Mike Moloney

Flash Crash

2011-02-25T21:04:00.000-08:00

Flash Crashes and everyone goes bananas!

WizardLizard cleaned up

2010-09-03T21:26:00.000-07:00

Did some rough drawings of this guy awhile ago and wanted to flesh him out. I really like my lil wizard lizard and am thinking of doing a comic with him. Still not sure what to do with his shirt, maybe a bunch of lil potions and bags? that could be fun.

evil mermaid

2010-08-13T20:40:00.001-07:00

This is a mermaid who is ecstatic about capturing this pirates rotting head.
-Mike

PorBeagle

2010-08-05T22:07:00.001-07:00

Tangent power!

Frill shark....eeessshhh

2010-08-04T19:05:00.000-07:00

Frill shark....so good

Jackson port shark

2010-08-02T15:53:00.000-07:00

Jackson Port shark for Shark week

Tofu Catrun Cleaned up

2010-07-08T22:49:00.000-07:00

This is the cat run cleaned up. Was a pain to clean up, but had to finish to comp it this weekend.

Doodles

2010-07-06T20:57:00.000-07:00

Some random doodles and a more final version of my Wizard Lizard character, who is a blast to draw.

TofuGirls Run

2010-06-21T00:14:00.000-07:00

A run cycle I'm working on for Tofu Girls. You can see the cat run cycle from earlier. I've mixed up the timing by giving both characters some 'hang time' in the air. It's nice when a character has uneven timing, it makes the movement more unpredictable and fun!

blatent plug - commercial I directed

2010-06-06T16:52:00.001-07:00

Check out this commercial i directed at titmouse!!

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/advertising/get-him-to-the-greek-commercial.html#comments

cartoon brew liked it too!! which is nice cause you know how harsh they can be. We made it in flash in about 2 weeks, if you have any questions on how we created it just ask! There is a longer version of the video on the 'get him to the greek' page on facebook. Check it out!

TofuGirls opening

2010-05-30T11:20:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd share a work in progress opening to some freelance I'm working on. It's for http://tofugirls.com/ I felt that having some full animation at the start would be a good hook for people at comic con and show how nice these designs move. Sorry about the quality, and the weird line thickness. I'll post the finished opening later this week, after comping it and color it should look pretty nice :)

TreeFrog

2010-05-26T20:33:00.000-07:00

A happy tree frog late for work.

Cat Run

2010-05-25T20:53:00.000-07:00

More rough freelance work. This one is a bouncy run cycle. Fun!

Kappa Dance

2010-05-05T01:21:00.000-07:00

This is a cute dance cycle I did for a freelance project. I usually animate out the body first in a quick shorthand, then use symbols on top. I find this lets me work confidently * if I know my rough animation works, the final will work. People can get bogged down with puppets, it's really freeing if you first get loose and plot down the basic shapes. Done on 2's and straight ahead.

Patton Color

2010-04-30T22:37:00.000-07:00

Patton with a lil color.

Conan

2010-04-28T20:40:00.000-07:00

I finished reading all the original Conan pulp stories and felt the need to paint something. It's been a long time since I've done digital painting and I feel I've improved quite a bit. Anyway this is Conan.

Napoleon

2010-04-21T20:23:00.001-07:00

Another warlord. Got metaphorical with this one...it might be too ambiguous though.

Patton

2010-04-20T21:01:00.000-07:00

I like this this guy turned out. Apologies to David cause I stole your gun design from those bird cowboys you did. http://cartoondavid.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post.html

Atilla the Hun

2010-04-10T18:21:00.000-07:00

I'm trying to do more designs, working on my own style. Here are two versions of Atilla the Hun. Not sure what one i'm liking more, any preferance?

5 second day film

2010-03-20T15:06:00.000-07:00

Short film made my me and my roommate Brandon Cuellar. We made it at titmouse inc. for their 5 second day. It was a long day but well worth it in the end. The story/joke is influenced by Perry Bible Fellowship comics, were you set up this fantasy world and have the viewer believe in this fantastic world...then you hit them out of left field with cold hard truth. Hope you like it, let me know what you think.

