TuesdayArtGroup

Bee Catcher? Capt America v Green Lantern

2012-02-11T23:27:00.000-08:00

Tom, counterpoint to your Bee Keeper.
Ran across this on my walk.
A sticky card designed to catch and kill bees?
What's the point?
I've never heard of bees being considered such an overriding nuisance that they require culling like this.
In fact the opposite. People writing articles talking about scary declines in Bee population.

I have my "no movies for Ellis until they're on Amazon rental" reaction to Capt America and Green Lantern in the comments

Moebius on Tumblr

2012-02-11T09:28:00.002-08:00

The headline is the link. In lieu of having to track down and pay for all the great books out there, the interwebs have proven an awesome (and cheaper) subsitute. I give thee Jean Giraud.

@TAGnorth

2012-02-09T11:02:00.001-08:00

I've created a Twitter profile for TAG... It's called @TAGnorth but I consider it something that both the original TAG group as well as the group up here could enjoy getting info from. If you follow it, then I will follow you and retweet stuff that might be of interest to all. Check it out!

First Fun Trailer To Come From LibraryYOU ...

2012-02-07T23:57:00.001-08:00

Ellis: please do your custom magic to make this play correctly in the blog, then tell me what you did.
Title sends you to LibraryYOU's Web site.
Here is the first trailer to be made from LibraryYOU content: "Bee vs. Quilt" ... I wanted to test how easy it was to use iMovie's trailer making templates. Case closed: I made this one in about an hour. Enjoy.

Banner Ad Work

2012-02-05T12:26:00.000-08:00

Click Headline to see a MOV of a Flash File I'm working on. The tesla bolt is a symbol in flash I can distort, overlay, make color effects with etc.
First part of a banner idea where this bolt dissolves a mask revealing type. An Ad idea of some sort.
Selling me right now.
Rotoscope a tesla coil. Changed it a bit to tighten up origins, ending. Also put some more continuity here and there. Extra noise.
Ad itself will have some extra spark symbols for the mask dissolve.

Insanely good stuff

2012-02-04T08:19:00.001-08:00

The material borders on the naughty from time to time, so may not be entirely work-safe. Love the colors, structured looseness, and bold action. Get a very confident vibe from his work and I dig it.

What I've been up to...

2012-02-03T21:56:00.000-08:00

I've been doing a lot of sketching here and there. More often than not I've been drawing "Creeple" (©2012 Rick Schmitz), as seen here. I've hit upon a combination of brush pen and fountain pen (both disposable from Japan--LOVE THEM) that I'm pretty happy with. I did a Donkey Kong drawing recently with a lot of inkwork that someone said looked "Wrightson-esque"... I felt fairly smug for the rest of the day.

Graphicly

2012-02-03T07:28:00.000-08:00

Click on the title to check out Graphicly, an ecomic publishing service. It looks interesting, to be sure, and it appears to make your comic PC/Kindle/iPad friendly.

New Beekeeping and Quilting, Too ...

2012-01-31T17:27:00.000-08:00

To get the best viewing aspect ratio, click on the title link above.
On beekeeping basics, Tom Moon's comments got noticed ... Beekeeping insets and cutaways are now included.

My second effort. Much livelier and there is a reverse angle (two cameras simultaneously) on the sewing part.

Another Worthy Blog

2012-01-28T21:58:00.000-08:00

The headline will take you there. Critiques of comic book covers by a comic book pro (Dave Johnson). Is it wrong to admit how much I laughed reading some of his brutally honest critiques? Johnson has a pretty acerbic wit, but I think most of his observations are spot on. Agree or disagree, some good observations to be found there.

An example of a 'fail.'

Cool Frazetta Blog

2012-01-24T10:01:00.000-08:00

The headline is the link! Didn't see this posted here, but if ever there was a link that needed to be shared this one is it. Very cool walk down memory lane by the author. Frazetta was quite an interesting cat!

New Sample I Did in Flash-Click Headline

2012-01-23T20:28:00.000-08:00

Got the parts ready in photoshop layers. Imported straight onstage in Flash.
Few hours goofing with it. Voila, sample for some Medical Illustrator/Video/Animator

Scotty McPaint

2012-01-21T17:23:00.000-08:00

Howdy felons! Just made a few additions to the concept section on my website in an effort to drum up some work. Some are new and some I got permission to post after about a year or more. Take a look, please. (I also revised the Gladiator Beast painting a bit and re-posted it.)

Gorillas!

2012-01-15T13:47:00.000-08:00

For Ellis and Ronnie... AMAZING video of a chance encounter with a group of mountain gorillas.

