Dorf Is Down

Got this message after I mailed the prez of the cartoonist society as to Shel's health. Jim Gorham has tried to get in touch with Shel the past couple of days with no luck. Even going by his house and discovering loads of mail and closed up windows.

So her's the facts Karyl mailed to me.....



Hi Karyl,

Tommy Thompson informed me and Jack White that Shel is in Sharp Memorial Hospital. That's the one off Genesee Ave., not far from UCSD Medical Center.

I talked with Shel; he's in no pain, but he had a bad fall and will probably be pretty sore once they quit giving him the pain medicine.

He's in Room 860-1 and his phone # is (858) 939-3800. Jack seems to think they may be keeping him a while, but I'm sure he'd appreciate a call or a card or both.

I'm going to try to stop in tomorrow when I go to UCSD Medical.

Could you put out one of your all points bulletins on this?

All the best to you and Jack.
Jim

Ellis here....Hopefully Shel does recover. He is diabetic and the body doesn't heal like a heathy man would. And damn hospitals can kill you with pnuemonia as quick as any plague. So hopefully he gets at least well enough quick enough to avoid a lot of hospital.

I knew TAG would want to know. Good check up work by Jim.

My Blue Period

The one at the top has the "threat of beaver" effect I noticed in a Harvey Birdman character design. Birdgirl, when she is in her civvies. Specifically, the character opposite my vandalized head shot.

Hey Jeff. Great job on my Graffiti Robot. Thanx

Thanks Jeff

I joined. I haven't played with it yet. Just let all the ladies know I was available.

Hey , that crop is tough. I've got another high rise on the right side.

I added the title as a link to my facebook profile

Test

This is a Flash drawing program in Facebook called Grafitti. It allows playback so you can see it drawn right before your very eyes! I drew this for a friend and saw this little button at the bottom that said "embed". So I was just testing it out to see what happened. Well I guess it's not scaleable and it eats into the stuff on the right. Oh and I used a Cintiq to draw it.

EDIT: Sorry Ellis, the correct spelling is "Graffiti" And here is the link:

And here's a little better one than mine:

And another...

Mike Dietz used to be my friend

He and Marty are now exchanging caricatures of me.

Pretty impressive memory sketch.

He's captured the innard me.

Click the title to learn more about the talented Mike Dietz

MARTY "DAVIS CHINO" comment: Yes! Mike's is awesome--and bests mine in every area, esp. verisimilitude and technique.

Ellis Remixed

Maybe this one is more like it...? (Just Pho' Sho'.)

More Matte Painting Stuff

The Birds painting. Bad Glare, sorry.

The ancient Rome one, with a weird tangent of reflected hallway lined up with a painted building.

A shot of some of the art staff, FX department of one of the main studios.

Shot of the James Mason home in North by Northwest. On that one I believe Cary Grant walks toward a rear projection screen for that one. I need to see it again. Hitchcock films often had "bad " FX. He had a weakness for tabletop models.

Cowboy Fans Gun