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S is for:

Posted in Alphabet, Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration, tagged , , on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have this ready to go from my alphabet book. This was actually the first one I drew. Good ol’ ‘S’.

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U is for…

Posted in Alphabet, Sketch, character design, illustration, tagged , on October 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

More Alphabet Fun.

See also, M if for and P is for -

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Hamburger!

Posted in Sketch, Work in progress, character design, illustration, tagged , on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a little piece I call Hamburger.

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It ain’t funny

Posted in Blatherings, politics, tagged , , on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Some great videos from entertainment folks. Carl Reiner has some of the best lines.

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Intelligent discussion?

Posted in politics, tagged , , , on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Don’t look for intelligent discussion of issues when elected politicians get by saying ‘liberals’ hate ‘real Americans’. Then deny and LIE about saying it, until a tape recorder is played, and we learn the truth.
“Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) has conceded that he did tell a North Carolina crowd that “liberals hate real Americans that work [...]

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Searle

Posted in illustration, tagged on October 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

What can you say about Ronald Searle? He really is one of the most amazing artists, commercial or otherwise, I can think of. His work seeped into my mind from my early childhood when my dad would rip out anything he could find by Searle from magazines and newspapers. If I close my eyes I [...]

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Off Topic Tuesday

Posted in You Tube, off topic, tagged on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Monty Python on Election Night coverage.
“This is exactly like I predicted, except that the Silly Party won.”
Wow. They did this long before 24-7 cable news channels. It’s gotten worse. Both in coverage and the fact we really do have a Silly Party that wins elections! Well, we used to…I hope…

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Sketch Book Weekend

Posted in Sketch, Work in progress, character design, childrens books, doodle, illustration, quick sketch, tagged , , , , on October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

As I mention in the post below, I attended a SCBWI Conference/retreat recently. One thing you get time for is free-form sketching. No internet, no TV, no projects to work on (well, you try and keep the projects at bay). So here’s a set of pages I created one evening and the next morning. I [...]

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Oregon SCBWI Conference

Posted in SCBWI, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I just got back from spending a few days at a SCBWI conference in Silver Falls Oregon. Amazing location, wonderful people, a great way to recharge and gain some new insights into writing and drawing .
Here are a few snapshots. A little bit of Middle Earth right here in the ol’ USA.

one of the cabins [...]

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animation background for new short, Hugh

Posted in Digital painting, Photoshop Painting, Work in progress, animated short, animation, animation art, animation background art, character design, tagged , , , on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

For the past three years I have slowly (an understatement) been working on a new animated short. I have so little free time that I’m starting to wonder if it will ever get done. I feel confident on the story, the art direction and the design and character design seem to be working.
This is the [...]

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