Another Post!

Yes another post in less than a week! This is another one for my rocket ride idea. I'm thinking this would be outdoors at the top of the first lift hill.

Hey everyone, I know it's been awhile since my last post, but luckily for you I had jury duty for two days this week and managed to finish up this jungle sketch (and beat a couple races in Diddy Kong racing on my nintendo DS but that has nothing to do with this). Anyway so here's that jungle sketch I finished and I'll try to repost when I find the time to cleanup the seam between the pages a little better. EDIT:I updated the image this morning.

Chikens in a Wharehouse?

Yep, Chikens in a wharehouse. This is another idea I had for a scene for my rocket ride. I wanted it to conclude with the rockets crashing through a wharehouse filled with crates before ultimatley crashing into the quintisential stack of explosives and a series of blacklit BANGS! and POWS! So I started drawing crates and realized crates by themselves are pretty boring, but crates with CHICKENS, now that's a fun ride. Anyway, did this last week, showed my wife, and she said "I don't think they store chikens in wharehouses honey". Oh well.

Signs

Here are a few of the signs I put together recently for my portfolio.

Girl in chair

I'm trying to finish more things that I start, so here's a photoshop rendering I think I'm done with.

T-rex

Hello again! This is one I finished up during lunch here, but I might tweak it a little more when I have time at home. I love drawing dinosaurs, and have been doing so most of my life (I think it's my older brother Shane's fault). At one point I even convinced my highschool friends to help me build a lifesize velociraptor in my bedroom as well as a juvenile t-rex head, but that's a whole other story (I'll have to see if I can find pictures of those).

Secret Santa

This is something I did really quick to decorate a gift my wife was giving to her "Secret Santa" at work.
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

This is something I did in watercolor when I was very young. I scanned it tonight only because I plan on using it on my website (which you should check out if you haven't at brandonstarr.com) in my "About Me" section. UPDATE: My website is complete!

Water Tower

Here once again is another quick scene from my rocket adventure ride.

Scaredy Horse

Hey everyone, sorry it's been so long. We've been busy moving into our new place and have just been generally busy lately, so my apologies on the lack of posts lately. Anyway here's a horse and some other frightened animals. What are they frightened by? Well my plan is to have them as part of my rocket ride and thus they are frightened by the rockets flying towards them.

Random Can Can Girl

Here's a random Can Can Girl. This came from me listening to the soundtrack of the Golden Horseshoe Jamboree on the Disneyland 50th soundtrack set my wife bought me last christmas. Like most of the girls I draw these days, I think she resembles my wife in some ways.

Building Facade

This is my building facade. I have this idea for a rocket type ride that smashes through building facades. Kind of like the old soap box racers from Knott's Berry Farm, only as a suspended coaster.

For My Wife

My wife asked me almost six months ago to do an illustration of her hiking with Mickey to commemorate the fact that she now works under the Adventures by Disney division of the Walt Disney Travel Co., and well I finally found the time to finish it. She hasn't seen the completed version yet, so I have my fingures crossed.

Here it is, I think this will be the final version. All I have to do now is release it to the forums and wait for critiques. Anyway here it is.

Girl in the rocket

Here's a girl I added to the rocket who will soon be joined by a boy. She's inspired by my wife, and the boy will look kind of like me.

Bear in Tub

This is a sketch of a bear in a bathtub that I drew yesterday. This one makes me smile.

Some Fun Stuff from my free time

Hey everyone this is what I've been working on in my off hours lately. The building is obviously not done yet, and I'm going to add people riding in the rocket at some point.

My first blog

Hello everyone! My name is Brandon Starr, I am a professional Illustrator and this is my blog. I plan to update this blog regularly with whatever I happen to be working on or strikes my fancy. I also have a website at www.brandonstarr.com which you can visit by clicking the image



And this is the banner I will be using elsewhere to promote my blog: