happy holidays !

Christmas card



rejected elf design for a commercial




initial designs for a pitch


"Welcome, Christmas, bring your cheer. Cheer to all Whos far and near."

well its that time , thanks to everyone who's visits the blog for all the encouraging comments and emails , its been a great year , looking forward to 2011

Monsters !!!!

With Halloween around the corner I figured I should post something before I get lost in to storyboard land,
it may be awhile before I post again so enjoy
col


8X14 digital



6X6 acylic

initial thoughts for an art of auction piece





8.5x11 pencil

a doodle that I got a little carried away with

new prints!

"Balloons" 11x17




"Berry Cat"11x17


some new prints available store
that's it for now
C

ahhh fall

FALL 8X11















yeah fall! pumpkins, warm drinks, and scarfs
Col

intial drawings 2

some more initial sketches from a gig a few weeks ago
more to come when i get a chance
Col

intial drawings (repost )

Hey folks I posted these drawing earlier today, but while fiddling with my blog settings It managed to delete the post along with all the lovely comments,
so lets try this again.... on the plus side the original post didn't have foxes :

I wanted to post before I head to Vancouver for two weeks for a little R&R
here's some initial drawings for a kids book I'm starting to work on, this isn't stuff I'd show the client the drawings are waaay too rough , and as somebody pointed out earlier Yes! the turtles are definitely inspired at least in pallet by Martin Wittig's turtle line up ,and in approach/design the turtle from Cats Don't Dance (love that movie) they'll need some tweaking, but I still enjoy the drawings and I hope you do too,

procrastinating

procrastination sketch .sigh ...back to work

SCADOO!

I know, I said no more posts for a while, but I could'nt sleep last night Why couldn't I sleep? "Scadoo" the monster that currently resides in my son's closet, this sketch is pretty much how he described Scadoo to me...Curse you Scadoo!
enjoy,
C

Big post & Interview

Hello
Here's the big post ! Things have been crazy but I wanted to post this stuff before life gets even more hectic, at the end of the month my wife and I are expecting our second child which means no sleep, and also means no posts at least until the end of August, so enjoy these drawings some of you have probably seen them on my portfolio site last week but I know a lot of you haven't .

A special thanks to the presitence of Mr Randall Sly who manged to get an interview out of me which you can check out here
http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/


Oh and Also the Store is open ! http://colinjackstore.blogspot.com/
that's it for now,

Col

print &news

"row row row"
8X10' digital




busy busy busy!
work on Jimmy two shoes and with Penguin publishing has kept me from pretty occupied but I thought I'd post this drawing this will be one of the prints going on sale very soon!

also for those of you in the Toronto area my friend and colleague Sam Bradley with a group of super talented artist have put together an amazing collection of stories in the Anthology Project available at TCAF I'm totally getting my copy signed
that's it for now
COL

on the way !

here's a drawing just sitting around on the desktop.
My next post(yes it will include the store) will be fairly large before I take a bit of time focus on cobbling together a new portfolio, and a bunch of other work related things that have been piling up on my desk that I should really tend to before July/August .
c



oh and here's one for an art show at the canteen art shop in Ottawa in may



that's it for now

line up

design I did for a bid on project it was a real pleasure to draw these characters!

update!

A random drawing




sketches of some co-workers over at Elliot animation some of you may know them




So what's new I just wrapped on Total Drama Island season 3 last week and have now officially started working on Jimmy Two Shoes which is looking to be a sweet project to pose on and some development work on a new pilot, it's also looking like I'll be illustrating another kids book for this year Penguin books after reading the manuscript I'm really excited about being involved .
that's it for now ...

Oh The store will be up and running by the end of march finally I.m pretty excited being that the drawings themselves are brand new and my personal favorites

Oh my Goache!

A few months ago,I was asked to participate in a postcard auction benefit in hopes of raising money to help build a school for orphans in Freetown, Sierra Leone(http://btorpostcards.blogspot.com/). I was happy to contribute then it sunk in that the material the artist would be working on was birch wood..which is impossible to print on or at least find a printer who will , so I had to bite the bullet and break out the gouache and do something I haven't done since first year at langara college's fine art's program 1999... paint, in the end I think it turned out o.k. and it was a lot of fun being off the cintiq, so I don't think this will be the end of me painting.
col

ZOOM 2

happy New years folks !
Col