Children's books

If anyone reading this knows about freelancing as a children's book illustrator, can you contact me? I need to know all the details and how it works.

thanks!

my e-mail is under my contact info on the right column.

my book

this is one of the last pages of my children's book. I am almost finished. Can't wait to be done and work on something else. next I need to find a publisher

Gocco Dragon

this is my first pass at gocco printing. the image was slightly rough around the edges and the screen picked up everything. next time I will clean up art first.

bear in the woods

I took a break from my book and did this today.

my children's book

this is the first page of my children's book I am working on. My wife thinks it looks gloomy but I like it that way.



below is a rough of the cover.

mexican wrestler

I made some changes to this guy. I noodled with his arms and legs.

a bad sheriff

space alien

serpent and whale

this is the finished piece. I will worry about animating it later. took a while.

serpent and whale

This is my pencil drawing. I am going to water color it and try and animate it Flash. wish me luck.

with waves


the whale


pencil

cat

Vimeo worked to upload my file.


Untitled from dan thompson on Vimeo.

cat sketches

2 bears

business man

cat sketches

a place to lie down

some trees and houses

Dixieland poster

I did this poster about three years ago. I came across it yesterday and decided to redo the characters and some text.

some bearded faces

some more dog and circus stuff

circus number 2

a crowd

trees

Ed, Jim and myself went to Griffith park and painted today. not much color to mine. I wanted to use india ink and focus on textures in the bark. It was a great day.

giant squid

fire truck

the circus

Von Kreep

I did this design for my Fiendish Freind Doktor Von Kreep. I had trouble designing something I liked so I focused on just simple shapes. Kind of an exploratory design.

some photos downtown

some more daphneyland art

I am going to screen this and make some prints soon.

some post it note art

Daphneyland

I have two Basset hounds from a rescue up in Acton called Daphneyland. They have hundreds of bassets running around. It is hillarious. Recently I did this artwork for some t-shirts that I am going to screen and give to them.

civil war general

Trip to U.K.

Had a nice time. Spent a lot of time with my wife's friends and family. They are all good people. Saw lot's of castles and rain.





Scotland



North East England

King Henry VIII

I'm off to England. Happy Holidays.

fisherman

little match girl

a bear/monster

I finally finished this one. I erased all the rough artwork cause I figured it has been seen and it took up a lot of room. Below is the final. Came out ok I think. I am sure I will not like it next week. Time to move on.

Shredded Feet

I have finally finished this one. It took a while. It is my piece for the Cereal Killers book.

cells

Frankenstein

Needle Bird

My wife needed a title design with out BG color for her website. She Knits and make all kinds of great stuff.

fisherman 2

This is the last assignment for my Photoshop class.

cow that tried to jump over the moon

I am taking a Photoshop class and our assignment is to draw a character, hand ink it and scan it in and color it. I posted something similar to this drawing a long time ago and it sucked. I wanted to redo it, so here is the first step.

Big Foot

Below are a couple big foot designs I did. John Quinn and I gave ourselves an assignment to come up with big foot characters.

view from plane

On my way to Florida I saw some well designed farm land out my window. I think it is somewhere in New Mexico.

kitty kitty

fire breather

a city

a tree

business guy 6

It has been kind of relaxing to draw these guys.

business guy 5

business man 4

business guy

Reykjavík

Over Christmas Nic and I are planning to stop off in Iceland on our way to England. A lot of Iceland's towns paint their roofs and buildings bright colors because the surroundings can be so grey. I can't wait to freeze and take photos. I know it is a long way off, but that's all I got.

doodle

I told myself that I need to create something or post something once a week. I didn't feel very creative this weekend so I doodled some circles and posted them.

my grainy vacation video

The original is easier to watch. After I exported this video for the web
most of the detail was lost.

Fisherman

If I could choose another career I think I would be a homicide detective or a longshore fisherman

marching band

Big Sur and Pacific Grove

Last weekend, my wife, our dog, and two good friends from England drove up to Big Sur and rented a house in Pacific Grove. It was really fun, except for when my dog, Bella, got sick in the car and whined most of the car trip up. I did't focus on exact likeness on these drawings. It's tough to capture her, especially the expression in the photos below. She has about ten different faces which always change.

House BG

Below is another background idea I did over the weekend.

seaside village

My wife's parents live in the north eastern part of England in Middlesbrough. On the coast line there are lots of little seaside villages that are really beautiful. The cottages are usualy around 400 hundred years old with old fishing boats and beautiful landscapes all around. Sometimes off in the distance you can see an extremely old castle in ruins. I would love to live in a little town like this. This would be the view from my studio window.

organ grinder 2

below is a working paper cut out. It is printed on thick card stock paper. Next I will have it printed on post card paper. Kinkos sucks by the way.

Ice cream

For the assignment this week in my Adobe Illustrator class we had to Live Trace something. Not much time this week so I went with an old design and added to it. I inked the girl by hand and then live traced her. The end result was kind of boring, I actually ended up liking the pencil sketch best, which is posted below. I will save the bad live trace version for class.

My Bear Poster

Below is my poster design for an animation festival next year. I did this just for fun so don't rely on any of the details. It one was a tough design and a good challenge.

Bella drawings

Some more drawings of my dog.

Disney stuff

I recently resigned from Disney after almost 9 years. I will now be working for Cartoon Network. I will basically be doing some comsumer product designs, style guides, different stylizations and treatments to promote shows and whatever comes my way. It sounds like it will be really fun. There is the bread and butter of the job but I am also looking forward to experiment with stuff. It was pretty sad my last day at Disney but I feel good about making a change. Below are some of my drawings.

IBMA poster

I e-mailed the IBMA(International Bluegrass Music Association) a few illustrations of mine and they welcomed me to submit a poster idea for the World Of Buegrass event this year. Hopefully they like it. This one took a while because I completely changed the style half way through.

Red

Rough drawing of Alien and Spacedog

This is a drawing I am almost finished with. It is my (tightened) rough. Next I need to do a tight pencil, scan it into the computer and build the colors in Illustrator. Then I will add shadows and textures. I'll post the final color version when I am done.

Mickey Mouse Club design

I did these for Disney a while back. It was fun creating the pattern.