green sweatew

I have a green sweatshirt that i love (the actual sweatshirt has the WWF panda on it!) but until recently it's been too hot to wear it. SoCal's "other season" has officially begun, and i'm super-psyched. I love this weather. It makes it possible for me to deal with just about anything.
Anyway, i dug the sweatshirt out and was wearing it around the house the other day, but it was all dusty from hanging on a hook all year. It was kind of a cozy smell.

for the bar

This fox had a wee nip o' the barrel.
I'm not sure if that's a thing people actually say (now, or... ever) but... i guess i just said it, so...

Changed up the blog template again. just trying to find what feels like home ;)

saturday morning

When i read The Internet in bed there's this kind of continental drift that happens.

Polyphylla Decemlineata

It's been warm out so we have a TON of these guys hangin' around the studio.

(thank you The Internet for the photo)
They're a little bigger than a quarter and they're harmless unless they hit you at high speeds. Fortunately i've never actually had a collision with a ten-lined june beetle (at least, not at work) but with the sheer numbers of them it's not an unlikely scenario.

When i was a kid i used to go camping with my parents near Lake Arrowhead and these guys would turn up around dusk every summer. My dad named the first one Elmo, and it stuck. We found Elmos camping at Lake Tahoe too, and the ones there would dive-bomb us in the showers. They're solid little dudes.

Rebuttles

This comic is based on a totally real fake argument that Jason and i frequently have about a real friend of ours. This was Jason's actual counter-argument.

Maybe now he'll get off my ass about posting this.

Guitarcher

This is a half-post/half-promotion for the upcoming Girls Drawing Girls show at Meltdown Comics here in L.A.! It's a pretty awesome venue, and it's the first gallery show i'll be participating in so i'm pretty excited. Come check us out if you're in the area!


Here's one of the three pieces i'll have up. They're all original watercolor and they're all for sale (shameless promotion!).


And here's a sneak peak at the other two (preserving the air of mystery!):

Koalas

This post is made of koalas.
The typical cartoon koala's pretty cute. But have you ever looked at a koala? i mean really LOOKED at one? Their eyes are bizarre. They have cat eyes! Most of the eye is a warm, reddish brown, and in the middle is a black slit of a pupil.
Which is not to say koala's aren't awesome. Or even that they're not cute. They're both those things.
They're just also freakin' weird.

These koalas are angry.




These are pretty normal.


More posts coming in the near future! They may come later this week. They may come this very night! WHO KNOWS?

Cah McCahn

Heading out for San Diego Comic Con thursday evening! I'll be there Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and i'm pretty excited. My brain's already there!


Don't forget to check out Torch Tiger at booth #2302!

Another summery doodle! It's heating up in LA, gotta take this all in before it gets too hot to breathe ;)


Unrelated, but if you're in the LA area you should swing by Gallery Nucleus in ... scenic Alhambra and check out the Yuki 7 show that opened last night, which features the work of the very talented Kevin Dart and an array of his very talented friends and acquaintances. Really fun stuff!

Blorp Sac

I guess this means it's summer now.


Photo extracted from cuteoverload.com via a very, very risky procedure.

I figured i should get back in the habit of updating this blog. Ideally i'd like to post things that are, if not informative, tell some kind of a story or illustrate some sort of observational skills.
I don't have any of that :)
But i DID draw this:


Flipping through my sketchbook i saw that i had doodled this at the bottom of a page. I did it last week, but somehow i'd forgotten that i'd drawn it until the moment i re-discovered it. Apparently i enjoyed making it though, so there it is. Enough words have been wasted on it already.


'Till next time...

What is...?

Torch Tiger is coming! The follow-up to last years "Who is Rocket Johnson?", "What is Torch Tiger?" is a collection of short comics and stories from Disney's story artists and directors. I'm very honored to count my name among the lot, and even more honored to know that my story (and everyone else's) will be swaddled in the stunning cover made for us by Disney artist Paul Felix (seen above).

Yay Torch Tiger! San Diego ComiCon 2009! be there or be square.

girls drawing girls in the rain!

