How To Start Your Sketchbook On A Positive

I really liked the challenge of trying to draw Yeagle's work so I decided to do a couple more pages.



I thought the animals came out much better than his girls. And specifically, i kept having an issue concerning the construction of their faces. All the features kept coming out off, EVEN WHEN I TRIED TO TRACE ONE (left, second one from the bottom)!!! Definitely more to come in the future.


And now for some random sketches:

Just call me.....SLING BLADES (uhhh, no relation to Karl Childers)!!!


And lastly and definitely least, here's a sketch of an (new) old buddy. That was supposed to be his tongue sticking out, but instead looks like a condom. So as an honorable artist, always seeking perfection, I of course............kept it in. I just assumed he loves the taste (who doesn't, right?).

How To End Your Sketchbook on a Positive

As I've been nearing the end of my sketchbook, I figured that the best way to mark its conclusion would be with the awesome work of others. And surprisingly I never really went back and touched all that stuff I bought at CTN so I figured it'd be a good start (or fitting end?). So here's some work copied from a couple favorites, Dean Yeagle and Bill Presing (whom are linked to the right along with all my others)!

So starting out with Yeagle was somewhat difficult considering his characters/girls are a hell of a lot more technical than my own. But I do enjoy the challenge. I noticed that the faces in particular had to be extremely precise in their arrangement or else they looked like awful crap. All from his second sketchbook.


The slightest millimeter (or in my case, foot) of a line off and you've got horrid hellish garbage!



Presing's simplicity suits me a little better considering I've drawn his work since school. I noticed a wider head than I'm used to on most of his girls which gave me a little trouble. All these were drawn from "Book Plate Betties".


This is an awesome book for many reasons. My favorite being that he keeps his rough construction, and yes, even erased limbs within his final product! Another great thing about his book is the surprising variety in body shapes he gets while still maintaining simplicity.

Kaloapo'opo Lai'i Everyone!

Ok, so as promised, here are some pics from my trip to Hawaii. Now unfortunately my brother lost the usb cable for his camera so these pics are ones taken by his girlfriend, with her camera, while I wasn't there. So here I gloat, about the vacation of others...When I find another usb cable I'll post the other pics.

Ahhhh, much better than crappy art work.





The surf got huuuuuge...

...and really nasty!

And there you have it! Hopefully more pics to come.


And for those trying to decipher the post title, don't bother.

26.

Turned 26 today...Pic says it all.

Da bruddah ees back!!

Aloha!! Yes I'm back from Hawaii and yes, it was better than the swamp of unholy hellish holeosity you've inhabited for the past three weeks. For those of you who don't know, I stayed in Kailua-Kona on the Big Island and it was indeed awesome; less people and a more isolated feel around this island than others. I'll post some pics as soon as I get them from my brother (who's still there).

In the meantime I have reached and, yes, even surpassed my goal of 240lbs. I now clock in at about 235! That's a total of about 55 lbs. lost since July!!! And to celebrate here's an oldy...



Now, as I've said before, airports are an awesome source for people watching. Hey, there by the exhausted business man without shoes who looks ready to kill himself and all those around him, it's Aunt May!!


And as usual, have to throw in a girlie in there.

Pied Piper of Hamlin

So I know a couple posts ago I said that I'll stop tormenting everyone by not posting most of the filth in my sketchbook. Unfortunately I'm a compulsive liar. And the things I've posted below are actually narrowed down to these pages!!!

So without further ado I present to you some of the pre-pre-production of a storyboard I'm working on based on the "Pied Piper of Hamlin". A fancy tale of a town in need, the unique musical talent the helps save them and a lesson on adolescent genocide.



More refined


Seeking better shots and poses from the roughs I did a while back.


Felt happy with how the piper began to look and then realized "oh shit, I can't draw his hands!"


Here's the model I don't follow.


And on I side note, I gotta stop watching reruns of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern....Damn diet, makes me feel like a pregnant chick (only I have cravings for cow hoof and chicken heads).

The "X" In CTN-X Was A Gross Mis-Advertisement

Woo-hoo, CTN-X occurred this weekend though I went only Saturday. Waaaaaay better than Comic-Con for those of you who did not make the venture to Burbank. More animation, less crowds, and no fanboy geeks dressing up as Wolvy (well, that is except me of course).

The only thing(s) missing were Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Film Roman; three of the largest TV animation studios IN THE FREAKIN' WORLD!!!! And all three within a two mile radius of the Mariott Hotel! Come on guys, get it together here. But other than that, quite the kick ass time. Definitely going back next year!

Now I should note that I suck as a picture taker. Would of had more but all these pics were taken within the last 10 minutes of the expo.

Pixar is awesome. Bill Presing is awesomer. Makes the rest of us look like disheveled hobo pocket lint. On a side note I think I scared him off a tad as I do with everyone else. Gotta stop drooling and charging at artists I like.


Animation royalty: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Never actually heard their story quite the way they told it. And of course I had the flash on for this one so the pic looks like ass.


Dean Yeagle...I'll let my silence speak for itself......


Dean Yeagle's "Scribblings 2" and "One Mandy Morning"; Bill Presing's "Book Plate Betties"; and of course Justin Orr had a Wolvy print on him and I couldn't resist myself. Would have got more stuff but ran out of doughage.

Mermaids, Unicorns, and Siberian Tigers in Outer Space

I figured I'd like to sit down and get a cool scene painted rather than post the usual crap I subject you guys to. So I've chosen to do an underwater scene with hot mermaids, manly divers, and the coral cave they love. Here's the concept although I may change a few things on the mermaid and I may also add another diver or two. Still not too sure of the overall size I want the characters to be in respects to the scene. And even now as I look at it the character orientation is ridiculously boring.



And here's the (mostly) cleaned up pencil of the scene. I had thought of inking it but since my focus is on painting here I figure the pencils are fine. God I hate drawing layouts.

Stargazer

He could hear their distant shrills; their moans and groans, of a city that creaks on rusted hinges. He knew of the carnage below in his city. The long shadows covering what shouldn't be seen. Its streets bathed in the crimson cries of the innocents.



But oh, how the stars shine. No memory of follies past, no reflections of evil beneath. Healed are those deep cuts; muffled are those screams of those you couldn't save. You are beyond the city that imprisoned you. You are free; you are Stargazer.

...and random sketch of a Futuristic Cop

Not a pumpkin for Halloween...Anymore!

Oh boy it's halloween...A time when leaves of red and gold litter the pavement. A time when the bright autumn moon is only eclipsed by the warm glow of front doors abound. And yes, Halloween, a time when it's OK for young children to gayly dance and prance through the streets, accepting sugar highs from every stranger they so damn meets. Ohhhh, Whodini, how right you were...The freaks really do come out at night.

Aaand on the note, some of you may like to know that after 4 months of not-so-strict dieting I've lost a whopping 40 lbs! That's right, I'm down to 250 (for the third time in my life) and have 10 lbs. to lose left to reach my goal of 240 lbs. Whoo-hooo! For those of you who hadn't seen me for a while, my appearance is as follows:

The lost weight has rendered me blind!


And hopefully another 10 lbs. and I'd look like this.