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Cinematography by Kellie Smith, Crappy Animation and Hands by Me, Music by The Submarines.

Sunday Fun!

Sketchbook Dump - 3

My pal Morgan, reading a fine magazine and sipping some San Pellegrino
My new friend Paula getting sleepy.
An older sketch of a girl on a bus in San Francisco.

Marker Sketch

Sketched in blue pen from a photo. It started to bleed with the addition of markers, but I liked it.

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!

More Sketches

Here are some more girl sketches for ya. The above from real life, and the 2 below from fake life.

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?

Vacation Drawings 3

So here are the girl and doodle drawings of my trip. I actually have more cartoon doodles, but they'll have to wait. All of the girls were drawn from life, except the one above, and the last cartoony girl (like, you couldn't have guessed). Some of these girls were strangers and some of them friends, or friends of friends. Either way, I always tried to get their name, just because it's more interesting.
Girls lying around the Lagoon in Cairns, Aus.
Weird skinny girl.
This was a girl I just started drawing at the beach. Then my friend, a Frenchman, made me go show her my drawing. Actually he dragged her over to me to show her. Her name is Mariska and she's a model from Holland. Neat-o!
Same girl.
These girls were friends of my friend Aaron, whom I was staying with in NZ. This girl Kate was arguing and arguing with this guy over the stupidest things. I found it quite funny.
A girl at the hostel in Wellington. I didn't get her name because she was with a group of girls. Very intimidating.

Valentina and Virginia were friends of my Italian roommate, and new friend, Leonardo. They were booth really nice and fun to hang out with. Valentina is tired of living in Italy.
Some girl at a pub.
A friend of my friend Aaron. Fiona was a nice girl who we'd always run into in town, since Wanaka was so small.
Other random girls.
Dance Dance Dance!
You'd better watch where you're going...
This weird bum character I like to draw sometimes.
A not-that-great drawing of my friend Aaron, and some doodles.
I call this guy Fat Willie, because he looks like a fat Willy Wonka. I still need to finish him.
He's late apparently.
It's funny making drawings out of marker splotches.
Cheetah and bum again.
This was actually drawn before my trip, but I just thought I'd throw it in there. This is my friend Jorge in a meeting at Nick. He's the most macho guy I know.