Here’s an illo I recently started. It’s a color study. I will be adding a background as well.

Not sure what yet. I drew the kid just for kicks then eventually began seeing more of an environment after the fact. So I’ll put him in some fitting surroundings.

I may end up also working something out with the girl as well.

Click it to enlarge.

I’m working on some more t-shirt concepts for Crazy Shirts. Here’s one.

On Saturday night, September 27th, Pleasure Island in Orlando opened it’s doors for the last time. Today Pleasure Island is no more.

It’s sad to see it close down. I have a lot of great memories of PI. In fact, when I first moved to Central Florida, this is where my brother’s took me to hang out. After years of not really spending time with my brothers since I was always hanging out with my older friends, my brothers and I reconnected while in Central Florida. We were all in our early 20s and were regulars at PI, dancing and drinking almost every night for a few months. What a blast!!!

At the time I had also gone through a bad break up so going out every night to dance and drink with my brothers and friends was a great way for me to get back on my feet. For the first time I enjoyed being single.

On Saturday night, my buddy called and asked me if I wanted to go one more time. Of course I said yes. So I joined him and his lovely wife for one more visit before PI closed its doors and becomes yet another slew of shops.

We hit the Adventurers Club first. I brought my sketchbook with me and was able to capture a quick sketch of Colonel Critchlow Suchbench (Click to enlarge). This is my last tangible memento of Pleasure Island (It’s still a work in progress). The piece is actually a sketch, but I scanned it and brought it into Painter.

Like I said, since the FWC aren’t going to use any of the first 4 prelims I did for their logo, I will be painting the turtles instead.

Here’s the first of 4. This is still a work in progress. Click to enlarge.