James McDermott

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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

FUTURE WORM! - Time Travel Council concept sketch

Danny and Fyootch get thrown off course traveling back in time in an attempt to avoid being grounded at home, committing what the time tr...

PALMILLA

It's Inktober and you know what that means...let the inking of ghoulish creatures begin! I really enjoy seeing all the ink sketches pe...

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

FUTURE WORM! - Barl Time Tunnel Highway

BarrRRLLL!!! Heres a concept sketch I did for the Barl episode. The tunnel called for some psychedelic animation with sky patterns floatin...

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

FUTURE WORM! - The End of Time Concepts

Danny and Future Worm go so far into the future until they reach the 'End of Time', where all information has collapsed in...

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

FUTURE WORM! - Porthole to the Lizard Hole

Danny and Future Worm stumble across a 1000 year old Spiderian vs. Lizardian war in "Porthole to the Lizard Hole" featu...

Saturday, August 20, 2016

FUTURE WORM! - GLOOP all day GLOOP all night!

Here it is! Disney XD's "FUTURE WORM!"...the next adventure in making a sci-fi show from scratch...oh season 1...

Sunday, December 6, 2015

RIP Weiland

Squeezed out this drawing of Scott Weiland soon after hearing of his passing. Immediately a swarm of memories from the 90's came to mi...

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

RICK and MORTY - Wedding Squanchers sketches and BG paint

A dramatic ending to an incredibly dark season! I don't know whether to be happy or sad. Originally this episo...

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

RICK and MORTY - Look Who's Purging Now sketches

Heres a few sketches for the purge episode, the top one is a first pass on the cat people. Justin wanted them to have a 1920's depr...

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

RICK and MORTY - Interdimensional Cable 2:Tempting Fate - Concept Sketches

Jerry's quest to make everyone like him goes horribly wrong when faced with giving up his wiener in order to keep the most impor...

Monday, September 14, 2015

RICK and MORTY - Big Trouble in LIttle Sanchez concept sketches

Tiny Rick! This was one of the crews favorite episodes and most manageable production wise, and its always nice to see Jerr...

Monday, August 31, 2015

RICK and MORTY - The Ricks Must Be Crazy - sketches

This episode took some planning in figuring out the confusion of what world belonged to whom, and what character designed the follow...

Monday, August 24, 2015

RICK and MORTY - Get Schwifty- Early Concept Sketches

Time to get Schwifty in here! The first piece is a concept sketch of a flashy solar system set up as a Japanese game show with a d...

Monday, August 17, 2015

RICK and MORTY - Total Rickall - The evolution of a parasite

Total Rickall had a crazy amount of new one off characters and once again the board artists had a real challenge having to stage and tra...

Monday, August 10, 2015

RICK and MORTY - Auto Erotic Assimlitaion Early Concept Sketches

Here's some early concept sketches I did for the latest episode, first being Ricks subterranean layer where he chained up ...

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About Me

James McDermott: Los Angeles., California, United States; James is currently Art Director on Adult Swim's "Rick and Morty" season 7. James most recently worked as a Sr. Concept Artist at a VR company called Squanchtendo. He previously Art Directed "Future Worm" for Disney XD, and most notably season 1 and 2 of "Rick and Morty" by creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland for Adult Swim.

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