Portrait for the Abegglens

     I've been working on a portrait for a friend of mine, Josh Abegglen, and his wife Karen. It was part of an art exchange that I did with Karen for some laptop cases that she crocheted for my wife and I. Karen is an amazing crochet artist and you can see some of her fabulous designs at her website: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ballofyarn

New Sketch/Color Comps

     I have a number of projects that i'm working on at the moment. But, I can only post work in progress on one of them. This is a sketch and some color comps for a new illustration that i'm working on for "The Lighthouse of Alexandria". This is a pretty epic scene in the book and I'm really excited to start painting away. The author chose the far left of the color comps but I thought I'd post the rest anyway. They are all kinda similar just playing around with warm/cool. Comments welcome.

3D stuffs

     It's been almost a month since my last post. I have to apologize for those of you who keep up on my blog. I'm doing an independent study this semester trying to learn Maya. Here are a few things that i've modeled in 3D. The first is a gamecube and the second is a robot crab that I came up with.

     The most recent out of the 3D stuff that i've been working on is modeling and rigging/animating a character's head. I decided to do the character Alex from my "baby fur" story. Eventually I will upload a video of him making some faces.

Death of Captain Smith

     I finally found a pocket of time that I used to finish up this image of the death of captain Smith. This is a scene from the book, "The Lighthouse of Alexandria" that I did the cover for. This has been a challenging piece for sure! But, I'm happy with how it's turned out. I'm still going to work on it a little so if anyone has any thoughts on how I could improve the image, feel free to comment.

Kaylee as Jasmine

     My wife's family has a christmas tradition of drawing names to see who buys presents for whom and this year I drew my sister-in-law Kaylee's name. She's always said that she wanted me to paint her a picture of a Disney Princess so I decided to paint her as a Disney Princess. I haven't posted it until now because I haven't been able to give it to her until today. Comments Welcome!

Death of Captain Smith (Drawing)

     I'm working on some pitch art for the book I did the cover for ( "The Lighthouse of Alexandria" ). This is the drawing for one of the scenes from the book. If you are wondering what the story is behind this scene, I'll give you one clue. It's about pirates....

Baby Fur Animatic - Grocery Store

Baby Fur Animatic - Grocery Store (Edit 1) from Stephen Sitton on Vimeo.


This is an animatic sequence for my Baby Fur story. This is the first time i've ever done anything like this so it was a really different experience. I've learned a ton and have enjoyed the process. I'm still tinkering around with timing and sound effects and such.. but it's done for now. Enjoy!

Christmas Card Finished

     The semester is finally winding down and I just finished this year's Christmas Card. This was a lot of fun to paint! Merry Christmas everyone...

Christmas Card Sketch

     I have always wanted to do my own Christmas card. This year I decided to buckle down and start one! This is the sketch that i've been working on. I'd like to think that this is where Santa hangs out while he's not at the workshop.  It's really rough at this point and I'm probably going to change things here and there. But, you get the idear. Comments welcome!

Frost Queen

     For the next of my artist studies I decided to try to emulate the style of the amazing Sean Galloway (otherwise known as "cheeks"). He has a very unique style that is crazy fun. His style of characterizing figures is beautiful. His blog can be viewed here. I don't know if my illustration holds up to his stuff at all but I had a lot of fun doing it. Comments Welcome!

The Lighthouse of Alexandria Cover

     It was hard to find time to work as much as I wanted to over Thanksgiving break but I did manage to get the cover for "The Lighthouse of Alexandria" finished. It is a dust jacket cover. So, the image encompasses the front, back, and both interior flaps. I am still going to refine a few things but I figured I could post it to show everyone what i've been working on. This was a blast to paint and I look forward to the next one! Comments Welcome!

Baby Fur Story Boards

     Here are some story boards i've been working on for my Baby Fur project. It's my first time doing story boards so i've learned a lot in the process!

The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Color Comps)

     I have been working on some color comps for the book jacket cover. I have been playing around with a daytime and a nighttime version. The third comp plays off of trying to mix the daytime and the nighttime into the same image. They are still pretty rough at this point but i'm starting to like where the image is going. Comments Welcome.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Cover Sketch)

     I'm currently working on illustrating a cover for the book "The Lighthouse of Alexandria". It's an amazing book about Barbary pirates, Romans, and a touch of Greek mythology. Here is the sketch that I submitted for approval. There is more to come. Comments welcome!

Digital Figure Drawings

     I'm in a figure drawing class this semester and on a couple occasions I brought my wacom tablet with me to class to draw with. It's a really different experience drawing from life digitally but I think it's a lot of fun.