The Blog
Fairy Tale Illustration
Welcome the the Forgotten City
How’s your day/night going? Ours has been pretty fun. I found this crazy text-to-speech software that reads whatever you type. And my brother and parents and I sat around and had the computer read the first few chapters of our book back to us. It was such a surreal feeling to hear another voice reading our book, albeit a computer voice, but it was awesome. One of my life time goals is to have Jim Dale be the reader of our book’s book on tape. Have you ever heard him read? He’s incredible and Dave and I agree we must find a way for him to be our reader. I’m going to put in a few more hours tonight to try to finish the 6th chapter. I thought in honor of possibly finishing the chapter tonight, i would post a drawing from the story. :) This drawing is a map i made a few months ago of a place in our stories called the Forgotten City. When i was first designing the city, I 3D modeled the the landscape for inspiration. It helped so much for when i was designing the city. I really hope you like it. I can’t wait for you all to read the stories. ;)
Models
Rasa Zukauskaite Concept Sketch
Well friends, I was hoping to finish a new paintingfor you all today but got a little bit of a late start on it. It’s of Rasa Zukauskaite. Right now I only have the rough under-sketch done, but I should have the final done in a day or two. I really like how the sketch turned out, so I thought I would post what I have so far. I’m also shooting a stop motion video documenting the full process of the painting. I’m really excited for it! I hope you like it! :)
Fresh Face Models Portrait
Anna L. – Img Models
Well Hello Friends!
Ever since i did the Models.com Spring 2011 Top Newcomers Series, i’ve had the idea of starting a portrait series of new up and coming Models. David and i have even talked about doing an interview to accompany the portrait as part of series. Well, i’m happy to say that the Anna L. is the first portrait in the “Newcomer Portrait Series“. Anna is a Danish model with IMG. She first caught my eye when, a few months ago, I was on Models.com’s and they had featured Anna as a new face. When i was looking through the images on the post, the set of polaroids of her was what first caught my eye. There were about six or seven of them, and she just had such pure and naturally beautiful look, that i knew instantly that i wanted to paint her.
Plus she has great freckles, and as you know, i'm a sucker for freckles.;)
I really hope you like this portrait i did based off of a polaroid from lemanagement.dk. I posted below a few of my favorite Polaroid's of anna. Hopefully we can do some interviews on the next ones so we can share the girls personalities as well as looks. ;) If you have any suggestions of new girls who you think would be good for this series, Dave & I would love here them, so just the name or a picture of the person on our Facebook page. Lastly, i just wanted to let you know what's been going on for the last few months. As i'm sure you can tell, my posting has been quite pathetic lately. It's not due to a lack of interest. Since the start of the year, I've had a slight career change from Illustration, to doing more Creative Direction of a hand full of special projects i've been wanting to do for the last 6 or 7 years now, which has been quiet the learning curve. So, keeping up blogging and emails so far this year has been super tough. Luckily, I finally feel like i've got things pretty manageable, so i'm hoping to be back posting consistently again. For those who haven't given up on us, sorry, thanks for your patience, and i hope you like what we have going forward. :)
Character Development
Lil Finn Concept Development Sketch
Hi, everyone! So I did another character development concept sketch for one of the characters in our book whose name is Lil’ Finn. Its kind of fun and cutesy. :) I think I like the freckles. How about you?
Models
Mona Johannesson Painting
Hello everyone! How are you all? So I realized today that this had been sitting on my desk and I thought “Hey, I need to share this with everyone!” So here it is. :) It is a painting of Mona Johannesson that I think is from a backstage runway picture. Well, I hope you like it and hope you are all having a great night! Also, I just saw the Avengers again with my family. That movie is great! So funny and entertaining! Have you seen it?
Tokyo Fashion Week
Flowers through the Fog – Japan Fashion Week
Hey Friends! How are you? So I’m happy to say David and I have finished the 4th chapter of our book and are offically 90 pages into it! Woot woot! So I have a video to share with you today that David shot in Tokyo during japan fashion week, and I just finished editing. It is from the Fur Fur Spring 2012 presentation. It was an incredibly beautiful and spontaneous show. The models wore a mix of dark and light colored garments with flowers on their heads. We learned later from our friend that the styling of the show was mori girl. Mori girls are basically like forest wandering girls. We really loved the concept. There was really trippy, creepy music playing all through it. From time to time, some of the models would all stand up and slowly walk around and then, all at once, find a different seat and sit down. The motion and coordination of it all was really something to behold. We hope you like the video!
Creative Direction Web Design
Update for DannyRoberts.com
Hello friends! Its been a while! How are you? I just wanted to share with you that I updated my website DannyRoberts.com. It took me about a week of work to build it from scratch, but I think I like how it turned out. How do you like it? Well, I hope everyone is doing well and having a great weekend!
Minor Bird
Sucré Music
Aw! This album is so good! We are listening to Minor Bird, the new album that was just released from our good friends Sucré. And that is what this painting is from! It is for their merchandise that they are selling on their site. Hope you all like the painting! It is one of my favorite portraits that I have ever done. I have known Stacy for a long time, and I just really feel like it captures her. Also, if you like their music and are in the LA area, they are playing this Thursday at Bootleg Theatre. We’re definitely going to be there! Hope to see you!
Collection Fairy Tale
Marchesa Fall 2012
Hey Friends!
Well i’m so so so so happy to finally be posting this painting! It took about 2-3 weeks to do. Which is way longer than i thought it would take. I used Pencil, Pen, Color Pencil, Ink, Water Color, and Oil Paint. The clothes in the painting are from Marchesa‘s beautiful Fall 2012 collection.
So the concept for the painting… As you all know, my brother and I have been working on writing a story book. Since the book isn’t done, i can’t really share much from it… I thought i could start doing paintings from the stories and start introducing you to the characters. This painting is of a character named Josette Halirk. She is a Princess. She technically isn’t in the book we are writing right now, cause she is just a little kid when our first book takes place. I used model Mona Johannesson as a face reference. For some reason, i feel like Mona’s look really fits perfectly how i picture Josette. I really hope you like the painting.
Models
Rasa Zukauskaite Sketch
Hey friends, how are you?
Sorry for the lack of posts lately.
So, I’m not sure if you have been following along on twitter, instragram or Facebook, but I’ve been working on a new painting for the last few weeks. I can’t wait to finish it and show you all.I have a day or two left of it, I think.
I thought i would post a quick sketch of Rasa Zukauskaite.She is an amazing model from Next Model Management.She is also an amazing photographer.You can check out her pictures here :) I hope you like my sketch and hope you are having a great day!