Pitch

I pitched a sequence today. This wasn't it (but i wish it was).

I also don't pitch with a stick and paper. Most of us work digitally (or at least scan drawings and pitch digitally), but there're still a handful of board artists who pitch old-school. Sometimes it's simpler. I do have a pitch stick at my desk... you know, for emergencies*.



*zombie attacks

Tangled!

Over Thanksgiving "Tangled" had a really great opening weekend! I've been hearing a lot of positive responses to it. A huge thanks to everyone who's gone out to see it so far and helped make it a success. It was soooo exciting to have been able to be involved in this film.
Here's some of the work i did! Some of it stayed in the final film, some of it was cut, some of it was handed off to other board artists after i'd worked on it, but that's the way it goes! We had a great crew, and i had a lot of fun.
(spoilers!)



In theaters nooowwww!


And once again: MICROGALLERY SHOW!

Super Big Micro Show!

The Super Big Micro Show approaches!

This is going to be an amazing show. All real media, ALL THE TIME!
Super talented folks from Disney, Dreamworks and Pixar are contributing, i can't wait to see it all come together! One and all are welcome to join us on Dec. 11 for the gallery opening! Hope to see you there!

Here's one of the five pieces i'll have in the show.


Microgallery news and history can be followed on the "official" blog... provided i manage to update it.

Doodlies

Some (non-production) work doodles..

(Ocotillopus.)

Darths

Darth 1


Darth 2

Red Whine

I drew this comic a week or two ago, promptly scanned it, and then work got busy and i forgot i had a blog.

It is a true story, possibly about alcoholism? I can't remember if i actually said this out loud to myself, but i most definitely thought it distinctly.

Hellboid

Earlier this year designer Andrew Bell teamed up with Dyzplastic and put out a line of totally adorable vinyl toys modeled on the Android operating system mascot (production process and updates on their blog here.
Totally sweet!
Along with a blind box series they also put out a blank DIY droid. I've never done a vinyl mod, so when i saw them at Comic-Con this year i picked one up!

I figured i'd stick close to home on this one, so i chose to make a Hellboy droid :)

Toyed around with what to do about the antennae/horns, and wound up just combining them.

Big shoes to fill, little guy.

The horn-nubs, right hand, tail, and little hair bun were made out of Green Stuff (dries without baking, pretty easy to find)

The little dude likes Buffy, bless his heart :)

... and then painting time!

Several coats of paint and some mostly-dried out sharpies later...



There's a pancake. He found the pancake!

(i had just enough Green Stuff leftover...)

And that's the end :)

It's a comfy 80 degrees OUTside

It's always pretty cold in the studio. I'm glad i can huddle around my cintiq for warmth.

Apple Pie

Earlier this year Girls Drawin' Girls put out our third art book! It was the first i'd had the opportunity to contribute to since joining the group, and it's always exciting to see your own work in print :)
The theme was desserts, i chose apple pie (one of my favorite desserts) and did two pieces that are both featured in the book. Vol. III: Sugar and Spice is still available for purchase for $25!

These are the pieces i did! I'm lucky enough to say both the originals have sold :)



Both pieces were done in watercolor, with acrylic for the highlights and tones (plus a little digital touch-up). A while back Bill Pressing posted this tutorial to his blog and i'd always wanted to try it. Doing tones first in acrylic is a lifesaver and gives you WAY more control! I'm now officially a fan of it.

I've also posted art here for something called the Micro Gallery. It's a small gallery space we've set up ourselves at work. It has it's own blog now where all the past shows are being documented (to the best of our provided photo ability) leading up to... (drumroll)... our first ever show at Gallery Nucleus! It's a great venue and the first time we'll have a chance to have a show open to the public. It'll be a bunch of us from Disney, plus artists from Dreamworks and Pixar.
It'll be fun on a bun!

Amigurumi!

Wikipedia describes amigurumi as:
"Amigurumi (編みぐるみ?, lit. knitted stuffed toy) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures."

A little while back i got hooked on crocheting (pun DEFINITELY intended). It started with an afghan but i wanted to get more ambitious. When i saw this pattern i knew i had to try it. With a few modifications to the original pattern, i made one as a gift for The Boyfriend :)

Shy jedi master


Yoda and his deformed brother, made from rejected parts of early yoda attempts. He has two heads, one arm and one weird foot (he almost didn't have a body). They share a bond that cannot be broken.









The next project wound up being a birthday gift for a friend. He's a HUGE Scott Pilgrim fan, so I mocked up a design for a Ramona Flowers based on the image at the right (which is not my artwork), initially just for kicks, but then it started to seem more and more feasible so i actually took a crack at it. The result was a mixed success. The hair was the biggest challenge. I also wanted to add a hood and jacket, but any hood that was big enough for her giant head wound up being way bigger than her comparatively tiny body...







