Category: Art

John “Ren & Stimpy” Kricfalusi is teaching the masses the basics of animation, via Preston Blair’s book “Cartoon Animation.” I walked down to Oscar’s Books yesterday and picked up the combined volume 1 & 2, which is slightly different than the pages that John and Steven Worth have put up on their sites.

Here is my attempt at Lesson 1: Construction: The Head

What’s happening is I am copying Preston’s drawings in blue, then scanning them in and laying them overtop the original. I’ve marked in red and added notations where my drawing deviates from Preston’s.
(I have not put up every drawing – there’s just too many. But trust me, I did them. And I’ll put up more for lesson two soon.)

OK, back in the saddle…

Yesterday I was hoping to work on lyrics for new songs, but I got distracted by putting a profile on voice123.com

I’ll let you know how that works out as soon as I splurge for a microphone.

But I did work on lyrics today. Trying to wrap my brain around particle theory is…baishsdoisfd;i;we;w.

And I started to get really frustrated when “clients” (or dummies as I like to call them) call to get their address changed because they kept wrecking my train of thought. Choo-choo!

Alright, Joe has leant me his scanner for the time being so I’m back in bidnith.
I went to free comic day as threatened, and I spoke with Diana Greenhalgh who is an inker for a comic book called Victoria’s Secret Service and who lives in White Rock. She was very helpful. I got some tips on paper and other artist tools. So now when I get a new scanner it’s going to have to be bigger.

I also played some Burn Out 3, a street racing video game where your car is pretty much indestructible as long as you hit cars smaller than a bus from behind or the side. It’s pretty wacky but I can see the draw. The kids at Pat’s played it so loud, however, that you couldn’t say anything to the guy next to you without yelling.

And now for your viewing enjoyment, Go-Rilla from the World Wildlife Federation of Justice:

Joe came up with an idea for a WWF character – a duck with the power to cause tremors. His name? Earthquack. I like it.

Today I brought some $7 pens today at lunch. They’re refillable, and have replaceable tips. So I’m told. They came in unusual sizes (normally you get .005, .05, or 1 and higher – these were .25 and .35). I also bought some other types. When I got back to work I tried them all out with some quick sketches. Here are the results.