Cute Bat

2010-02-23T23:11:00.001-08:00

Dance with me doing THE BATTY BAT!

lady gestures

2010-02-22T14:46:00.000-08:00

Cause I've had ladies on my mind lately. Here are some morning warm up drawings. I like the top middle one the most.

-Mike

Batdragon

2010-02-03T11:08:00.000-08:00

Here is another dragon. I think he would be fun to animate, even though his wing arms are totally made up and probably wouldn't function right...Doh!

A big jaw dragon

2010-02-01T21:12:00.000-08:00

Been trying to draw more often. Here is a dragon wit a big mouth, inspired by How to train your dragon. I was thinking of those mega mouth fish when I drew this.

Wizards and gestrual stuff

2010-01-29T11:34:00.000-08:00

I drew those gestures yesterday to warm up and these wizard designs are from a few months ago. I love this wizard character, he is fun to draw! that's how you know he works.

skater thing

2010-01-27T22:31:00.000-08:00

I have been real busy with work lately...sorry for the zero posting. Here is a skater girl i drew today. It was nice drawing something not 2 heads high.

I got a PROMOTION aka. sorry for not posting *part 2

2009-11-29T18:48:00.000-08:00

Sorry again for not posting, i've been busy cause i got a promotion to animation director! I'm directing the animation for a music video at titmouse and it's been fun but a lot of work. Anyway it's a big step up for me and wish me well this next month, cause I gotta hit those deadlines!

Sorry for not posting

2009-11-09T00:17:00.001-08:00

Been swamped at work, sorry for the lack of posts... here is a cute girl head.

Gannondorf

2009-10-23T01:39:00.000-07:00

Drew this a few weeks ago at a dailies meeting. It is supposed to be Gannondorf from Legend of Zelda. Not sure this is right, but I like him anyway.

silly walk

2009-09-30T19:11:00.000-07:00

Just a fast silly walk I did the other day. Sorry bout the quality.

Alligator Love

2009-09-17T20:40:00.000-07:00

Stayed a little later to finish this alligator love.

cute rhino

2009-09-15T20:16:00.000-07:00

here is a cute rhino I drew earlier today.

Another bot

2009-09-01T20:35:00.001-07:00

Another robot

Robot mech thing

2009-08-31T21:13:00.000-07:00

Quick generic robot sketch i did in flash tonight while listening to Feed my Frankenstein by Alice Cooper. Love that song it is so ridiculous.

doing more visual comics

2009-08-30T15:36:00.000-07:00

I like a drawing that can tell a joke with out any words and I'm gonna try to do more of them. Let me know what you think?

Sorry!

2009-08-25T23:00:00.000-07:00

I havn't posted in forever...so here are some random doodles from work. Sorry for being lame and never posting!

Wizard

2009-06-15T19:55:00.000-07:00

A run cycle done over the weekend of a wizard running and turning into a bird! Why you ask??!?!

because if I was a wizard that is exactly one of the many cool things i would do.

PS I hate exporting video's out of flash!!! it wouldn't do it at 24 fps so you get this weird slow version....sorry

Keep on marching

2009-06-07T17:27:00.000-07:00

So this took forever!!! i'm gonna try some other ways for clean up in the future, cause I approached this all backwards...I blame mad max: beyond thunderdome cause I cleaned it up while watching that silly movie.

Overall I'm pretty happy, the animation could be better, but sometimes you gotta move on to learn...either way its something for my reel.

I want to do more walk cycles!!! it was a great learning experience

latenight doodles

2009-06-03T20:47:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd post some stuff. I want to finish my marching dude, but work has been breaking my back lately...so i have to settle for these quick doodles instead. I like the demon with the snake tail though, he is kinda funny.

Heavy Metal Dude

2009-05-28T19:56:00.000-07:00

An after work flash doodle...rock on

Demonite

2009-05-15T19:39:00.000-07:00

Been drawing weird demons at work and here are two. Not going to get to post my marching guy for awhile cause of my moving, so here is this for now.

