more sketches

After studying the skull for a few days and some info on facial rhythm in a characture book I read at Borders. This was my results. Some a little sloppy but my hand keeps cramping on that.

Need To Contact Disney Legal ... ;-)

Title is a link to a bit of Mike Royer.

Does anyone know how to reach responsible people in Disney's legal department. On a suggestion by George Davis (some of you might know George from the film coloring jobs some of you had ... can't remember the company's name) I emailed Mike Royer about the cookbook and even though he hasn't given me a recipe (yet), he did dig out about ten sketches he did for Winnie the Pooh stuff that had to do with food. Excellent!! What fun work he did / does!!

But to use them in the book I need Disney's permission ...

Anyone know a strategy I might employ? I hate to just knock at the front door because the problem is I might get "no" right away and I want to avoid this, especially since at least 1/2 of the book's proceeds are going to two charities ...

Ideas?

IPhone Brushes

I did this with a remarkably polished IPhone app called Brushes. It was fun to use and it has a nice range of colors, brushes and options to alter both.

Nathaniel Carroll on YouTube ...

Here is the "What is Worship?" video that has all the silly kids. BTW: My little 8 year old, Nathaniel, is the kid talking about reading and videogames ... I wish it was more reading and less videogames ... For a while that was him on the wallpaper, but now it's changed to the girl in the pink dress ... strange ...

;-)

It's 9:47 AM

It will be a couple of hours before Krayonzilla discovers what I did to his art. See what I mean about white space. That's the main reason I wanted to mess with it to make the point to let your art breath.

Click Title to see the art fully realized as a Tat. (slightly adult)

It's 6:40am

Playing around with an idea, kind of Michael Moorcock: inspired.

I'm beat! been up all night sketching...I'm going to bed.

Jeff Podacst on Tall Tales Radio

Title is a link to the podcast.
Tom Racine questions Jeff ....

[t’s time to talk to Jeff Ranjo, story artist at Disney, and John Sanford, story artist at Dreamworks…between them, over 30 years of animation experience, having worked on films like “Surf’s Up,” “Mulan,” “Chicken Little” and “Home on the Range.” John also does the brilliant webcomic “Chippy and Loopus.” We did a great show about animated films in general back on Episode 25, talking about our favorite and not-so-favorite films and TV shows.

This time, we get into the nitty-gritty of how animated films are actually made. Who pitches the story? Who green lights the film? When does character design start, and what does it take to become a character designer? How long does the process take? How is scripting done? When is music added?...and more]


The doodles is me having a scanner

Some progress I think

Top one added 9/6/09

Well it's almost 4am. And I figured I post another excerpt from my sketchbook since I posted the first one on 8/19. I think I'm getting my mojo back. The rag on this recycled paper is really bad. The soft lead just gets soooo messy after a point. Usually put in about 4 to 6 hours a night to early morning. Think I've seen every Fresh Prince of BelAir early morning rerun so far while I work on getting rid of the rust in my pencil.