danbobthompson

Folk bear scene

2012-01-15T09:24:00.001-08:00

Super Jail and fire truck

2011-12-24T09:43:00.000-08:00

below is a paper and ink fire truck I made. It is a 1914 low slung service ladder truck with the half fold life net on the side.

This is a piece I did for the Adult Swim show at Gallery 1988.

bear playing the Sousaphone

2011-12-04T15:05:00.000-08:00

faces yodeling

2011-10-22T11:16:00.000-07:00

a character idea.

2011-10-13T19:21:00.000-07:00

my ol' pal Red

2011-09-29T16:28:00.000-07:00

some pages from my book

2011-08-23T07:00:00.000-07:00

country singer

2011-08-11T13:41:00.000-07:00

two soldiers

2011-08-09T07:46:00.000-07:00

Abstract piece

2011-05-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

Folk scene

2011-05-05T09:06:00.000-07:00

gallery pieces

2011-04-03T17:50:00.000-07:00

I have been invited to contribute to a couple group shows. First image is for the 3B show at Gallery 1988. Beetlejuice is one of the 3 themes. I will post the other 2 soon.
Bottom image is for Gallery Nucleus and the theme is Edward Scissor Hands.

sweet sixteen

2011-02-16T20:14:00.000-08:00

Bear and a fox

2011-01-18T21:10:00.000-08:00

sitting around the table

2011-01-15T14:49:00.000-08:00

smoking rabbit

2011-01-08T18:44:00.000-08:00

baby crow

2010-12-07T22:36:00.000-08:00

Circus Clowns, 2 bears and a bat.

2010-11-26T15:26:00.000-08:00

letter R

2010-10-26T17:02:00.001-07:00

My children's book

2010-10-25T18:12:00.000-07:00

I have finished my book and it is for sale on my Etsy page- see right column on my blog for link. Each book is hand made and printed with quality color paper. see the link for further details. Also scroll down a few posts to view more pages from the book.

the magnificent flying cats

2010-09-01T21:14:00.000-07:00

below is the revision I did to page one of my book. I like this better. still might change a bit. Nice thing about working on your own art is that you can take your time.

The letter H

2010-07-13T07:00:00.000-07:00

Below is my finished book. reads from bottom up.

some pages from my book

2010-06-29T20:02:00.000-07:00

New Book

2010-06-17T19:25:00.000-07:00

This is part of another book I am working on. I will keep posting as I go.
Last post below is unfinished and I will keep posting .

classical music

2010-06-06T15:17:00.000-07:00

Two of my favorite composers.

Side Show Circus book

2010-04-10T17:02:00.001-07:00

new business card

2010-02-04T22:05:00.000-08:00

minator

2010-01-29T15:26:00.000-08:00

I changed the dragon a bit and added other stuff to this.

bear playing violin

2010-01-09T11:54:00.000-08:00

I revised this one and added a bunch of stuff so I figured I would re post it.

Greeting Cards

2009-12-27T10:32:00.001-08:00

I am making some greeting cards to try and sell on my Etsy shop. I will silkscreen these on to some stationary cards. I plan on doing a bunch more. Some with characters on them.

my book

2009-06-21T11:56:00.000-07:00

this is one of the last pages of my children's book. I am almost finished. Can't wait to be done and work on something else. next I need to find a publisher

Gocco Dragon

2009-05-17T19:05:00.000-07:00

this is my first pass at gocco printing. the image was slightly rough around the edges and the screen picked up everything. next time I will clean up art first.

bear in the woods

2009-03-28T21:56:00.001-07:00

I took a break from my book and did this today.

my children's book

2009-01-24T13:30:00.000-08:00

this is the first page of my children's book I am working on. My wife thinks it looks gloomy but I like it that way.

below is a rough of the cover.

mexican wrestler

2008-12-28T22:07:00.000-08:00

I made some changes to this guy. I noodled with his arms and legs.

a bad sheriff

2008-12-23T11:30:00.000-08:00

space alien

2008-11-16T15:15:00.000-08:00

serpent and whale

2008-11-01T20:56:00.000-07:00

this is the finished piece. I will worry about animating it later. took a while.

serpent and whale

2008-10-28T23:15:00.000-07:00

This is my pencil drawing. I am going to water color it and try and animate it Flash. wish me luck.

with waves

the whale

pencil

cat

2008-10-19T21:30:00.000-07:00

Vimeo worked to upload my file.

