*Mike Blog

Head Drawing

2012-01-27T16:20:00.000-08:00

Finally making a little progress from my classes at 3kicks. Head drawing.
Can't wait to get some other classes under my belt but there are projects to finish before studies.

This was about a...2 hour pose? I think, maybe? From Richard Morris' class. I've been taking tons of stuff from Glen Orbik, who's class is the 'ish', but Morris' class forcing me to slow down; my weakness and plateau.
Anyway, I think Richard studied with Glen, cause his book recommendations and intros to class information are near verbatim...sans the awesome bad jokes that Glen throws in. Also, the tools are very different, but they lend themselves to forcibly slower drawing (harder pencils and more deliberate under drawing phase that is harder to rush ahead with when you're inexperienced), even though the under knowledge is near identical (planes of the head, learning the specific features, recommendations on how to approach studies, some of the suggested masters to look at, books)

Anyway, I gotta rush some studies before tonight's drawing session and got a cartoon to make. I'll update at the end of the term.

-Mike

Gumphry Sketch Golfin Again

2011-12-28T18:33:00.000-08:00

Sketch to keep me whits about me. I went to the driving range last Monday while visiting family and had a great time. This drawing is inspired by said event.

Happy New year all,
-Mike

Film Progress

2011-11-28T15:21:00.001-08:00

Not gonna say anything else. Just making progress. Must keep finish!!njhgj

Illustration Master Studies

2011-11-20T20:39:00.001-08:00

Getting used to photoshop more and studying from 2 of my favorite artists. JC Leyendecker and Erich Sokol.
Every design by those guys is so pushed and specific and friggin cool looking.

Rainy Sundays Work

2011-11-06T17:56:00.001-08:00

More Big Brushes

2011-11-03T01:32:00.000-07:00

This is a fun exercise. Only giant square brushes in photoshop. No soft edges, just light and dark values and the simplest transition tones if any at all. Painting is hard.

lines

2011-10-27T13:28:00.000-07:00

tryin to distill and simplify.

Big Brushes

2011-10-19T01:55:00.000-07:00

Messing with some painting stuff. Really the biggest shapes and brushes I can use in my toolset. I'm finally gettin interested in that kind of thinking. But after watching some Looney Tunes this afternoon, I swear I'll get back to drawing the silly pictures that I've always loved.

-Mike

Goodbye Kitty!....boarding

2011-10-06T12:35:00.000-07:00

Doing some storyboards in flash. It's fun, been cutting animatics all month, it's good to board again. This is a Titanic gag 15 years too late, hahaha. Crap I need more experience. haha.

I like boarding in Flash, it's very direct and you get a lot of control over your assets (BGs and character layers) which saves tons of time. you have the entire board visible to you on a timeline in a single view. The drawing tool is a little intimidating at first (sometimes inaccurate) but if you turn the SMOOTHING property down on the brush (I put mine anywhere between 5-29, default is 50) you get a lot of control and texture to the line.

Check out the Goodbye Kitty cartoons that John Martinez and I are directing here.

xoxo,
-Mike

Glen Orbik Head Drawin!!!!

2011-10-04T20:32:00.000-07:00

Getting back to the basics over the last 1.5-2 years. Never thought I'd care much for the specifics of head drawing, but it's hard and I love all the nuance of it. I'm took a head drawing class with Glen Orbik and am gonna do it one more again.
Even though I never cared much for portraits and stuff, I think there is a TON to learn from the head that is simply methods of thinking about drawing itself (a sensitive touch with your pencil to start the image, lay-in and planning, design, simple but clear values 'light and dark', character type, planes of the head, rhythms to help you nail and wing it, and design design design, and corny jokes too. And surprisingly I didn't realize how important it is to have the right tools and sharpen your charcoal properly...it's friggin' important!).

Here's a couple drawings I did at a workshop right before or in Glen's class 2 months ago.

30 min? 1 hour?

5 min.

