Robo Brainwash

Here's a character I've been messing with. It's actually 2 characters. They are forced to get along in a codependent situation somewhere in the future.

We have visitors

It's not going to be like war of the worlds. Anyone who spends so much time and energy just to visit humans like me won't be tipping the S.A.T richter scale in my opinion. Any way, I have been having a great time in my new moleskin. This is one of the pages with some very minor photoshop color touches. I included close ups so you can see all the fun paint and pencil details.

My Kit Cat Clock

This illustration is of my Kit Cat Clock hanging in my studio. My grandmother had one of these when I was growing up and I remember being hypnotised by those roving eyes. So since I am so into time and clocks, I just had to have one. It was only a matter of time before I drew it.

Hot Diggity Dog!

What can say summer more than a hot dog on the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore? Maybe two hot dogs?

Fairytale Nightmare rendered up version

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I promised I would post the most completed version of this doodle to date. And here it is. Who says Jimmy can't keep his word? For detailed views of this, head over to my new site and click on sketchbook 1 and start with image 5.
jim's site

IF: Emergency

This is a crop from a recent sketch/illustration. It kinda says emergency to me. But hey. What do I know. I only drew the thing. Notice how some don't sense the urgency as they sit around eating blue cheese with tea. Actually, blue cheese IS an emergency if it ends up in my mouth. An instant eject system was installed in my head for terrible things like blue cheese and the like. I know, I spelled blue cheese wrong. I just don't respect the stuff enough to care.
jim's new site

jbradshaw.net is live!

I finally got my site up and running. Many things tried to get in the way, so it took way longer than I had hoped. Please let me know if there are any problems with links or whatever. Check it out! jbradshaw.net

Free Your Mind

I have seen illustrators using old books as sketchbooks. Just paint over the pages and let some print show through for texture. This is a way for me to loosen up and get off the computer. Just push paint and stuff around. I sucked my whole family into this and we had a big fun mess on Satruday. I banged out 4 pages and it was freeing.

Wascalwy wabbit

I have a rabbit problem. My yard is infested and nothing seems to help. They make brown spots in the yard and mess with the garden. We have wasted money on a couple of guaranteed products and I don't want to go the stinky fox urine route. Sometimes I throw tennis balls at them. They will move about 3 feet and just sit there until I get about 3 feet from them. With my shaved head and my growing frustration, they make me feel like Elmer Fudd. They obviously know that I am too soft to hurt them so my only option seems to be trapping them one at a time and taking them for a ride. Or coexisting with them. Anyway, this illustration is not far from my freakin' reality. Sigh.

Geeky Bird

My birds are smarter than your birds.

Red Monster

A little redo since I can't get to the illustration side of me lately. Grrrrrrrrrr!!! All life and no art makes jim a grouchy boy.

IF: Suit

You need to dress in the right suit if you want to make a giant leap for mankind. I know it's contrived but I like IF but don't usually have time to come up with so many illustrations. So you have to take what I give. Okay? This illustration is about 2 or 3 years old with a texture update.

Zambini's Last Trick

Just a sketch I had around that I did some effect work on. I kinda like the brown pencil on the old book page.

Post your butt off!

Note: This was thrown together in a rush. It needs a redo someday.

Every Tuesday at SugarFrostedGoodness is PYBOT. We get an email from our fearless leader Jeff who likes to stoke us up with stuff like you see in the cartoon above. PYBOT stands for post your butt off Tuesday. Frankly, my butt is having trouble reattaching as time goes by. I am usually behind (no pun) in my posting of the topics there so this cartoon is for my boy Jeff. BTW: that's his avatar on the tv screen.

Beezer Ice Cream

We have this ice cream truck guy in Jersey called Weaser. He has a cheap knock-off of the Greatful Dead Weaser guy from the Europe 72 live album, smashing his raindow colored ice cream cone on his head. I don't usually like rip-off art, especially bad rip-off art. But for some reason, I have always liked this one. I guess I'm just easy when it comes to ice cream. Anyway, here's my spin of a cheap knock-off of Weaser.
I included the original Weaser at the top. I would take a picture of the ice cream truck version but I havn't seen it since I moved to South Jersey 7 years ago.

