Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

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.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

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.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Hot Diggity Dog!


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

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Fairytale Nightmare rendered up version


Click on image to enlarge.
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

Monday, August 13, 2007

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

Sunday, August 12, 2007

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

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

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.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

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.

Friday, July 06, 2007

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.

Saturday, June 09, 2007

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.

Thursday, June 07, 2007

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.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

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.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

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.

Friday, May 25, 2007

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.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

MailMeArt2




detail 1


detail 2


detail 3

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.

Monday, May 21, 2007

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.