Key Largo

I watched Key Largo the other day and found these characters and this prop interesting inspiration.

Oldies

I did these a while ago, and just found them.

Sam

I watched the Ken Burns documentary about Mark Twain the other day and did this sketch on a post-it as I watched it.

Merry Christmas

A Few Observations

Alfred Scorsese or Martin Hitchcock?

LAIKA The Space Dog

This was the topic for this mornings warm-up. Design the dog that the studio was named after.

Gremlin

63 Chrysler Turbine & A Fiat

This morning's warm-up.

Fire Put-Er-Outter

Santino asked me this morning to design the vehicle(s) I would use to extinguish the fires in California. I went with an older plane that had the ability to dump several thousand gallons of water or other extinguishing chemical, but with the ability of a quick reload by diving into a large body of water and instantly refilling its compartment, like a pelican diving for fish, and be ready for another run. I also have these smaller pods that jettison from the tail end of the plane that are propelled by the water that they carry to extinguish smaller patches of fires, much like a fire sprinkler you'd find in the ceiling.

The Edsel

The morning's warm-up sketch. The Ford Edsel.

1962 Ferrari GTO

A friend at work and I decided that we'd start doing warm up drawings in the mornings. We'll pick a car, person or whatever and spend no more than five minutes on it. Although this was done in the late afternoon, we will start doing them in the morning. This was my caricature of Santino's (my co-worker's) favorite car of all time.

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