gronkle babies

i did these back when we were doing the dragons holiday special...

the gang

downton and kenny powers

i sometimes like to draw from tv shows i'm watching... i'm a fan of downton abbey and east bound and down... here's some sketches from the last day

an experiment

i like the way old inked illustrations from tiny things like matchbooks or monopoly cards look when they've been blown up bigger, how they have really ragged edges and the line distorts... this was an attempt to get that look by drawing super tiny in sketchbook and then blowing it up. it doesn't exactly do it because if it were printed on paper the texture of the paper would show up when blown up. but still, i like the way it looks to ink super tiny...

random doodling

hiccup head study

more astrid drawings

one would think that by now (6 years into the dragons universe) i'd have a way to draw this character i was happy with. i never like the way she turns out in my boards, so i often try to invent a new 'shorthand' version of her i'll be happy with...