some more dog and circus stuff

circus number 2

T-shirts

After needing to take a break from figuring out all the trial and errors I faced learning to silkscreen 2 color t-shirts..... my lovely wife stepped in and figured out the correct angle to hold the squeegie so the ink would not bleed, mixed the correct amount of retarder so ink would not clog in screen, designed a method for registering 2 color prints by printing on acetate then laying it back down on t-shirt with first color already applied so it will line up, used the red photo bulb so the emulsion would not harden like it did for me cause the guy at the silkscreen shop promised me regular soft light can be used when applying emulsion, set up the correct photo flood bulb, not the other 14 bulbs the internet talked me into using and screened 3 dozen shirts late last night while I was sleeping. She figured out the last hurdles so we can now make more T -shirts to send to the Basset Hound Ranch......and friends. Silk screening is such a pain in the ass but it sure looks good when your done or you have a smart wife like mine. I plan on silk screening a lot now.

a crowd

trees

Ed, Jim and myself went to Griffith park and painted today. not much color to mine. I wanted to use india ink and focus on textures in the bark. It was a great day.

giant squid

fire truck

the circus

Von Kreep

I did this design for my Fiendish Freind Doktor Von Kreep. I had trouble designing something I liked so I focused on just simple shapes. Kind of an exploratory design.

some photos downtown

some more daphneyland art

I am going to screen this and make some prints soon.

some post it note art

CN stylized art

Daphneyland

I have two Basset hounds from a rescue up in Acton called Daphneyland. They have hundreds of bassets running around. It is hillarious. Recently I did this artwork for some t-shirts that I am going to screen and give to them.

civil war general

Trip to U.K.

Had a nice time. Spent a lot of time with my wife's friends and family. They are all good people. Saw lot's of castles and rain.





Scotland



North East England

King Henry VIII

I'm off to England. Happy Holidays.

fisherman

little match girl

a bear/monster

I finally finished this one. I erased all the rough artwork cause I figured it has been seen and it took up a lot of room. Below is the final. Came out ok I think. I am sure I will not like it next week. Time to move on.

CN mugs

these are 2 designs I did for CN mugs

Shredded Feet

I have finally finished this one. It took a while. It is my piece for the Cereal Killers book.

cells

Frankenstein

Needle Bird

My wife needed a title design with out BG color for her website. She Knits and make all kinds of great stuff.

Chowder cookie jar packaging

I have finished the Chowder cookie jar premium. now it is up to the sculpter and printer. Chowder is a really neat show that is airing on CN soon. See Carl Greenblatt link for details of show.

fisherman 2

This is the last assignment for my Photoshop class.

cow that tried to jump over the moon

I am taking a Photoshop class and our assignment is to draw a character, hand ink it and scan it in and color it. I posted something similar to this drawing a long time ago and it sucked. I wanted to redo it, so here is the first step.

Big Foot

Below are a couple big foot designs I did. John Quinn and I gave ourselves an assignment to come up with big foot characters.

CN wall Atlanta

CN Atlanta wall art

CN Atlanta wall art concept

kitty kitty

fire breather

a city

a tree

business guy 6

It has been kind of relaxing to draw these guys.

business guy 5

business man 4

business guy

Reykjavík

Over Christmas Nic and I are planning to stop off in Iceland on our way to England. A lot of Iceland's towns paint their roofs and buildings bright colors because the surroundings can be so grey. I can't wait to freeze and take photos. I know it is a long way off, but that's all I got.

doodle

I told myself that I need to create something or post something once a week. I didn't feel very creative this weekend so I doodled some circles and posted them.

Fisherman

If I could choose another career I think I would be a homicide detective or a longshore fisherman

marching band

Big Sur and Pacific Grove

Last weekend, my wife, our dog, and two good friends from England drove up to Big Sur and rented a house in Pacific Grove. It was really fun, except for when my dog, Bella, got sick in the car and whined most of the car trip up. I did't focus on exact likeness on these drawings. It's tough to capture her, especially the expression in the photos below. She has about ten different faces which always change.

bloo vinyl

This is a design that was chosen from my department. It will be packaged in a box with my name. I did about eight designs. Some had patterns, but this one was chosen.

House BG

Below is another background idea I did over the weekend.

seaside village

My wife's parents live in the north eastern part of England in Middlesbrough. On the coast line there are lots of little seaside villages that are really beautiful. The cottages are usualy around 400 hundred years old with old fishing boats and beautiful landscapes all around. Sometimes off in the distance you can see an extremely old castle in ruins. I would love to live in a little town like this. This would be the view from my studio window.

organ grinder 2

below is a working paper cut out. It is printed on thick card stock paper. Next I will have it printed on post card paper. Kinkos sucks by the way.

Bloo design

Below is another design for Bloo. I enjoy doing abstract styles, it is kind of relaxing.

more doors

Ice cream

For the assignment this week in my Adobe Illustrator class we had to Live Trace something. Not much time this week so I went with an old design and added to it. I inked the girl by hand and then live traced her. The end result was kind of boring, I actually ended up liking the pencil sketch best, which is posted below. I will save the bad live trace version for class.

CN stuff

This is a design I did yesterday. Just playing around with shapes.

My Bear Poster

Below is my poster design for an animation festival next year. I did this just for fun so don't rely on any of the details. It one was a tough design and a good challenge.

Bella drawings

Some more drawings of my dog.

CN doors

Below are some more elevator doors.

T-shirt

Below is a 3 color t-shirt I did for the Squirrel Boy team. It will be handed out at their booth at Comic Con. Figured I needed to post something since my blog is so severely neglected.

SB styles

I did some character stylizations for a show called, Squirrel Boy. Everett Peck is the creator and it is a really funny show. There will be sneak peaks of the show on CN next month but it officially airs in July.

Disney stuff

I recently resigned from Disney after almost 9 years. I will now be working for Cartoon Network. I will basically be doing some comsumer product designs, style guides, different stylizations and treatments to promote shows and whatever comes my way. It sounds like it will be really fun. There is the bread and butter of the job but I am also looking forward to experiment with stuff. It was pretty sad my last day at Disney but I feel good about making a change. Below are some of my drawings.