Grodek Illustration

Each picture needs some touching up, but it's final enough to share. Here are all 16 pieces in color: Franz feel moody and ...

The first step to adding color is to digitize the line work and block out all the individual shapes. I've  included some general color t...

I'm exploring the best way to digitize my process. For this project, I'm starting with small pencil drawings that I'll scan in a...

I'm working on a new story and it's one for the ages. Actually, it's a small little tale told over a very long time. Franz i...

I've been using Adobe Flash to create my little animations all these years. I've got a great idea for a new video I'd like to do...

Here are some stills from the animated Christmas Card I did for my family. Savannah had originally come up with and recorded her song in the...

Merry Christmas From the Grodeks!

I've posted the final pieces to my portfolio . Also, I've been seeing everything so big on screen but posting only little jpgs, so h...

I wanted to do a little illustration for a baby-shower gift for a friend of mine. She's from Mexico and at some point we had discussed h...

Again, I won't know until all the pieces are fully colored, but I'm thinking I'm going to want some dreamier, sunset tones rathe...

These are not finished pieces... just the full scans retouched and fully colored to a "true-hue" which mostly means what's blu...

This piece will likely still change as the others get closer to complete, but here's the general direction.

Here's the same illustration as before, but fully colored. The next step is retouching, which will include extensive color correcting. I...

I've decided I'm going to cheat. I started painting my drawings and while I'm getting results I like, I also keep thinking o...

I have questions about a big reveal. Does the story need one? Would it be better to lead with an overview shot to provide context. Is this i...

Color! After so many pencil sketches, a little color is so refreshing. I wanted to break out my watercolors and do a little test before I mo...

Despite Billy being straying from his purpose, his journey comes to an end when Ben's mother arrives with sugar. I like to think that ...

I wanted Billy to confront a pet in his neighbor's yard, and I wanted the pet to be some sort of adversary, but I didn't want him to...

Billy's friend and neighbor, Ben, has fashioned himself Robin Ben Quick. He's the consummate woodsman, adventurer, and rebel knight....

Of course, Robin Ben Quick lives in the coolest tree fort there ever done was.

As Billy leaves his house, and overlooks endless plains (his lawn) he's flanked by two cactuses that exist somewhere between between fan...

This spartan looking piece will be Billy fleeing acid from monolithic black lawn sprinklers. I'm hoping to execute much of the piece in ...

Billy's suit is destroyed by the acidic lawn sprinklers so he's forced to forge ahead unprotected. I didn't want Billy to have t...

Billy encounters lady bugs in the forest (a shrub along the property line). I wanted the lady bugs to be ambiguously dangerous. Perhaps they...

Billy is led to his neighbor's fence, which he see's as a colossal fortified wall. And of course, no kid uses a gate when presented ...