Doodle Dump: These all feel really stiff, need to loosen up the poses. That guy in the Don't Copy that Floppy video makes some hilarious faces. These last few I drew while watching X-Men Origins, probably obviously. Finally, a couple pages from that small doodlebook which I haven't used much recently and two quick oekaki doodles.
Not writing much this time, need to go loosen up poses, need to draw more fun stuff less stiff awkwardness.
First off, a couple really quick unstudied drawings of Manny and Kahn by the awesome Hat Lieberman check out the cartoon here. I watched the second Harry Potter movie on friday night, and now I'm officially hooked. The only thing that bothers me is I keep trying to relate it to Charlie Brown, I know everyone wants to pretend to be Snoopy / Harry Potter, but in reality, we're all Charlie Brown, but who is Charlie Brown in this universe? Is it Ron? Or is it Neville Longbottom? Or is it that guy that explodes things everytime he tries to cast a spell? I despise Neville Longbottom, I hope he never becomes a real wizard. A couple Cromartie High inspired badasses: Finally, a few digital doodles, haven't used the wacom in a couple weeks so this feels like drawing with a disembodied left hand, wish these had turned out better. Need to practice everyday.
Finally, I heard this song the other day, and it's been stuck in my head ever since:
I watched the first Harry Potter last night and drew a bit during the movie, I realized I actually watched the second half of this around xmas at my friends house, and I think this is the one we watched in German class, but I don't really remember that far back: I feel like I'm really late to the party, and wish I hadn't looked up anything about what's going to happen, please no spoilers, I should be caught up to the newest movie by the end of the week or so. This morning I spent a while doing quick drawings of Flapjack just to get a better handle of what he looks like, most of these are really bad, I didn't spend a lot of time cleaning them up, and it probably would have been better to do some actual construction, but this was still fun. A lot of those are redrawn from the fun storyboards at Sean Szeles blog then I just looked for clips on youtube to work from. Finally, some work doodles, I had one more that was probably the only one I really liked, but I don't know who ended up with it. Those peppers at the bottom are based on this really awful "mascot"-ish thing we have on this e-mail program we have, I don't know where they found it but it's absolutely repulsive: I would get plastered all the time too if I were him.
Anyways, I shouldn't still be awake, so That's all fer now folks.
I don't know why but I don't really get much done on Tuesdays despite having the whole day off, my excuse this week is I have a slight cold. I guess I mostly just read blogs, but I did decide to whip out this awesome brown paper again, I saw on someone's site that they had a sketchbook with this stuff and it reminded me that I have a stack of it sitting under my desk that I only used one sheet of maybe a year or so ago. I have lots of things I bought that are in severe disuse, and despite recognizing this, I bought this new sketchbook last night for these next drawings: I like drawing while listening to This American Life I don't know if it helps or not though. This is the 200th picture labeled as SKETCH, I'm not sure what that means anymore though: I'm not sure what I've been doing today either, haven't done much though, oh well still 5 hours left in the day.
Also, I've decided that starting tonight I'm going to watch all the Harry Potter movies, partially because I want to know what it's all about and be able to understand any jokes that I run into about the series, and partially because this song is stuck in my head even though I don't really understand it:
These first few are actually Sunday, I really need to get back to getting some practice drawing from life instead of just making things up, at least to just learn some perspective and find new shapes in peoples faces. Amy Poehler in Parks and Recreation: These are from Monday in the sketchbook I made a while back: This book is weird though, the paper seems thick, but it's really not. Or I press incredibly hard, but that might have just been that one pencil was terrible. When I switched to a new one I stopped leaving huge ridges in the pages, those were so nasty. I don't like most of these, I need to either swap mediums or try to find new things to draw. I watched the original Cape Fear last night, and drew one quick Robert Mitchum as Max Cady: It's hard to beleive that he was also the hero in Out of the Past, he seems so utterly despicable in Cape Fear.
I meant to take these pictures a couple weeks ago, but never got around to it: These pictures are still a lot crappier than I'd like to have gotten, but I don't know how to take photographs of sketchbooks and not get shitty lighting but still manage to hold the camera still enough to not use flash. These are in a 11x14 sketchbook that's too large for my scanner, and I don't feel like putting them together digitally, most aren't worth that sort of effort. I might scan in this last one though, I kind of like it despite how messy it is. I feel weird trying to color the backgrounds because the only thing I remember from the boyscouts code of traits or whatever was thrift, can't use up my markers all at once :\
Cartoonist in Houston, I wash my brushes in sweat it's so hot. I also draw comics http://citriccomics.com/ I used to have a blogger but now all of my stuff is there :D