PORTFOLIO
Comic book I wrote and illustrated for Barbour and Company.
Illustration for the book Jesus Online by Charles Morgan, Baker Books.
Different book covers for Barbour and Company
WAY OUT THERE!
This is a half hour animated television show I created. In 2008, I won a “pitch contest” for the best new animated TV show concept at the Ottawa International Film Festival in Ottawa, Canada. It was purchased by 9 Story Entertainment in Toronto, Canada but they couldn’t find distribution. I now own the rights to the show again.
Airline High School Football Program. This chalk painting was done for the program cover and a poster.
2 color screen printing during college
Page from McGruff the Crime Dog Comic Book called “The Haunted Mansion.”
Story illustration for Bellevue Baptist, Memphis, TN
Comic Strip: Goldenview Manor. This is a comic strip I developed hoping to find newspaper syndication. I wasn’t successful but I was able to use it to teach how to develop a comic strip from creation to syndication in my textbook GUIDE TO CARTOONING. Also, I used it to promote the science center in the monthly magazine Best of Times.
This was a cover illustration I did for a magazine in homage to my favorite movie stars. Charlie Chapin, Roy Rogers, and Buster Keaton. It was also featured in the magazine Keaton Chronicles.
Years ago, I was working with a group to put in a country music venue. For the food concession, I developed a “qualified, bonafided, certified, country fried, southern fried chicken dog.” The name was chosen because of the country music aspect and the type of food was created to be served quickly and something unique to the Violet Rose Theatre. The theater didn’t work out but people who’ve eaten it – love it. Maybe someday.
This is an articles about Howdy Dawgs from the website Stuffed and Busted by Chis Jay.
While I have painted numerous book covers, I never really had confidence in what I was doing until “by chance” I saw Jerry Yarnell’s painting show on television. He is a master teacher. I went to the Tulsa, OK area to take his workshop. I’ve learned so much from him. I used his technics to teach my Talented Arts students.
Illustration for a Christmas Program cover
Magazine cover
Science Center mascot.
Mascot redesign – Never realized.
As Art Director, I did a lot of conceptual work for exhibitions and new funding concepts.
This was a concept for the first nine holes of goofy golf. The second nine was the digestive system. You can guess where the 18th hole ended.
Concept for an outdoor science center on the river. I was in hopes that this could have been fabricated. I’d love to have seen the giant t-rex head coming out of the river using leverage.
Poster art for the Stop Motion Animation Course that I designed and taught for the Bossier Parish School System’s Talented Arts Program.
I traveled to different public schools in the parish each week. I taught grades 1-12. This represents just a small portion of the equipment I made and carried to teach the different types of animation.
GEN 4 ANIMATION: PAPER CUT OUTS: This type of animation uses puppets made of paper.
GEN 4 ANIMATION: TRADITIONAL HAND DRAWN/PAINTED 2 D animation. While most animation is done using computers today, I wanted my students to experience what it used to take animators to do a film. Each student devised their own short subject, pencil tested their drawings, inked, painted, and shot their short film. They loved doing this and their appreciation of animation history grew tremendously through this exercise.
GEN 4 ANIMATION: PAPER CUT OUTS: Students work as a team to make a green dinosaur cut into sections move along a wall. Boy did the kids love this.
GEN 4 ANIMATION: PAPER CUT OUTS: I loved students working as a team to produce a short subject film. My collective students averaged making between 150 to 300 films per year.
GEN 4 ANIMATION: PAPER CUT OUTS: 70 students divided into 25 classes designed, videoed, voiced, and edited a twenty-minute movie about people dying after seeing one too many cat videos on social media. Each class worked independently without knowing what the other classes were doing. The result was very cool. See the entire film in our FILMS section.
GEN 4 ANIMATION: SILHOUETTE ANIMATION: My students worked together making and producing their own short subjects using paper cut out silhouettes. I infused history into my lessons. The kids learned about Lotte Reiniger who was a famous female animator from Germany who made the first feature length animated film which actually pre-dated Walt Disney’s “Snow White” by ten years.
GEN 4 ANIMATION: 3D ANIMATION: The collective students built the mountain train set, made and painted the train, and made a Holiday Greeting for Christmas time. They learned so much about camera angles, lighting, and set design for this exercise.
I taught my students to draw in 360 degrees, paint and animate. As a young artist I was self-taught which means that I developed some bad technics. It was important to me to teach step by step the correct processes in developing talent skills. I also felt it was important for them to see that I believed in drawing every day. I developed several exercises to do this. These are a few examples. The idea is to learn to add texture and contour.
HOME PORTRAITS- I do inked drawings of people’s homes. This house belongs to my youngest son. I’ve done hundreds of these through the years.
TARZAN DOCUMENTARY: We traveled to Los Angeles, CA to interview the daughter of the first Tarzan Elmo Lincoln. This is the silent movie house that she first saw the movie with her dad when she was very young.
TARZAN DOCUMENTARY: Videoing a shot for the documentary near Morgan City, LA where the original Tarzan of the Apes film was made.
TARZAN FESTIVAL: The collectible commemorative lapel pin.
TARZAN FESTIVAL: Highway billboard promoting the festival.
TARZAN FESTIVAL: 5k FUN RUN
TARZAN FESTIVAL: Tarzan Yell contest winner.
TARZAN EXHIBITION: Entrance to the exhibit. Louisiana State Museum. I had the honor of curating this exhibition that ran for a year.
Inside the exhibition
Promotional gimmick to promote the premiere of our Tarzan: Lord of the Louisiana Jungle documentary, the re-issue of the Tarzan of the Apes film and the Tarzan exhibition. Very successful.
Receiving the proclamation of “TARZAN DAY IN LOUISIANA April 13, 2012. Representative Henry Burns was instrumental in Jim Sullos, President of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. and Burroughs’ two granddaughters Lana Jane and Dejah Burroughs receiving this great honor.
TARZAN FESTIVAL: This was a really big deal to me.
TARZAN FESTIVAL: The official festival t-shirt.
Double feature poster for theatrical release of our documentary and re-release of Tarzan of the Apes.