Ninja Pizza!

Yeah, Raphael is pretty cool, but he is kind of rude...Michelangelo he's just a fun-loving, party dude!

Michelangelo was always my favorite :D

I wasn't allowed to bring my nunchucks to school :/ (I think this is first grade?)  
Thank you Brandon, for digging up this memory.

Freddie Mercury

I was listening to some Queen (one of my favorites) earlier today, and thought, "wow that guy sure can sing..."

Diners, Drive-Ins, and ...Brrrraaains

After years of eating nothing but fair from local greasy spoons, Guy now craves a specific type of sustenance....

Let this be a reminder to you kiddies--eat your veggies.
 

King of the Apes

Well well well, my first post. I've decided to start off by showing a few of the sketches of the current project I've been working on. Here's a little background, if ya don't mind. Some of my favorite projects in art school involved me taking existing written material and turning them into comic book form. For example, here a couple of links for some previous projects of mine, one for the Iliad and one I did of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. So when deciding on how I wanted to bolster my portfolio I wanted to revisit this idea. So next I had to decide on what i wanted to draw. I thought, "I know! I want to a draw a half naked man running through the jungle!" haha I kid I kid...that's only part of it :P  I really was just looking for material that would allow me to draw both human and animal, plus something with really great action scenes, and what better than Tarzan? Now these weren't drawn today, but here are some thumbnail comps of the pages I've done so far.

These are pretty rough, but this is usually how I work in the first stages of any illustration I do. The basic idea here is while Tarzan is foraging for food (a caterpillar) he is unaware he is being stalked by the lioness Sabor. Hopefully you can decipher whats going on. Let me know if you have any suggestions :D And here is a little bonus for today, enjoy!

 

A New Day, Brings New Ideas...

So, I figured I'd jump on the Blog train. CHOOO CHOOO....All aboard!.... Corny? Of course, and there is more where that came from ;D

My name is Fred by the way, Frederick john Davis IV to be exact, but Fred works just as well. I'm intending this post to be the first, of many to come. A Sketch a Day, is intended to be exactly that. Whether it's just some chicken scratch or a tightened thumb nail drawing. The point of this blog is to keep the creative juices flowing, and keep me motivated as an Illustrator. Feedback would also be nice, on some of my ideas, but the main goal is keep me drawing. There has been days even weeks, I would go with out picking up a pencil and drawing a single line....wow, it's even more sad when i see that in text :/ 
This needs to change!

In this space I will be posting various sketches (or doodles, which ever you prefer) of projects I've been working on or just thoughts out of the old thinking box. This will be a nice peek inside of my head and some of the processes I go through when starting an Illustration from scratch. So without further ado, Welcome! and enjoy my drawrings :D


Ps. For those interested in seeing some of my work, check out artoffred.com or http://freddavis.deviantart.com/gallery/    Thanks for stopping by!