tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196812092024-03-07T16:18:41.421-08:00CHIMERAThe Resolution of 3 Different Things
Into a New OneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-8310516274415849752013-01-14T18:39:00.003-08:002013-01-14T18:39:45.601-08:00Clone Wars-Comics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was lucky enough to work with Henry Gilroy during the first couple of seasons on the Clone Wars. He went on to do some of the comics at Dark Horse as well. Even though our schedule is pretty aggressive I wanted to work with him on the series again and was fortunate to do (2) covers.<br />
I thought I would also show you the thumbnails the editor got to choose from for both of these covers<br />
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Jonathan Morris came up with an excellent idea,..redesign the Marvel Universe with the help of any ol Palooka that wants to throw down.<br />
I'm in. I went for any Kirby character I could get my hands on and luckily I got this guy, Da Klaw!!( I would be lucky to work on any Kirby character, I love them all).<br />
Go check out his <b><a href="http://ohotmuredux.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">site</a></b>. Lots of fun interpretations and amazing work<br />
I was going to do a straight up rendition of the original ( yes including the serrated purple underwear) but I couldn't make it work. Hopefully this won't offend anyone. I have a few more to do for OHATMU that I will post in the coming days/months<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-46659846501546236552011-01-02T22:34:00.000-08:002011-01-02T23:04:11.519-08:00Manga Sushi-the story startsThis is an ongoing project that I started with my first son. This is more his project than mine, I merely write what he tells me and he approves most of my work. It is one of the most challenging and rewarding projects I have done yet. For me I just try to listen and to not be so precious with the work that it doesn't get done. It is hard but I try really hard not to steer the story. I do find that if I get confused I tend to ask pointed questions, for which he always has several answers.<br /> Our project came out of a story I found. I was slightly horrified to hear about the children of one of my creative heroes (N.C.Wyeth). He is definitely an amazing and inspiring painter, but he was an absentee father. His children would wait at the door to his studio to catch a glimpse of him when he opened the door to pick up the tray of food his wife would leave for him or when he would place the empty plates back at the door. I have been guilty of getting wrapped up in my job and neglecting myself and those close to me, but after I heard this story and hearing several stories similar to this, I became more mindful. It's helped but it is still difficult for me.<br /> One way of combating this is to include my family,when I can, and share my love of this field. If you are a creative parent I hope that you spend time nurturing it in your children whether they follow your footsteps or not. 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I cannot tell you how much this loss affects me, what Frazetta's work means to me, how he inspires me every time I see his work, how I strive to excel to his level in every piece I do, how much I still learn from his work. Sadly I know those of you that feel a little like I do are probably categorized in the "old guy" column. With the internet and the rise of concept art this new amazing generation of artists have no context for him and without context he just becomes one of those guys. I already overheard some of the younger guys I work with refer to him as such. To me growing up he was a lighthouse and utterly unique and revolutionary. I learned early on that if you find someone that you think is amazing, find out who there teachers were, who inspired them, and maybe you could get closer to that source. Our legacy as artists will be by who we inspire not what show we were on or how much we got paid for something. I think we tend to forget that in our "jobs". Some amazing artists that he inspired<br /><br />-Dave Stevens<br />-Mike Mignola<br />-William Stout<br />-Frank Cho<br />-Justin Sweet<br />-Mark Schultz<br />-Mike Kaluta<br />-Mitch Byrd<br />-James Watkiss<br />-Ashley Wood<br />-Wally Wood<br />-Al Williamson<br /><br />-this list could probably go on a lot longer than I know or have room for. But if you like any of the guys above take a second or a lifetime and check out Frank Frazetta's work. While your at it, take a second to thank the artists that inspire you that are still here. I know for a fact it would mean alot to them. My heart is heavy and I felt the need to post something. Sadly I couldn't even "settle" on any of the hundreds of images he created to put up as a post.<br /><br />Thank you Frank for everything!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-45905881051275206072010-05-06T23:15:00.000-07:002010-05-08T00:10:29.059-07:00Remember Banner<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpME4EcLqq1NYQv2gpSs3BRPU1-k5Xm5E17jmR2QWqe_UVIWI507dOFbEuHY-TPy2bnbBXeVSGQW5hr25-P51oYGzUa39F7xuyGPz_Xpcvb-dOztquBM3KtFwCvPxHll8UzFaK/s1600/hulk-1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 332px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpME4EcLqq1NYQv2gpSs3BRPU1-k5Xm5E17jmR2QWqe_UVIWI507dOFbEuHY-TPy2bnbBXeVSGQW5hr25-P51oYGzUa39F7xuyGPz_Xpcvb-dOztquBM3KtFwCvPxHll8UzFaK/s400/hulk-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468412991741431138" border="0" /></a><br /></div>An incredible intellect living with regret and guilt of what his uncontrollable ID did. The Hulk was a a creature of pathos and rage. Then we had to put him in a bunch of super groups and play nice and still be the Hulk. Minor character flaw. Now they introduced us to RedHulk a creature of rage and, erm, evil.........who cares.