Glen Orbik is a bad ass illustrator, tons of experience and a very relaxed but clear and concise teaching method. He goes over the same principles and ways to think over and over again, and over the course of 10 weeks you learn a couple basic steps and methods to think and design an image (in this case a head).
He teaches from the Frank Reilly method, but his teacher was Fred Fixler who passed the method down; Fred painted the Vincent Price movie posters, so he's good in my book, hahaha!
So I'm taking another class with him becasue he still is able to tell corny jokes 1/2 the class while he draws. It's great. He's currently teaching head drawing at 3kicks Studio. I'm taking it a second time and hope to take some painting classes with him down the road, too.

Anywho, I need about a year of just the head drawings non-stop which is tough. But every 3 months when I beat myself up too much for not working hard enough on any 1 specific thing, I look back at older drawings and see clear growth, so screw it I'm gonna keep at it for a bit. I'm pretty excited about watching Glen draw for the next 10 weeks. Gotta do way wayyy more homeworks and drink 14% less beer.

Morning Warm ups

2011-09-26T12:06:00.000-07:00

This morning's warm ups from Pixel Lovely's online drawing tool. Been a while, I should really make some good habits and draw every morning or something.
these are 30 seconds to 2 minutes i think.

I've got little done today. back to work.

Chorses

2011-09-20T20:08:00.000-07:00

gotta actually learn to draw horses. warm ups the old pal google image search.

Amy Winehouse Finishes Cartoons

2011-09-06T23:43:00.000-07:00

So I drew Amy Winehouse...

because that's what was playing when I FINISHED CLEANUP ON MY FILM!!!!! alksjdalkjsdlajkdadlskj dasbasbdlkajhsdlkahsdlkadlkajsda d!!!!!!!!!!! YEAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

now on to more work. coloring needs to be done.
back to it.

love,
-Mike

Downtown Drink and Draw Art Show Bar Thingy

2011-09-04T14:44:00.000-07:00

My friend Aaron dragged me out to an awesome/weird/fun art show in downtown. Little bit art show, music, bar, impromptu life drawing with one of the models friends, Tiffany. The bar was a converted bank vault, and there were these money cage thingies where either the Tiffany or we were sitting.

5's min.? Early in the evening. Model is back lit 3/4 of the time from some random blue bar lamp.

5-10 min? 1/2 into night. Having fun with those japanese water pens, ball point a bit, and an aquasketch pencil...and a bit of my brush pen just before it died out.

MILLISECOND, moving non stop poses, gotta catch the rhythm and remember it and push it. End of the night, super fun and nothing I'm used to. Really cool to push your routine...also Aaron kept buying me drinks ;)

last pose for the night. 5 min.

I love life drawing, need to practice and do it more and more. But I'm digging the marriage between goofing off and drawing and trying new tools and things.

-Mike

Ultraman

2011-08-29T15:05:00.000-07:00

Growing up, my neighbor Kenny introduced me to this weird show, Ultraman. I always remember it being insane and fun.

gotta post something.

Shark Week #2 - Tiger Shark

2011-08-03T02:39:00.000-07:00

Before bed. Goodnight all.

Here's some other people attacking sharks...with their drawings.
Megan Nicole Dong
Carrie Liao
Tiffany Ford
Titmouse
Eric Wu
Nate Villanueva
Ryan Deluca

-Mike

Shark Week - Hammerhead

2011-08-01T18:35:00.000-07:00

All this shark crap going around. I know. But it's so much easier when someone tells me what to do. All I gots time for at the end of the day, a single shark. Time to go, but I'll double my efforts tomorrow.

-Mike

Gumphry Update - Animation COMPLEEEETTTTEEEEEEEEEE

2011-07-01T18:12:00.000-07:00

Today I finished animation on my cartoon. Today is a good day.

Inking is at about 75-80%. Today is a good day. Now I'm off to reward myself with some life drawing. Perhaps I'll eat 4 breakfast burritos at Lucky Boys and pass out somewheres in Pasadena. Either way, today is a good day.

-Mike

Fathers Day Sketches

2011-06-28T16:08:00.000-07:00

This is a sketch of my dad. Well, an sketch of an evil version of my dad. 'Bizarro Dad', if you will.
We were all watching Game of Thrones, so I think the tone of the series kinda worked its way into the drawing. sharp edges, furrowed brows and all the jazz.

This is realistic version of Dallas T. Washington, my character for my mini graphic novel coming out at the end of the summer.