I'm now a proud member of Girls Drawing Girls, a group of ladies who draw ladies, because hell, it's just fun.
The theme for this week (almost last week) was rainy days. Watch out for freak rainstorms this spring...
...unless you're in Los Angeles.

Crawlin'

So i was up in San Francisco last weekend for sketchcrawl and it was a total blast. I love the bay area and i got to hang out with awesome people and eat awesome food and generally have a totally rad time. I've got (i think) literally hundreds of photos to sort through but i want to get those up on flickr soon. i seriously neglect that account.
In any case, here're the few drawings i managed to squeeze out when i wasn't stuffing my face or chatting :)
We pretty much stayed in Chinatown...

And then these are just sketches from various places around the city, whenever i found myself sitting down with idle hands.

Day number... number... aw hell.

Wow, so as outlined in this entry my noble efforts as a non-catholic to attempt something for Lent have failed. Maybe i'll be better at Passover than i am at Lent (i wouldn't hold my breath on that one).


I wanted to do more on this, but i was stalling and kinda wanted to get this up here. But Passover lasts for eight miserable days. who KNOWS what i can conjure in that amount of time? :)

Pampakes!

I usually try and avoid posting coffee-shop drawings (largely because mine aren't terribly interesting) but i was hanging out at a place in Burbank this weekend and i kinda liked the look of this page. When i'm not too lazy i try and really get not just gesture or charicature (i really only rarely attempt the latter anyway) but also the way people fit in their environments. Next step is finding compositions within real life settings. Steve's already got a solid handle on that one.
So yeah, coffee people and a doodle of some weird cats.


... i guess you can have more weird cats...


and lastly:
PANCAKES.
i made myself pancakes for dinner and i am SO PROUD. they're a work of art if i do say so myself. made from scratch! with nutmeg, vanilla and lots of butter. none of this Crisco business, thank you much.


with fresh strawberries! my finest work.

St. patty's day!

Nicole posted a St. Patrick's Day challenge on her blog. I solved it, but... there were more problems.


Did everyone enjoy their corned beef and cabbage?

Day... 18? 19? : Sheeping

I've been really bad about this daily updating. really, really bad. i'd make some excuse about how "i've been tired" or "i've been busy", "i had a headache", "i... just didn't feel like it", but ... well, look at that, four perfectly good excuses!

A while back i had an idea for a comic about a little shepherd who meets another shepherd who has a flock of weird not-sheep.
I stopped working on it because i couldn't think of anything that hadn't already been done.



But i was doodling today (not for Torch Tiger, of course, but for this which is totally irrelevant and doesn't have a pressing deadline) and i came up with an idea. It's a bit... cuter than what i originally wanted to do, but who am i to tell an idea it's wrong when it decides to visit me?



If i'm good there will be at least one St. Patrick's Day themed post before i go to bed! If i'm bad then... i guess there won't be :)

I also need to update my links on the side there. So many more to add! that's not going to happen now, though. i'm going to need to be WAY less lazy to do that.

day 10, but who's counting?

So Nicole was taking requests for blog topics for a little while. I asked her if she had to choose, would she rather have a cat with two heads or two butts. She asked me to post my choice.

(hehe, Pen did a drawing too!)

i've been dropping the ball big time on this drawing a day thing (thank you, jen). Gotta try and step it up.

day.... 4, 5, 6 and 7

Saturday (sarah informed me that i can skip sundays!), monday, tuesday and wednesday (today).
I figure that if i post a lot of extra drawings it'll all even out and still totally count. So here goes. in no particular order:


I bought rhubarb the other day so jason could make a pie. it's such a funny sounding... vegetable? and i can't imagine that people buy it too often, so when the chick at Whole Foods double-checked with me what it was i was pretty enthusiastic.

I was drawing this mermaid today. She's chillin' out with some little ghost guys.



One of those moments where you outrun stressors, but then they catch up to you!

And lastly, these are two pages of pencil roughs for my Torch Tiger story. I've scanned them pretty small and posted them backwards (all davinci style!) to help preserve an air of mystery! These pages might wind up getting cut anyway. Can you tell what's going on in the panels? Neither can i!

"Why bother posting something that you don't intend anyone to decipher?" you might be thinking? Well THAT, my friends, is the greatest mystery of all.