Bad Cartoonist... - 28/02/08

I had made a promise to upload something once a day. The best laid plans, as they say...

Anyway, this thing visited me in my dreams. But somehow although this is essentially what it looked like, creepy finger and toe nails and all, it registered in my brain under the label "Basset Hound"...

Weird...

Subway Doppelganger - 12/02/08

What I drew tonight for a warm up sucked, so I decided to post another. Saw this guy drawing over Christmas, oblivious to his parents sitting on either side of him chatting about shopping. He sat there moving his hands over the paper with the determination and sense of importance of a brain surgeon. I'm not sure what I was like at that age, but I'd like to believe someone could have seen me there, navigating a line with my pencil that felt like the weight of the world lay on where I plotted it....

Ball Point Pen-ting - 11/02/08

At home, taking a few minutes out from freelance. Was reading about Javier Bardem on a blog and am really looking forward to seeing No Country for Old Men. He has such an interestingly brutal face, craggy and misshapen in a fascinating way. Anyway, made me want to play with Lyndsay's Muji multipen...

Liesel Hunter Nisbet - 10/02/08

Just spent a good part of the weekend hanging out with this milk-devouring, sleep-consuming supernova of baby cuteness.

I know dudes don't have biological clocks, and I would be singing a different tune if I had to battle my way through a series of catastrophically soiled nappies, but...

More fiddling - 09/02/08

Messing around with old ink sketches. Would love to find some resources on doing really painterly stuff in Photoshop... Any hints from people would be greatly appreciated.

Never really... - 08/02/08

...used photoshop as painting tool. But after some of these things I've been seeing other guys do on other sites, thought I'd give it a whirl. The idea of the three guys came from seeing three suits on a street corner all checking their blackberries--all together but oddly alone...

At work tonight, I think my daddy instincts kicked in like nobody's business. This little boy, who couldn't have been more than six or seven was wandering around the store. I looked down, said hello, and he gave the bloody great exhale that said, "Finally a big person has figured out I need a little help." He'd lost his sister so he and I wandered off to find her. It was all I could do to not want to pick the little guy up and throw him on my shoulders so he could get a better look....

Sometimes... - 06/02/08

...the thickness of my own plywood lined skull frightens me.

I've fallen face down in Leopard, finally upgraded on my laptop. Ever since, I've become an RSS feed reading fiend. A couple of great sites that remain a tasty bite of creative inspiration are now feeding directly into my MacMail. I love it.

But having looked at the sites of other illustrators, a lightbulb finally went off. For months, I've been having a bitch of a time getting down to the grunt work of churning out pages to finish my Magnum Opus comic(us?). Was reading a collective blog the other day and a bunch of the members were posting their warm ups for the day. They're concept designers or animators or illustrators, but they were all putting up this great rough messy stuff.

Yes, Nye, warm ups. I wouldn't do anything strenuously physical without a warm up (christ, in rowing we used to do a 45 minute warm up for a 6 minute race). But I've been trying to go without "stretching and warming up" with my work illustration work. Silly rabbit...

Anyway, off for more doodling....

In Paris - 04/02/08

Went to Paris and then Angouleme last week. Loved it. Finally taking advantage of the fact that I can get to continental Europe from England in the same amount of time it would take me to get from Los Feliz to Santa Monica during rush hour back in LA.

Though I'm no a card carrying member of anyone's religion, this image of Christ was really moving. The original was of course far more beautiful (and in color), but it was the drama of this lighting that got me (a piece that was a little screwed out of non-viewing because of its proximity to Ol' Mona...)

Your Options as an American... - 17/02/08

I love this. I just got my tax rebate check for the 2006 tax year (yes, I said 2006m; yes it is 2008...) Anyway, on the back of the check, the IRS and US government apparently only recognize three states of being, one of them being dead...

And then, you've got to love the simple declaration of a return address like this...

Now back to scribbling...

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