Oh, you Cheaterfish!!!!

A dream was described to me wherein a small fish kept stealing money from the tip jar of a local coffeehouse. The staff was constantly catching him in the act, but he kept doing it. Stealing more and more money for his own personal fish needs (Maybe he had fish gambling debts). They would yell, "CURSE YOU,CHEATERFISH!!!!!!!!!" He was a cheating, thieving goldfish.

Needless to say, the story was striking to me...striking enough to illustrate.









Until Next Time.

Many, Many Concepts

Here are quite a few more concepts for the various pieces I'm working on. I find a lot of the most productive stuff on here was done on the train. Maybe it's because I wanted to focus all my attention away from the gaggles of hyper children.

Character sketches for my dialog piece.

Character sketches for my ball roll assignment. The idea of a little T. Rex stuck immediately and I just went to town with the variations.

Aaaaand some rough planning for the ball roll itself, cute T. Rex included.

Until Next Time.

So yeah...

Wow, that last month was really a bust. At least I'm running to catch up exactly a month later...and a day. And I've got a barrel o' new stuff here!!!

I suppose I'll start where I left off, before my laptop was carried away by the twin demons Dead Motherboard and Tech Support.


I hate them so much.
Here's some sketches.

This is what happens when I put graffiti on my own drawings. Bad things happen.

More sketches from the train. Some really early character ideas from my dialog piece.

Lastly, a window into my warmup drawings.

Until Next Time.

Rough Crabbing

Found a drawing in my sketchbook that is in dire need of some cleaning up. Here's the first stage, which is still quite messy. Updates to follow.

It's a Crabbot.

Until Next Time.

New, blue figure sketches

Back at the figure drawing club, and danged if the model didn't show. Luckily the head of the organization lent his body to our prying artist eyes. We had oh so much fun. When you know the person modeling you feel a lot better about adding silly props and things to your pictures.

In my head I assumed he was playing The Final Countdown.

I apologize about the horns.

This was an idea that everyone was chiding the model for when he was up there. It's hard to see that pose and not think of a khaki ad.

Until Next Time.

Mystery sketchbook

So I found yet another sketchbook lying about that I'd barely used...that happens a lot more than it should. Statistically I'd have to guess that there are about 86 half-full sketchbooks amongst my belongings. if I ever get through an entire one the world might suck into itself.

I took this one on the L, which was awesome cause it's big, spiral-bound, and I had like an hour to draw. Here's one of the pages I filled. It's fun to draw on the train cause it really shows you how much you can zone out while sketching. You'll actually forget there's a woman with 12 screaming kids getting yelled at by a big guy with crunchy pants from the Salvation Army.

Some old boards

Here are some storyboards to the alien short I posted clips from a while back. I used some of the poses here as references for the animation. It's a good, smart, time-saving technique.

For those unfamiliar, it's about a ship that crashes in an unknown area, and the alien inside investigates his surroundings. He finds a large monster that turns out to be a small bird, and we discover that this strange environment is simply a tree in some neighborhood. The bird believes the alien to be one of its own. Cute.