Characters

These are the three main characters for my next cartoon.

Electric Chair Animation

These are some frames from a crude little animation I did for the Halloween Party at Cal Arts. For some reason I can't figure out how to put them in any order. The piece is just a quick cycle of a dude getting some capital punishment. There are some more effects to be added in After Effects, but here are just the drawings with one colored frame.

Tan lines

oil on canvas.

More copies

Just some copy exercises of Mickey Mouse.

Daffy Keys

This is a scene I've actually animated. Maybe eventually I'll put the test up, but here's the keys for now. It's definitely out of character for Daffy Duck, but I just wanted to do a subtle, emotional scene.

Original poses

After copying model sheets and stills from various cartoons, I've decided to see if any of my practice so far has paid off. Here I've attempted some original poses of Bugs and Jerry. I was curious who would get the best of the other in a Bugs versus Jerry short. I a bigger fan of Bugs, but it would probably have to be Jerry, simply because he's smaller. I am reminded of "Falling Hare," a short featuring one of the rare instances when Bugs gets his ass handed to him (by a little gremlin dude!).                                                         

I had to draw Jerry large, just to get the nuances of his pose, and then shrink him in photoshop for the A panel. The B panel was fun. I'm wondering if I should have pushed Bugs' pose even further, though. Anyway, I liked the idea of a subtle, calm and tender moment, followed by a dynamic, violent, and loud moment.

New Deer Hunt

This piece is a redo of an oil painting I did years ago. I'm showing the original inked drawing and the finish. I've always loved the hunting theme. The painting was inspired by Rubens's incredible takes on the subject. 

Practice Stuff

These are all copies. Some are pulled from John K's blog, some are from class assignments.

Some backgrounds for my next cartoon

LA

oh life...

Tit Castle

so check it out. a tit castle.

Ninja Turtle stuff

Motherfriggin' Bebop and Rocksteady!!!


This character is one of the coolest ever. A giant cow's head that can travel at warp speed between multiple dimensions. This freak slurps up the turtles, flys a thousand light years across the galaxy, and deposits them in an wrestling ring. i thought is was cool when i was a kid. and i guess i still do...

Nightcrawler

Phantom Black Cow

This beast kills for fun.

The Bros

Birds in the Backyard

Kansas

Everything in this image is influenced by something that has happened in real life. seriously. all taken from my days in kansas, running around the countryside with my buddy Scott.

Oliver Twist

Some designs for Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. We have Fagin, Oliver, and the Artful Dodger.

Life Drawings

Oil studies

a few studies from life. a skull and a pregnant woman, an apt juxtaposition to be sure.

Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix is one of my all time favorite painters. I've always thought that the woman in the painting, which I am so humbly aping above, is one of the most beautiful in art history. I've given her a rude, yet winsome treatment in my homage.

These were fun

These are two characters loosely inspired by the film "Nocturna."

Wild West Girls

Sculptures

Dogs!

There's a samoyed, a doberman, a pekingese, a lab, a french bulldog, chinese crested, and an afghan hound!

Some backgrounds for a film I WAS going to do

It was a film about the last dodo and his family being murdered. depressing stuff. i may do it next year, but it was too long for this year.

Book of Souls

some pages for a little book i made called "BOOK OF SOULS"

I don't know

I call it "Chococow."

City Layout

Lions

What is Man?

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants a woman, as the most dangerous toy.

Medusa

a little more realism...
this is the fun one, i like this treatment better!

Greasers

Assignment: Geasers!

Cowboy

I drew this little buckaroo using a fancy-schmancy cintiq!

pissed off cavemen.

What is man?

"What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! "

Footballers

football players for character design. but dammit, i skipped class so i didn't even turn these in.

Wild Animal Paintings

The Yellow Bull
Buck Hunt
Dogsled
Tigers and Zebras
Unicorn Roundup

Monster Designs

The assignment was based on the Spiderwick characters. These designs are based directly on, or inspired by Di Terlizzi's designs.

Paintings of women

designs for a massive character.

the noble french bulldog.

What is Man?

A "teetering bulb of dread and dream", or a "certain kind of gooey lump encased in a hard protective shell mounted atop a mobile pedestal that roams the world on a pair of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts."

Indeed.

Armor Designs

Armor designs for my character design class.

Owl Slam

Three owls battling for the last grain of sunlight.

Horse Crash

for Barbaro.

Two versions of a street fight

Let's start with my favorite theme: women boxing.

What is Man?

Last class time, the eccentric, enigmatic, esoteric, entertaining, effervescent, ephemeral, and certainly entitled, Sande Cohen reassured us all, "Nature made us, and threw away the key."

to be continued...