Memento Mori

2009-05-08T00:20:00.000-07:00

Just did this for fun tonight, not planning on cleaning it up or fixing all the weirdness. Its Winged Death and the last pose I was thinking of a certian Kley ink drawing. I love Memento Mori artwork and might do something like this but more planned out. Its kinda weird I gave him a tail and werewolf legs but it was fun to not worry. All straight ahead as you can probably tell.

March! March! March!

2009-05-03T15:29:00.000-07:00

This is what he will look like

Here is my rough walk cycle

It turned out pretty cute, I'm happy with my final design of him, its complicated looking but pretty simple to draw. It reminds me of those 70's cartoons like conjunction conjuction. Do you guys have any suggestions before I take it to a more final level? Perhaps push the kicking out more, or tweak some of the arcs? I want to add more drag to his hat plum too.

Barbarian Doodle

2009-05-01T20:49:00.000-07:00

just a fast doodle before i go home from work. I know I was inspired by a barbarian drawing I saw recently someone did, making the fur huge, but I cannot remember what blog :(

Another Girli

2009-04-30T21:35:00.000-07:00

Another Girli drawing.

Work Doodles

2009-04-29T20:36:00.000-07:00

Some drawings from work that I liked, all done in flash.

keep on trucking

2009-04-29T02:05:00.000-07:00

gotta keep on trucking even though i'm tired!!

this is a second pass on my marching guy. I still gotta rework his cape, and push a few things more...Defiantly would like to put more CHARACTER into the walk. Perhaps a baton toss and twirl and a popeye air step would be fun.

Hun Troll

2009-04-21T21:43:00.000-07:00

Drew this tonight after work in flash. I was thinking of those cool trolls from the animated Lord of the Rings. I think I might start doing more designs that use bold blacks, cause I love the look and its fun.

Some Doodles

2009-04-20T03:10:00.000-07:00

I drew these tonight while watching quantum solace. It wasn't very good, hard to follow.

SpaceFight eary eary stages

2009-04-11T22:02:00.000-07:00

I have a lot of different ideas of how i should do this, so I'm just gonna start animating lil thumbnail action sequences that I think are cool and frankenstein the final animation together.

So far I know I want some kinda environment change, limited cutting*and when I do cut i do it very very fast*, multiple transformations between the two fighters and some kinda resolution. The music is temporary, but I like the tempo and speed. Adding music can really help get the imagination going and the energy up!

That is a train being attacked by the way, don't know if you can tell from my crappy thumbnails *I animate with the screen being very very tiny so I get good drawing milage.

Some other thoughts I have are

1 skull ship is trying to stop the ship from bombing the city
2 the ships grow hands and make it go hand to hand.
3 It gets reduced to a fist fight between pilots at the end.

Anyway thought I'd just start animating, I could try to plan it all out, but knowing me i'd never start...

so I'm just jumping in!..... JUMP!

Skull Ship

2009-04-07T22:27:00.000-07:00

This is what I was thinking for my "bad" ship for my animation. Down below were some doodles of what the ship being chased could be. I was thinking the four limbed jet back would be fun to animate. I'm still not sure what direction I want to take this whole thing, all i know is i like my skull ship.

some weird pictures

2009-04-02T21:00:00.000-07:00

This is a photoshopped picture of me holding a giant burger a friend made a few years ago and some dumb jokes. enjoy!

Dog fight idea

2009-03-29T19:44:00.000-07:00

So for my next animation I want to do a dog fight of some kind. Let me know what designs you guys like the most and I'm gonna take those designs and try to make them more cartoony/unique and asymmetrical and tack on some kinda story to the dogfight. Thanks!

I think 1 and 7 are my favorite.

a demon woman

2009-03-27T01:51:00.000-07:00

it was late ok?

Weirdflying ship doodle

2009-03-23T00:14:00.000-07:00

Did this super fast flying ship doodle thing. It was fun!! Just fast straight ahead not sure if this is going to work fun.