<br />I worked on two versions for the SilverScreen ,one actually made it and was panned. Haven't thought of the grey/green guy since then until <a href="http://rawlsy.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-03-02T23%3A01%3A00-05%3A00">this </a>guy started his March Madness run. Check it out if you have the time. Made me remember all the fun I had reading him as a kid.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">HULK SMASH!!<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-34654132959932027842010-03-26T00:11:00.000-07:002010-03-26T09:26:00.551-07:00HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPT6pUJxNPu4-RX8oUl0FMGjJmy43jCgCmswJY58ssn1jUGdLTz1kuDlleksGY0bDGyz6t8fzy_GB-Ds1EbQOenQCHxRS8y-LZ3k3ToxAwP0OgNqVjt2YU5XpuSNse3a9VlUC2/s1600/dragon-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452839024005455730" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPT6pUJxNPu4-RX8oUl0FMGjJmy43jCgCmswJY58ssn1jUGdLTz1kuDlleksGY0bDGyz6t8fzy_GB-Ds1EbQOenQCHxRS8y-LZ3k3ToxAwP0OgNqVjt2YU5XpuSNse3a9VlUC2/s400/dragon-1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Was fun. Good job Dreamworks!! Your TD's did an amazing job on hair, fur, rock, wood and scales. Clouds and fire also superb! Lighting was beautiful! Character design by the amazingly talented Nico Martlet (seriously this guy is crazy good!) the animation was simply superb, both subtle and big, score was unobtrusive and rousing in the right place but what about the story? Fun, just fun. But don't take my word for it, go see it, I mean if you like this sort of thing, you know dragons and vikings. More like this please! What's next guys?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-82485261853257496732010-02-27T22:39:00.001-08:002010-02-27T23:12:03.456-08:00TELLING STORIES<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Ink-Practical-Building-Resonate/dp/0984178627/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267331899&sr=1-1"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 217px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmm5Is-ow76DTQ1jU698Zs4QBs2R7klfIclyetwPuzhp89tBAvjPxdwGBb7-7jk50zi01DA34TELLVd9__IOURkE5gRwaWJ_DYNY8-aDywn4WJURbIt280LAtbD7z-W8QxVyhq/s320/Invisible_Ink_Cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443187599125125122" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Most of you that visit this often NOT updated blog are interested in story . If you are one of those people I would HIGHLY recommend this book written by my friend Brian McDonald-<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Ink-Practical-Building-Resonate/dp/0984178627/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267331899&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Invisible Ink</span></a>. I was very lucky to run into him when I was very young in my career and it made a big difference in steering me. He started writing a <a href="http://invisibleinkblog.blogspot.com/">blog</a> that is chock full of practical advice for writers and artists who tell stories. There are alot of books out there about this medium but most of them are for analyzing stories after the fact or create confusion using highfalutin words which only make people feel stupid , some even have graphs and charts that start to look like football plays. But if you are actually creating stories I would say his book would benefit you more than most.<br />Brian clears away the useless and makes visible what was previously hidden , then tells you how to hide it again. But don't take my word for it listen to these yahoos<br /><br /><br /><span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;color:black;" ><div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">“Writing stories is hard. They are stubborn by nature. No matter how many times you master one, the next story is obligated to conceal its faults with an entirely new disguise. Your only recourse is to keep writing, while concurrently increasing your understanding of this deceivingly simple, yet highly complex, organism we call story. Brian McDonald’s insightful book does just that. Somehow, Brian has found yet another fresh and objective way to analyze how great stories function, and emboldens you to face the challenge of scaling whatever story mountain looms before you. If I manage to reach the summit of my next story it will be in no small part due to having read <em><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_3">Invisible Ink</span></em>.”</div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> —<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_4">Andrew Stanton</span> (cowriter <em><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_5">Toy Story</span>, </em><em> <span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_6">Toy Story 2</span>, A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc.,</em> and cowriter/director <em><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_7">Finding Nemo</span></em> and <em>WALL-E</em>)</div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">“<em>Invisible Ink</em> is a powerful tool for anyone who wants to become a better screenwriter.With elegance and precision, <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_8">Brian McDonald</span> uses his deep understanding of story and character to pass on essential truths about dramatic writing. Ignore him at your peril.”</div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> —<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_9">Jim Taylor</span> (<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_10">Academy Award</span>™- winning screenwriter of <em>Sideways</em> and <em>Election</em>)</div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><br /></div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">“<span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1267338684_11">Brian McDonald</span> knows that underneath a good story are the difficult mechanics of plot. He offers insights into both the construction needed and the art of hiding that construction.”