Morons

A character designer I am not.

Emery Hawkins Study (pt2)

I'm sort of obsessing over Emery Hawkins' animation in "Two Gophers From Texas". Not that that's a bad thing.

Emery Hawkins Study

If you've never seen the Art Davis short "Two Gophers From Texas" you're really missing out on an incredible cartoon. Emery Hawkins animation in it is probably the wildest thing I've seen him do. Even more so than his stuff at Lantz. Anyway, I'm going to spend some time studying his scenes in that short. Here's the first go at them.

Impossible Possum Sketches

Just a few sketches while watching "Impossible Possum" for the hundredth time. Watch it on my other blog.

Just a crappy drawing with some crappy inking and crappy color.

Pencil Test

I'm been forever since I've tried animating anything so I just thought I'd try something simple and then build on it. I have to add some inbetweens still and maybe redraw a few frames. It's not part of a larger idea but I think I'll think up a gag or two and keep going with it.

More Funny Animal Studies

These are just a few drawings from Giggle and Haha comics drawn by Ken Champin and Bob Wickersham.

Flexxo Comics

I'm going to try and post a dumb comic strip or panel each week on the Flexxo blog I contribute to. Just quick sketches and bad jokes, like this one.

Eisenberg Studies

I've been trying to practice construction using some Harvey Eisenberg comics as reference. The Tom drawings look like Tom but I don't think they look very much like Eisenberg's originals. He draws great hands too, he's right up there with Ed Love in that department.

More Throckmorton

I'm still copying from the Throckmorton strip in HaHa Comics #24. I wish I knew who drew the strip. This time I tried inking with a regular brush instead of a brush pen. Not much better though.

Throckmorton

I've been reading some old Haha Comics and came across a really fantastically drawn strip called "Throckmorton". I had to try my hand at one of the panels. I think I'll be copying that strip for a little while. It was also a nice excuse to whip out some newly acquired Prismacolor markers.Though I really have to stop inking with a brush pen. I can't control it for the life of me.

George Liquor Heads

I'm excited to hear John K. will be producing some more George Liquor shorts. George is a really funny character and I loved "The God Damn George Liquor Show". He's offered advice and tips on drawing George's head properly. It's a lot harder than it looks, at least for me it is. I have trouble leaving space between George's facial features. Here's my go at it using some of the pics John posted and others from "Comic Book".

Getting Back To Practicing

It's been a long time since I've sat down and practiced drawing from model sheets. Between just moving into a new home and getting ready for a new baby in a few weeks there just hasn't been any time. I figured I'd try my hand at some Disney model sheets for awhile since I have such a hard time drawing the characters. Solid construction is still big problem for me. But that's what practice is all about, ain't it?

Jeez, I almost forgot that I even had another blog. I haven't drawn much at all lately. Life seems to be getting in the way of that. I crapped this dog from my pencil in hopes of practicing some animation with him. Not very good but he'll do. Now I just need to make some time to actually animate something while I have the time. Come May another baby boy will be arriving and I'm pretty sure they'll be little time for drawing with all those doodie diapers to be changed. Any suggestions on the character design here?

I haven't picked up a pencil in a while so I sat down to get back to work on construction, practicing from a model sheet from the David Hand Animaland short "The Ostrich".

Ever have one of those days when you hate everything you draw? I hated this one the least.

Is This Thing On?

I haven't posted anything here in quite some time, not that anyone's pining for my hack work, so I figured I'd post something, anything. These are the most recent doodles. I inked them with a brush pen and added some awful color in Photoshop. The bird's head lost a little something when I inked it. The eyes don't look as good as the pencil drawing. Nothing special here, just some lunch break crap.

Heckling Hare-2nd Attempt

John was nice enough to critique my go at this Rod Scribner drawing. I tried to follow John's advice as best as my pencil will let me. I don't think the details on both of Bugs and Willoughby are as crammed together as my first attempt. I corrected the angle of Bugs' neck and also the tilt of the head. Willoughby's head could stand to be tilted just a little more. Not perfect by any means but there's some improvement.

Heckling Hare Construction Lesson

I took a stab at John K's step by step lesson for constructing a Rod Scribner drawing. Though my drawing didn't come out very good I do think it really helped hammer home the concept of having the smaller forms wrap around the larger ones. I love Scribner's drawings but I don't copy them often as I find all those wrinkles kind of intimidating. I guess I should man up and get to studying his work. He's one of my favorite Warner's animators. I did do a couple of drawings from one of his scenes in "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery". They're way off compared to the originals so I'm going to go back and try them again.