-mike

Nostalgia

2011-06-10T18:17:00.000-07:00

This is my contribution of the Nostalgia theme on my co-worker's group blog, The Graphite Club. It's fun workin with someone else's theme. Limitations are the key to creativity and all that jazz. Anyway. I never do color these days, so this is my stab at it. Gonna have to try again on another and get more control over color stuff.

-Mike

Squechin

2011-06-09T03:18:00.000-07:00

Doing some fun stuff the last month but haven't been drawin for myself enough.

Sketch for cartoony gesture practice. Pulling some things from the mental banks of the life drawing gesture class I'm taking at 3 kicks.

and a life drawing from an in-studio after work life drawing session last month or so.

Wabbits and Meeces

2011-04-25T21:15:00.000-07:00

warming up the brain in the morning.

-mike

Finishin Comics

2011-04-21T01:35:00.000-07:00

A sample of a few of the comics I FINALLY put finishing touches on.

This is just the first panel of a 4 panel comic...you'll have to wait till it's on Toonhole to see the punchline.

Finishing touches... After way too long!! Friggin' film getting in the way of business.

-Mike

Bears and Manbears

2011-04-13T02:37:00.000-07:00

Some sketches for my next comic. Bears, man bears, ninjas, and women with frying pans.

2011-04-05T12:48:00.000-07:00

Roughs on the one of the last scenes I'm animating for my film. Poor Gumphry, he justs needs a little love. I'll be done with this one day...one day.

-Mike

Studies from Ketcham

2011-03-30T10:26:00.000-07:00

I've been drawing from some paper back comics. These are from my head, a repeat of some common poses I was sketchin the afternoon earlier. Old comics where so cool. Hank and his ghost artist (Lee Holley ?) were masters of this stuff; composition, simplification and appeal.

one day...one day I will be able to think clearer images.

Less studies. now I have to finish my film.

-mike

Bear Bear the magical fruit...?

2011-03-26T23:32:00.000-07:00

the more you draw the more you poop?

-Mike

Progress

2011-03-15T00:06:00.000-07:00

100 million more hours to go, then I'll be done.

-Mike

Nintendo NARC and Other-Sketch

2011-03-01T02:05:00.000-08:00

narc

something completely other.

Got NARC in from ebay. A game that teaches kids that drug dealers need to be shot, blown up, run over using a bright red Porche and busted. Then take all their cash and coke bags for extra lives. BEST GAME EVER. End boss is one that you'll never forget.

Anywho, old Nintendo inspired me, so I drew this NARC character from the game...then I started messing with brushes and did the other sketch. I'm starting to get a small handle on photoshop after....7 years of mostly sketching on paper or Flash.

Gators and Shtuff

2011-01-29T13:11:00.000-08:00

I need to look at way more refrence.

-mike

Mulberry Heights

2011-01-23T17:46:00.000-08:00

This is a short film I made with cartoonist extrodinaire Chris Allison for our comic and animation hub Toonhole.com (some comics on the site NOT totally safe for work, although this animation is fine)

We both animated it and shot the video. It was done pretty quickly and was a huge experiment but some of the most fun I've had making a cartoon. Messing with live action and animation rules!

-Mike

Sketch from Peter

2011-01-07T20:12:00.000-08:00

Peter. Peter Pan!

Needed to draw something to get my head moving after a big lunch yesterday.

-Michael

Learnin to Quicksketch

2010-12-21T21:45:00.000-08:00

I need something new up. anything.
Here's a quicksketch. Trying to give myself limitations of time, so I can learn to work faster and make more intuitive decisions.

xoxo,
-Mike

Try Something New Forget Something Old

2010-10-25T17:01:00.000-07:00

Messing about with sketchbook pro and some photoshop brushes etc. forgot to make a stronger drawing. Gotta get all the plates spinning at once to make it fun ;)

xoxo,
Mike

Film Progress

2010-10-06T13:06:00.000-07:00

Things going slow. But still going. Gotta run to the Thanksgiving deadline.

(silly inbetween time)

muusttttt fiiinniishhhhhhhhhhh.

xoxo,

-Mike

Vulcans and Romulans....

2010-09-17T01:22:00.000-07:00

Romulans and vulcans are cuter in bunny ears.