Lemon Law

Here's a little something for Illustration Friday's car theme. It's been a long time since doing IF. I miss it but have been too busy.

Nintendo

I'm really getting into the whole world of Mario lately. I love the characters like Toad, Boo, Pirana, Mario, Yoshi, Cheep Cheep, Ba-Bomb, Bowser, etc. Great stuff to mess around with in doodleville.

Big Wonder Woman

This started over at SugarFrostedGoodness awhile back. All of a sudden these fat wonder women started showing up and I just couldn't resist. It takes a whole lot of woman to protect the world.

MailMeArt2

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Here is the latest mailmeart submission. It's hard to see what is going on on the mailmeart site. The scan looked light and there is a lot of detail so I included some detail views for your eyeball enjoyment.

My Fairytale

I made up my own fairy tale. Some of the individual pieces in the picture have meaning and show up here and there in other pieces of jim art, kinda like a recurring dream. If you wanted to know the meaning, you would have to search deep in my head. You may not want to do that because you might never get out.

Cat

SugarFrostedGoodness has Cats as them this week. So I couldn't resist because I love cats.

Just monkeying around.

Just a little sketch. I'm thinking about doing a bunch small originals and selling them. Some in color and some b/w. I am getting closer on my site design and a store needs to be part of it. First the main site, then I can build and add on to it. I have so much to do before I can get to that point. Maybe this summer?

Mail Me Art

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Here's my first submission to mailmeart.com. You can also see my contribution for one of the free prizes there.

Monster in the Closet

Here's a little nightmare to brighten up your Monday

Snap!

Oh snap! The boombox be blastin' out my favorite song.

One Poke Over the Line.

He started out cuter but after blackening aound the eyes and adding the eyebrows... well, the giggles went south. Maybe it was being poked too many times or maybe he was just having a lumpy dough day.

Late for the Parade.

This is a new illustration I did for a donation prize on the mailmeart.com contest. This contest is pure creative fun, so go to the site and check it out and more importantly get involved. There are lots of sweet prizes to win which art donated by illustrators (many you will recognize) and many of the submissions will be in a big show in England later on. Go there to check out the details. Pretty dang cool, huh?

Update: This print is available on shack29.com so go get it before it gets got.

Total

This totally sweet axe is gonna totally rock my total day, dude.

Robots Final

Tomorrow's drawergeeks topic is Robots. Can you tell I am into it?

Robots

What can I say? Jimmy likes robots.

Grrrrr Face

Here's one I did for the recent drawergeeks topic. I missed the submission deadline on Friday morning. I was up till 1:00am the night before and just couldn't get it where I wanted it. Maybe I'll do some more on it but for now I will just post it and walk away.

Little Monsters

It was Monster Monday over at Sugar Frosted Goodness and I think insects are miniature monsters. That's why humans are so scared of them.

Harry Octopotterpus Revise

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This is an update from an earlier work. I liked the original but didn't love it. This falls more in line with the look I have going and I am much happier with it. I think I may do this with some other pieces when I get the time.

Sprout

Late on a Thursday with my IF art. Something sprouted last night and here it is today.

Shazam!

My latest contribution to Drawergeeks. The Captain Marvel/Shazam topic won't be posted there until 2/9 at noon. I hope you all like.

eL picaduro

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El Picaduro means "he who stings hard". Someone is about to enter a world of pain like non other. And my boy is the just the one to administer.

Chrissy's World

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I was messing with Wyeth's famous painting, Christina's World. It will have some more conceptual thinking but thought I should post it cuz my posting has been that of a lamewad lately.

February is Red

Hearts are red and so are books. Haaaa. Maybe someday I will be funny. Until then you will have to just love me as I am. This past two weeks has been crappy and I have been emotionally worn (long stories) when I get home which means no new art, so I dug into some old stuff. I want more time. Someone buy me a slower clock!