Smore drawings

2009-03-22T21:57:00.000-07:00

A dude whose gonna hit a turtle and some hockey players and a derby girl. haha weird combo I know

Animal doodles from work

2009-03-21T21:58:00.000-07:00

Havn't posted in awhile so here are some animal drawings I did at work.

Work Sketches

2009-03-16T01:32:00.000-07:00

Some random drawings from my Sketchbook at work. The first doodles were some of the original designs for my troll for 5 second day.

Nosfuratu

2009-03-12T19:59:00.000-07:00

Did this on a work break. It ended up being a Ronald Searle rip-off but I still like it, especially his cape. Thanks to everyone who commented on my Thor animation, I really appreciated it!

THOR!!

2009-03-10T23:31:00.000-07:00

Here is my finished Thor animation. I did this for fun in my spare time this last month. I feel like i should rework some of the ending, but sometimes you just gotta let go. Anyway let me know what you think?

I should also thank Jeremy Polgar for looking at some of my animation early on, Annette Huckell for checking out my color choices and sixpointharness for doing some great effects animation that inspired me

Thor screen Shots

2009-03-10T01:01:00.000-07:00

Havn't posted in awhile and here is why. These are some screenshots from my Thor short. I feel really good about my color choices for this short, I went pretty bold at parts and it defiantly helped. I finished it earlier tonight, just have to export a quicktime tommorow, so you'll get to see it soon :) Let me know what you think when i post it up

The mermaid

2009-02-16T16:07:00.001-08:00

Charles Addams is a funny dude and reminded me how much i love dark humor. Here is my version of a mermaid. Trying to push my style more and going back to my fav: the felt tip pen.

2 min doodle at work

2009-02-13T22:47:00.000-08:00

a quick doodle at work. Time for dinner!

naked shiny doodle

2009-02-11T02:01:00.000-08:00

I felt like i should draw something...so of course its a naked chick. ..wow its late, bed time!

SATURDAY THOR

2009-02-07T17:19:00.000-08:00

The rough is getting to a final state...I just need to figure out LIGHTNING!!! cause mine sucks. I'm thinking the lightning from that Mickey Mouse Runaway brain short would be good to look at. I still need to add his cape and work out some of the secondary action. Overall I'm really happy though...if i clean him up, comp it in after effects and really take it to a final state it will look sweet.

Thorf

2009-02-07T01:18:00.000-08:00

Here is more Thor, he is getting there now. I still need to tweak a lot but thats pretty good work for a Friday Night....I can now sleep yay!

ThorfRough

2009-02-06T00:34:00.000-08:00

My thor animation work in progress. I really like what I did at the end but don't know if it matches the beginning....still have a lot to do. Any cool suggestions for what Thor could do? Or what he zaps at the end with his Thunder Slam? Let me know what you think?

i was thinking he could zap Odin or a Goat...not sure what one

Animation in progress THOR!

2009-02-04T02:14:00.001-08:00

This is my weekly animation in progress. I'm gonna try to work on some animation everynight and over time get my skills higher and get some polished looking stuff. This is my Thor design. I want to do some kinda cool action/anime type thing *inspired by Jeremy Polgar's awesome 5 second film.

RobotGun Cleaned up

2009-02-01T12:40:00.000-08:00

I cleaned this old animation up last night for fun. I started cleaning it up for fun and just didn't stop....it was a lot of fun coloring it and adding effects though. Let me know what you think?

My 5 second day Film - The Magic Gnomes

2009-01-24T13:57:00.000-08:00

Here is my 5 second day film. First Thanks to Chris and Shannon at Titmouse for having this day. It is such a wonderful idea and generous of them to put it on. I had so much fun making it! and was influenced by a lot of different incredible artists, check em out!!

Chris Hinton's film "Nibbles" was very influential
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nibbles-by-Chris-Hinton

Nacho Rodriguez's Mr. Coo series. This guy is super talented and after animating the giant i realized that he was a Mr. Coo lookalike
http://coldhardflash.com/flash-animation-10-best-animated-mr-coo/

Also the art of Ronald Searle, David Gemmill's awesome animation *especially that crazy walk he drew with the nose bouncing up and down and those Red Bull commercials.