Untitled from dan thompson on Vimeo.

cat sketches

2008-09-30T11:26:00.000-07:00

2 bears

2008-08-27T17:30:00.000-07:00

business man

2008-07-31T10:53:00.000-07:00

cat sketches

2008-07-26T18:09:00.000-07:00

a place to lie down

2008-07-03T14:07:00.000-07:00

some trees and houses

2008-06-11T18:39:00.000-07:00

Dixieland poster

2008-06-08T13:44:00.000-07:00

I did this poster about three years ago. I came across it yesterday and decided to redo the characters and some text.

some bearded faces

2008-06-01T14:26:00.000-07:00

some more dog and circus stuff

2008-05-22T09:25:00.001-07:00

circus number 2

2008-05-05T17:25:00.000-07:00

a crowd

2008-04-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

trees

2008-04-23T21:11:00.001-07:00

Ed, Jim and myself went to Griffith park and painted today. not much color to mine. I wanted to use india ink and focus on textures in the bark. It was a great day.

giant squid

2008-03-23T10:22:00.000-07:00

fire truck

2008-03-16T12:03:00.000-07:00

the circus

2008-03-04T18:13:00.000-08:00

Von Kreep

2008-02-17T09:48:00.000-08:00

I did this design for my Fiendish Freind Doktor Von Kreep. I had trouble designing something I liked so I focused on just simple shapes. Kind of an exploratory design.

some photos downtown

2008-02-17T08:00:00.000-08:00

some more daphneyland art

2008-02-07T07:23:00.000-08:00

I am going to screen this and make some prints soon.

some post it note art

2008-02-05T11:39:00.001-08:00

Daphneyland

2008-01-22T21:53:00.001-08:00

I have two Basset hounds from a rescue up in Acton called Daphneyland. They have hundreds of bassets running around. It is hillarious. Recently I did this artwork for some t-shirts that I am going to screen and give to them.

civil war general

2008-01-12T15:27:00.000-08:00

Trip to U.K.

2008-01-10T07:30:00.000-08:00

Had a nice time. Spent a lot of time with my wife's friends and family. They are all good people. Saw lot's of castles and rain.

Scotland

North East England

King Henry VIII

2007-12-11T07:30:00.001-08:00

I'm off to England. Happy Holidays.

fisherman

2007-12-04T08:04:00.000-08:00

little match girl

2007-12-01T07:30:00.000-08:00

a bear/monster

2007-10-26T13:56:00.000-07:00

I finally finished this one. I erased all the rough artwork cause I figured it has been seen and it took up a lot of room. Below is the final. Came out ok I think. I am sure I will not like it next week. Time to move on.

Shredded Feet

2007-10-14T14:57:00.000-07:00

I have finally finished this one. It took a while. It is my piece for the Cereal Killers book.

cells

2007-10-13T21:40:00.000-07:00

Frankenstein

2007-10-06T21:54:00.000-07:00

Needle Bird

2007-09-09T10:45:00.000-07:00

My wife needed a title design with out BG color for her website. She Knits and make all kinds of great stuff.

fisherman 2

2007-08-05T18:07:00.000-07:00

This is the last assignment for my Photoshop class.

cow that tried to jump over the moon

2007-07-07T09:12:00.000-07:00

I am taking a Photoshop class and our assignment is to draw a character, hand ink it and scan it in and color it. I posted something similar to this drawing a long time ago and it sucked. I wanted to redo it, so here is the first step.

Big Foot

2007-06-29T08:22:00.001-07:00

Below are a couple big foot designs I did. John Quinn and I gave ourselves an assignment to come up with big foot characters.

view from plane

2007-06-18T15:16:00.001-07:00

On my way to Florida I saw some well designed farm land out my window. I think it is somewhere in New Mexico.

