a little rene engström

These are starting to turn out nice!

Here's a painted panel for your eyeballs!

I hope to get at least 5 of these painted today.

Work on The Venerable Leaf progresses.

Just drawing some Canadiana as references for TVL.

Johan and the butterfly.

Another Mario/Anders Loves Maria commission.

Anders as a hunter riding an elephant. A commission. (I have imaginative readers)

A commission that I did that turned out to be a lot of fun!

Oh what the heck, here's the coloured version too!

These are some inks to my next graphic novel The Venerable Leaf, which will be partly taking place on the Canadian prairies.

I thought I would try my hand at Ethel too.

I saw these (possibly Anders Loves Maria inspired) Archie covers http://bit.ly/gRAm5i http://bit.ly/fWLpCV while perusing the internet and was inspired to make my own Archie fanart. I grew up on these old comics and they made me want to draw my own.

Influences. Left to right: Annika Norlin, Woody Allen, Dan DeCarlo, Tove Jansson, Dr Seuss, mermaids (not pictured) and Nintendo (not pictured).

An example of some of the art that has been redone for the book. I don't have the original hand painted strip or even a high-res scan. It was a lot of fun to redraw though.

This is my first award nomination and I'm pleased to tears! :)