It's the New Zoo Revue!

Comin' Right at YOU! I went back to the Toronto zoo the other day. Sure beats doing any actual work! I drew some more baboons, who I am convinced have the most amazing yawns. It almost looks like their lower jaw unhinges. The otter on display was really something too. They have impossibly long bodies! Its like a dachshund and a rat mated. The last one is some marsupials. A tree kangaroo in the middle and some wallaby sketches.

New paintings for ye

The top one is a still life starring stuff I got at the thrift store. The bottom one is a copy painting of a background by Bill Tytla from Fantasia. Both are done in gouache.

Now in GLORIOUS COLOR!

And I didn't spell color with a "U"! Thats me, going against the Canadian grain! I'm such a rebel! Here's my Pink Panther walk cycle all colored purdy-like for your viewing pleasure.

Trip to the Zoo!

I finally had a chance to check out the Toronto Zoo this past week. My favorite were the apes...the gorillas, the baboons, the orangutans...SO LIKE US!

Animation school animations!

Here's a few pencil tests. The Droopy is a head rotation, then an expression change, then a lip sync to our teacher saying "meow". The middle is a walk cycle featuring the star of stage and screen, Steve Martin. The last one is a ball and tail actin' all ball and tail-ish. Seeing all these drawings I did running at 24 frames per second reminds me of something I heard on Beavis & Butthead years ago. They were making their own short animated films, and Butthead, wizzened old soul that he was told Beavis something that will stay with me forever: "If you wanna have like, the coyote fall off the cliff, you gotta draw like, a THOUSAND coyotes falling off the cliff!" Truer words were never spoken!

Don Knotts 1924-2006

Heaven now has a kick-ass landlord. And now he and Jack Tripper can have wacky misunderstandings together again!

Storytime!

Wahhh, waaaaahhh, WAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.......didn't write it, just drew it.

Paint 'n Sketches

Here's some studies in guache of some shiney objects next to some citrus orbs. These are supposed to be warm ups for a big, fancy still life project we got coming up. Also I included another round of sketches. Some are fellow students, some are from watchin TV. Oh, and apparently all the teachers in Canada are goin on strike in about 2 weeks, for higher wages and bennifits, etc. So it looks like I might get a chance to finally get caught up on assignments! STRIKE ALREADY, DUMMIES!

Coming this fall to NBC!!!!

I'm SOO EXCITED!!!! My favorite glass-eyed detective is BACK!!!

Kaff drawings

Funny thing, Canadians. What we call a cafe, pronounced "ka-Fay," they call a cafe, pronounced "KAFF". Which puzzled me because I thought they'd take the more french-sounding pronounciation that I'm used to. Those Canadians I tell ya. They're a riddle wrapped in an enigma! I have now infiltraded they're lair and am living among them-UNSUSPECTED!

Planet! Schmanet! Janet!

Here's day and night versions of the planet of lonely robots. Teacher might have to take my sponges away, I tend to go overboard. Oh and Brock, 1992 called. It wants its sense of color coordination back. Since I wont be getting much background work I'll try to scan in more drawing and post them this week.

Vegas Nudies

While on xmas break I tried to take advantage of the local Vegas life drawing community. Everyone there is so good! Lots of talented painters and graphic designers who work around town. These were done on my handy dandy tablet PC, which I havent been able to use for life drawing while at school (I'm still not fast enough on it!) These are some quick 2-5 minute gestures and one long 2 hour pose.

Painting a DUNGEON

Here's another painting assignment. With this one I stuck to traditional materials all they way and gave my tablet a rest. Thought I'd post some planning stuff to, so you folks can see my thought proccess. First I start with a quick thumbnail, in this case I used markers to rough in some tones. Then I did a color rough with the actual guache paint, testing color schemes out, seeing what worked and what didnt. The big one on top is the end result!

CLASSES ARE OVER THIS WEEK! VEGAS, HERE I COME!

Dry Dry Desert

Here's some photoshop color studies of my next background painting. Hopefully I can actually manipulate real paint at least half as good as I can push pixels around. Cross yer fangers.

Animal frenzy!

Yesterday I went to the Royal Winter Fair! Its like this sorta hayseed version of a convention in Vegas, only people are presenting their cows, sheep and butter sculptures instead of porn DVDs and such. It was fun! LOTS of big smelly animals everywhere and farm folk and kids running around. Great opportunity to see these animals up close. It was all indoors too, which made it nice because it started to snow outside that morning! Had fun drawing all these animals, I heard there was a ban on chickens and all fowl because of the whole "bird flu" scare. I would imagine you are more likely to cath the flu from one of those runny nosed kids dripping on you, but oh well.