</div> <div style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> —Jim Uhls (screenwriter of <em>Fight Club</em>)</div> <div><br /></div></span></span><br />also <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Invisible-Ink/Brian-McDonald/e/9780984178629/?itm=1">here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-70061691846167353282009-12-04T22:33:00.000-08:002009-12-04T22:39:31.097-08:00Utnapishtim<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNd30ljAu1pcOu4gLIAruXI7kNrfVFj2Qik0X4sNdTJ7UGn1C7eMtz_-OqplqV3savCq1ytGELvJh5lFNqalrXawwrVP32MXS7BpcZltOGo41g_ihIsjNSZ-_QtgSlTyhPWG6n/s1600-h/utna-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 152px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNd30ljAu1pcOu4gLIAruXI7kNrfVFj2Qik0X4sNdTJ7UGn1C7eMtz_-OqplqV3savCq1ytGELvJh5lFNqalrXawwrVP32MXS7BpcZltOGo41g_ihIsjNSZ-_QtgSlTyhPWG6n/s200/utna-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411637803968581826" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0HujIpmIwTRsPwhhSz8qMykv6cAhbXcEomPGEJpmZgkI1nC80qCHqgNjatuxR2IXg4iacTARX2UTUsqn6dBhcX5bFc2SadLp2GWr31fgSvqmGh3W-vWWjeACKZCv_YV1FD0Na/s1600-h/utna-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0HujIpmIwTRsPwhhSz8qMykv6cAhbXcEomPGEJpmZgkI1nC80qCHqgNjatuxR2IXg4iacTARX2UTUsqn6dBhcX5bFc2SadLp2GWr31fgSvqmGh3W-vWWjeACKZCv_YV1FD0Na/s200/utna-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411637809896329346" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I've been incredibly busy with everything! This doodle is from a long term project that I can't seem to get to, so I thought "Why not post it?"Not the final design and just a hint of the amount of exploratory sketches done to try and find the look of a character.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-76316515324979072002009-11-10T00:11:00.000-08:002009-11-10T00:18:52.877-08:00More Cards<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2UF2o0sd7qtniOmcjLHnzFSd3Xdr85Uv5Rb9OH0dnoAeqGLyIAPW_8oipc_IRar-bILOSQnK4ld0n7Kx8b15tK22V871rTEbSsadm3FOP4PlIpJ0DSwQ7JTVdFS6WnvqEqtU/s1600-h/cards-1+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 46px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2UF2o0sd7qtniOmcjLHnzFSd3Xdr85Uv5Rb9OH0dnoAeqGLyIAPW_8oipc_IRar-bILOSQnK4ld0n7Kx8b15tK22V871rTEbSsadm3FOP4PlIpJ0DSwQ7JTVdFS6WnvqEqtU/s200/cards-1+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402386412110967778" border="0" /></a><br />Been awhile since the last post,......a looooooong while. Working on alot of stuff thatI can't make public, sorry. Did another round with Topps. Hope you all enjoy. Hopefully have more stuff soon(relatively).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-76896606588063101642009-02-20T09:29:00.000-08:002009-02-20T09:34:04.291-08:00Charity Auction<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5V3KDn8XeXD-JyJwAJbo_admm3RxAt3aRV4QXUTywr2Fb3_NvVnyLN1wvvmILOjZaySxh6pYmCz6HKe-v_ypqh5g3gRvcoz07VCu4vtpX3zmxsa5nWuW2xksacFJP_EMQJNG/s1600-h/keyfinal-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5V3KDn8XeXD-JyJwAJbo_admm3RxAt3aRV4QXUTywr2Fb3_NvVnyLN1wvvmILOjZaySxh6pYmCz6HKe-v_ypqh5g3gRvcoz07VCu4vtpX3zmxsa5nWuW2xksacFJP_EMQJNG/s320/keyfinal-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304933540175771762" /></a><br />Tonight at work, an impromptu auction for Breast Cancer and AIDS patients and research. This is from an idea my wife keeps kicking around about a brother and sister. The title is " My Brother is the Worst Pirate I know(thankfully his men are not!)" A.K.A. "The Key". I hope it finds a good home.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-40445130899405659982008-10-31T22:45:00.000-07:002008-10-31T22:58:59.844-07:00The Great Pumpkin!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGVDwCYUhxVJNuriTQHdT0ccnDvkYmG_KRY5e5ZRkIvMWeWRZHFeaMbpXYr9dRBi1p2esnVAntXOjkqV3HpwKqTdYRtiLHNiCKZYnOKXZLvPRTF33cAssle04-ZxGbnwX2nlB/s1600-h/Samhain08-2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: undefinedpx; height: undefinedpx;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUGVDwCYUhxVJNuriTQHdT0ccnDvkYmG_KRY5e5ZRkIvMWeWRZHFeaMbpXYr9dRBi1p2esnVAntXOjkqV3HpwKqTdYRtiLHNiCKZYnOKXZLvPRTF33cAssle04-ZxGbnwX2nlB/s320/Samhain08-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263564527559481698" /></a><br />As a lad growing up in Eastern Europe. As for me, well with our show released, I have found very little time to do any fun work for myself. I try to use at least one Holiday a year to do something, this year it's Holoween/Samhain/Day of the Dead. I've always like Linus' story about the Great Pumpkin and decided to add a little history to that familiar Autumnal gourd. I hope this finds you all well!!<br />This weekend I will be dropping by APE to see some of my friends work (Le Tang, Jackie Huang and Derek the Monster Thompson to name a few). If you have the time please come on by and support some Alternate Press!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-14146330978420017772008-08-03T20:48:00.000-07:002008-08-07T00:35:12.243-07:00ORDER 66<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYDuS8zMtJYrj7_ccJBfcB9SUZbnC80hjoxg6Y5MZWrKFDxcJkYFNTO0AvF_oMRSnqDXIenTnt4jtKUt0j6MdgcyC67oYsg0mXsOiSuxjNJ7bM8oi3QTiraJEBa5vdOovSCmE/s1600-h/fullayout-3_MED.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYDuS8zMtJYrj7_ccJBfcB9SUZbnC80hjoxg6Y5MZWrKFDxcJkYFNTO0AvF_oMRSnqDXIenTnt4jtKUt0j6MdgcyC67oYsg0mXsOiSuxjNJ7bM8oi3QTiraJEBa5vdOovSCmE/s200/fullayout-3_MED.