Here's the mock-up i started with:


And here's the finished product:

Her hair came out super-crazy. At one point i put actual hair gel in there to try and make it keep it's shape, but it didn't hold for long. Her "neck" is also kinda long; i had left space to attach a hood, but never wound up using it.

Details, details.

Like, OMG! LOL.


I did both of these in the last few months. Next on my list is a little Commander Data. I'm also inspired by the custom Sack Boy skins in Little Big Planet; making a simple sack boy would be cool, but their Mystique looks simple enough and could come out so rad if i could find some skull beads...

If only i didn't have a really great full-time job!

On buying holistic pain meds.

So back in late June/early July i was called for jury duty, and for the next month i served on a trial in which the heirs to the estate of Bing Crosby were suing the MCA record company for several million dollars in unpaid royalties.
The interesting aspect of the case pretty much begins and ends with that description, unless you're REALLY into tedious contract law, which i'm not particularly.
Anyway, i made about five or six comics around that time (lots of time sitting in the courtroom) but i only actually finished one. The rest exist as rough pencil sketches and looking back on them, they're really not funny enough to finish.

This is the first of the lot, and the only one i actually finished inking. It's all true. Never, ever try and buy headache medication at Whole Foods.



I get that Whole Foods is "all natural" and all that jazz, but they ARE, in essence, a grocery store and ought to carry this sort of thing. My head hurt pretty badly, i was in the store anyway, and really didn't feel like making an extra stop on the way home. I found some sort of reasonably priced holistic pain meds and bought them.
They were highly ineffective.

It's pink!

WOW it's been a while since i've posted anything. Life's been busy busy busy. I've got about fifty-thousand un-scanned comics that i don't even think are funny anymore. I'll probably post some of them anyway eventually. That plus a small handful of other projects. For now here's a thing i doodled (there's not really any context for it)!


Also a note: Even without regular posting i somehow still get a slow trickle of comments here. Since the blogger format doesn't really allow for practical response to individual comments, just a quick note to say thank you to anyone who swings by here to begin with, and a thank you to those of you who take the time to leave a comment. I appreciate them all :)

Vvvroooom

One of two pieces up in our latest Microgallery show at work! The theme is "Transit".

oh mom.

Here's a comic i drew while visiting my parents this weekend. Brought to you in two different colors of ink!
Glorious!

Simple slip-up on my mom's part, as she herself has four nephews, although my aunt doesn't have any...

Did this last week for fun, but never got around to scanning it. i'm thinking that's kind of a trend with me. i feel more like this this week than when i painted it, so i suppose it's for the best, really :)

Quincey

When i got a cat, i swore i wouldn't become one of those people who talked about their cat all time and did drawings of "this funny thing my cat did", because really all cats do the same funny cat things. But it's inevitable, i'm just going to embrace it.
My cat is actually really big.


ALSO, just fyi, two of the copies of Torch Tiger i donated to the Girls Drawin' Girls Haiti Relief Auction" have sold! That means there are two copies left! Get 'em while the gettin's good!

Haiti relief fund - Torch Tiger

No art with this post, just a heads up that i've donated four copies of "What is Torch Tiger" (one of them signed by everyone!) to the Haiti Relief Drive Girls Drawin' Girls is running. Suggested donation is $40 for the ONE SIGNED COPY, $20 for each standard copy (standard copies will be signed by just me, but who really wants that, right?). $6 for shipping, all proceeds go to the American Red Cross.
If you couldn't make it to Comic-Con this is a good chance to snag a copy AND help a worthy cause!

[EDIT: added some art because the post looked naked]

gaga

Had some Lady Gaga stuck in my head today, so i doodled...


Yeah, Lady Gaga, man. Say what you want about her, but the lady is a total entertainer. She's a real contemporary diva. I watched the 'Bad Romance' music video recently and i think it made me a fan.

There's some wicked cool imagery in here, almost reminiscent of dark 80's scifi glam. I'll take this over a music video that's just shots of the band playing in a field somewhere any day. She does some really cool things with her hands in here too. i catch myself trying to do the same jerky finger movements, but my hands are kind of stumpy :)

Also posted over at Girls Drawin' Girls as part of a "100 Ladies in 100 Days" project some of us are participating in. 100 ladies each. This was #9 for me, so... i'm a little behind.
GDG is also hosting a Haiti Relief Art Sale. All proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross. If you're interested in seeing what's for sale, hop on over! If you're interested in donating any of your art to the sale, ALL art is welcome; any subject matter, from ANYONE. Details at the link.

koala-boala

when i get frustrated in meetings i draw koalas. this one started out with just one baby.