Joseph

Otter

2007-09-16T22:20:00.001Z

Character study

Hogdoodle

2007-09-12T20:31:00.000Z

The Startled Wanderer

2007-09-05T15:40:00.000Z

Character study for a tale from the Bros. Grimm.

Cave Denizen

2007-08-29T23:48:00.000Z

Archibald again

2007-08-29T19:08:00.000Z

Blaze Boot Boy

2007-08-27T14:44:00.000Z

A small, unfinished character from my notebooks.

Archibald

2007-08-07T14:19:00.001Z

Sketch for book dummy

Color Doodles

2007-07-19T15:06:00.001Z

Flower head

2007-07-18T12:18:00.000Z

The Cave

2007-07-13T21:37:00.000Z

I'm using this image for my "about" page of my website. I'm still playing with the font and size, so this may change somewhat.

Trees

2007-07-13T13:44:00.000Z

A page of morning sketches

Jmdangelo.com coming soon!

2007-07-06T23:03:00.000Z

Lion Boy

2007-06-14T08:14:00.000Z

Dumpy Dreams

2007-06-12T22:37:00.000Z

Good-bye Ghostbird!

2007-06-09T17:19:00.000Z

Bats and a boy

2007-06-02T17:49:00.001Z

The Floating Girl

2007-05-24T12:09:00.000Z

Big bird & Little House

2007-05-09T17:22:00.000Z

The Guardians

2007-05-03T13:52:00.000Z

Creatures

2007-04-26T01:03:00.000Z

The Man Of Flowers

2007-04-15T03:06:00.000Z

A character I drew tonight with a little man taking a ride on his leg.

2 bad dudes

2007-04-13T01:32:00.000Z

On a side note, I'm just discovering the books of John Burningham (Borka) and they are brilliant. His line, characters, the dissonance of styles used side by side in the same book, the scratchy, unfinished, roughness of everything he does, sparkle. There's magic in his work, it's defiantly unique and daring.

Karakters

2007-04-13T01:03:00.000Z

Star jig and a lion

2007-04-11T18:12:00.000Z

A sketch. I'll keep moving things around and redrawing till it's just right.

Spiderlings or Octopodes? (rare plural term)

2007-04-10T11:58:00.000Z

Toys

2007-04-09T23:43:00.000Z

Here are a set of toys I designed a while ago...ooh, a long while! They are made with Sculpey and random foodstuffs like rice and pasta.

Green croc-man

2007-04-09T01:08:00.000Z

A portion of tonight's doodles with some fancy type. Also, I found a great resource featuring videos of British children's book author/illustrators discussing their work and process of putting together books which you can view here:
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/shadowingsite/watch_listen.asp

Cup o' cat

2007-04-08T21:34:00.000Z

Poor thing! Little does he know that he will meet his soul-mate on his travels.

High-tech bunny

2007-04-07T14:33:00.000Z

So, after always liking my sketches, doodles more than a finished, clean illustration I've started to experiment with ways of keeping the vivacity and charm of the sketch in my finals. I've started using vellum, the photocopier and lots of white-out to compose the final picture and this is a small experiment. I want to do more and play further but it's a start and I'm quite pleased.

Also, check out "The Magic Pencil" website (http://magicpencil.britishcouncil.org/) for a great survey of current British book illustration including profiles on Sara Fanelli, Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs and John Burningham as well as others.

Topple

2007-04-05T01:53:00.000Z

Him

2007-04-03T18:15:00.000Z

Another portfolio piece. I think I'm happy with this drawing and now just doing different color studies on test-prints.

Stormin'

2007-04-01T23:07:00.000Z

The results of tonight's sketching session

Homage

2007-04-01T22:39:00.000Z

Can't resist creating an entry for some of my favorite materials at the moment.
The photo features the great, waxy, 3-in-1 Woody crayons by Stabilo which are water soluble and come in two sizes.
The reliable Staedler Graphite 779 mechanical pencil which feels great in the hand after hours of sketching. The Faber-Castell Perfection pencil for unbelievably precise erasures and finally the amazing range of Conte pencils which are a joy to play with. Ok, enough nerdy-ness.

Goons

2007-03-31T13:20:00.000Z

Sketch and work-in-progress for a portfolio piece.

Mean Man & Bird Girl

2007-03-30T00:23:00.000Z

Boy

2007-03-28T20:58:00.000Z

A little drawing from my sketchbook

It Grew From My Shoe

2007-03-27T01:28:00.000Z

A very small sketch of the cover of a book about a girl, shoes that grow incredibly large and a mysterious "thing". There are also Pirates involved unfortunately. It might be hard to make out but the large brown things at the bottom are her overgrown shoes!

The Witch-Duck

2007-03-26T16:56:00.000Z

This horrible thing bobbles upon the sea waiting to scoop up unwary children and gold. She also enjoys a good romance novel from time to time.

Today's sketches

2007-03-25T20:19:00.000Z

The Pear Trap

2007-03-24T23:40:00.000Z

A very small sketch for the cover of a book about a boy stuck in a pear.

Boy Boot Moon

2007-03-24T01:52:00.000Z

more!

2007-03-23T17:40:00.000Z

New study

2007-03-23T17:36:00.000Z

A ways more to go finishing this up but here is a worked over composition:

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2007-03-23T17:23:00.000Z

More sketches

2007-03-23T15:16:00.000Z

Here are the results of a nice, long night of drawing:

Little man

2007-03-22T23:57:00.000Z

Guardian

2007-01-23T00:12:00.000Z

Update + Links

2006-12-17T03:29:00.000Z

I've been up all night scouring the web for an easy, good-looking and inexspensive place to start selling work online. I found a nice, well-designed site called isendyouthis.com and hopefully I'll have my very own e-business shortly!
Also, I am starting on a series of Linocuts so watch for them here!
This blog has been updated and includes new links to all sorts of interesting stuff that is worth checking out. If you love drawing or the theoretical issues surrounding the practice, Tracey is packed with info and other artist's sketchbooks to look at.

A few recent drawings/ experiments

2006-12-16T02:18:00.000Z