Drink N Draw

Some old drawings from a Drink N Draw last year.

Happy Birthday Steve!

Here's an illustration I did for my buddy Steve Lambe's birthday. He's awesome at design and can draw in any style. And he's Canadian, but don't hold that against him! Happy Birthday Steve!

Sketchbook Dump - 4

Went out to Chinatown last night and sketched up some friends!
Patrick 1
Patrick 2
Patrick 3 / musician
Gary
Courtney

Sketchbook Dump - Lunches

I draw often when eating out for lunch. Here are some sketches from said outings.

Kellie, my girlfriend. Always a good model, even though she never thinks I get her right.
Whole Foods pidgeons and fountain.

My pal Luke at an El Tigre farewell lunch.

Oscars

I did some sketching while watching the Oscars. Can you guess who is who? 2 extra points for the woman! (Give me a break! Doing caricatures of people after 30 sec. of screentime is hard! You should see the sketches I didn't post. blerg!)

Justin Thompson Doodles

Last year I took a Visual Design class, taught by Justin Thompson, at the Entertainment Art Academy. Justin is an amazing designer and great teacher, and I would recommend his class to anyone. These are just some drawings I did in class while taking notes. And yes, his glasses really are that large.

Steve

Here's a caricature of my buddy Steve Lambe. He kicks ass at design.

Deuel

My pal Eric Deuel. He says he grew the beard for Pirates of the Carribean 3, but I think he just likes birds.

Long Time No Bloggie

So I was being taunted by my friend Gabe Swarr this weekend on my lack of posts, so I thought I'd stick it to him and post something. I have my excuses for not posting as of late, but really, there shouldn't be any excuse, right? So I'm not gonna whine about it. But having said that, today's post consists of scans I found on my computer that I hadn't posted yet. That's the only thing that links them. In other news, I recently started working at Six Point Harness. They do great work there and host some awesome parties to boot! So with that out of the way, let's get blogging!
The guy in the drawing above walked in front of my car at a crosswalk some weeks ago. He was so cool lookin, that I was drew him at every red light I could for the next couple of blocks. It's just a rough sketch, but I think I captured his essence.

These next two drawings are of my friends Morgan and Bailey. They both are great artists and are both really fun to draw.
This sketch is on a napkin, as you can see. If I remember correctly, it was drawn during the Annie Awards dinner after the awards show.
Here is my brother-in-law Jeremiah holding my nephew Preston. Aint he a cutie?
And finally, these sketches are probably over a year old. This was a old lady in Poquito Mas. It was fun to sketch her, and then draw some more stylized designs based on the first sketch. I should try that more often.
And now for something completely different. I've decided to make another short film. It will be an arduous task and I plan to follow the production on this here blog. So stay tuned for the next post!

Katie Rice

My pal Katie over at FunnyCute was bloggin about using photo reference as well as her magical new haircut. She posted some photos of said haircut and so I thought I'd use them for reference. The circle of life... ENJOY!

Change it up

Sometimes you just gotta change it up. So I bought a new brush pen and started drawing in an old but unused sketchbook. It's strange how you can draw so differently just by changing your drawing utensil. I also decided to finally open up and watch the Rocky and Bullwinkle set I bought so long ago. That happens often with dvds. You buy em, then don't really get around to watching them. I think these couple of Bullwinkle drawings are interesting because they show a kind of evolution, if you will. It goes from just watchin and enjoying the show while sketching, to pausing the dvd to get a better look at the design, and then to drawing your own interpretation. Interest-Study-Master. Not that I'm saying I've mastered drawing Bullwinkle, but you get the idea, hopefully.
I like Rocky and Bullwinkle even though there's not stop dialogue and hardly any animation. The pun-filled dialogue is actually clever and when there actually is some little animation, it's pretty funny. Mainly the timing is great and the drawings are fun.
Also, I think the designs are great! At first glance you'd think that they're very flat, but they're actually very dimensional and volumetric. Amid talks about this issue over at his Cartoon Modern blog, referencing some great Tom Oreb designs. I think it would be great to do a variety show like Rocky and Bullwinkle, because it seems like that's essentially what it was, a show that they themselves hosted.
So I wanted to keep using techniques that I don't often use, so I drew some girls with brush pen and colored pencil. Nowadays you can find great reference material with just a couple of clicks on the 'ol internet. It's great! I like how these turned out, especially the one with the weird expression below. Mouths are really hard to draw for me. I don't know why. They're tricky little thing, what with the lips and teeth and stuff. It's hard for me to make mouths dimensional, so something I gotta work on.

And finally I was watching the cult classic Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! with some friends the other night and was inspired to draw the badass girls. On the left is the Italian one with the thick accent, and on the right is the leader. It would be fun to go back to get a closer look at the girls because it's kinda tough to draw em when they're moving around on screen kicking ass and running people over.
This last one's a weird one I did this morning thinking more about the movie and the Italian girl. More drawings to come soon!

P.S. How come the spell check on a site like Blogger doesn't even recognize the word blog?

New Random sketches

Here is a collection of recent sketches for yall. Above is my super-macho friend Jorge as he talks excitedly about a crazy idea of his. And yes, he's referencing that super awesome old-school arcade game Burgertime.
These are from the ASIFA-Hollywood John Canemaker event last week. He showed his new film The Son and the Moon, which was great, and some other awesome, rare cartoons like The Fox Hunt with this funny dancing fox. Amid over at Cartoon Brew talks about the event more here. These drawings don't really look like John though because he was lurking in the shadows during the lecture, so I kinda just made stuff up. But I like em.
Here's another with Brewmeister Jerry Beck interviewing the Canemaker.
Here's some tango sketches. I love tango music (I'm half Argentine) but don't know the dance. Maybe one day I'll learn though.

Oh, lookie here, it's a whale, and I guess some pirates are using him as a ship. Oh crazy pirates...

And finally here are some really quick, rough studies from Citizen Kane done on post-it notes. There are some awesome compositions in this film and it's not even widescreen.