dave walston illustration

I just passed on the Diego sample I submitted. So I am now approved to do Go Diego Go art.

Here is the sample I submitted.

Just got the word back that I’m now an approved Dora artist. Here is the sample I did for Nickelodeon.

I just got back from New York for the Ni Hao Kai-lan seminar with Nickelodeon. I met a couple of artists that I have known through email and phone for awhile… others that I knew the name but not the persons…

I also met a few people from around the Nick publishing world and even a few guys from the Nick animation studios here in LA.

This is the Viacom/Nickelodeon building right in Times Square NY

This is my friend Warner McGee and I. You can see his work at: www.warnermcgee.com

And here I am with Andrew Brandou, www.howdypardner.com the art director for Ni Hao, Kai-lan at Nick Animation in Burbank, and Martin Hsu, the lead character designer. www.martinhsu.com

I’m now an approved SpongeBob Illustrator. Just got the word from Nickelodeon today.

By the way, I was approved by Nickelodeon on the Ni Hao sample I did. I’ll be going to NY on the 17th-18th for a seminar to meet with the shows creators and get tips on how to draw this property.

Another test done for Nickelodeon on a newer property. Ni Hao Kai lan is a show about a chinese american little girl that aims to teach kids some elementary chinese words and phrases. Here is the test pic.

Finished it and sent it to Nick, so I thought I would upload the pic here.

this has a half inch bleed as well as space at the top for text.

Got the pencils back from Nick with thier bluelines and instructions to carry on to color.

hopefully I can post something soon, but I’m still holding off posting the artwork here. Hopefully soon.

I’ll go ahead and show the Fosters Test I did.. I’m still waiting for word back on it so I can take it to color, but here is the initial pencil test I submitted.

I have spent the last weeks doing samples for Nickelodeon… well more time was spent just trying to get my computer working, but when it does decide to function, I was doing samples. I am pencil testing to get approved as an illustrator for SpongeBob, Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. I also turned in a sample on a new show called Ni Hao, Kai-lan. Hopefully all goes well and I can proceed to the color stages soon.

I am now working on some Ben 10 samples for Cartoon Network. After that I’d like to see if I can do some samples for Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends and become an approved artist for those licenses as well.

I was also told by my contact at CN, that the PowerPuff Girls are still doing well in Europe. And I did alot of PPG work some years ago. Hopefully I can find my way into the european market as well.

When I am finished with the process, I’ll go ahead and post the test pics I did.