Here's some sketches I did for a friends cool site. stuff that is "cuter in bunny ears" . Then I took 1 a bit further into color, keep your eyes peeled on ryan's site.

I chose the subject 'Romulans and Vulcans'

and 'Vulcan Mind Melds'

xoxo,
-Mike

More Comics and Such

2010-09-11T04:16:00.000-07:00

Starting to scrape more time for comics and personal projects again. If I don't...I go insane. Which does NOT sounds fine.

Trew ... Love??!

2010-09-05T20:18:00.000-07:00

Oh gheez, grab a puke bucket, quick!

I gotta stop doing warm-up sketches. or just learn to become much much faster.. I think it's got something to do with the latter.

xoxo,
-Mike

Calvera

2010-07-30T00:55:00.000-07:00

quick sketch, needed a break. Calvera, from the Magnificent 7 (1966?) missed the likeness, but a good break nonetheless.

xoxo,
-Mike

James Brown Rabbit

2010-07-21T02:51:00.000-07:00

Listening to a lot of the hardest working man in show business yesterday night.

rabbit singing something along the lines of "tryyyyyyyyy mee, trryyyyy meeeeeeeeee. Come and tell meeeee, I neeeeeuuudddd yoouuuuhhh." whilst I was drawin
:)
-mike

Old hag

2010-07-15T14:47:00.000-07:00

somethin funny not ever used.

-mike

Mr. Mouse

2010-06-27T15:05:00.000-07:00

This mouse is a mouse boss, he's like a dirty 1920's mouse union organizer or something, hardened, focused, pissed. He works in the mouse trap industry, it's a job that needs to be done for the dregs of mouse society.

messin with some pen pressure settings. really liking it. Flash and Photoshop color experimental. some grain, opacity tweaks, and adjustment layers and gradients.

xoxo

-Mike

Golfin' Gumph Warm-ups

2010-05-23T21:48:00.000-07:00

A couple golfing Gumphry sketches.

...and a burned out on the road door to door salesman.

xoxo,

-Mike

Dallas' Serpent Spear

2010-05-13T16:18:00.000-07:00

Come taste my deadly sting you sonnva' bitch!

A morning warm-up that kinda started going too long. fun though.

xoxo

-mike

Newborns...Are Cuter in Bunny Ears

2010-05-06T10:40:00.000-07:00

hey everyone, check out my pal Ryan Green's blog about f-ed up things that are cuter in bunny ears; www.cuterinbunnyears.com.

This is my contribution, slimy newborn boys are cuter in bunny ears. http://www.cuterinbunnyears.com/2010/05/newborns.html

Thanks Ryan for allowing me to deface your website :)

-Mike

Dallas' Serpent Sting Warning

2010-04-30T17:36:00.000-07:00

-Mike

Gumphry Animation Progress

2010-04-20T15:33:00.000-07:00

starting to make progress on this film. Redid the robot to the final design (although I'm still doing color on it).

Can't wait to finish and see this bad boy in after effects fully moving and flopping around!

-Mike

Crazy Rabbit Sketches

2010-04-15T21:00:00.000-07:00

crazy rabbits. I wouldn't touch a rabbit like that with a 10 foot pole and a carrot at the end.

-Mike

Film Progress

2010-03-29T13:10:00.000-07:00

I'm now in animation on my cartoon. "Gumphry, the world's second biggest loooosserrrr"

Wish me luck.

xoxo,

-Mike

More Silly Creatures

2010-03-25T12:19:00.000-07:00

This is what I do in the morning before I spend the rest of my day picking my nose with a Cintiq nib.

xoxo,

-Mike

Dallas Smoking

2010-03-15T13:05:00.000-07:00

A quickie warm-up today. back to working on my cartoon and writing bad comic jokes.

xoxo,

-mike

Gumphry - color design

2010-02-23T04:03:00.000-08:00

shut your eyes and turn up your noses. I'm brewin' a cartoon!

