RIP Maurice Sendak

I remember that "Where the Wild Things Are" was always next to impossible to loan at the library, it was out that often, but as a kid I loved looking at those mesmerising drawings.
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More Wild Things

Here's the rest of the Wild Things. Is it just me or does this guy above bear a bit of a resemblance to William Shakspeare? The Rooster was quite hard to do, cos you only see him in profile in the book.
As I worked through these, you start to pick up inconsistencies in the illustrations. I found myself having to pick the most appealing parts of what I required and then work it into the overall model and try and make it consistent.
I love the feet on the bull- they'd have to be the defining touch.

A couple of Wild Things

Here's a crack at doing a turnaround Model sheet for a couple of the "Wild Things" characters. I left off the cross hatching. They were a little tough to do 'cos when you really start to analyse the drawings in the book there's a bit of variation between the pictures and things change depending on the pose. This process forces you to set rules and uniformity. They were a lot of fun to do. On a side point it was interesting reading in the "Art of Sendak" book that this classic was created in roughly six months.

Wild Things

How's this for a big call? In my first day of my new job I'm asked to do a screen shot concept sketch for a game based on the classic Maurice Sendak book "Where the Wild Things Are". It was a bit daunting, I remember this book from I was a kid - it was always out at the library. I've been familiar with his work on this and several other books, but never been one to study him rigourously so I was quite pleasantly surprised at how nice it was to draw in his style - not that I should have been. This was also my first major shot at colouring something up in Photoshop too. The linework was done pencil on paper and then scanned in.