April 30th, 2006 at 5:06am |
The youthful crowd looks over the wares of local artist and publishers. George M. Dondero from Moronik Industries (Dirt Boy, etc), Alexis Fajardo from Lex Press (Kid Beowulf), and John Hageman Jr. (behind a patron). My friend Alexis invited me to come along.
On a slow period I did a drawing of some […]
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April 28th, 2006 at 7:09am |
Here is the cover from the book I illustrated for the field trip kids at the 826 Valencia writing center. Always lots of fun, but crazy doing drawings really, really fast.
This is our most popular field trip. Students are charged with the task of writing, as a group, a story, with the help of […]
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April 24th, 2006 at 8:56pm |
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Read the rest of Sketch 4-16-06 - Creatures
April 24th, 2006 at 8:08pm |
When I was up in Santa Rosa last week I had the pleasure of meeting artist/writer Paige Braddock. She is very cool. Paige does the on-line/trade comic, Jane’s World.
Jane’s World is the adventures of Jane, a lesbian women going through life, looking for love. The drawings are loose and free, and the […]
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April 23rd, 2006 at 9:54pm |
I was inspired by the animated ad for United airlines that featured cut out animation of Knight and Dragon. So yesterday afternoon I drew some rough parts, scanned them in and then cut them out in photoshop. I then used Adobe After Effects to animate and composite. Here is the walk cycle:
I […]
Read the rest of Sketch 4-22-06 - "Cut Out" animation test - Knight
April 22nd, 2006 at 9:06pm |
Click on a photo to see it full size. Thanks to Paige who gave us a tour as well allowed me to take the pictures. It was very cool to see how the quality of items featuring the characters is monitored. To continue the legacy of Peanuts.
This room was the original studio […]
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April 22nd, 2006 at 7:24pm |
My friend gave me a Cigar to smoke for my birthday. I have never smoked anything before (contray to my the cause of my sometime hyper personality), and was willing to try. Let’s just say that I gave up after coughing and swallowing the smoke. I still have the Cigar and I […]
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April 22nd, 2006 at 7:19pm |
This is the drawing I did during my Superhero and villain class I taught at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa on 4-21-06. The color was added in Adobe Photoshop.
The Copper Zombie is an un-dead warrior who is brought back to life and has to deal with living in the world of the living […]
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