-Mike

Dino Ba Dino - a birthday Card

2010-02-12T15:20:00.000-08:00

Dino Ba Dino is a stuffed animal of a Flintstones Dino knock off toy from a claw toy machine in Lake Tahoe.
It was my brother's fav. growing up.

my brother's birthday card. watercolor is super hard to scan.

character sketch for my upcoming film. yeah yeah, line of action isn't interesting, it's just a warm up. gotta break these bad habits.

have a great one all.

xoxo,

-me

Silly robots

2010-02-01T13:57:00.000-08:00

Here's 1-2 hours of pushing my brain around and getting silly. It's good to get more silly than you think when risk is low. so it's silly time all the time for me. Gotta nail some robot ideas down soon though, and get this cartoon made.

xoxo,

-mike

Pushing The Gumph Around

2010-01-24T01:11:00.000-08:00

learnin from people better than me. copying. Then drawing my own version of stuff. I'm learning to looses up my drawings at later stages. and trying to stop drawin a floating head as my start point. bad habit from an easy approach and habit of boredom sketching. I'll have no more of that for a while.

-Mike

More Gumphry designs

2010-01-19T02:51:00.000-08:00

more Gumphry designs. and a robot. getting used to drawing the character. animating him in a 1 minute short.

-mike

Dynamic Dallas

2010-01-06T16:57:00.000-08:00

Dallas T. Washington, American Super Agent, has to be as nible as a cat when striking against the deadly Hazmilaz Assasin ninja terror network.

-Mike

Much more to practice - idiots and flow

2009-12-28T15:25:00.000-08:00

a daily sketch to work out the holiday rust.

gotta funny up and loosen up.

X-mas freaky creatures -

2009-12-23T17:46:00.001-08:00

nothing like weird looking slug faces to ring in the holidays.

have a relaxing one all. now I gotta go buy 3 more gifts.

bah humbug!

xoxo,

-mike

Long warm up

2009-12-17T15:46:00.000-08:00

I got a lot of non-art stuff to do today. So I took some time aside to just sketch for a while.

now back to just plain stuff that needs to get done.

xoxo,
-mike

Very Serious Chickens

2009-12-14T17:21:00.000-08:00

to all my french-speaking buddies (Matt and Sperber), please forgive my sloppy french.

xoxo,
-mike

CS4 inking sketch test

2009-12-10T04:37:00.000-08:00

testing some zooming and inking in CS4. it renders linework great and makes inking at 66.7% really natural and smoother.

anywho, night cap sketches.

-mike

Barbarian! OR Subconscious Arnie

2009-12-01T13:47:00.000-08:00

So Braden inspired me to draw some barbarriannnnnsssssss!

The bottom right drawing i think is a famous arnold pose from memory. Arnie flex poses reside deep in my subconscious mind.

BUT HEY! check out Braden's film animatic too, he's a super talented hard working guy and his animatic is turning out great.

-Mike

Hilarious Sword and the Stone mustaches

2009-11-24T01:11:00.000-08:00

I was watching sword and the stone last night, doing study sketches, and noticed how hilarious the mustache designs were. That movie has some of the most hilarious mustaches and necks I've ever seen.
I fell asleep watching the movie a second time that night and drew this dude in the AM from memory.

more staches comin'

Best Regards,
-mike

Design Silhouettes

2009-11-18T18:00:00.000-08:00

some designs i did, can't show em cause it's for work. but the blacked in shapes look cool enough.

-mike

Old men and funny creatures

2009-11-09T04:44:00.000-08:00

took an afternoon break to sketch during a long day.
sketched the old man from this much better painting (twilight zone comic from golden key):
http://www.goldkeystories.com/2009/10/last-sixty-seconds.html

the creatures are loosely based on creatures that I created/killed from the hours of playing the game SPORE. but were just fun organic shapes I drew.

-mike

Barbarriiiannnnnn

2009-11-04T16:00:00.001-08:00

quick warm-up sketch yesterday.

-mike

Whoaaa Whooaaa, slow down, chief.

2009-10-16T20:39:00.001-07:00

Dallas trying to take diplomatic control of a situation.

-Mike

Fun With Ink

2009-09-24T21:35:00.000-07:00

Had a lot of fun with ink and watercolor this last week. great learning experiences acquired and fun comics created.

xoxo,
mike

Flintstones meets LOTR elves

2009-09-11T19:52:00.000-07:00

At work my buddy, Chris Martin, was making fun of elves, then later of the Flintstones. I figured, why not poke fun of stupid long-song-singing elvish flintstones.

so I drew what I though one would look like.

elletthoolorian.

xoxo,
-mike

rabbits and such

2009-08-19T17:14:00.000-07:00

-mike

Dallas Firing Off

2009-08-09T20:58:00.001-07:00

not just his mouth this time.

