Santiago Uceda/Jon MacNair Sketchbook Collaboration - Part 6

With this spread I kept the idea of faces on the red page, and decided to do a cutout of the eyes. nose and mouth area that would then create a face of the opposite page.


I liked the idea of the face being a sort of surprise when you turn the page, having elements on the previous pages create the eyes, nose and teeth.


You can see how that works here in these pictures.

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Santiago Uceda/Jon MacNair Sketchbook Collaboration - Part 5

I like the image of the number 8 and the flames-like shape, so I just brought that out more. The opposite page was just an experiment with contrasting image and text that really have no connection, to create new something with a new meaning.



Had some fun playing around with the mutation of this creature. I kept the basic colors and just adding some contrasting blues and environmental elements. Who doesn't like pink shoes?



This guy was pretty cool to begin with. Didn't want to change too much........

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Santiago Uceda/Jon MacNair Sketchbook Collaboration - Part 4

Despite having no arms, this guy is pretty happy. Maybe he's just content in his underwear and crown.



I liked the border Santiago made, so figured a blue cat mummy would be a good thing to fill it with. That and some pink eye orbs on the other page.



Had some fun fleshing out the basic face that Santiago provided. Gave him arms, pockets, and a nifty striped shirt :)

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Santiago Uceda/Jon MacNair Sketchbook Collaboration - Part 3

I gave the guy some hair, even though it looks like a toupee.



Just wanted to add some color to these great snakes!



Initially I did some stuff to this fellow that made him look a bit too much like Pikachu (totally unintentional), so I had to fix that.

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Santiago Uceda/Jon MacNair Sketchbook Collaboration - Part 2

before and after pictures......


The left page was kinda blank, so I just made the background gray and then decided I wanted to paint something yellow over top of it. I like that combination. The fish just kinda came to mind, and then the text is taken from a short story by one of my favorite authors, Shirley Jackson. On the other page, "P" is for "pink" or "people" or maybe even puke (hmmm....not sure about this).



The face on the left page was just begging to be made into a skull. The rest of the body just kinda followed. I added the eyeballs later. Makes him kinda kooky looking. The green creature on the right makes me think of a flying grape or something. Maybe I was hungry.....and the yellow iguana was cut out of an old science book. I colored it.



This one I just kinda colored the hell out of. The little figure to the far left is cut out from an old stamp, and the whole text I added at the end. It's from Macbeth. I thought the guy looked kind of kingly......but doomed too.

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Santiago Uceda/Jon MacNair Sketchbook Collaboration - Part 1

So I think I have mentioned this before, but I am doing a sketchbook collaboration with fantastic illustrator, Santiago Uceda. Santiago came up with the idea and I suggested we trade sketchbooks so we could work on them simultaneously and each have one to keep. Because we are both pretty busy working on paid projects etc, this got pushed to the back burner for a long while, but I finally got a bit of time to work on it, and I pretty much went full speed ahead. Once I started, I had a lot of fun with it. I played with a lot of color and used acrylic paints, something I don't do too often. I think the nice thing about a collaboration is you already have a starting point when working with the other persons share of art. It's also really cool to see a melding of two styles. I'm posting some before and after pics on here. Since this is Santiago's book, the "before" pictures are his work and the "after" pictures are mine. I have a whole bunch of pages done, but I will be posting a few pics at a time. Hope you enjoy!










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