RIP Richard Alf

2012-01-06T11:48:00.000-08:00

The title links to the UT article. A lot of Richard's friends, including my bro Peter (who used to work with him) have been posting stuff to his "Get Well" page on Facebook ... see link below. Peter was able to visit Richard twice right before they moved him to Ramona. For some mysterious reason, his illness (pancreatic cancer) was not made public until after his death. I snapped this photo of Richard at Shel's funeral in 2009.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/345093532174155/

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2012-01-02T13:43:00.001-08:00

Click the title to go the link. Pretty cool series of photos showing a bonobo building a fire and cooking a snack. The next step is for chimps to start lighting cars up in West Hollywood.

News from the Greater Seattle Area...

2012-01-01T21:56:00.000-08:00

In the wake of the EA acquisition there have been some major structural changes at PopCap. Where once there was a large Studio with an art team, now there are a lot of little studios with the artists on each of those teams answering to the Franchise Head of each of those smaller teams. So, no Studio Art Team, no need for a Studio Art Director. As of midnight last night I am available for immediate employment. ;)

All in all, it’s gone well. I got a nice severance package and I feel pretty good about my prospects… the game industry is flourishing, even in this crappy economy, and there’s a lot of this sort of work in the Greater Seattle Area. We have some breathing room, so we don’t need to find something right this second... we want to get the right position and we want to stay in this area.

Sue has been absolutely awesome… I don’t appreciate her nearly enough. All in all, I’m not sorry to see 2011 go, but I'm ready for the adventure that lies ahead! Happy New Year and Allons-y!

Happy New Year!

2011-12-31T15:42:00.000-08:00

Hope You All Had A Better Thanksgiving Than This Kid

2011-11-24T22:13:00.000-08:00

YOUTUBE LINK

Click Headline for Retronaut Website

2011-11-23T12:00:00.000-08:00

Saw this photo on the retronaut web site. I would have been 6 years old and spinning the comic book rack in a T G and Y store. All those covers look vaguely familiar. Challengers of The Unknown ( I wanted to be Prof. ) An obviously Wayne Boring cover Superman. The Frank Frazetta looking character having a smoke should just turn around and say "One of each please." Then cash in a few decades later.

Apparently July 1959. I'm a couple of months from 6. Probably half storybooks and maybe the occasional comic book if one caught my eye. I was lucky as a child that my Mom liked escapist stuff like Sheena-Queen of The Jungle, Flash Gordon.
Link to a page with a lot of the July 1959 Covers

This deal (link back to page) is John Carter movie news. Looking good. Good write up.

Check Out My Back Up of TAG Blog History

2011-11-17T15:25:00.000-08:00

Click here or the title
Having the blog a couple of different places makes it feel backed up.
Now it says everything is posted by MrGoodson2. I wondered if someone wanted to destroy all the jpgs could they do so from the TAG settings?
The files are Picassa files, given a google ownership by whoever posts them.
Can someone only delete all their posts? I know the entire blog can be deleted, but if that was done, would that affect my back up? Interesting don't you think?
Here's a drawing to decorate my post...
Using the paint program art-rage to "trace" a jpg. Nutty Mad Chief Lost TeePee. Cool effect huh?

Doing an experiment by deleting the movie post that used to exist below this one. See if it directly affects my back up
I'll have to wait until tomorrow to be certain that the deleted image no longer appears in a picassa album. I was hoping it being in two places made it a "new" graphic. But my bet will be it disappears tomorrow.
INTERESTING. Yes, It did delete the original JPG. But it created a thumbnail that is still in place.

Making Comics-Podcast-Nate Simpson-Click Headline

2011-11-14T16:48:00.000-08:00

Rick. If I'm not mistaken Nate's your friend in TAG North. Right? Non Player is discussed. The guys doing "Making Comics" have a lot of good content on their webpage.

My Tuesday sketch early. Ripped from today's headlines!

Zip File of 100 plus Kirby Double Page Spreads

2011-11-10T00:40:00.000-08:00

Click Title for link

Been reading my Showcase anthology of Challengers of the Unknown. Half and half of Kirby and Bob Brown ( Space Ranger) Notice that one panel of the guy giving an outline of the bad guy's goal. Complete game design in one sentence.
The Bob Brown cover art really blew my mind. I saw that and realized that was one of my favorite images of all my comic book reading of that time. Aliens, Giants, exciting angles, great posing. Then the interior. It all came back in a big way. I always loved Space Ranger.
Kirby wins of course.
But he's diluted by all the Wally Wood "improvement" on a lot of the inking. That flying panel is Kirby and Wood. Great poses.

