Santa 09

monster

gorilla

doodle

Squeezed this doodle in just before sketchbook pro crashed on me

Rough Tom

I posted this guy a while ago. Honestly, I kind of hate the way he came out. I really like the rough a lot better but he lost something in the color treatment I did. Maybe I will redo it in a new style or pallette. Here is the rough anyway.

Sparrow

New Moon Sculpture

Here is a sculpture I made for the New Moon show at My Plastic Heart. The opening was this last friday and the pieces are still on display if you can make it down there.

This was really my first serious attempt at sculpture and I have to say I had a pretty fun time making it. I really liked being able to make a character in a 3 dimensional medium. I fully plan on sculpting more in the near future and I already am sketching out my next piece.

The show was themed around the Chinese zodiac and we each had to choose a year. I chose the year of the pig and I had an idea to make him kind of a serious little guy but then also to make him a piggy bank with a chinese coin in his slot (you can't see it from this angle, but it's there.) Here are some rough sketches I made for him early on.

Vinny Revisited

As I was in and out of sleep mashing the snooze on my alarm clock I was thinking about some visual ideas for an old character of mine. I got up (eventually) and grabbed a notepad and sketched them out. Here's what I've got.



Honestly, I have been thinking about revisiting some of the characters I used to draw in my youth as a bit of a personal excercise. So there may be more to come.

kids for BG

a few more...

British Gas Characters

Here are some designs I did for a British Gas commercial.

Space Bat

For those of you who don't know, a small bat hitched a ride to space on the side of the recent shuttle we sent up there...

Haircut

click on mage for a closer view...

Mermaid variation

Mermaids and Pirates

Nick's Mug

I made this caricature of my cousin Nick for his 30th Birthday.

Winter Coat Sketch 1

Just a doodle I did of a guy in a winter coat...

The Happy Couple

I did this little drawing for my future wife and my save the date cards. Thought I'd share it here.

McDreamy

So Nintendo announced finally that they will be releasing Wii Ware titles this spring and this may mean that my long wait for a Dr. Mario sequel on the Wii will come to an end. Is there a doctor in the house? Soon there will be.

A Different Sawyer

Been reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and I thought I'd do a quick one of Tom. I made this in Flash. I might do some more...

Winter Cleaning...

So I have been trying to figure out why I have almost 800 GB of hard drive space eaten up (It is ridiculous) Anyway, lots of duplicate files. But while I was cleaning I came across some backgrounds I did for my old job. I remember, this was my first one I had to do. I had fun with it, on a few pages of animation bond taped together. Ha! Enjoy...

Freelancin'

I am working on some freelance character animation and I was unhappy with the way it was going. So I scrapped the keys that took me hours to do and just drew out some new more gestural ones. Anyway, this is one I really liked. I loosened up and finally had some fun with it.

When I get a drawing like this it gets me excited to work through an animation.

(by the way, I left onion skin on so that is what you see in the bg)

PIGEONS!!!

I was sketching some ideas out in my Moleskine this evening and I stumbled back on idea I had a while ago for a simple short about a do-gooder pigeon. I scanned the sketches and cleaned them up a bit in Sketchbook. I got the idea when I heard that the US Coast Guard actually uses pigeons to locate people lost at sea. Amazing what these birds can do, when you see them in the city you just think of them as a nuisance.

Iconic!

Since the loss of Joe Camel, the smoking community at large needed a new icon. I am just trying to fill that void. I threw this together real quick in flash (as you can tell)

It's the truth, it's actual...

Did this in sketchbook for a family trip to Disneyworld. I know it is corny but I had fun doing it.