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231675298260846018" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Wow! So a few of us at work decided to do 66 sketchcards for Topps. With production being in full swing and several things on fire,San Diego Con looming, and just trying to live life, it was excruciatingly hard! But fun,..really, it was fun. What kept me going was thinking how cool it would be to open a package and find a card done by one of the crew. Some of these I feel proud of, some of them not so much, but in the end I'm honored and glad that I got the chance to do it. I am still trying to figure out what happened at the Con. I will be posting pics and musings next time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-1206759756066058252008-07-16T23:35:00.000-07:002008-07-18T10:23:01.997-07:00COMICON!!<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br /></div><br />I apologize for not posting, I hope you haven't all given up. It's been really busy at the studio(more later) and it's also been really busy at home,,,,getting ready for San Diego ComiCon!! I am sharing a booth with some fellow Coworkers at <a href="http://www.battlemilk.com/images/comic_con_map.gif"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Booth#1329</span></a>.<br />I will be selling 2 prints and an anthology I did a couple years back called <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><a href="http://www.toilgirls.com/toilshop/babes.html">Babes in Space</a>. </span>These are some of my booth mates work<br /><a href="http://www.battlemilk.com/"><br /></a><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://www.battlemilk.com/">BattleMilk</a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZinvG0UFmMcY_ka11gd9mD-vnezvHGiaoG9yyHv-S8oCL7PXbLiRw0MqeXzHoTW4YSEftqYUFT_Oe2gDdRPURspJikTpcCaOz4tOUgKA9fFaLh2lIPkRmbufiWvXyeHSbjOM/s1600-h/BattleMilkjpg.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223870217017864050" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZinvG0UFmMcY_ka11gd9mD-vnezvHGiaoG9yyHv-S8oCL7PXbLiRw0MqeXzHoTW4YSEftqYUFT_Oe2gDdRPURspJikTpcCaOz4tOUgKA9fFaLh2lIPkRmbufiWvXyeHSbjOM/s200/BattleMilkjpg.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QhVkfNaNdZ-QW6w57Xl0yeypMn1270ac8Vlak33WYDEWKgS8D1S6aZaHKG8P_vhy3F1dfEh2rd3YXYlgL0WILhV_m1gLOe6cEbgTthIKDdi1QEGqHC9C21lE1JU2O9lFOA3F/s1600-h/Teaser_001.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224253023532618690" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QhVkfNaNdZ-QW6w57Xl0yeypMn1270ac8Vlak33WYDEWKgS8D1S6aZaHKG8P_vhy3F1dfEh2rd3YXYlgL0WILhV_m1gLOe6cEbgTthIKDdi1QEGqHC9C21lE1JU2O9lFOA3F/s200/Teaser_001.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">-you may not have heard of them but that shouldn't stop you from drinking it in! Do it!<br /></div>Who is BattleMilk?? Who indeed....<br /><a href="http://kilianplunkett.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Kilian Plunkett</span></a>-lead designer on the television Clone Wars, Comic book artist extraordinaire and all around fun guy<br /><a href="http://thangle.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Thang Le</span></a>-fastest designer in the West, silent but deadly, so very deadly<br /><a href="http://waynelo7.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Wayne Lo</span></a>-Art Director for the video game Lair,man of mystery and brand new papa<br />and<br /><a href="http://jacksonsze.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jackson Sze</span></a> -bringing art and style to the devil box!<br /><br />Who else??<br /><br />The Fantastic Work of <a href="http://sparetimer.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Kinman Chan</span></a><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://www.boscong.com/blog/">Bosco Ng</a><a href="http://www.boscong.com/blog/"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.boscong.com/blog/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224256009348502466" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr3y_WjhgVkKUjr1IrlNcL5cfEk9SFI5v5NhiHPwk2VTBm_ry2jfRujjE2dm91HCkuzW8ld9E2HZoMQBtQkpdcFVMVv2HXLS7Y2_KgiCiFz7KT90sy-XosWANQWFZTtd59GTC7/s200/cover.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />-watch out ladies, he has x-ray eyes!!!<br /></div><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br /></span><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://letang79.blogspot.com/">Le Tang</a></span><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Jr8MoigjPeixjm15pjJSfeItKXdUYv5mzx1FhjNoxhPtvl5dALDDdc8Dcfa18rB16E8p-eYkH5CKTArEHnPLtRilLN0FeahJkfslUtNBGL_nT3Uu7Ppvt7mhymrTTrUlm5FH/s1600-h/Book_cover.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224252571135428770" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Jr8MoigjPeixjm15pjJSfeItKXdUYv5mzx1FhjNoxhPtvl5dALDDdc8Dcfa18rB16E8p-eYkH5CKTArEHnPLtRilLN0FeahJkfslUtNBGL_nT3Uu7Ppvt7mhymrTTrUlm5FH/s200/Book_cover.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">-genuinely one of the most talented and nicest story artists around, until he starts cussing<br /></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://www.stewardlee.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Steward Le</span></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBQlrfGmbhcZAqte0T2Kw4bfPVLO_HeA2wtJuW1inf6TbF8_P5vwGxggs3N2vOheLQZayIimF-MxXSpQcN1CTy4PS-bgng_oryMlJT9HEyEOwJrmU6Hx5OYSRYm3vD_FECyYX/s1600-h/download.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224253529675388050" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBQlrfGmbhcZAqte0T2Kw4bfPVLO_HeA2wtJuW1inf6TbF8_P5vwGxggs3N2vOheLQZayIimF-MxXSpQcN1CTy4PS-bgng_oryMlJT9HEyEOwJrmU6Hx5OYSRYm3vD_FECyYX/s200/download.gif" border="0" /></a><br />-Pulse pounding action Sifu and fellow Episodic Director on the Clone Wars TV series<br /></div>Our sister booth over here at <strong>Table H09</strong> . Sports such mighty talents such as<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://www.artrgc.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Captain Russel Chong</span></a><a href="http://www.artrgc.com/"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.artrgc.