Check out my Labor of Hercules. Taking my phonebook sized Fantastic Four essentials and turning it into a bunch of pages stored in sleeves. Now I can scan at will and get great scans.

Kirby In A Binder

Watch me do 50 Pull Ups

Adobe Flash Meets Its End

2011-11-09T08:35:00.000-08:00

Flash served its purpose for a long time. It brought us a more powerful Web, and helped shift it from its hypertext-based roots to something far more interactive and useful, beginning as early as the late 1990s. And now, Flash's time has officially passed—on mobile devices and otherwise.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396094,00.asp#fbid=wVKyNx0lD3j

We're On Cold Hard Flash!

2011-11-03T12:44:00.000-07:00

Hey, check it out -- the animated spots Ed and I did for Public Storage are featured today on Cold Hard Flash. Kinda cool to get some of our work up on Aaron Simpson's site, and great PR for Pencil Test Studios. Click on any of the images and it'll take you to the permalink.

Click Headline to Check Out My New Lulu Book-Go To The Link at the Bottom To See My Lulu Tutorial

2011-11-02T01:38:00.000-07:00

The thing below is an old digital painting I made into an animated gif in photoshop. It's only 4 frames right now. I'll probably go back in tonight and pump up the fx and the smoothness

Warming up. Going to do some digital sketching today

Go Here To My Web Page For How I Make A LuLu Book

Website Updates

2011-11-01T11:57:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been pretty busy at work. Now that it's calmed down a bit, I'm happy to finally announce some long overdue updates to a couple of my websites. First off, we did a big redesign to the Pencil Test Studios website. It's much cleaner looking and has a wider variety of samples for your perusal. Check it out here. And if that's not enough, my illustration rep, Shannon Associates, completely redesigned their site as well. I have few new illustration samples up on my pages, which you can see here, here and here. Tell your friends!

the most popular image....

2011-10-31T15:31:00.000-07:00

After seeing I got 34 hits on this image alone yesterday. Mostly from Indonesia. I looked up the keywords on several search engines and found that 4 of my drawings were in the top 4 rows of the search engines.and the stats show BIG hits over the last 60 days. Guess people are looking.

Rockford Files Sketch

2011-10-29T15:16:00.000-07:00

Occupational hazard, too many guys like this with the question "You Jim Rockford?"

Found this old sketch. Almost finished my new Lulu PDF. It's the reason for running into all the stored art on disc. It's looking good. I'll make it a free download on Lulu. If you want the book, it will probably run about 6 to 8 bucks. Show that off tomorrow.

Drew Freidman - Halloween Album Art

2011-10-28T16:41:00.000-07:00

Click Headline or this
Lot of great Jack Davis art on the Blog.
I found the Roddy MacDowell sound files of the Lovecraft album. Easy as typing in Macdowell reads Lovecraft. Easier for you.

PopCap in Poster

2011-10-26T08:25:00.000-07:00

This looks like a pretty stupid movie, but the poster caught my eye. This is the section of Seattle that PopCap is located in. In fact, our building is in this poster.

Panel by Panel

2011-10-25T23:17:00.003-07:00

A panel from the Bounty Of Zone Z. Formatting stuff for my Lulu book.

Also added some of my Junkyard Dog boards, beautifully formatted into a PDF format by ToonBoob (edit: ha! Toon BOOB. Toon Boom) Storyboard Pro. It's like a nice frame. Makes the art look a lot better.

This Guy, Ryan Heshka, really gets the era of the pulps he is glorifying

new sketch + ps enhancements

2011-10-25T21:09:00.000-07:00

Playing around with Photoshop and my latest sketch

DANGER 5

2011-10-25T11:30:00.000-07:00

DANGER 5- Click for Youtube video
Scott Morse said he wished he had done this. I wish I had done it too. Or at least played Hitler.

Even though the intent is to project solid cheezeball, it's obviously got a ton of money spent on it. Maybe more than would be spent on a conventional bit of storytelling. I think Batman in the 60s was considered too expensive for it's own good.

2011-10-24T14:41:00.000-07:00

1st page of a story?

Caelum Studios - Stuff I'm looking at

2011-10-21T15:06:00.000-07:00

It is fun but painful to go through my old art. I'm going to make a new blog with some of it called "ForFuksSake-ISuk!" Found this from when some of us nuts were sharing a studio.
Mostly I'm going to make myself a new-sequential oriented Lulu book that I'll be using as a submission thing for the CTNexpo. Drop it on a few, hungry for talent, tables.

