Mudge & Bear

Character designs for Robyn Karp's Mudge and Bear series. All rights reserved to Robyn Karp.

The Lonely Shell

I'm pleased to announce the publication of "The Lonely Shell", a children's book by Malia Domingo and illustrated by myself. You can purchase it off Lulu.com, and hopefully with success, it will be available nationwide!

Check it out, it's a beautifully written book, and the illustrations ain't bad either. ;-)

Poster Ad Design and Wedding Invite

This is a poster I did for Greg Proffit's Creepy Crawl Pub Tours in Savannah, Georgia. It's a great ghost tour and I'm happy to be a part of it. If you're ever in Savannah (at least for the next four months) call this number and ask for me. I'll be sure to scare you and get you buzzed all at once.

The second illustration is a wedding invite for my sister's wedding. I haven't heard her thoughts on it yet...so this might not be the final artwork.

"Flagler's Few" wrap cover designs

These are wrap cover illustrations for my second-run print of Flagler's Few and the Reaper of Saint George Street Volume 1 and Volume 2. Originally designed as two separate books, I reworked the first cover and combined the two books together as a compendium. However, I've met with some unhappy feedback of the book being combined by my sellers in St. Augustine who prefer to sell the books separate.

If I can't find a traditional publisher (and I'm really hoping I do find one!) I may have to resort to selling the books as two instead of one. It's more cost effective and it seems to keep the sellers and buyers happy too! :-P

Welcome to the NEW ARFstudios website!

Hello friends, fans and visitors! Welcome to the re-designed ARFstudios web-blog. From now on, the site formerly dedicated to all things Flagler's Few, will now incorporate all of my projects including book illustrations, graphic designs, ad designs, upcoming graphic novels and other side projects.

I will also be using the website as a sort of online portfolio for prospective clients, interested in hiring me as an illustrator. Below are some samples from the first few children book projects I was so fortunate to be a part of. (Authors of the books hold all rights to the illustrations, ARFstudios reserves the rights to use them in a portfolio setting).

Enjoy!

Yours Truly,
Andre



Jesse Breslerman's PJ's First Day.




Jennifer Salberg's Jambo's Journey.




Brad Blumenthal's Harley goes to Hollywood.

Artist Ryan English in talks to ink "Destination: Unknown"

So today was an interesting day. I met with fellow Gainesville native, and former SCADSequential Art alum, Ryan English. We had a friend in common who put us in touch with each other. We decided to get together for a chat about comics and upcoming projects.

Well, I ran an idea by Ryan on our first meeting, which might have been a bit premature having just met him and all, but I asked if he'd be up for working with me as an inker for Destination: Unknown, the Victor Origin project. He sounded interested and actually a little excited about the collaboration.

My hopes, that by partnering up for this book, I can get the finished product out sooner. Not only that, but Ryan is a talented artist in his own right, and I think his inking will make my pencils 10x cooler!

Here's to collaboration!!!

New News!

New news everyone! Flagler's Few and the Reaper of Saint George Street is now collected into a 333 page compendium. This new book combines the stories from the original two digest size editions of the series and will now act as the first volume of the series. It will be available for purchase in mid-February. The two digest editions will be discontinued and considered "collector's items".

Also in today's news, I just finished the script for Destination: Unknown, the spin-off novel featuring a certain ghost from the Flagler's Few series. It will be set in Savannah, Georgia in the 1930's and will involve the Freemasons, Root Doctors, local legends, and murderous monsters! As well as a few ghost duels. I'm really excited to start working on the book and hope to have it finished by October 2011! I've planned a trip to Sapelo Island, a historic Georgia location which will be featured in the book.

I'm also in talks to work on Red Stylo Media's next book, a Edgar Alan Poe/Steam punk story. I'll be penciling the 24 page comic and it's expected release date is also in October 2011. Look here for more details in the future! I'm planning a trip to Baltimore to do some research and reference photography.