November Calender

This is the calender artwork for November. I know there's five more days in this month but I wont be working till the 1st. Quite a few people participated in this months drawings. I think December's drawings are going to be even better. It was kind of hard thinking of things to draw for November. If your wondering who "Kate" is shes the receptionist who gets to have us draw all over her calender. She doesn't really participate in the drawing, but welcomes us to clutter her calender with these sketches.

Intruders!!!

I almost forgot how much I love drawing girls in bikinis .I really like the look of this one. The line art is straight out of my sketchbook. I then added color in Photoshop. The background texture and her bikini are scrapbook papers I scanned and added to the composition. Finally I added the comic bubble using Illustrator. If you've been following you know I've been trying to draw every day. I have been but I'm getting a little burnt out. I have several pages in my book of sketches that I don't like enough to post. My drawing ever day is not about the posts, it's about getting better at drawing. I like the process I used on this one. I sketched it out in my book and worried about the rest in little pieces. The last few drawings I just tried to blast out in my book with color and everything. I love colored pencils, but I like them a lot better when I use them on illustration board. The computer is just and easier more efficient way for me to lay down color.

The Artist & The Octopus (Octopi)

This is the next installment into my daily drawing regiment. This is basically my life, my work life. I sit around and imagine colorful Octopi all day. Well not always Octopi, but you know what I'm getting at. Compared to drawing everything is black and white. The room is basically a cheap rendering of my office. The Octopus is smoking a pipe. What else can I say.

Phychidelica Fantastica

So this is my drawing from the weekend. George Frye drew the shrimp thing in his mouth. I elaborated, as you can see. I left my pencils at work so this weekend was a bit slow for drawing. I have been drawing everyday though. I just don't finish a composition everyday. Art takes time so that's what I'm doing, taking my time. I'm feeling good about this week though I should be able to get a few drawings done and up on here.

Pigeons

I met this girl last weekend who said she had an idea for a cartoon. Being an animator I was all ears. The Premise is they live in New York and each pigeon represents a different Burroughs. So I came up with a few sketches. I don't know which one represent different Burroughs but that will be figured out in time.Okay so this first one was so I could get some idea what drawing a birds face in a cartoonish matter would be like. I'm not exactly sure this one looks like a pigeon though.

Okay so this one is a bird in flight. Once again I'm not sure if this is actually what a pigeon looks like in flight or if I just made it up. The next couple sketches really look like pigeons though.Alright I feel like this on is actually taking on pigeon form as well as looks like he's from New York. He's reading the Times and is starting to get that look.Alright this is the last of my pigeon sketches. These two are engaged in a conversation. I really like the two of them because the almost have human characteristics. While creating these sketches I couldn't help but wonder how animation studios such as Disney and Pixar are so good at making animals have human characteristics. I'm really pleased that I've started getting there with these sketches. Now whether or not I end up making this cartoon I don't know, but it was a lot of fun drawing these birds.

It Continues

Well here is my next drawing in my book. I really like how this one ended up. I know in my last post I said I would be drawing every day. I have been doing that but I think the blog is going to be a few days behind. I've been taking time to ink and color these last few. Oh yeah, there's also a third drawing in my book that I probably wont be posting. What I did was take some sketches, and I mean real sketchy sketches. I tried to make a composition out of them. It didn't work out to well. All in all I'm feeling pretty good about my daily drawing regiment. I hope if anyone is reading this they enjoy what I'm doing. At the very least I'll have some cool books by the end of this.

My New Years Resolution

I know it's a little early to be making my resolutions, but this is a good one. I have a couple nice hard bound sketchbooks. For my early resolution I'm going to draw something in them every day. The drawings don't have to be to the extent this one is. As long as I'm drawing everyday I'll be happy. It's my goal to fill up my books. That way people can flip through and enjoy my drawings. As well this blog will be blowing up with new material.

The Thing?

I don't know what this guy is supposed to be, but I drew him and I think he's pretty cool looking. I've been doing little character sketches like this lately. I'm going to try to update this blog more often than I have been in the past. I live in NYC now so I'm sure I'll have things to say, photographs to share and of course drawings. So if you actually check out my blog from time to time, keep it up because there's more material on the way.

No CIty Animation

This is the text based intermission animation I created for our play. There are two different versions of this animation one for the first weekend (Nov 1st & 2nd) and one for the second weekend (Nov 7th & 8th) It had to be slightly changed due to the election. There's a small section about voting. I'm only going to put the pre election one up. I think it's funnier.

The second weekends version had a picture of Obama instead of Bush. Otherwise it's the same thing. Lastly I would like you all to know I put this together in about a week and a half. It may in fact be the cheesiest animation I've ever done, and all my animations are cheesy.