Custody battle in space. Good shit. With an emphasis on shit. And I'm pretty sure that's zipatone you're looking at there. And no compositing in photoshop of type either. I think we were barely using photoshop when I did this. It was print outs of the type, spraymounted to the page. Very early use of the new found technology using comic sans for a typeface.

Stan Sakai Exhibit

2011-10-20T20:22:00.000-07:00

Stan Sakai's art is at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. The exhibit, Year of the Rabbit: Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo, has original art work by Stan Sakai as well as the actual comic books, toys based on the characters, and works by other artists featuring Usagi Yojimbo. The exhibit will be there until October 30th. Dan and I saw the exhibit recently and enjoyed it. I wrote a short review about it, and the other exhibits that were there, in my blog.

This weekend we are going to the Tim Burton exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It should be interesting!

Photoshop Blog I Created - Click Header

2011-10-19T23:14:00.000-07:00

John K was wishing for a good digital inking tool. Prompted me to share all my recent dabbling with paths as a way to do clean line art.

Halloween Audio

My new site

2011-10-18T21:20:00.000-07:00

Seems I needed to update this site with my commercial work. I may have a few NEW leads on work. thus the focus. Its still being worked on hope to finish tonight.

http://bluetigerillustrations.com/

The Worried Bat

2011-10-18T19:49:00.000-07:00

Digital. Lot of working into the surprises of using an inverted mask. A goof.
It's Tuesday!
I think.

For Marty. A Daniel Clowes sketch from my Fantagraphics twitter follow.
"Why should I, Reggie Van Dough, have to wait in line with these commoners."

Tex Avery-41 Model Sheets

2011-10-16T13:59:00.000-07:00

Click Headline to go to the page.
I've zipped them and put them on my domain real estate to make things easier for you. Right Click link - save.
Tex-Avery-Zip-File
The zip is 23.7 meg. Takes a couple of minutes to download off of fatcow. Not a super fast place to park stuff.
Here's that Bulldog I needed Marty...

Another of the Comicrazys pages. Don't you think this guy was a HUGE influence on Gary Larson.

Tex Avery! You bigot!

POD ARTICLE
I bookmarked this as useful info for the comics publisher with a budget...
Lulu, my go to guys, don't make the list.

Okay, smudge marks reduced. What about skid marks?

2011-10-16T11:04:00.001-07:00

Iron Man Mark III helmet

2011-10-15T08:20:00.001-07:00

The Avengers trailer that hit this week inspired me to dust-off something I started last winter, but abandoned after work and other events took priority. Here's Tony Stark's helmet from the first Iron Man movie, modeled in the best hard-surface modeling software on the planet, MoI3D. Actually, the helmet is based more on the concept art by Phil Saunders than the finished sculpt by Miles Teves that became the Stan Winston Studios prop used in the movie. I'm still not happy with how the cheeks of the gold face-plate don't flow into the rest of the head. I think I thought of the solution to that last night while I was sleeping. I'll update later on. Meanwhile, here's a render of the helmet I did in Modo using some of the preset materials and environment probes.

Looking in Archives- Check out how far along I had this story

2011-10-14T21:29:00.000-07:00

I need to get back to it. Ink up a few pages. Or convert it for the web.
Check Out all 15 pages Here
Just noticed I dated each page for the day it was done. Obviously tried to crash through it during a Christmas break in 03, stalled and "finished" 3 months later.

And more. I'm loading up my blog with links to work showing the sequential nature of my brain. Getting ready to crank a reel out . Still stewing on the best presentation notions I currently have.
Shadowpuppets

Lightbox option under Formatting

2011-10-13T15:21:00.000-07:00

I like it. Lets vote.
Lightbox, yes or no?

Ellis , "Here." I mean, "Yes."

50 Haunted House Pictures, You Will Laugh

2011-10-12T20:50:00.000-07:00

The Link. Can Also Click Headline
Hey! The gallery effect is back. Did someone do an edit or is this google experimenting again?
I like the gallery/lightbox function. I hope they keep it.

Hey! A Tuesday Drawing!

2011-10-11T16:27:00.000-07:00

This is a flyer for a company Halloween Party that is happening soon that I recently made.

Jeff Rango's Probably Traveling....

2011-10-11T08:38:00.000-07:00

...and I'm jealous. I never get to go anywhere anymore.

Here's a drawing from when I did: Venice.

I was just beginning to get the hang of those sketchy little people you see striding everywhere in the work of the pros.

And hey--Jimmy's postin'!

been awhile.....

