Coloring Page - Coy Little Owl

This chubby guy isn't complete but I've got a good start on him. Only details from here on out.

Coloring Page - Owl in The Wind

So I've been sick for the past few days. I've still been drawing every night, but I've had to go to bed earlier... so the pages I've been doing have been less than complete. Tonight I forced myself to finish this one. Another Owl in the book.

Coloring Page - Birds and Blossoms

This was a popular sketch of mine that I decided to turn into a coloring page tonight. Not sure if I'll put a background on it.

Coloring Page - Love Bug

This one needs some additional details, but I like where its going.

Coloring Page - Evil Paperwork

This poor little demon. All he wants to do is poke you with his pitchfork, but he's stuck collating our FSM and TPS reports from the printers. Best to keep him slowly drowning in work.

Coloring Page - Prickly Pear Pick

The sun god Huitzilopochtli in plain clothes picking his own fruits on the island of Tenochtitlan.

Coloring Page - Laying Lily

I've always loved lilies. That is all.

Coloring Page - Buds

Just a few flower buds on vines tonight.

Coloring Page - Water Over The Wheel

My wife is my idea person most nights. Tonight she thought up water wheels. So I attached  a run down house to it and decided to do something different in the basement. No wine or gym, but a powerhouse. Very low profile guys...

Coloring page - Hunger Hound

I keep saying it, the dog needs to eat on a schedule. I created this little character a few years ago, now I give her some context.

Coloring Page - Whats New

A surreal free spirit in it's contemporary loft apartment. I really enjoy surreal art. It allows me to experiment with metaphor and composition, and lends itself to my warped human imagination.

Sizzle

A Deadly Flower

My daughter asked for butterflies, so here they are. Oh Nos, they're melting

Charlie's Life

My wife suggested I create a coloring page based on my dog Charlie. He's a chunky brown lab that we believe is the reincarnation of a pig. He's best friends with a miniature beagle who he out weighs by a hundred pounds and takes orders from. I'm doing a 4 panel illustration that I'll be posting soon.

A Small Murder

It will happen again tonight, wont it.

Fishes and Bubbles

Drawing scales is relaxing. I would equate it to coloring in one of my pages. You zone out and just do, which is the point for most coloring pagers.

Pear Bark

I like those vintage botanical illustrations you find on drug store walls and domesticated kitchens. This is my attempt, with a twist.

Jelly Angels

Doodles turned into Jellyfish. Jellyfish turned female. And a scene evolved. This one took a lot of trial and error and still needs some cleanup.

Cat Dancer

This one just kind of evolved. The forms looked feline to me so the head and fur came out of that.

Penguin Borealis

I drew this for my daughter as she is doing a report on Emperor penguins and needed a cover for it. The borealis design still needs some work.

Eye See You

I'm not exactly sure where I was going with this one. I'll let you decide.

Magic Apples

Congrats to Sophie Grow for her winning concept. I had fun compositing and drawing this one tonight. If I can just keep the narrative in these coloring pages I'll be a very happy boy by the end of the year.

Trash Panda and The Pond Prince

I am enjoying the process of creating little narratives in these coloring pages. Thinking I'll do a multipage narrative soon. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know.

Daffodils

A simple design tonight. Daffodils happen to be my favorite flower. They're only around for a couple of weeks and are often the first splashes of color in spring where I live. Their petals have the delicateness of a carnation, but are as fresh and crisp as a succulent.

Squirrel Squadron

This flying squirrel is part of a sophisticated animal society that lives above and below the East Village, New York City.

Rainbow Unicorn Fantasy

Cottage Pond

This one took some time. Probably my most detailed yet.

The Peony People

I'm trying to adjust my compositions so that they can be more easily colored. So far my more popular designs have been the simple ones. When I draw these I fill in the shading and color in my head as I work, but I forget that others don't see things the way I do. I would like to get feedback from my followers on what they Like to color. I'm still going to create fantastical scenes, I'd just like them to be more approachable.
Tonight's coloring page was inspired from an old seed catalog ad.