-mike

Comic Teasers again

2009-08-03T00:49:00.000-07:00

more tiny samples. been inking and scanning all week.

-mike

dirty hippie scum

2009-07-17T19:55:00.000-07:00

some sketches of some lovable hippie scum. working it towards a comic.

-mike

Idiot Designs

2009-06-27T19:57:00.001-07:00

had some problems drawings some characters. So, after a thorough design critique from chris allison and sean kreiner i did these quickie idiot designs.

-mike

Comics - What I've Been Up To

2009-06-23T01:02:00.000-07:00

Some comic teazzzyyyy weeeezzzyyyys.

just shiz I've been working on during some down time.
I'll throw up some scans of full comics some time early Augustish for anyone who likes super fat kid jokes and the casual butt joke.

-xoxo
-mike

The Sway of a Man

2009-04-27T00:53:00.000-07:00

The sway of a man is indication of loose stool, liberal genitalia, and great swagger!

Forgive this cheap Vilpuu-esque rendering, with the squiggly core shadow hatches.
but no thanks is nessisary for prominent bulge placement.

testing out a scanner, I'm really pleased with Epson's stuff. I did these sketches as a late night "snack" before bed.
Have a great one all!

-Mike

Rough Turn Around

2009-02-16T13:31:00.000-08:00

started another character turn-around. I blocked in the turns with a (digital) marker to knock in proportions and silouette. Then I rough out the character on top with the form and details.

-mike

BEWARE!

2009-01-29T09:31:00.000-08:00

Beware the ides of..... February?

keep on yer toes folks.
-mike

Happy Halloween

2008-10-08T18:21:00.000-07:00

little Frankenstein and Elvira type drawings.
Went from a roids Frankenstein to a classic style frank.

-mike

Comics Abrewin

2008-09-25T03:06:00.000-07:00

There's some comics abrewin'

just a taste.

Keep your eyes peeled for my next post about drawing foreshortened man-bulges and other complex forms.

Keep drawings all!

-Mike

Kid Designs

2008-08-29T13:16:00.001-07:00

Sorry gang, no farts, butts or cock-bulges this time.
Next time I shall double my efforts.

for now, some drawing of some cute idiot kids that ended up not getting used for a commercial project.

sokol study (knock off)

2008-08-05T22:02:00.000-07:00

Did a copy practice painting of my favorite playboy cartoonists Erich Sokol.

after 8 months I'm STARTING to get the hang of watercolor.

Did this with watercolor, india ink (both black and opaque white ink).

(photo taken at night and kinda blew out the colors as did the jpeg compression).

Dallas on Form

2008-06-04T10:12:00.001-07:00

Concentrated more on form and the build of the man; from rough to surfaced drawing. Some of the detail worked against me toward the end of the night, the effects of habit and fatigue.
But drawing till late always beats late night spelling bees!

drawing for the WIN!

-mike

More Warm-ups

2008-05-26T12:05:00.001-07:00

Did these in an exercise of gesture and simplification, did this by drawing MUCH SMALLER than i often work and more quickly. Trying to nail Dallas' forms and proportions consistently, while getting interesting shapes and gestures.
I'm pretty happy with these first warm-up attempts, but still wanna figure some stuff out.

Morning Warm-up

2008-05-21T13:13:00.001-07:00

10 min. warm-up drawing from this morning.

Will Elder Passes at Age 86

2008-05-16T09:55:00.000-07:00

Long time artist for Mad and the Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny" comics passed away yesterday.
This is a great loss to the world of funny and drawings.

See some of his Little Annie Fanny work over at the ASIFA archive.

Tom Richmand at MAD writes:
"Will Elder, one of the defining artists of the early MAD comic and long time collaborator of Harvey Kurtzman, passed away Thursday morning of unspecified causes at the age of 86. Elder had been ill for some time battling Parkinson’s disease and had difficulty signing his name let alone drawing, according to a communication I had recently with a friend of Will’s. It goes without saying that a true pioneer of cartooning left us yesterday."

read more here.

if I had a beer, I'd pour it on the ground for ol' Will Elder. He made great contributions to the world of cartooning and will be remembered.