2011-10-11T01:28:00.000-07:00

Heres some more sketches from the book

Recommending a Podcast

2011-10-10T21:35:00.000-07:00

Click Title for link to interview with artist George Coghill. A little back and forth discussion I enjoyed enough to download. I may play it every other day for inspiration on how to think as a freelance artist.

Coghill's Homepage

I'm trying to speed up at cintiq drawing. Doing fun stuff, copying Bruce Timm. One cool thing I've done is add undo to the pen button. Very quick undo's of line strokes.
Just after midnight. So the second Timm copy can count as a Tuesday contribution.

I've been using my tumblr account to post animated gifs. Goofy animations that I just take a couple of minutes to do.

Odesk job ad

2011-10-06T07:52:00.000-07:00

My daily job post emails sent me this one from Odesk. Don't know anything more than what it says. http://www.jobster.com/job/show?jobkey=f52587792f2961d5

Magnuson Park

2011-10-04T21:27:00.000-07:00

Lawn sculpture made with nuclear submarine stabilizing fins by the Lake Washington shore

Dortmunder Doodles

2011-10-04T11:08:00.000-07:00

"Dortmunder looked mostly like a missionary nun who was already among the cannibals and headhunters before realizing she'd lost her faith." GOOD BEHAVIOR

I used Jeff's cool preset brushes to work my way through a tracing of this Dog Character. Nice boil created with this reference PSD of what every brush does. The occasional star is a brush I liked best.

Cloud Dog

2011-10-01T19:32:00.000-07:00

I was walking home yesterday evening, very nice rain clouds on display. One clump had a cartoon aspect that you could make into a character a lot like the drawing you see. It was a leap I made to a more appealing design for my junkyard dog idea that I'm going to turn into a storyboard sample.

Obviously producing iterations now. What do you think. Jut jaw with tooth at the end? I think so.
And please, share a note if you feel like it. About the design. Draw up where it should go to make him more appealing. Jeff R, any mecha notes for hands would be welcome.

This post should also push off the last of the embedded video posts. Lets see how quick the page loads now.

RE: Page load speed. Fast as lightning now.
Found this great reduction of Horse anatomy---Emma Coats

Can't We Remove the Video Bar??

2011-09-30T18:37:00.000-07:00

Yes, remove the video bar.

Its not like they putting up videos of Sticky Jim or Ellis's immortal opus, "The Chin Puppet Movie."

AM i being a party pooper? It just slows down the load-time for our page. Would anyone object if I pulled it? I'd rather have us convert the video area to a revamped blog roll. They have that new style that includes a snapshot of each blog's latest post--it's nifty!

Oh, and here's a drawing to sweeten the deal. I was away since last Thursday, (scant internet access, etc.).

But I was thinking of you.

Peter Chung

2011-09-29T12:26:00.000-07:00

Great looking animatic

Riddick 2 by Chung

Donkey Kong

2011-09-29T08:17:00.000-07:00

This is a sketch for a piece I'm doing for a "Retro Game" art show. I wanted to do something from a game I actually worked on, but I don't suppose anyone but us old timers remember Vectorman.

Doodles These Are

2011-09-28T00:29:00.000-07:00

Copying more Bruce Timm.

Officer Forearms

2011-09-26T00:01:00.000-07:00

Photo from a blog featuring a bunch of shots of the wallstreet protesters. This police officer is manning the barricades.
Look at that rotator muscle in those forarms. You think that's genetics or does he overdo some exercise that gives you big rotators?
When he says if he wants any shit out of "you" , he'll squeeze it out of you, he means it.
Here's another shot of him.

Goldfinger

2011-09-24T23:11:00.000-07:00

Put Netflix streaming on pause to get some tea. Got back and this perfect pose of Gert Frobe was waiting for me. Had to sketch it before I got back to Goldfinger.
His clothes are so perfect and comfy looking. Hanging just right. He looked like a big plush toy.

Space Battleship came out on DVD in Japan

2011-09-23T23:43:00.000-07:00

Back in Jun/July. Up on YouTube with English subtitles in 10 parts

Edit.
Go to 9:20 of this episode and watch the cool ejection-rescue of a girl pilot.
Valkerie-type braking maneuver

Terry O'Quinn - Not

2011-09-22T18:51:00.000-07:00

Bad caricature of Terry O'Quinn I did as I watched a Masters of Sci Fi segment.
Also some rough board layout. I'm going to hammer the 5 panels a little more before I do a digital version. The idea was take the photo of bird feeding and think of a sequence of 5 shots to link to it.

Map Monsters

2011-09-21T22:52:00.000-07:00

Click the headline to see a little slide show of interesting illustrations of monsters placed on historical maps.