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223878004175379570" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oDZYN7G20DnPl-rtsv905pBEDktJ6ERuepSNUiBBPF3o4tRf3sTeVWr-sErLiRiMrgda3RrHRxEzPk4M1vkCwvjxYgPSlpgCbWhrVxz-jjR69K4fQGnQxBjXCGFhVT4il9bM/s200/Russell.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />-You can salute if you want</div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://kmann.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Kelsey Mann</span></a><a href="http://kmann.blogspot.com/"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://kmann.blogspot.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223876681850229090" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVHtp_YgTFuQkHfzHu_vnNY6yvfrgccnRs2T_643U9pIlB0uaP6dZ_carl_Q7ldBYL6sWutCeujztq1RG1_ndu5vCCkkpiDpOAccC_0gR_JDkFFrGy2p8oYWtBrpo9rcIQO6_h/s200/noir.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://kmann.blogspot.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224250351196168050" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfVAegi72-B0PNZb3E_i1QBA4v32UOCz2inhcnrJ2k25nwjp1cRbHgIJx8sFik5FraCB4BcWb42vXc1ZjyIl-hgCPidotDI8utMhXfkxbz79-eIPLvGz0a9tDPF4KMINzgj1h/s200/NOIR_pg32_33.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />-careful, he's watching you!<br /></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jackie Huang<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkuL7EcSeux_swH9x330g69G839uItBxTJAztaYjNEpn4Tk-wDjtSliTUMf13NPiWa_Iie0sZ8O4oYz2ZTVO8kz_TUlr5QNMG2ZO-fqj3JxEKK2PjcfFug0Dii8QrGpa3dvB9f/s1600-h/shadowbugs-1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224376095470664914" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkuL7EcSeux_swH9x330g69G839uItBxTJAztaYjNEpn4Tk-wDjtSliTUMf13NPiWa_Iie0sZ8O4oYz2ZTVO8kz_TUlr5QNMG2ZO-fqj3JxEKK2PjcfFug0Dii8QrGpa3dvB9f/s200/shadowbugs-1.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">-builderbot, creator and all around tinkerer<br /></div><br />Want more? Well your in luck! The Jew Bros. are creating a talent vortex in artist alley<br /><a href="http://bentonjewart.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Benton</span></a>-table EE02<br /><a href="http://ansonart.tripod.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Anson</span></a>-table EE01<br />One time team member but now affiliated with another justice orginization will be defending <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Booth #1534</span><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://www.derekmonster.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Derek Thompson</span><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.derekmonster.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223873305947329602" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqmhNg6NgkkS2MFlfFZlWLoHTIx0Y_UfWvfnTi2NoOZEvQZN8amcePpDf5zhaXbdfk4ePjfoE1aCg0qvcs_idhSCpIGIfSlqStpnZOUsKqXVXkLcCluiTcR6mplPzYKKpSk3f/s200/Derek.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">-the original Monster!<br /></div>along with<br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Ted Mathot</span><span id="formatbar_Buttons" style="DISPLAY: block"><span onmouseup="" class="on" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);" id="formatbar_CreateLink" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" title="Link" style="DISPLAY: block" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);"></span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.roseandisabel.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223873556899149330" style="CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dnZfS0icRapmBiowTWg3wyzmxnErextzDxfbJ8lm8vGzh91OB6676nDanhil6b6qdqfWKm5NyVOJmA0faRdIboN1jVbzKRFOsfxS0GoPF85ETLHK7kGUcyRXSvYrUADl8Nhh/s200/Cora.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">-Amazon worshiper and yarn spinner<br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.justinridge.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Justin Ridge</span></a>-tall in stature and talent, deal with it<br /><a href="http://www.trozos.blogspot.com/"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sho Murase</span></a>-modern day Nancy Drew modern day cool<br /><br />Not full yet? You dare!? Then fill your talent void with the following....<br />See and hear some of the above mega talents speak about the sacred texts in<br /><br /><div style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; TEXT-ALIGN: center">PANEL #2 10:50-11:35am Using 3D Story in The Clone Wars Series<br />Room 7AB<br /></div><br />stay for all the talks and you may be deemed worthy of a reward!!!<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">To Recap<br />booth #<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">1329 - </span>BattleMilk,Prints,Sketchbooks,Comics<br />table # <strong>H09</strong>- books,gifts,portfolios,prints<br />booth #<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">1534 - </span>monster sketches,Comics<br />Artist Alley<br />table#<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">EE02</span> - Raw Talent<br />table#<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">EE01</span>- Unbrideled Talent</span><br /><br />We would love to see you, so come on by, and remember to support the little guys!<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-6127121203670870912007-08-31T00:10:00.000-07:002007-08-31T00:18:31.409-07:00For Another Friend<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyHB11WfKtDT_XQbrf5DjSWxoPDvIRfFfcnYFR-QyZIyPzphcz99S6qCZmjAwxtCDdm9S2-2BzludXEhFnp6hCpNVn6wxBBjoSIp4e1AY34P13WkZaUctGNxd9hoHBdAi8jQxP/s1600-h/PilgrimMage.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyHB11WfKtDT_XQbrf5DjSWxoPDvIRfFfcnYFR-QyZIyPzphcz99S6qCZmjAwxtCDdm9S2-2BzludXEhFnp6hCpNVn6wxBBjoSIp4e1AY34P13WkZaUctGNxd9hoHBdAi8jQxP/s320/PilgrimMage.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104760587056518322" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdGImE7AOFGGUKzkPQEJwNNoWxqiJt9UC7w1vHKsxkNiwskZhCqztkGyZFPqORNCWWTPt-CIQ-MtPHBKUYl44nAGU9Bdv0dO1sm1EskRJxBVAa98WBZPfUyLPfh_zw2pp0be3k/s1600-h/dagonsbrood.