I'm off to the premiere of 'Open Season' tonight with my brother, he worked as an animator on the film. It should be interesting, a little bit of a smooze fest.

This is a spread from the ape book that took a long time to put together. After the initial concept was worked out I ended up drawing it layer by layer. I'd work out a theme or detail, make a sketch and scan it, trace it in Illustrator and then drop it into place in the document. It took an awful long time to get it all together, but I liked the results. Its easier to work hard on a piece thats working, hanging together as is were, than to continue bashing away on a troublesome image thats falling apart.

I actually had a lot more elements in this one, I ended up dropping quite a few animals because it had got too busy. If I can find a sketch for this one I'll post it later. Because it was inspired by childrens book illustrations from the 50's and 60's I wanted to give it hugely bright colors which I really dug.