Celebrating the Non-Death of the Notorious T.A.G. Blog

2011-09-21T08:33:00.000-07:00

She is elated. As am I.
This would have gone up yesterday, as is proper for a Tuesday-centered blog.

Modified by Tom Moon: As always Marty, your drawings intrigue me, but this time I'm more intrigued by what might be on the reverse side of the paper you drew this on. Photoshop: the latest development in computerized detective work. - Tom

Your Images Never Looked So Good

2011-09-20T23:47:00.000-07:00

Click headline to go to the official announcement about Lightbox being the new norm for Blogspot image viewing.
I like it. I think it is better for potential portfolio uses. Storytelling uses.
I just don't like the strongarm roll out.
Easiest way to get the traditional view, with the higher rez you may have loaded the image with...Right click and chose "view image." There will be a single image as big as what you loaded.

for the Alex Toth fans

2011-09-20T16:09:00.000-07:00

Limited 1962 Synchro-Vox animation. I forgot this was put out on DVD

Add EDIT:
Alex Toth Storyboards

Nerds Go Stag - More detail shots from 1953 World Con

2011-09-20T11:21:00.000-07:00

EDIT: Check out the last photo!! :-P
EDIT: Take that!

The Gallery Effect as a Comics Viewer

2011-09-18T18:36:00.000-07:00

Lot of people moaning about not being asked whether they wanted this lightbox (google app) to impose itself on blogspot. And not getting a button to disable it. They are actually calling it aggressive beta testing.
Google = Arrogance.
Anyway, click the title and then click a cartoon if you want to see what 127 pages of scanned Vaughn Bode cartoons look like viewed in lightbox. I made the blog earlier as one big continuous upload. So now you can get a sense of what a webcomic using this would feel like.

Takes a minute or so to load.

1995 to 2012. The destructive years.

Birthday Bro

2011-09-18T10:37:00.000-07:00

"Sherman, set the Way-Back Machine for San Diego, 1995!!"

El, we celebrated your entry into another year.

Wide shot. Love your shirt, and Vectorman gameplay diagrams on the white board. Would that drink be from the cafe downstairs? I have only the haziest memory of such a place...was it in our building, or down the road?

Photo is from my last day at Bluesky. It's that fun-lovin' Ellis of the 90's!

The worst Movie Poster Art EVER???

2011-09-18T02:06:00.000-07:00

http://movieposters.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=161138&lotNo=53235

The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970).

I came across this gem at Heritage Auctions and my eyes nearly exploded. I thought I had seen some BAD movie poster art but I think this wins the WORST award.

Final Tabulation on Corky contest

2011-09-15T09:09:00.000-07:00

Good job Tom. I'll be very curious how it shakes out.

Hey- I was "interviewed" bu a new blog called animation insider. A fellow named Mike Milo keeps it simple and sends out generic questions you make fascinating by being you. Anyone here want his email info and the questions, he has invited anyone. I did it for whatever self promotional value it had. And to feed the ravening maw of narcissism that can never be truly sated. I put it on my blog so you can have a sneak peek.
Odd that I didn't mention Frazetta. Only the most important person in my decision to be an artist.
Link to my Blog posting of the text Big Head

Big Head

Discovered something strange today

2011-09-14T18:54:00.000-07:00

I was on my sketch blog and was doing some updates in the profile. With the new blogger updates I noticed my Blog stats and took a look. According to Blogger I have had 3700 hits with 11 in the last day. According to the stats most traffic is coming from India and Bulgaria. followed by USA, France, Germany, Philippines. I'm not sure what to make of this because no one leaves a comment.

Strange Love

2011-09-13T10:09:00.000-07:00

Years ago I watched "The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers" and came away with the (not-very-original) idea Van Heflin should have been playing the marmish D.A., and Kirk Douglas should have been the free-wheelin' tough-guy gambler. But I watched it again last week and have to say I was wrong. It's maybe Heflin's best role as a leading man. You'll be amazed to see Douglas looking sooo young.

This doesn't really capture the luggish, lumpen Van Heflin that is forever imprinted on my heart...but it'll have to do.

BONUS UPDATE: I'll make like Ellis and keep adding images to the same post.....

Hounds - Click Headline for new Cintiq

2011-09-11T23:13:00.000-07:00

I sold this painting on EBAy about 6 years ago. I'm looking at material to put into another Lulu book. I enhanced the colors in photoshop.

The new cintiq is basically a drawing table. Set your coffee on it.

