Saturday, December 22, 2007

An Evening @ John's

The evening started out friendly enough, Mike and Kali flexing their witty banters.
Then gifts were exchanged.(Thanks for my CDs man) Among the gifts were several rubber pellet pistols. Pellet pistols in a room full of slightly sloshed cartoonists? What were they thinking!? Well, all hell soon broke out. Yellow pellets were soon pinging right and left off of this cornea, that Corona.




When suddenly Uncle Eddie drew a slow and careful bead on no other than his very own off spring.

Such a dastardly act that he had to cover his own eyes in shame.

Right in front of his mother too!
But what HO' Bert has come prepared with a gun of his own. With a steely gleam in his eye whispers, "This is what I learned from Matt Damon!" Peppering his father with round after merciless round.



Undaunted Eddie returns fire!


Mr.Worth retreats into his fortress of solitude.



But what's this? Eddie has run out of small yellow projectiles.

He tries in vain to block and dodge the incoming projectiles.




But soon collapses under the overwhelming barrage of pellets.





At this point Beery The Singing bear, called me into the corner, and sang me a song about cowgirls with artificial legs. Cowgirls with artificial legs that wore tight vests , and maybe nothing under the tight vests. Cowgirls with artificial legs, in little fringe skirts that barely cover their stuff. Cowgirls with artificial legs, in tight vests, that like to eat cold cream corn straight out of the can. That sweet song floated me far above the mel'ee, as if I were in a soft Demerol induced cloud. That's all I remember, until I woke up in the gutter under my car with my pants on backwards. So whatever you do,.....Don't trust Singing bears!


Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Merry Fucking Christmas

A quickie to make up for not posting for days. I must order more brush pens.



Running out of ink. I intended to make the sky black on this, but my pens started graying out on me.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

What Does a Creative Director Do?

I realized I hadn't really answered the question. So here is the straight answer.

I work closely with the Executive Producer(Paul Tibbitt) supporting him and assisting him as needed in writing meetings, animatic editing, retakes, recording, storyboarding, character and prop design, as well as supervising all aspects production.

I hope this answers what this Creative Director's duties include.


Well, to answer a question that so many of you have wondered. Today I was asked to draw a caricature of Mr.Tom Kenny (Voice of SpongeBob).





First attempt is just feeling out the shapes of his head. This can be tough especially if you only have publicity photos to work from. Which all tend to be from the same angle. (Boring)


Starting to get a grasp on what points I want to accentuate.

A little pushing a pulling, but still being held back by the photos.

Then I toss the photos up under my desk and work from memory .
The on above is the one I turned in.
A Dead line is a deadline.
I would have liked to explore a little more as I was just starting to get a feel for Tom's face.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Veneer


Sorry in advance for foisting man nipples on you once again.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

If You Haven't Been to the Murakami Exhibit at Moca

You need to get your ass down there. It's great eye candy.
It was the high point of my day followed closely by a fight with my girlfriend...the low point.
Now lets see in which drawer did I put the Valium?

And Fall has fallen I mean, by LA terms anyway.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Monday, November 19, 2007

Monday the 19th o7

Little morning warm up.


Can't find the post-it pad, there's always flesh that needs a decorating.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Mix Doodles


Last night I was Supervising the mix on a few up coming SpongeBob shorts, and had some time during the mix down to draw a little.
Paul Tibbitt was there just ahead of me leaving behind his page of doodles. They were very entertaining. After the Sponge has run it's run we'll be lucky if Paul sells a show of his own. Anyway, I suppressed the urge to knab his page drawings and post them, it just wouldn't be right without his okay.
The lucky folks at the Mix studio must have an amazing collection of drawings that people leave behind.

An Anonymous question: Ever notice how cartoonists' doodles often create ugly, demented, contorted faces or maybe normal faces that are in torment, anguish, rage, pain?
Wheres the happy?

Answer: When one spends all day drawing and writing happy go lucky kid friendly drawings, yes sometimes it is cathartic to draw the flip side. That being said most of the cartoonists I know are very happy people. We get paid to draw and if we're lucky to write. Getting paid to do something most of us are compelled to do anyway, how could that cause anything but happiness.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Thurs old drawings



Whoops! Water soluble.



Found a great clip of the Crude Awakenings burn

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3908533320604972991&q
=crude+awakenings&total=156&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
Go and watch this video its the burning of the Sculpture Crude Awakenings
This tower was about ten stories tall and also served as an observation platform for hundreds of people at a time.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Time Sheet Cop

This one was a bit of lunch time fun..for me, not this guy.
Can you tell that I like to draw 45 s?




The same theme

And another study in bad perspective.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Monday Grist

With a little Tuesday thrown in.


Spotting sound for the Upcoming shorts.





Worry not! No Sponges were hurt during the production of these drawings.

Friday, November 09, 2007

Think Twice Before Looking Behind the Door


This is the result of a writers meeting that required only my Ears, leaving my hands free to produce this revolting post-it collage.
Apologies to the back of Steven's door, Walter Matthau whom I am sure didn't have a hidden alien baby-head sticking out of his non-existent cloaca, or a penitent for tweaking his nipples while wearing high heels.

Lunch Doodler