a duck

sketching a moving cat...updated

My cat, Diesel, was sleeping on my scanner next to my computer. I was compelled by his cuteness to sketch him. During the drawing he moved his outstretched arm and tucked it in, achieving uber-cuteness, as seen in the top sketch. One of the advantages of drawing from a live model, human or feline, as opposed to a photo, is that a live model will shift and move a bit, it's a much better way to learn movement, anatomy, and motion.

updated with the very top pose

coffee illustration

Just for the heck of it.

cuppa joe

press secretary

A caricature of Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary.

red snapper

A cleaner version. I kept the sharp fin on top rough, but gave the rest of him a cleaner line.
This is part of a design for an upcoming episode of TOILET PUCK.

scoliosis

I sketched this girl while sitting on a terrace at a little pastry shop with my girlfriend. Her back had this really angular curve in it. I whipped out my sketch book and started drawing her, while my girlfriend whipped out her knitting.

Episode 11 complete!

It's episode #11 in the series, but it's only the second episode produced. I am not producing these in order. I want to have 3 or 4 random episodes done by October, not necessarily the first four in chronological order. Tell your friend's to check it out, leave a comment, rate it. And if you're nice, I'll have a couple more done in the next few months.

episode 01 on you tube

Watch it, rate it, tell all your friends to watch TOILET PUCK on you tube.

Henry Waxman

If you've never seen Henry Waxman do a google search. He looks like a mole rat. Fun to draw.

??

I was just horsing around with my Wacom tablet, and came up with this guy. I think if Boris Karloff was spliced with Larry Fine...this is what you would have.

bow

I felt inspired to do a bit of rough animation today. So I took a sketch I did from an earlier post and put some movement into it. The source of my inspiration comes from 3 things; first- I finished my first episode of Toilet Puck and feel really good about it. Second- all the amazing art blogs I have been looking at. Third-Dan Meth. He is one of the most prolific animators I know, it seems every few days he has made a new animated short. And they are all great! Check out the Meth Minute.

completed birthday card

With Squidward as the Emperor.

Sponge Bob Light Saber

A friend of mine asked me for a special request. It's his kid's birthday and he wants me to draw a picture for him. He likes Sponge Bob and Star Wars, so I drew Sponge Bob with light saber and his kid dressed as a Jedi with a jelly fish net.
Cleaned and colored Sponge Bob, next is the Jedi Kid. I also want to add Squidward in there as the Emperor.Cleaned and colored the Jedi kid.

justice

Even though I'm scrambling to finish a short web series, I made time to sketch this guy. It was just a picture in in the news of Justice Souter. I can't really call this a caricature, because I was not aiming at getting his likeness, just the over all character and pose...but I stuck it under the caricature label anyway.