I used this scene as a reference.

My sketch of the eye patch guy.

And the rest of the scene.

Closeups, showing my inked lines over the pencil sketch.

The final. Just black and white xerox on colored paper, cheap. You can see it changed a bit from the original drawing, different treatment of the flame and smoke—and some repositioning of the characters.

To top it off and add a splash of color, I used a red marker to hand color the flame in the hat on each card.

The concept roughly sketched out for all pieces.

Refined a little, with a sampling of the color scheme.

Then I began the final drawing to get proportions and placement down.

Here the art is scanned in and I began tracing it digitally.

All traced and art elements added, it just needs typesetting.

Our camp spot area in San Isabel National Forest, in southern Colorado.

Some mountains in NM.

More mountains. The view from a hike I went on.

Ramone, an old artist we met in a little village in NM, at his gallery.

More mountains.

Entrance to the house we stayed at in outside of Santa Fe.

Notes after first meeting. Whats this you say? what are these word things in your sketchbook?

Now we sketch.

And sketch.

Here are some of the hand drawn elements after a concept had been chosen.

The art for the disc was based on an old center label of a 78 record that one of the band members grandmother recorded.

The original drawing.

Cleaned up and digitized.

We visited a mountain man type, who lived on the mountain for the past 40 years growing medicinal plants. Of course he had a white beard. This is the first cabin he built for shelter when he first "settled his claim." It looks like a cupcake.

A view from atop a mountain.

An old outdoor chimney that was at the top of another hike.

A view from a large porch of where we were staying. The Blue Ridge Assembly was an old YMCA camp built in in the mountains, way back yonder in 1916 or abouts, .

Random people that we met or saw that stuck in my head and I sketched on the flight back.

More randoms.

Sketched on a paper-thin piece of cedar from my cigar. This was my memory of Joe the Mountain Man.

This is the version that the client wanted to use in the end.

This was my favorite version however. I thought the ship being pulled up via seagulls, a la James and the Giant Peach was a nice visual and went with the name of the show. The client wanted the ship to be sinking though. What can I say, I am a the-ship-is-half-out of-water" kind of person.

2. Up close and personal.

3. I drew all the text out on one page, then I placed it where I wanted in Illustrator.

4. How the mask was "layered" in illustrator after I scanned in the art and separated sections.

5. These 2 parts were combined to create the background.

6. La final.