Wednesday, April 28, 2010

A few studies while watching Chuck Jones cartoons.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Pat Mattews Studies

Just freeze framing some Pat Matthews scenes and trying to copy them as best I can.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Old Man

Messing around with Artrage still.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

ArtRage Digital Painting

This is my first try at digital painting using ArtRage. It's a cool program that mimics the look and feel of real paints. I inked the pencils in Illustrator and then colored the lines in Photoshop before importing into ArtRage. It's only a first try and the only thing I'm happy with is the cat's nose. I basically tried to put to use the great info in Sherm Cohen's tutorials that he made for ArtRage and Illustrator.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Dialog Roughs

I threw some roughs together in Flash, I still have to revisit it and throw in the inbetweens.

I'm trying to get used to drawing with a tablet directly in Illustrator, mostly I've just been using if for digital inks. Here's some doodles and a drawing that I inked in Illustrator.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Piggy Doodles

Just some more stuff from the "Piggy Song" video.


Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Hillbillies

Some more stuff from the "Piggy" video.


Thursday, December 10, 2009

More Piggy Stuff

A couple more drawings from the video in progress.



Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Piggy Haha Ha Piggy Hoho Ho

Wow, no posts in two months. Not like you missed anything special. Here's a couple of crappers for ya. The first is a setup for a music video I'm making for a dumb song my friend Chris and I wrote over 12 years ago. Called, "The Piggy Song". Four chords (the best ones of course) and crappy singing and production. It was recorded in Chris' basement with my old Yamaha 4-track cassette recorder. What a pain in the ass, bouncing three tracks down to one then recording two more and bouncing those down to one so on. Anyway, when it's done I hope you think it's retarded. It will mostly be illustrations and cheap Flash animation. Think early Hanna Barbera, now cut even more corners.

Friday, October 02, 2009

Stimpy

Construction practice with Stimpy, from a model sheet and screen cap. I noticed that I've kind of crammed Stimpy's facial features in there. I guess back to more practicing.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

A Robot

Just some construction practice with Mickey. Plus, Calvin for fun.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009

More Inking Practice

Some more practice with the ol' brush, copying some Pogo comics.

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Inking Practice

I've been wanting to get back to practicing inking with a brush so I drew a couple things quick to ink. I have quite the hard time inking large circular shapes in one continuous stroke but when I stop and restart the line it gets all screwed up. Any tips?

Friday, August 21, 2009

Sketch Dump

Just some junk and Samurai Jacks.

Friday, August 07, 2009

Long time no post, so here's some crappy doodles.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Cartoon Modern

I've been rather obsessed with Amid's book Cartoon Modern lately so I tried my hand at copying some drawings from the book and related cartoons. That's stuff way harder to draw than it looks, at least for this guy it is.

Friday, April 24, 2009

UPA Sketches

Just some copying of these model sheets from early UPA shorts, with varying degress of failure. Magoo is a lot harder than I thought.