Random Girlies

They only speak to me, drawn, within the pages of my sketchbook and hidden away from the world.

Mistaken for an escaped Silverback.....again.

Aaaaaand a half month later I finally post something new. Have I mentioned that I'm a compulsive liar amongst other things (megalomaniac, narcissist, stunningly handsome; the list goes on and on people).

I should note that the roughs for my comic are complete (at least for now) and as soon as I get some final pencils, I'll have maybe 1/20th of a panel up on the blog!! That's the side of a building or somebody's hand!!!! You don't want to miss that.

So on to the art work. Went to the Santa Ana Zoo not long ago and got some sorely needed (obviously) animal drawing in.





Ewww, probably should have started with horses to warm 'em up.


Ok, this was destined to be my greatest horse drawing ever...And then the horse FUCKING MOVED!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELL FOUL MOVING HORSE DEMON!!

Life Drawing

The last month or so has been pretty busy for me. I've been working on a comic hopefully due out this summer which has taken up quite a bit of time. I'm also taking a life drawing class at El Camino College amongst other devious things. But that's no excuse for not posting. NOTHING IS!!

Anyways I'll start posting a little more now so expect another post soon. In the meantime, here are some ink washes from my life drawing class.

"Bad Ass" animation, jahv turkeys!

Hey so I've recently messed around with Flash CS4 and decided to do two things I haven't done for a while. 1) Post (or animate) an animation test and 2) Post this character near and dear to all our hearts. Ladies and gentle men, I give you the ever lovable, ever insightful, Bad Ass Man.

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).