Thanks again to Titmouse for putting this on!!! and check out all the awesome animated shorts people made soooo funny!

TITMOUSE!!! 5 second monday

2009-01-18T19:33:00.000-08:00

Titmouse inc. *Where i work* has something called 5 second Day. You make a 5 second long film *or longer* Its tomorrow and I am super pumped!!! All i know is i'm gonna make a film about gnomes and trolls and its gonna focus on eating. The idea is very loose and i'm excited to see how it and all the other films turn out!!!

Animating again: CLICK TO PLAY

2009-01-07T01:52:00.000-08:00

At work I'm doing some actual traditional animation. Its the first time I've done it professionally so it's a little nerve wracking but a lot of fun. Here is a guy I animated a few years ago to celebrate the occasion. He was a design for my scraped Senior Thesis....

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Why would I ever Scrap this guy!!!!!!

Its weird to be animating again but a great learning experience. I left school just wanting to do boards..... but animation is so helpful for boarding!!!

An Honest Post

2009-01-05T02:42:00.001-08:00

So the last two posts were old drawings. HERE is a new one I did for ol bloggy. Honest.
Can you guess what animal i was thinking of?

Great Quote

2009-01-02T19:33:00.000-08:00

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do it.

-Bertrand Russell

"the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n."

-John Milton

I have had these two quotes in my mind lately. One deals with the physical and the other mental. The Bertrand Russell quote really resonates with me right now, while I'm early on in my career. I do what people tell me. How do i get out of this? By having something they (the Employer) wants. As an artist that is difficult because apparently we are a dime a dozen. So experience and skill is the way out. In the meantime I have to take jobs which are hard to make a "heaven of hell" ....anyway thought I would share.

Here is a sword lady and a compostion I did for a class I took at the union

Feeling guilty for not posting so.....you get some old drawings!!!!

2009-01-02T00:46:00.000-08:00

The first one was a comic I made when I got that game Spore....You have a real feeling of how massive the universe is but it all takes place in front of your computer...pretty ironic.

Conan...I love that crazy dude.

Seaweed fan art...made when I first got my cintiq and was checking it out. Seaweed is an amazing comic drawn by Ben Balistreri http://benbalistreri.blogspot.com/ who is super talented.

I quickly fixed that Weird 2 I like this one better

oh and

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

WEIRD

2008-12-09T01:06:00.000-08:00

I did this last night when i couldn't sleep. I don't know what it means but i like it

Animation Dump!!!!

2008-12-08T01:10:00.000-08:00

Some more animation. The head chop thing I did a few months ago for fun. The Cowboy shooting the fly I did tonight. The punch line is another cowboy comes from OS at the end and is full of holes. HAHA stupid cowboys. Still have to animate that...The last animation I don't remember when I made... but its a copy of a richard williams sneak walk

This is the Def Leppord Pour Sugar on me song. I just love the weird trippyness in the beginning.

A new approach - Speed Animation

2008-12-06T17:59:00.001-08:00

I have been playing around with how to approach a scene. I did all this animation *about 15 seconds* in an hour and 1/2 hour as a challenge to myself. This is how I approached it.

1. make coffee - i wanted to be awake for straight ahead animation.

2. Use a design - i wanted a character i was familiar with.

3. Audio - Listen to the audio about 15 times in a row, really thinking about it in my head and understanding what i wanted to do. This was the new part for me and I think it really helped.

4. Do it straight ahead on 1's in flash. Don't even listen to the audio cause you know whats going to happen. concentrate on the drawing.

5. Just draw the big shapes. Don't stop and go back to clean up drawings. If he goes off model keep going! screw it! you might find he changes for the better. Its so lose when you clean it up you can make it right.

6. after finishing the drawing go back and retime it and fix camera moves. I was drawing him way off the frame but didn't care cause its so easy to fix in flash.

