Rainy Days and Puddle Jumping

Thar be rain in Southern California! And so I did a rainy day illustration in Photoshop:


And here's the scribble:

Stuck in Line with a Staring Child

Loosely based on recent events:

I've been in this specific situation a few times in my life. I'm standing in an insanely long line at a post office, the DMV or the doctors' office, and I happen to be standing right behind a mother with a young child who is staring blankly at me the entire time. No smile, no frown, just an entirely neutral expression. It's not the kid's fault--he's probably more bored than I am and is just spacing out in my general direction. And being stuck behind a grown-up with the stares would be far more uncomfortable. But I just don't have a knack with children.






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Feed the Berts...

Tuppence a bag. Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag. Chris and I were talking about bird ladies and that song from Mary Poppins the other night. Somehow I ended up here:

A Couple More Pages

I've been trying to do more drawing lately. Here are a couple of sketchbook pages from the other night. My scanner decided it wasn't going to work, so I took photos.

1st page is a drawing of some random feller and James Dean. And a couple of hands playing with a matchbox or something..


And these are some orangey-red ladies done with brush pens and an orange prismacolor art stick (I have a ton of these guys laying around from my caricature days).

Zoo Drawings

I went to the LA zoo today with some friends from Titmouse. It was a lot of fun and I hope to do this more often. My animal drawing is rusty at best, but I found some pages to post. I will return to the LA zoo for round 2 this Saturday, with school friends (anyone who wants to meet us there is welcome! We'll probably be there around noon).

Alligators:


The koalas were awake when we got to their enclosure! And posing like Betty Paige no less:


Sadly only 1 giraffe drawing done. We got to the enclosure shortly before closing and we saw him for maybe two freaking minutes before they put him away.


Gerenuks:

Gorillas are cool! Alas, I suck at drawing them:

I drew these flamingos from memory and colored it with a highlighter and a couple of markers. It's a fun time of the year to draw flamingos at the zoo. Normally I skip over them because they're so smelly, but it's mating season and the males are now doing their courtship displays/fighting with each other for female attention:

Sketchy Sketchables

Some traditional tidbits. Here are some random scans or photographs of things I drew on paper--something I'm trying to do more often. More to come soon:

Five Second Day!! 2010

Hello all--I'm back and I have some animation to share!

Every year, Titmouse has "Five Second Animation Day" (aka the best day ever). Everyone has a full day to animate their own personal short. The only criteria is that it must be more than 5 seconds long. This year, I spent a few extra nights prepping an animatic, designing my characters and painting my BGs.

Here is the result:




It can be viewed higher resolution HERE.




And here is a page of developmental thumbnails and a styleframe: