Rough Magic

A few years back, I was asked to design the header/logo for MagicMusic.net, a discussion forum about Disney music. What was really exciting was that the webmaster is a big fan of Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily's as I am, and he wanted something similar to what they had designed for LuxuriaMusic.com

Designed by Kevin & Jody

I was super excited about this, loving both Disney music and Kevin and Jody's work. The client wanted the logo to have a retro 50's feel, but was open to maybe showing a progression of the early days of records up through modern digital formats. Other suggestions were to use Disney icons (Sorcerer's hats and wands) without infringing on copyright. Unfortunately, the webmaster decided to go another direction and not use my stuff. Here are my rough pencil/computer text mockups.

I may just finish a few of these some day, just because I like them so much. All designs are copyright Eric Scales unless otherwise stated.

Arboreal

The spoils..

Chipmunks and Squirrels

Forgot one yesterday

Residents of a Make Believe Neighborhood

You may remember that I loved the show, Mister Rogers Neighborhood growing up, in fact I love it still, though it's pretty much vanished from the airwaves. A few years ago I thought it would be fun to illustrate some of the puppet characters from the Neighborhood of Make Believe. I didn't think they had ever been captured very well in books or on merchandise, and thought I'd see if I could do better. I'm sad to say that I didn't pursue it further, but someday maybe I will. Below are the highlights of my efforts, really just quick pencil sketches with some digital color.

Monday Menagerie

A bit of a sketchdump for you today.

Sing a song of Pirate Cats

Oh sing us a song of cats on the sea
For though they are brigands, they're braver than we


For these lowlife felines, the sea holds allure
When staying ashore would mean jail time for sure

But life on the sea's not the parole you might think

'Cause in prison at least there's no chance that you'll sink.

Swampy Santa

Well I guess this ones a little late- who has time to scan and blog around Christmas though?

Dinos

Snowmen

On my desk

I always love when the arists whose blogs I follow, show pictures of the unfinished piece their working on. I'm excited about the thing I'm working on now, so I thought I'd preview it even before it's done. It's a pretty low res pic, but there's not much to see yet.

Trek Girl

I wanted to take one of my sketches and do a quick digital color job, nothing overly rendered, and especially not something that would require me to totally clean my original drawing. I had done this a few times before, with results that I liked, but I wasn't sure how appealing the result would be if I took one of girly drawings and tried it. Rough sketchy lines might take away from any appeal that the coloring added. I posted the original sketch some time ago....

I played with the levels of the original drawing to get rid of the gray marker I had used, cleaned up a lot of extraneous lines around the face, and refocused her eyes just a bit. I had to reinforce some of the ink lines a bit because they had dropped out in the process. Oh, and she just needed something funny on her shirt.

Girls

Woodland Grocer