Thoughts:
Well it was a fun experiment. Some parts of how i approached it arn't the best way to do animation. This scene could of worked well doing pose to pose for the walk cycle and cycle the animation... I like how the ending turned out though. When I do this again I would defiantly work on 2's instead of 1's. I thought might capture more energy on 1's but it really slowed me down and I had to delete a lot of drawings. I found that sitting down and REALLY concentrating on the music was helpful.

Let me know what you thought? I plan on cleaning him up and refining the animation.
any suggestions would be great.

Doodle Update

2008-12-05T00:28:00.000-08:00

These are some drawings from my sketchbook and my Chinese Junk/Spanish Galleon ship design. I really like the face expressions for the top guy. Its fun to just draw cartoony, wacky expressions

GrannyPirate Props

2008-11-21T01:18:00.000-08:00

I did this for my prop class at the union. I like how some of the props turned out...especially the trunk/walker for granny pirate. The flag could use some more work and i could push the shapes even more. Kinda bummed the teacher didn't even look at it. Also most of the students in there are creepy...so i usually spend my time drawing them, I'll have to post some of them one day.

some fun

2008-11-17T23:42:00.000-08:00

Hey havn't posted in forever. Thought i would do an animesque animation for fun. Just click on mr. robot to see him draw a gun. I still need to tweak it...add some kinda crazy anime like camera move twirling around him in the beginning.

80s Rock

2008-11-05T12:06:00.000-08:00

Been bummed out cause I didn't get a job I wanted....but this guy cheers me up. He doesn't know music but he knows how to ROCK. Perhaps he rocks too much you ask???........

!!!FOOL!!! He would CRUSH YOU with his giant shoes or perhaps powerslide his knees into your gut. and all the while his flowing locks would tantilize the ladies...

Bubble Gum Bandit

2008-10-31T18:39:00.000-07:00

This is for a short story I wrote awhile ago, but finally trying to make a board of the idea. Its a really simple story and the focus is on the gags. This is the character design for the bubblegum bandit, the main character. I am happy with this cause its easy/fun to draw, but I want to make him more banditesque. Maybe a scarf to hide his face? some gum in his hair? I just realized i should of given him arm Sleaves.... Let me know what you think?

Jess and I WON!! at the Asifa Student Film Fest.

2008-10-22T18:31:00.000-07:00

Jess and I won at the Asifa Student Film Festival!!! It was pretty exciting! We won the Judges award. Our short 'caffeine headache' is about working at Starbucks and figuring out if it is worth dealing with all the craziness. I'll post more on this since it is pretty exciting.

Textures and Brushes

2008-10-22T17:35:00.000-07:00

So I reciently discovered "Brushes" on photoshop. OH! i always knew they existed....but the ones i knew where the crappy ones that came with photoshop. I didn't realize their true POWER!!!! until I got some pretty nice ones some prominent concept artists use *not naming names, but they are freakishly good. So I thought I'd try some painting type stuff.

They make painting digitally SOOOOooooOOOoo much more fun!!! makes me wish I had taken a digital painting class instead of learning this the hard way. Instead of painting every lil tree, there is a TREE BRUSH! Instead of fudging around with textures and crap there are cool Texture Brushes! I've always heard about them and seen the results, but never experienced it first hand.

The ghostship i've been working on and tried that quick mask technique. The other two I did in 1/2 an hour. They are pretty sloppy but it was cool to play around with the brushes. I think i might do some more. Right now I'm looking at compositions, stealing from stuff, because i have hardly any experience in this..nothing in the mental vault to draw upon. Anywho let me know what you think?

GhostShip

2008-10-17T18:50:00.000-07:00

I am working on this for my Animation Compostions Class at the union. I made it using the quickmask method of painting in photoshop which our teacher Will Weston showed us. It is weird using this method so far, and will probably take a lot of practice to get used to, but so far it is pretty quick. Let me know what you think?

I want to be...your SLEDGEHAMMER

2008-10-11T02:45:00.000-07:00

Did this tonight for fun. HE MOVES! just click on his hammer.....he likes it

Hannibal!!

2008-10-08T20:34:00.001-07:00

Still working on portfolio stuff. Here are some Hannibal action poses I did. Let me know what you think??!? I think the swimming pose still needs work, but I don't know if i have time to fix them...

