New Concept Art for Sing a Little Song- the Book

I've been busy writing stories and working on ideas for the book! Here are the two newest concept paintings for sale over on etsy.  Some of the decisions I've made about the book include making it a collection of character driven short stories  (about seven of them) that more or less all happen in the same imaginary world. The top concept painting is for a story called The Water Bird (working title). While the painting in the middle is a concept from the most developed story to date called The Bird Who Fell in Love With the Whale.  At the moment I think my narwhal looks like an old potato with broom handle stuck in it, I'm developing the illustration digitally ( the bottom illustration is an example of my work in progress) so hopefully other people wont think it looks too terrible. Support my book by buying concept art on  my etsy store. Hey who knows, I could be famous one day, then you could be rich because you knew me when.

work in progress

OK, I have to get back to animating. I have lots of lighting effects to draw before tomorrow morning. Maybe I'll show you a line test....... if you're niiiice.
                                                         

Hand Animation

Finished up the trace on this shot of character animation. It's part of a larger scene, so in the film it will make more sense in context. I have to say hands are really strange things. They are like little characters all in their own right. I've always had trouble, like a lot of artists drawing hands, so I was really excited to approach this particular scene as a challenge.

Hand Trace 02 from rory animates on Vimeo.

Fresh Ink

Brand new tattoo by Mark MaGee at Overlord on 10th street ( Atlanta, Ga) . The man can sling some ink with the best of them.

Hollis Gillespie

Just wanted to post some of the work I did for Hollis Gillespie formerly of Creative Loafing, and currently of Atlanta Magazine, published author, Campaign manager for Atlanta Mayoral Candidate Kyle Keysor and all around loud mouth extraordinaire. This was on the old blog but thought it was note worthy enough for new blog too.

West Fest

West Fest Featuring Yours truely and a lot of Breweries.
Logo and Flyer design by moi.

Summer Show Reel 2009