Sketchcrawl, July 11th 2009 – Part 3
July 20, 2009 – 8:30 amSketchcrawl, Part 3
Asian gamer kid was playing Katamari. Spiky man had hair waaaaay more interesting than his conversation.
Sketchcrawl, July 11th 2009 – Part 2
July 17, 2009 – 8:30 amPart 2 of Sketchcrawl drawings.
The woman on the phone in the center looked like she was having a panic attack and kept yelling about brownies. Brownies should be calming, not panic-attack worthy!
And up top… scarf and shorts? Really? Doesn’t seem very efficient.
Sketchcrawl, July 11th 2009 – Part 1
July 16, 2009 – 10:13 amI 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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July 15, 2009 – 12:08 pmYou 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.
Marooned
June 8, 2009 – 6:49 pmIf I was marooned on a desert island and I could only bring 3 things, they would be: my iPhone, a pair of ivory chopsticks, and the delivery number for Midori All-You Can Eat Sushi.
You might ask how I might pay for the the constant deliveries of sushi deliciousness. Shhhhhh, baby… don’t worry your pretty little head about that. Snip snip.
Fly, Fatass, Fly!
June 1, 2009 – 3:45 pmSaw 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?
Finn as Heavy Weapons Guy
May 26, 2009 – 7:45 pmCause two awesome things mashed together is double-double awesome awesome: Adventure Time and TF2.
Some people think they can outsmart him. Maybe. Maybe. He has yet to meet someone that can outsmart bullet.
Pixel-polaroids for Charity #3
May 26, 2009 – 4:36 pmMy good friend Mike Overbeck, currently living in San Francisco with his girlfriend.
Before I moved to California, I took a trip around the country in my Dodge Grand Caravan and visited San Francisco, staying in Mike’s place . Two days before I was supposed to leave, I got hit by a car while riding my bike, separating my shoulder and breaking my collarbone. Thanks to the fine folks at San Francisco General hospital, I was on painkillers that zonked me out.
Mike was so incredibly kind to put me up for a couple days before my flight back to New Hampshire to recover. He worked from home while I stayed up and watched nothing but Kathy Griffin’s “My Life on the D List”. Like I said, I was on painkillers and zonked out.
Thanks, Mike!
Pixel-polaroids for charity #2
May 5, 2009 – 7:52 pmThere are a couple of funny things about my good friend Dan…
Number one is that, in every single formal picture that he’s in, he does this fake half-smile where he shows his top teeth, but only at the corners of his mouth. He looks like a passive aggressive Tiger, threatened but too timid to strike. It’s pretty silly.
Two is that he’s sensitive about his eyes. I originally had dark circles under his eyes as part of the caricature, but he asked me to make him look “less Night of the Living Dead”. Fine fine, requests requests…
Three is that he wanted to look less “like a douche”. I’m still not sure what that means. I fake-airbrushed his cheeks so he looks like a Hollywood star.
As a revenge for the “notes”, I put him in the shirt that I stole from him about 9 months ago. On his wedding day. And I was a groomsman.
Here’s lookin atcha, buddy!
pixel-polaroid for charity #1.
May 1, 2009 – 10:09 pm
ASIFA East Exec. Board Member, animation artist, producer and all around awesome gal, Linda Beck! (whose website doesn’t seem to be working right now)
I’m still looking at making prints. Let me know if you’re interested.