Tuesday Doodle.
I'm going to draw every Bruce Timm scrap I have. Because no one channels Kirby in as cool and clean a way. I felt his coolness flowing into me as I copied Poison Ivy.

Reynold Brown - Gi-normous size JPG

2011-09-09T16:12:00.000-07:00

Click headline to get an auction house version of the poster shown.
1948 by 3000

Your next question. Why would I want that? I can't answer that question for you. I wanted it. That's my reasoning.
Tom Moon. Did you know that the year and month we were born, the HUGO awards were also born.

A lot of great minds, boozing it up waiting for us. The huge auction house pic of this photo is how I discovered the HUGO factoid.
Fun to look at the big detailed auction house version.

Forry Ackerman is awarded a HUGO for #1 Fan at this convention. He also makes news by being there with 2 clones. Which is the real Ackerman. The one on the bottom is a known Ackerman from a book signing that same year, 1953.

The Breaking Point (1950)

2011-09-08T10:14:00.000-07:00

Thursday Art Group...

I find John Garfield hard to draw. But he was dang good in this film, which is a more faithful translation of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not" than Hawk's version (this Garfield version also being Hem's personal fave of all the film adaptations of his books--but then, he might've just been playing irascible because this film got stuffed on release on account of Garfield getting smeared by HUAC.).

It was a dang good movie. Garfield captures the stress of down-n-out like nobody's business.

p.s. Upper lefthand Garfield looks suspiciously like Cap'n Scotty Buncake?

Ramming Speed

2011-09-03T13:29:00.001-07:00

Hope everyone is having a good Labor Day weekend.

That Calls For The Wilhelm Scream

Honey Bear Bakery Regulars

2011-09-02T15:02:00.000-07:00

One is a fan of "The Kids in the Hall", apparently.

Zana said I could show these Off

2011-09-01T23:36:00.000-07:00

Click Headline to go to the blog where I published Zana's shots of me as an axe murderer.

Sculpture of a lion. By maquette sculptor, Damon Bard

Damon Bard Blog

It's good to look at your Google Reader every now and then to keep up with certain Blogs. Here's Shane Glines showing old Frazetta Lancer covers. Not paintings, Frazetta as a model!
Frazetta Model

Old Gouache Sketches

2011-08-31T06:15:00.000-07:00

From way back, but I'd just scanned some of this stuff and thought I'd share it.

Y'know, it's Tuesday and all.

COOL STUFF

2011-08-30T16:59:00.000-07:00

Jonny Quest Opening Titles from Roger D. Evans on Vimeo.

Somebody Field Test This!

2011-08-30T09:38:00.001-07:00

If you count writing as art ...

2011-08-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

Title Is Link.

Earlier this week I recapped "Warehouse 13" during its previous 2.5 seasons. Now along comes my first review ... this for Comics Bulletin. I'll be doing more for them, reviews, maybe commentary. It's fun and like caulk, it fills in the cracks between other stuff.

Got The Paint Brushes Out...

2011-08-26T09:40:00.000-07:00

...and finished an old portrait I found in storage. Oil painting is fun!

I've barely been online the last month.

Cork 61

2011-08-25T17:14:00.000-07:00

Here's the latest! Unfortunately it will also be the last Thursday Cork on the website for awhile. I've run out of finished strips in my cache, so the Cork website is taking a sabbatical until I can replenish the completed cartoons. This won't affect the TAG postings of Cork though. I'll still be uploading here whenever I finish up a new one. You may feel blessed or cursed now.

Auction House- Spawn Of Venus-Wood

2011-08-25T13:37:00.000-07:00

Started my day by downloading very high rez shots of The Spawn Of Venus. My favorite Wally Wood story. Great detail in the scans. I think the bid is at 17 k. That has to have Wood spinning in his grave.

I'll put the scans on my other blog and give you a link. It may not accept the full size. But they'll be big. If you want your own unadulterated copies, go here....
Spawn Of Venus

Okay. My uploads came out 53 percent smaller. 1600 height vs 3000 height. Quite a reduction . So if you want huge , go to the auction house. The ones on my blog are a nice size. Very detailed
As Promised-Spawn Of Venus on my Blog

For The I Pad Owners. Also, a link to the JellyBoy rough script

2011-08-24T13:20:00.001-07:00

Click headline. I really dig that idea for the pen tip. I wish a similar thing was wacom ready.

I'm going to photoshop my head onto Donald's so I can visualize what it would be like to have a mane of flowing hair caught in the breeze.
Today I'm working on my JellyBoy script. It has come together well. By the end of the day I'll have a link to google docs for the first draft.