2007-06-08T17:01:00.000-07:00

kitty kitty

2007-05-19T08:56:00.000-07:00

fire breather

2007-05-08T21:31:00.000-07:00

a city

2007-05-02T19:24:00.000-07:00

a tree

2007-04-25T21:54:00.001-07:00

business guy 6

2007-04-24T21:24:00.000-07:00

It has been kind of relaxing to draw these guys.

business guy 5

2007-04-23T23:07:00.000-07:00

business man 4

2007-04-19T08:15:00.000-07:00

business guy

2007-04-02T17:33:00.000-07:00

Reykjavík

2007-03-23T15:14:00.000-07:00

Over Christmas Nic and I are planning to stop off in Iceland on our way to England. A lot of Iceland's towns paint their roofs and buildings bright colors because the surroundings can be so grey. I can't wait to freeze and take photos. I know it is a long way off, but that's all I got.

doodle

2007-03-04T16:43:00.000-08:00

I told myself that I need to create something or post something once a week. I didn't feel very creative this weekend so I doodled some circles and posted them.

my grainy vacation video

2007-02-25T15:41:00.000-08:00

The original is easier to watch. After I exported this video for the web
most of the detail was lost.

Fisherman

2007-02-18T10:44:00.000-08:00

If I could choose another career I think I would be a homicide detective or a longshore fisherman

marching band

2007-02-17T11:49:00.000-08:00

Big Sur and Pacific Grove

2007-02-07T20:37:00.000-08:00

Last weekend, my wife, our dog, and two good friends from England drove up to Big Sur and rented a house in Pacific Grove. It was really fun, except for when my dog, Bella, got sick in the car and whined most of the car trip up. I did't focus on exact likeness on these drawings. It's tough to capture her, especially the expression in the photos below. She has about ten different faces which always change.

House BG

2007-01-22T10:10:00.000-08:00

Below is another background idea I did over the weekend.

seaside village

2006-12-26T09:01:00.000-08:00

My wife's parents live in the north eastern part of England in Middlesbrough. On the coast line there are lots of little seaside villages that are really beautiful. The cottages are usualy around 400 hundred years old with old fishing boats and beautiful landscapes all around. Sometimes off in the distance you can see an extremely old castle in ruins. I would love to live in a little town like this. This would be the view from my studio window.

organ grinder 2

2006-11-25T19:48:00.000-08:00

below is a working paper cut out. It is printed on thick card stock paper. Next I will have it printed on post card paper. Kinkos sucks by the way.

Ice cream

2006-09-25T14:05:00.000-07:00

For the assignment this week in my Adobe Illustrator class we had to Live Trace something. Not much time this week so I went with an old design and added to it. I inked the girl by hand and then live traced her. The end result was kind of boring, I actually ended up liking the pencil sketch best, which is posted below. I will save the bad live trace version for class.

My Bear Poster

2006-08-28T13:09:00.000-07:00

Below is my poster design for an animation festival next year. I did this just for fun so don't rely on any of the details. It one was a tough design and a good challenge.

Bella drawings

2006-08-12T00:13:00.000-07:00

Some more drawings of my dog.

Disney stuff

2006-02-11T14:45:00.000-08:00

I recently resigned from Disney after almost 9 years. I will now be working for Cartoon Network. I will basically be doing some comsumer product designs, style guides, different stylizations and treatments to promote shows and whatever comes my way. It sounds like it will be really fun. There is the bread and butter of the job but I am also looking forward to experiment with stuff. It was pretty sad my last day at Disney but I feel good about making a change. Below are some of my drawings.

IBMA poster

2006-01-19T11:33:00.001-08:00

I e-mailed the IBMA(International Bluegrass Music Association) a few illustrations of mine and they welcomed me to submit a poster idea for the World Of Buegrass event this year. Hopefully they like it. This one took a while because I completely changed the style half way through.

Red

2005-12-13T21:10:00.000-08:00

Rough drawing of Alien and Spacedog

2005-11-15T17:59:00.000-08:00

This is a drawing I am almost finished with. It is my (tightened) rough. Next I need to do a tight pencil, scan it into the computer and build the colors in Illustrator. Then I will add shadows and textures. I'll post the final color version when I am done.

Mickey Mouse Club design

2005-10-08T09:23:00.000-07:00

I did these for Disney a while back. It was fun creating the pattern.