animayshun improfessional! http://meridiandream.com/blog doodles & such by jim mortensen Tue, 15 May 2012 19:32:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 More Doodles http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/05/15/more-doodles/ http://meridiandream.com/blog/2012/05/15/more-doodles/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 15:56:58 +0000 Jim Mortensen http://meridiandream.com/blog/?p=1153

I can’t get the Bravest Warriors art out of my head. I had a couple minutes to doodle last night, and this is what came out.

Gotta give props to my friend Phil who does all this awesome stuff.

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Sometimes at the end of the day I like to let my hand randomly wander. There’s no aim or goal with the drawrings, just whatever happens to come out.

Such weirdness. But I enjoy it. Hope you enjoy.

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In one of the pitches, there’s a Gatekeeper that Kay & her brother must get past. The Gatekeeper is a sentient totem pole with 4 different personalities. How do you talk to a Gatekeeper that is constantly changing personalities?

Lastly, a general fun-dancing dude. He once got busy in a Burger King bathroom.

Thanks for lookin!

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I keep thinking of this guy as an upper-cruster millionaire that creeps the hell out of everyone around him. Eccentric and slightly off. Like Richard Branson + Latka (from Taxi).

Since he’s mostly eye, his peripheral vision is pretty far reaching. He sees everything around him and doesn’t miss a beat.

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This woman’s a Junk Hag. Total hoarder. She thinks all the crap she surrounds herself with make her beautiful. She’s attached to everything, and it makes her ugly.

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Kay is the aggressive older sister. She’d fearlessly walk up to a menacing Trashworm and punch it in the nose if she thought it’d hurt her brother.

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I found the boy’s design pretty quickly, so went straight to boarding with him. Later on, I started pushing his eyes bigger to really amplify his naivety.


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The two run a shop that will do any job they can, no matter how dirty or difficult. One day they might be battling Trashworms on a distant planet, and the next day delivering a pizza to the Duke Of The Universe.

I’ll be posting really rough sketches from various characters in the universe. These were mostly exploratory, not concentrating on good design or draftsmanship. Hope you enjoy.

These were designs for the main girl, tentatively named Kay.


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