a scene from an old Tom & Jerry cartoon (Jerry Go Round-1966) with beautifully colored backgrounds by Philip Deguard. I loved that these colors were a little washed out and really complimented each other. I grabbed a still from the episode and began picking out similar colors for my palette.

The first step in coloring my page is blocking in simple shapes with color. This way I can see if these colors I chose are working well together on my image.

Now I start adding the small details to the background and Character.

Then I add in the remaining elements and rough out my angry poodle to the right of the page to get a clearer idea of what that looks like.

I finish up the last details on my Blue painted poodle and give it all one last look (which for me is staring at it for what ends up being 30 minutes to an hour) When I snap out of it, I'm done. One down 3 more pages to go.

SUSHI PACK COLORING BOOKS

Look what came in the mail today. The Sushi Pack coloring book from Golden books I illustrated! My kids and I were so excited when we opened the box. The book has 100 pages including games and activities. We got our books, now go out and get yours. You can also order them HERE ON AMAZON. Here's the cover below. The actual book has a reflective foil cover (fancy).


Time to grab your Crayons and your pencils!

Let the good times begin. It takes focus and a steady hand to crank out a masterpiece such as this.

Coloring is no mere child's play.


It takes a true master to scribble in (or outside) the lines.

What are you waiting for? Go and unleash your pint size Picasso.

Poodle sketches

Here are some various poodle sketches from my sketchbook. I had to design a poodle for a page of my children's book. I really like the one that's in the center. I think I'll roll with him.

Valentine's Book pre-order

I noticed on Amazon today that they've posted my Valentine's book I illustrated available for pre-order. I know it's a long way from now (and I will plug it again)but I wanted to share the cover with you. I've also added it to my publishing carousel above along with my other published works. Feel free to click HERE to purchase it in advance or just click the image in the carousel. The book has a decoder game inside to help kids get the valentines to the right person. Lots of fun.

Mountain top

This weeks sketch from life.

Below is a rough layout for spread #12 to my children's book.

Sketch on the Square

Scattered,Covered,Smothered,Chunked

Did some sketching at the Waffle House this morning. For some reason I'm drawn to the design of the place and the colorful characters who frequent and work there. The lady was painted on a small canvas earlier with acrylic and the booth was done in photoshop. The signage was taken as I left the place this morning. Waffles are GREAT!