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdGImE7AOFGGUKzkPQEJwNNoWxqiJt9UC7w1vHKsxkNiwskZhCqztkGyZFPqORNCWWTPt-CIQ-MtPHBKUYl44nAGU9Bdv0dO1sm1EskRJxBVAa98WBZPfUyLPfh_zw2pp0be3k/s320/dagonsbrood.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104760595646452930" /></a><br />Henry Gilroy is an awesome writer. Hire him! I got to work with him on a project an WOW!! He knows his stuff. He carries around a sketchbook with the theme of "Your favorite Robert E Howard / HP Lovecraft character". I just happen to love both those authors ability to create some neat visceral visuals. I was happy to do a piece, or two. Of course having the book be over half filled with Bruce Timm's homages, tends to dampen ones ability. These were the best I could do.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-86320565912931313132007-08-05T22:08:00.000-07:002007-08-07T21:38:00.148-07:00WHEN IS A SKETCH NOT A SKETCHI was driving home about a week ago(the sun goes down around 8:00 right now) and I saw a hill with a window of golden light hitting it. There were hills higher around it but this one was the only one that was getting hit. I thought"Hey that would be a nice painting,...if that hill was a dinoasaur." I finally had a little time this weekend and I wanted to just do a little sketch so I wouldn't forget that hill top. About an hour in, I still thought I was doing a sketch<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDlXNeOQbKcNCu6b3F4YzvkzTZSFnGiuthpIP9g4L_yxWRx2v5CSml7LA9t2lD-XBccEPBtmI8JHzZ_xUZ8eGO0IN9BYSzIkN2CYyIrENkGzBkLn_bMKSCohMi6KRCkDvJrCx/s1600-h/A-dino-01.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDlXNeOQbKcNCu6b3F4YzvkzTZSFnGiuthpIP9g4L_yxWRx2v5CSml7LA9t2lD-XBccEPBtmI8JHzZ_xUZ8eGO0IN9BYSzIkN2CYyIrENkGzBkLn_bMKSCohMi6KRCkDvJrCx/s320/A-dino-01.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096180251081926674" /></a><br />I had 2 versions before this, and it started flopped in the other direction. The gist of the piece is there. I have quite a few of these at this stage (and that's where they will stay). I usually stop at this point. For some reason I felt like I needed more from this image, to make it richer or more complete to me.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzl3pZhtgTiCksoLer-4ha_ifGj5s0HTGupGgqGURSe3d-tL1bHmvWRdXIFnCjr_ClPAQSbKsgmFPZXYMEDjiRQWbMxqDKyv1mKhgnJE1R-S0UtQnLRG_1cdg9dCykMOSVyrv/s1600-h/B-dino-02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzl3pZhtgTiCksoLer-4ha_ifGj5s0HTGupGgqGURSe3d-tL1bHmvWRdXIFnCjr_ClPAQSbKsgmFPZXYMEDjiRQWbMxqDKyv1mKhgnJE1R-S0UtQnLRG_1cdg9dCykMOSVyrv/s320/B-dino-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096180259671861282" /></a><br />I added some atmosphere and foreground elements. This is where I got into trouble. Now I felt like I needed to clean up a mess that I made. I started trying to fix my mistakes in the "sketch". (the compy's looked like velociraptors and the diplodocus looked like a weird 3 legged beast) but I still thought I was doing a sketch(now 3 hours in).<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixDa0lCC2YtA019dqcLPsPzsrKAFxj-XrQiaG_fGecXA7-pDsBGcTbtbRU42XqxnXIoLaj45GyKk_-x3SZ2mH6GnwGqKI-WMrEY7QzD9CafZWu079LvAyW5xbGRtJlBJqgR1qo/s1600-h/stuck.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixDa0lCC2YtA019dqcLPsPzsrKAFxj-XrQiaG_fGecXA7-pDsBGcTbtbRU42XqxnXIoLaj45GyKk_-x3SZ2mH6GnwGqKI-WMrEY7QzD9CafZWu079LvAyW5xbGRtJlBJqgR1qo/s320/stuck.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095453843263154178" /></a><br />Here's the semi final version.<br /><br /> So I think it must have been when I exported the image from Photoshop to Painter to use the Glow Brush. Yeah that was when I realized this was more than just a sketch. Still less than a "real" piece but much more than a sketch. It's important to go with the flow since you never know when the flow will come. Not my favorite piece but , there you go.<br />Based off of the response from this piece I am "finishing" it off and may present it in some final form later.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-91288487349797914582007-06-01T23:06:00.000-07:002007-06-01T23:21:50.438-07:00Far East Facetasm<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLLb6IU38Ufia7I9dDvAFHf8J3PedisCQIlPM5ycO4Rp5T3LNC95lg6TsIkgJKMNYbAkEOvWlzPxiQXNmUJysI38iqMsYvPERirA3pT5C1O8zehhp866ztY0BmjwUuiYr7UYkA/s1600-h/nipponcara-1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLLb6IU38Ufia7I9dDvAFHf8J3PedisCQIlPM5ycO4Rp5T3LNC95lg6TsIkgJKMNYbAkEOvWlzPxiQXNmUJysI38iqMsYvPERirA3pT5C1O8zehhp866ztY0BmjwUuiYr7UYkA/s320/nipponcara-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5071348115907972130" /></a><br /> Artists fall into ruts, blocks and bad habits. We do everything to get out of them once we realize we have fallen. Changing the way we draw, using new materials, looking at new things and the best, looking at life, or uh,TV. Yep that's right TV. I often use TV to do cheap life drawing(I say cheap because the brain is doing a 2D to 2D translation which is alot easier than doing a 3D to 2D translation)I was watching a neat little movie with some amazing faces and couldn't resist. I love faces! Sometimes you can see a persons whole story as it is written on there face. And their is beauty in it all.There is a Japanese story I would like to tell someday but it's far too soon to actually tell it. So as a visual person I have to draw my way through it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-63366698475388806062007-06-01T22:19:00.000-07:002007-06-04T10:18:38.620-07:00See Out Loud<a href="http://www.thestrokes.imeem.com/"><a href="http://www.thestrokes.imeem.com/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072258837953285170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiDs7ZGpQ5gY7Pmitru3aI54Xq2TjS8emKjs5V0I6kcz765hhRwbUXmOEmaJ6qqkHukSudTOuPlHDvesbS2RyqKjZbvXjUE73Bp-_8K36Ws01FQ6-ajkEEug3pNOAwz3WNLLfZ/s320/SOL.jpg" border="0" /></a></a><br /><br />One of the more uncomfortable aspects of blogging is the seeming self importance and vanity that is inherit to it and art as well. So I always relish the opportunity to talk about a fellow artist and friend who's doing exceptionally well,......like my friend and fellow director Warren Fu. He just finished directing a music video for The Strokes. If you want to see more of his work check out his website over there on the side of the screen.