Sky Kraken and The World of Tomorrow

Congratulations Kurt, here is your winning facebook contest drawing. I hope you like it.
I'm still in the process of cleaning up some of the lines as the composition took most of the time tonight.

Old Crow

I just started drawing last night, a smile I've seen before, a posture that I know from somewhere, a location I've heard about and most likely misinterpreted. And this old farmer character is the result. Still needs more definition of edges, but I'm tired.

Buzzing Drones

They're collecting their honey for the queen droid.

Windy Willows

My wife saw the frog with the hat I drew a while back and asked me if it was from Wind in the Willows. That wasn't my intention, but never-the-less a good idea. So here is a re-interpretation of a scene from that story.

Kitten-fish

"Beautiful kitten-fish, sleep baby, sleep"
I liked doing this one. Its the most child-like of the coloring pages I've drawn so far, but also one of the most complete. I'll have to start vectorizing some of these soon.

Dinomow

I'm not sure what inspired this, but I just kept working on it til it was something. Dinosaurs in the suburbs, oh my.

Feathers

This highly detailed owl coloring page was created by looking at a stylized owl illustration. I took the feather patterns and applied them to an owl I was drawing. Some would say I'm stealing, and I would say - so what. Our human brains are associative machines, creating what we call our consciousness through the myriad of interactions we have every day. Trying to dissect our creativity is akin to finding the original host of the flew bug, it's just not going to happen. So I say, recognize the situation, and go with it. Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Fish Tank

... work in progress ...

Someone asked me to draw a castle, but I felt the need to add something to such a simple drawing. I thought it looked like the kind of castle you'd see in a fish tank, so I changed the composition to suit.

Electric Dancers

The movements of modern dancers make for good dynamic body compositions. I wanted to see the dancers as visual forms rather than people, so I altered their bodies a bit. Then a bit of a Milton Glasser in the background to give the dancers some context.

Roses Red

 

My wife wanted me to do an Alice in Wonderland inspired page tonight. I had fun with the drips and splatters, but I'm concerned they will be too complex to color in, we'll see. I'll be printing this one off tomorrow morning for lab testing.

Deer Surprise

I started this with an image I found of a deer that was posed in an interesting way. I used her to create unusual shapes on the page. I might go on about why I did what in the composition later, but for now I'm tired and going to bed.
... and yes her hind end is a pine cone, totally.

Swamp Fairy

Her/his beetle comrades lift him out of the marsh by grabbing on to his back. I don't know what I was doing with the feet, just experimenting with the forms. It looked to me like this fairy was being formed and stretched into shape by the force of being pulled out of the water.

Listen

Hello silence my old friend. This coloring page is a wild one and should be a lot of fun to color. There's a theme to it, but I'll reveal more about what I'm doing as the days go on.

The Family Cabin

I like drawing architecture freehand. I learn so much making mistakes on how roof lines come together, mixing perspective with building angles. The background is surreal because I thought it clashed nicely with the cabin.

Frog in the hedge

A gardener frog who jealously tends his garden. I'm thinking about making a story out of this one. Melissa wants to color it already.

Cranberries

Searching around Google images, I'll follow one image preview to another until I find something that I like. Tonight it was cranberries. The leaves are stylized cause it was feeling good to do them like that. I'm interested to find out what connection there might be between what is enjoyable for me to draw, and others to color.

Treehouse-4

The final panel to the Treehouse series I've started this year out with. Still needs a bit of work. I'll be cleaning this one up soon. Check back for the scalable PDF.

Treehouse-3

Ah... now I'm seeing it. This one kind of looks like a country scene, with forested hills behind croplands.

Treehouse-2

Well... there it is... there's the treehouse. What a cute little sprite.

Treehouse-1

I've decided to start this year out drawing something surreal. It was entertaining to do the spaghetti-like stylized roots of this tree. Check back for updates everyday as posts will usually show up in the morning as I spell check and release them. These coloring pages are high enough resolution to print, but still contain my sketchy lines. I'll do my best to vectorize some of them as I go.