TIMOTHY BANKS ILLUSTRATION

Proud to announce that I am the recipient of the Play Illustration International Competition’s Gold Medal Winner for Toy Concept Art!  The winning image is Apathetic Birds, a piece I created while working with an awesome, little toy development company, J4 Studios.  Cheers for everyone involved!!

Click here to view my winning entry listing on Play Illustration.

You can also visit my new portfolio on Play Illustration’s site: http://playillustration.com/timothybanks

I’m thinking I might work on the title for this a little bit more, but it seemed appropriate since the children in the pics have snouts. Sometimes you just gotta draw, and this is what I’ve been turning up at my desk in the last couple of days. Let’s just see where this goes.

Little description. I really have a penchant for drawing creepy men. Who doesn’t, right? You can do whatever, big nose, hairy face, beady eyes, etc., etc. So, I’m thinking, why not combine them with equally creepy counterparts, creepy children with snouts.

So..

Here are some live action pics from “Monster Mouth”, which I’m now painting and eventually contributing to “Terrible Yellow Eyes“.

Palette and board taped down for work:

Closer view:

For inspiration, I have this Korean version of “Where the Wild Things Are” that I bought in Seoul (I’m sorry, I know it’s shameless to drop that travel destination):