-mike

Watercolor & Sokol Studies

2008-05-10T10:31:00.001-07:00

Experimenting with watercolor at night and copying a master of composition and color (Erich Sokol) to guide me in my levels up.

this last one isn't a sokol copy. just a super sketch venture.

Currently a level 20 druid shifter with a colorist spec. No elite gear....but 1 day, one day I'll be 70.

Caricature: head shapes and such

2008-05-07T16:07:00.000-07:00

Caricature is super tough for me, but fun none the less. I started out pretty tight then tried to just loosen up. After that, I attempted almost portraits in order to force my eye to simply slowly observe the shapes and understand it. Then I would be able to more confidently push elements because I so carefully observed them.
Still didn't get close in most cases, but funny looking shapes none the less.

Hands Hands Hands

2008-04-24T22:48:00.000-07:00

hand are pretty fun.

The Gun Doesn't Make the Man

2008-04-21T21:51:00.001-07:00

The pompadour does.

Unicorns!

2008-03-03T14:04:00.000-08:00

Unicorn, the great majestic beast.

sketchin unicorns with me brush pen.

Full Force Dallas

2008-02-27T02:40:00.000-08:00

Dallas T. Washington in full unabashed and hairy force!
keep your eyes peeled for comics, cartoons, and our new web platform!

Dallas, Octopus man & Pentel Pocket BRUSH PEN!

2008-02-17T14:50:00.000-08:00

here's a couple sketches I did with my new pentel pocket brush pen and watercolor.

I'll write more on this brush pen later (and some others I've had my eye on), i think it's worth its own write up. But for now, enjoy some drawings. anyone else have one of these fine pens?

Professor So and So

2008-02-08T21:09:00.001-08:00

"and. ummm. this, ummmm. Expression shows. and the numerator. uhhh. the same way. because p1 was 22 was 10 and that change... well I guess perhaps, maybe I should multiple these numbers by 100 and turn em into percentages. and ummm. with the expressions of differential calculus this notion notion of a percentage change is ..uhh. that's why we can express this as a derivative of the log of that quality offff...

see me during office hours."

anyone ever had a teacher in their life that tried to blow your mind? but he just blew. period.

Timmy's Christmas - brand new CARTOON!

2008-01-31T14:57:00.001-08:00

check out my newest cartoon I made with Chris "the hit man" Allison, Ryan "two times" Khatam, John "the John" Martinez and David "The Loin Pencil" Gemmil

watch it here:
http://katzenjammerstudios.blogspot.com/2008/01/timmys-christmas-aka-1-cartoon-8-days.html

CHECK IT OUT AND READ HOW ME MADE IT!

This is what every Christmas gift must look like to a kid. Only to later find himself/herself disappointed that the gift housed boring old clothes!

ALSO, after you watch Timmy's Christmas and laugh your socks off you can read HOW WE MADE IT from scratch like a fine in under 8 days!

Dallas Sketches

2008-01-29T12:21:00.000-08:00

Super late night break sketching to ease the mind of late night project drawing.

Rag Doll Ninjas...

2008-01-09T22:41:00.000-08:00

Rag-doll ninjas don't stand a chance against Dallas T. Washington.

this is an idea I had for a comic whilst at work. I was about to head to the gym later this night when I was suddenly struck by visual lightning and I had to get it down on paper. Gonna use this as my cornerstone for my Dallas T. Washington comic in the mid-far-future.

I want Dallas to be jumping out of the comic panel and grabbing the enemy in the next panel by the throat; then telling him to his face that he's gonna kill him. how much tougher can you get?

more Dallas t. sketches

Dallas truckin'. He's in a kinder and gentler mood.

Timmy's Christmas (NEW TOON)

2007-12-25T15:15:00.001-08:00

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EDIT: The finish cartoon can be viewed HERE!

GO WATCH IT!
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new toon in the works.

nother Dallas

2007-12-11T22:38:00.000-08:00

Sorry. nother' just sketch. no story. just late night sketchin' to get familiar with some flash tools even more.

-enjoy