OK. Here is the rough rough of all the ideas that have settled into text form. A lot of transcription from audio files as well.

ROUGH SCRIPT OF JELLYBOY
If you can make heads or tails of it in this form, feel free to give notes. I'll be whipping it into shape. Mainly calling the shots. Refining dialogue.

Women vs Men

2011-08-22T20:08:00.000-07:00

That breakdown on the female side of the chart may actually be a handy reference to colorblind me.

I thought of a certain Krayonzilla when I read this tweet.

2011-08-22T18:43:00.001-07:00

MeltdownComics Meltdown Comics
by RJRHQ
Looking for resumes from qualified comic shop managers. We're OK w poaching you from your current spot. Subs confidential. Gaston@meltcomics

A chance to relocate to the big city.

JellyBoy

2011-08-22T13:43:00.000-07:00

Something I'm working on today. I want it to be something that shows storytelling and digital sketch power.
I'm also going to submit it to Channel 101.
This unlisted video shows some of the ruminations and visions I have for the "short."
It's actually very well fleshed out.
I'll share the script when I'm done with it today. I'll use this slot to link to the script.
I may need some voice talent help. That might be as easy as calling you on my skype line and having you speak lines while I record you.

Didn't Clyde the Orang use a frying pan as a weapon?

2011-08-20T23:33:00.000-07:00

This fellows face looks like a frying pan. Interesting shapes. I found this guy as I was perusing pictures of BAR, Leonardo DeCaprio's girlfriend. She's got the old Stella Steven's voluptuousness going on. But I knew most of you guys would rather see the ape.

Space Baby Corps HD2 Now On iTunes Store

2011-08-20T10:09:00.000-07:00

Link takes you to the iTunes page ...

Okay ... Retro Activ Games first iPad game is out today and it is called Space Baby Corps HD2. It is known to be addictive and it does have Space Babies in it. They collect candy and deliver it to star gates. The game gets progressively harder (more challenging) the farther along you go. Lots of family fun. Worth checking out. The Android Galaxy tablet version will be uploaded soon, and we're downsizing it to fit well with the iPhone 2 and up, as well as Android phones.

I produced and helped with a few art and programming chores, Jeff Remmer did the art, and Dave Dentt did the programming. The music is by a fabulous musician from Sweden, Joel Eriksson.

How its made (Erasers)

2011-08-19T08:43:00.000-07:00

A follow up to the pencils one

Zoo drawings

2011-08-18T16:56:00.000-07:00

Click on the headline to see a Blog about our Zoo trip! Also, there's another drawing of mine and a couple of other nice drawings to see, too.

Cork 60

2011-08-18T13:17:00.000-07:00

Well, the website has finally caught up to my backlog of finished strips. This strip here is being colored as we speak to get released today. I've got one more that's pencilled that I'll try and finish before next Thursday then it looks like Cork's gonna go on hiatus for awhile. Blame Ellis. It's always because of Ellis.

Ghost Provokers Episode 3 is now online!

2011-08-17T14:26:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! Please go check out the latest gag-inducing, buttocks-reducing episode of Ghost Provokers! We're at the historic Warner Grand theater in San Pedro and there's endless minutes of physical damage done unto my person, so why wouldn't you watch? Please let me know what you guys think of it! Oh, and as you watch it, know that the ELLIS GOODSON is in the basement at the time that most of this is being filmed. That should be enough to creep you out right there!

Shiyoon Kim - Tangled Credits

2011-08-17T12:57:00.000-07:00

I enjoyed TANGLED. I guess it gets mixed reviews. I thought it was damn entertaining. It's on Netflix streaming.
The title links to the artist Shiyoon Kim's blog. He did the end credit line art pieces. They caught my eye and I tracked his blog down.

Is there a shout out to Ranjo in these end credits? There's a monkey in a lotus position. Wasn't that Jeff's Torch Tiger character?

Vaugh Bode Scans
I did a dump of all the scans from my 1969 paperback, Deadbone Erotica

Pencils are Made

2011-08-17T12:56:00.000-07:00

Kali shared this on twitter. I was mesmerized. Found my mind running ahead of it as I realized how the operation must unfold.

What If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman On The David Finch Justice League Cover?

2011-08-16T12:16:00.000-07:00

Click headline to get to the satire.
It's the same headline wording and art. A waste of time to click for extra info, but you might surf elsewhere once you get to the page.

The web site resents using their band width for hot linking so i downloaded a blog specific jpg. Same thing.

Another Ape Pic

2011-08-12T08:42:00.000-07:00

Here's another picture I took on my recent Zoo visit.