Melvin & Jellybean

Happy Holidays!
Here is a gift for you all.
It's Melvin and Jellybean. Two crazy kids that desperately want to be superheroes, but have no powers... and almost no talent. Look for them to be arriving soon on their very own website with some of their very own web comics (and other such nonsense).
Now stare in awe and obey the bean.

Polyanna Board Game

So, it's been a little while between posts... I know. I've been busy at work trying to get everything squared away so that I could have a quiet, client-free week at home for the holidays. Also, We had our annual office Polyanna exchange. So, this is what I've been working on... when not at work.
If you didn't know, I work at a design group. As you might imagine gift giving is a creative event (as is most things at the office, nature of the beast and all). Every year one guy makes a full-out action figure of the person they have as their Polyanna recipient. I mean package, accesories and logos. Everything.
Well, I tried to rise up to the task this year and create a board game for my Polyanna recipient, Jake.
Jake likes to eat, yet he never gains a pound. That's what I based the game on.
The illustration above is the box cover, but I made the back, the insert, the game board (of course) and customized some Candy Land pieces for the game.
The illo was a sketch, scanned into Photoshop, painted in Photoshop using my Wacom tablet and lots of sleepless evenings, and the logo was created in illustrator first then brought into Photoshop for the rendering.
It was a fun project and Jake seemed to get a kick out of it.
I'm going to get some sleep now, before Santa gets here and realizes we have no milk or cookies.

Westbrook Sketch

Here's a new sketch of the most talented player on the Philadelphia Eagles, Brian Westbrook.
I know that the "artsy" guy and the "sports" guy aren't usually the same person, but hey... it happens.
Anyway, when I worked at Fleer Trading Cards I tried to talk them into doing a set of sports cards that were illustrated (in a comic book style of course), but they weren't interested.
They no longer exist now, maybe my sketch cards could've saved the company.
I guess we'll never know.

Just for fun, I'm considering inking this one up, coloring it and maybe giving it a trading card treatment.
If anybody thinks I should do it and post it here then leave a comment here saying so.
I guess you could leave a comment that stated you wouldn't want to see it also, but that's not very fun. Is it?