<br /><br />(If you want to check out the video click image above)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-88685388750735888932007-05-30T11:30:00.000-07:002007-05-31T00:37:12.871-07:00What I've been up to<a href="http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html"><a href="http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000478.html"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070428262762187762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQAHtfavd0POkdoxdIEj124rfSFWwUuLqnRCbZwa5NovBw8KzbiaKrg2-dE2pedz2uB927vwNLbam-77Zdc64uCCk7U433pzQJIE_3k0JeC-xBEFbvT_y9TPkWsnt4wuZ78VeE/s200/clone+wars+title+card.jpg" border="0" /></a></a><br /><br />The reason for infrequent and sporadic posts has been because I've been working with some amazing people on a new TV show, that takes an incredible amount of my personal time, but that I am very proud to be a part of. It won't be out any time soon but they officially announced it this past weekend. So now it's OK to let you guys know. Just doing my small part to feed the Nerds of the world(myself included).<br />(click on the image above if you want a sneak peak)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-47176245996100548952007-04-27T21:33:00.000-07:002007-04-27T21:41:16.330-07:00Todd is a Konig<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9kxiUqZMMbgpmgfwdJ0ae9BKU0GuoZ4xBiLmoUvx7q21bo8-vZ-Ibr_tJbILGvKInisve8gdShiYsvJ2FTQGlDNiCAQdKomlhnfuCPHZfm48oEnhuiM4Boe0TRW0qNyxszrRR/s1600-h/Todd_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9kxiUqZMMbgpmgfwdJ0ae9BKU0GuoZ4xBiLmoUvx7q21bo8-vZ-Ibr_tJbILGvKInisve8gdShiYsvJ2FTQGlDNiCAQdKomlhnfuCPHZfm48oEnhuiM4Boe0TRW0qNyxszrRR/s320/Todd_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058334251472280546" /></a><br />I was dumbfounded when I saw this as a teen. I thought "Wow! Konig must be some sort of new curse word and man Todd really is a Konig." A few years later, questions always stay below the surface for me, I found out that I misread a very nihillistic german T-shirt. Tod ist Konig-Death is King. Uggh! The shirt also had a snappy graphic. Onto a personal Konig of mine Killian Plunket. It's his birthday this weekend sometime and I made this little card for him.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-68555804420483911342007-04-13T00:08:00.000-07:002007-04-13T00:30:19.559-07:00MOVING CLOSER TO THE PRESENT<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbQObnFPp26OQUd61TjRSzQPQeszxrGHoPBZPC7hRJMZwNfoDJktJz7AI-stid3MB2tAUse-h5FLN9tmiGwT_bP2qKhgXUHCZldhGri_Qd7RGI-OYrWn9LscATCe4wBbqByc5/s1600-h/crash.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbQObnFPp26OQUd61TjRSzQPQeszxrGHoPBZPC7hRJMZwNfoDJktJz7AI-stid3MB2tAUse-h5FLN9tmiGwT_bP2qKhgXUHCZldhGri_Qd7RGI-OYrWn9LscATCe4wBbqByc5/s320/crash.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052811314350379026" /></a><br />Been incredibly busy of late, so I'm cheating, a little. A coworker of mine had a great idea to pass a book around to all of her friends she worked with to have a little piece of history to look back upon, before she left the company we were working for. I was so touched that she wanted me in the book, so I did this little piece. She told me I could take however long I needed, just as long as she got it back. She had about 3 other beautiful pieces before I did my scribble. I returned the book to her 3 months before she moved on to another job. Cut to 1 year later when the office was doing some Spring cleaning. I noticed a familiar sketchbook lying in the rubbish bin. Well I've been poor in my life and scrounged for any kind of paper to draw on, so I have the habit of collecting paper just in case I ever run out. Yep you guessed it. The sketchbook now had 4 drawings and the start of a 5th (another office mates who was still at the company). I was a little shocked, yeah maybe more than a little. I showed it to the office mate who had started the piece that was unfinished. "Oh, Yeah,Hmmm. Heh". He didn't even want it back to finish the piece or give it back to the original owner. OUCH!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-1171694364267395982007-02-16T22:20:00.000-08:002008-02-07T21:15:45.529-08:00For my 2 Friends<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/1600/88135/hulk%20copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/200/800825/hulk%20copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/1600/549507/panther%20copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/200/879130/panther%20copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/1600/111300/kamandi%20copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/200/260567/kamandi%20copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Some of us are lucky enough to have amazing and talented friends. I was lucky enough to be taught alot about what I do by my good friend Brian McDonald (see his Blog Invisible Ink on the side over there). He has a sketchbook that gets passed along and the theme of the book is " Your Favorite KIRBY Character". He was silly enough to ask me to do one, well that was a little problem. I don't have ONE favorite Kirby character. So I went a little crazy, cause Jack Kirby was one of my first friends, granted I never knew him, but his drawings made my life easier, and by my definition that makes a friend of a sort. So even though these are a little old (egads!! Is that really TEN years ago?!) I thought I would share. Brian's book also sports some amazing talent<br />William Stout-Devil Dinosaur<br />Rick Geary-Hulk<br />Bob Fingerman-Silver Surfer<br />John Romita-Thing<br />Beto Hernandez-Hulk<br />Xaime Hernandez-Super Skrull<br />Art Adams-IronMan<br />Scott Williams-Captain America<br />And many many more. It's an awesome collection and I am humbled to be part of it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-1167811849176583652007-01-02T23:40:00.000-08:002007-01-03T00:10:49.186-08:00retro love<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/1600/627263/FRANK.