Working on Portfolio

2008-10-07T03:17:00.000-07:00

Here is an image I did for an update on my portfolio. Trying to show i can do more "real" stuff, not just cartoony "kid" cartoons *even though this drawing is still pretty cartoony*. Its based on an older drawing I did. Let me know what you think? Yawn..it is late bed time.

Animation Ripper Fun

2008-10-05T19:35:00.000-07:00

I did this short animation for fun over the weekend. It is to the song "The Ripper" by Judas Priest. I am planning on doing more of the song, let me know what you think?

Caricatures!!!!

2008-09-30T17:35:00.000-07:00

Thought I would try doing some Caricatures. My last job i worked with some guys who were really awesome at doing Caricatures. So the last week i have been practicing. I think i need to push the drawings much much more. Let me know what you think? Also do you know who these guys are?

Just Having fun!!

2008-09-19T18:07:00.000-07:00

Just having fun!!!!

HOORAY!! done with my test.

2008-09-16T13:41:00.000-07:00

I finished my test finally. Here are some study drawings i did to warm up. The smaller ones are the first ones i did. I would scale them down and push them to the side as I moved a long. You can see how my drawings get more confident over time. Now hopefully I will get the job. HOORAY DENTAL!!!!

I am feeling inspired by two things lately. Roller Derby and Judas Priest. They go hand in hand me thinks. I highly recommend this ridiculous Priest video "Breaking the Law". THEY HOLD UP THE BANK WITH THEIR GUITARS!!!!!! awesome! that kinda silliness is timeless.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYn5hxeFt10

Amarok

2008-09-11T16:10:00.000-07:00

Amarok. This is a giant wolf which hunts alone, not in a pack. It is a man eater and pretty nasty. The only thing unique about him is it is giant and hunts alone. No tentacles or weird monsteresque things about him....Oh well, not all cryptids are strange i guess.

Altamahaha

2008-09-10T19:47:00.000-07:00

The Altamahaha, todays Cryptid. I screwed up the rip cage....also i didn't give this guy flippers, so i don't know how it would steer. Supposedly it is like a giant snake with a horizontal tail like a porpoise. Oh those crazy Cryptids!!!

Akkorokamui

2008-09-09T16:32:00.000-07:00

An Akkorokamui is an Octipus/Fish found in Funka bay in Hokkaido. It is MASSIVE and red *forgot to color it red. Watch out if you run into one!

More goofy drawings

2008-09-09T00:04:00.001-07:00

An Ahool is a giant Bat with a Monkey face that makes the noise AHOOOOOOOLLLLLL. It is a cryptid and lives in Indonesia

The second is a short comic i did for a friend making fun of Mosquitor, the goofy He-Man Villian.

YodelGirl

2008-09-02T19:44:00.000-07:00

This was based on a drawing Jess did, but i cleaned it up and colored it. I am trying to iron out a process. First drawing in sketchbookpro with the pencil tool. I bring it into Painter which has some great brushes and especially water based brushes. Then i brought it into photoshop to work out the kinks. Still working out my process...the only thing that will get me there is milage/weightlifting.

tiger tiger burning bright

2008-09-01T18:35:00.001-07:00

A Tiger drawing for jess. I used the pencil tool in sketchbook pro for it. It felt good, the pencil in sketchbook is really natural feeling. I wish it would register if i am using the side of the pencil....but the quality/grain/opacity of it looks good. I think i might bring this into painter and try doing a wash background and add some watercolor. I was inspired by Peter de Seve and this great step by step process of his work method found on http://garyclair.blogspot.com/ (halfway down the blog)

CINTIQ!!!!

2008-08-31T23:30:00.001-07:00

Wow so i finally got my cintiq!!! it is amazing!!! So worth it... I drew a weird cintiq man for some reason and the baron harkonnen from Dune (just finished reading Dune yesterday) I like some parts of him but need to work on my coloring skill, it could be a lot better. It was fun though and with the cintiq I did it in a quarter of the time it normally would take me.