Warm Ups and Sketchbook

Gestures

Twice a month I have the opportunity to do a little figure drawing. Last night's model was particularly unique. These are all charcoal pencil on smooth newsprint and range from 3 min. to 10 min.

Frank Burly

My friend Mark introduced me to a series of books by John Swartzwelder, writer of 59 episodes of the Simpson. It's great satire, I've enjoyed them thus far. Anywho, these are some sketches I did of what I thought Detective Frank Burly, the main character of these books, might look like. It's a mixture between Jack Black, John Swartzwelder, and William Hootkins (better known for his memorable role as "Porkin's" from Star Wars, Major Eaton, from Raiders, and of course Lt. Max Eckhardt from Batman)

Nick Miller

Remember when everybody got Nick Miller haircuts and wore Castleton t-shirts?

Warm Up

It's been a long time since I've posted anything. This is a little warm up I did of a guy I saw riding the train this morning.

Moving

Right now I'm in the process of moving my family up to Portland Oregon. I got a new job working at Laika Entertainment. It's been quite the adventure. I'll try to post more interesting things as soon as we find a place to live things settle down a little bit.

Esketches

Another Honest Abe

Another Sailor

Honest Abe

A friend of mine let met borrow The Civil War documentary by Ken Burns so I thought I'd paint this.

Rat • a • too • ee

This is long overdue, but on June 16 I had a chance to see a sneak peek of Ratatouille. Above is a little sketch I did of Remy. It doesn't do him justice, but he was fun to sketch.

I don't want to ruin it for the two, maybe three, people that read my blog, but the movie is absolutely amazing and beautiful. The story is superb, along the lines of Cyrano. Visually, it's wonderful both in its story telling and design. The characters are charming and the acting is superb. I like at the end of the credits where Pixar gives their 100% animation guarantee, no motion capture. I'm running out of adjectives so I'll just stop right here. Go see it!

D's Blog

This doesn't look anything like him, but my brother Dallas finally has posted on his blog after being dormant for a year.

More Sailor

The Bridge

Everybody Loves Raymond

Fairburn Hands & Figures

A friend of mine brought in The Fairburn System of Visual References. It was published in 1979 and has some dated, but good reference material.

Boxer

A Few Thumbnails

More Sailors

Sailor

This is a design for a personal project I'm working on.

Sketches

Last Weekend

Last Friday I went and saw Pirates 3 and the next day I went to Moab. The top sketch is from waiting in the theatre lobby and the bottom two are from my trip. The very bottom one is from Arches National Park.

Spokane

This weekend I went to Spokane Washington to visit some friends. Needless to say we had a great time and ate a lot. We drove to Coeur d'Alene Idaho and when to this resort, (the above sketch which I thought resembled the Hollywood Tower Hotel) ate some Greek food, and went on a boat ride where we paid $1 for hot chocolate. It was fun and filling.

Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Dyin'

Shawshank the comic book.

Mark's Visit

My buddy Mark came and visted us last week and this is a video he edited together of all the highlights of the trip.

Shawhank Progression

I was reading a post on Ted Mathot's blog where he suggests boarding scenes from movies in order to see how they were constructed. So, I thought I'd give it a try and I took the scene from Shawshank where Andy Dufrense plays the opera record over the PA system. It was really interesting to do and I learned quite a bit.

One More Design

Just a quick sketch I did in gouache.