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/320/424591/FRANK.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />This was a throw away sketch that I can't throw away. This is from one of my favorite scenes in the original Frankenstein movie. If you haven't seen it (say it ain't so!) it's a brief moment of happiness for my friend the monster where he experiences some of the good things in life, eating, smoking, friendship and music. I went out and read the book after the movie and it fell flat for me. I realized it was Boris Karloff that made that monster so wonderful to me. The monster in the book looked nothing like the Universal version and vice versa. To this day he is one of my favorites. Not one of my best pieces but one I really like.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-1167374060100965202006-12-28T21:55:00.000-08:002006-12-29T17:41:07.510-08:00Keep an Eye Out<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/1600/791328/jubal.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/400/5523/jubal.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />For good compositions. That was a piece of advice I got from reading about Alex Toth. Specifically<br /><br />-Study films, photographs, paintings, etc. for composition! For cutting, cropping out of nonessentials, pacing, punch, economy, forceful and direct impact. But also for beauty and subtlety-tension, suspense, action, humor, light and dark, balance, line vs, mass, ad infinitum! Use it all!<br /><br /> Always be looking, they are out there. If you're an artist it's not about turning it on and off it's about always being aware. Over break I got to watch alot of movies, some oldies. One was a Jubal(1956). A story with Glenn Ford, Charles Bronson and Ernest Borgnine. Some really great cinematography. One shot jumped out at me, not a big story point but a great technical shot, which the film is filled with( a lot of night shots with lit barns, 1956 people!!) . It's shot at sunset where the sky is still lit but not the ground. I was really impressed that the shot actually worked. the film was shot by Charles Lawton Jr. and directed by Delmer Davies. So I decided to do a quick sketch. This is my impression of the shot more than anything else, just trying to keep loose before diving into a bunch of boards( yes working over break). Hope everyone had a great holiday and sorry about not having a Holiday card this year( see above parenthesis). We miss ya Alex! Into the New Year!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-1164966164211701392006-12-01T01:21:00.000-08:002006-12-01T01:42:44.226-08:00I Know what I'm Getting<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/1600/521210/gorrila%20copy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/7478/1952/320/226196/gorrila%20copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />...for the Holidays. Sorry folks it's been really busy lately. This is just a little do dad that was sitting around. Did I mention I like gorillas? Cause I really do! I like movies about them( even ones about them sniffing their own poo) I like pictures of them, I like dolls and documentaries, I like other people who like them. I like sculptors that sculpt them, I like just about everything about them. They are amazing!!If the spirit moves you check out the <li><a href="http://www.koko.org/foundation/">Gorilla Foundation</a></li> They do good work and have great plans. And for you phantom viewers you daily surfers drop me a line. It's nice to know who's actually looking at all this crap.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19681209.post-1159593216835717512006-09-29T21:51:00.000-07:002006-09-29T22:13:36.846-07:00Oh for the Love of the Leader<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7478/1952/1600/FinalPinupJam_color%20copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7478/1952/320/FinalPinupJam_color%20copy.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7478/1952/1600/FinalPinupJam_color%20copy_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7478/1952/320/FinalPinupJam_color%20copy_2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I apologize for my absence. I left the company I have been working at for the past 10 years and hit the ground running at a relatively new start up. To be honest after Alex Toth's passing I didn't feel like posting anymore of my chicken scratch, I've been dealing with alot of loss lately. But life goes on just as death and change. And as much as things can change they can be the same. For example, this new post is a going away card for one of the amazing new guys I got to work (albeit briefly) with. This card was done for one Rick Morales ( an amazing board artist). Rick and one Steward Lee started a "jam pin-up". Steward did the Hulk and Rick did the the Wolverine. Justin Ridge came in with a very round Spider Woman and Dave Bullock zinged it with a really nice Longshot. Well, now every one is picking on one of my favorite angry green behemoths. I couldn't add to this travesty so I had to remedy it. Enter the Leader!!! Now is he controlling the Hulk or the rest of the bunch, hmmm...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13