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Introvert

Jim Mortensen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:00:20 +0000

Boy 3-point turn for the upcoming “Expressions” Art Show.

Coming in August.

Extrovert

Jim Mortensen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:00:31 +0000

Girl 3-point turn for the upcoming “Expressions” Art Show.

Coming in August.

Sympathy for the Exhausted

Jim Mortensen — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:59:38 +0000

We did some private-room karaoke on Saturday night, which was an absolute blast. I had the brilliant idea to do the “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones.

Good Lord, I forgot how long that song is.

arisa mons 3

Jim Mortensen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:54:32 +0000

Drawing Club 11.12.09 – “Byzantine Warrior”

Jim Mortensen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:02:11 +0000

arsia mons 2

Jim Mortensen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:43:23 +0000

arsia mons 1

Jim Mortensen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:43:08 +0000

Sketchcrawl, July 11th 2009 – Part 1

Jim Mortensen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:13:04 +0000

I went to the latest Sketchcrawl up in SF with my good friend Mike. I usually leave from LA around 7:30 on Friday and get into SF around 2AM, then get up at 9 to go drawing. This time, both Mike and I were feeling lazy so we didn’t get to the crawl until 12:30 and by then everyone had dispersed. AND I had forgotten pants, so I was pretty damn cold in the windy Presidio.

I was so cold, we jetted before the meeting got rolling. I didn’t get to meet/talk to Ronnie or Lindsey or anyone that I knew from previous crawls. I did get to see my friend Su, who is up at Pixar now as an animator. Good times.

Here’s part 1 of the Crawl drawings… Other parts to follow. Some of these are from later Cafe drawings.

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Jim Mortensen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:08:19 +0000

You know all those little moments in a relationship when you have to suppress your basic instincts? When you agree to yourself to not do the thing that every fiber of your being is telling you to do? When you have to desperately hold yourself back from uttering the words or taking the action that you’re not supposed to?

This film is about not holding back from those instincts.

I’ve been going through a cycle of studying the classics in order to improve my art, then bouncing back to doing some personal work. My awesome animator co-worker Ajay Karat is going to help me animate the film. My personal goal is to have it finished by September so I can show it to people on my iPhone while cruising around the Ottawa Fest.

Fly, Fatass, Fly!

Jim Mortensen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:45:11 +0000

Saw UP this weekend. Brilliant, brilliant film. It’s pretty incredible how quickly they were able to turn a curmudgeonly character into one the audience could empathize with.

Stieg and I came up with a theory of how UP is like LOST.

Carl Fredrickson = John Locke
Charles Muntz = Ben
Kevin = Sung (the whole separation plot)
Dogs = Smoke Monster
Dug = Hurley
Russell = Kate (both whiny to the end)
Balloons & The house = The Numbers
Paradise Island = The Island
Storm that brings the house down = The magnetic event that brings down Oceanic 815

I guess that makes Jacob… Ellie?