tip-tilt nose

Much better, thank you!

Well, Our own Bizarro-Krypto Weet the pointer, has made a wonderfully fast recovery from whatever it was that was ailing him(we suspect sprained back-he's very athletic--usually--and does all kind of flips that a 6 year old probably shouldn't try).

Thanks for all the good wishes--they worked!

under the weather

Few things as sad-looking as a sick dog. Well, of course, lots of things are really, but when the poor blighter is usually so peppy and goofy and uncontrollable and he's suddenly having a painful day, it's tough. The really hard thing with animals as with kids is that a)they're helpless and b)they don't understand why they're hurting. They just try to make the best of it. I hope I figure out what the trouble is with Weetie here. he seems to have pulled his back out, if that's possible.

On a wildly different note--have a wonderful weekend, all!

my pup(one of them)

Samba I

un homage a Patrick

Patrick's are much better, I know--but he makes me want to draw mod girls with tons of hair! I can't help it!

walking along...

The quintessential California girl? Well, I was born in California and these girls sure seemed like aliens to me.
I think they do all look like this in Texas, though--Texas, and the Hamptons.

negotiating the stairs

Idly doodling on the cintiq; my friend Dave D. took some video while visiting my horses at the barn; his 3 year old(well, almost 3)is quite a cowgirl--even if she doesn't see why she shouldn't rather be called a horsegirl. The end of the video has a shot that looks sort of like this...I'm just really thrashing around with the pen/stylus, and thinking of that shot. I'm wearing a really puffy vest, btw. ; )

For a change...

A drawing actually done on paper--what a concept!
As you can see, when the model is lacking in life drawing, there's usually a great subject not far away. I wish this wasn't cropped, but oh, those scanners.

doodles

Just checking in

Summertime

Dare

I've been reading a fascinating and disturbing biography of a strange and talented woman, Dare Wright--the author and illustrator(via black and white photographs)of the book "The Lonely Doll". She was a very photogenic woman(looking fantastic well into her 60s!), and the bio is filled with her self-portraits...so anyway, here's a quickie cintiq sketch of Dare.

more Lilo and pal

Here's some drawings I did as suggestions for that "Stitch Has a Glitch" project from several years ago. "Quick and dirty", as they say, but eh! Don't anyone think I'm posting these as some beauteous examples, mind you--just to show some ideas.
The plot involved Stitch--AKA experiment #626--having a "sell-by" date that was getting close to expiring, resulting in his reversion to an unconsiously nasty meanie; the story crew played around with the idea of the "glitches" Stitch would have at odd moments and when they might occur. Here Lilo and Stitch are up late watching a monster movie(that part already in the story); I have Stitch glitching/hiccupping--Lilo thinks he's had too much popcorn, not realizing that his electrical charge has zapped the TV off.
The others are what happens when Stitch has a glitch that causes both him and his soda to fizz. The end gag was my personal tribute to "The Exorcist", if anyone remembers that scene. Click the drawings to see them up close(r).

fun to draw

Just for antikewl: reposted page of early doodles I did when working on the "Stitch has a Glitch" story crew. I posted this back in the early days of my Blackwing Diaries blog, too, but likely no one sees it now. What the heck, they're drawings.


It was one of those videos, but the story crew worked exactly as a feature crew does; we pitched out scenes and had a great amount of freedom to mess with scenes and/or the script(yes, there was a script). I loved working on this--I had fun and talented coworkers, and best of all got to draw these characters, some of my all-time favorite character designs(by Chris Sanders, of course). My scenes in the finished film are mainly the "search for Elvis's bench/inspiration" sequence, plus some other hula-related stuff, plus other things I can't remember now. It seems like a decade ago. Maybe I'll finally post some boards here...the trouble with that is that the panels are large enough that it'd require a lot of recopying to scan them.

You should be glad you're not in Los Angeles right now...

...because it's over 100 degrees in the shade here today. Ugh.

doodles

enciente

Inspired by the lovely work of Donnachada Daly.
This isn't me, by the way. I just think there are fewer more beautiful subjects than women expecting children(even if it doesn't always feel so lovely).

more of my dogs

Clickez-vous! to make it huge
and one more quickie:

-all Cintiqs

Have a great weekend!

doodling at lunchtime...

funny kid

Jungle Book

When I was a kid, my favorite movie was "The Jungle Book". In fact, it was much more than a movie, it was a lifestyle. These were the days before video, when the best a kid could do was beg his parents for the soundtrack album and play it...over, and over, and over again. In hindsight, I think that wasn't half bad(although naturally I wonder what would have happened to my brain if I had been able to see it more than twice during the first 7 years of my life); I was forced to use my imagination: there was Baloo, there was Bagheera, there was King Louis, each in a corner of the living room(assuming no one else was home; my older brothers couldn't stand that kind of thing). We lived in Orinda, California, on a property that sat on a typical bushy hillside. There was a particularly lush area tucked away between the steep, curving driveway and the house, with a picture perfect, Indian-looking sort of banyan tree with a horizontally curving branch. I'd drag out an old velvet robe of my mom's, pin under the sleeves(paws!), tie the belt so that most of it trailed after me(tail!)--and pose myself on that branch, pretending to be Bagheera. But most of the time I'd be Mowgli--naturally. I had a pair of bright red underpants, and I once blithely sallied out into the backward, wearing nothing but the pants, and swung on the trees, etc. until the lady next door saw me and called to ask my mother what the hell I was doing. Shameless! Well, gee, I was only 4.

my boys

Another Cintiq sketch. After I drew it it seemed to me to resemble a coworker of mine--though her ears are certainly nowhere near this size. Whaddya think, guys?


Speaking of that tablet: I was actually sitting painting(yes, painting) at my cintiqless table at home this past weekend--and I found myself reflexively reaching out with my left hand to hit the "undo" button! My fingers jabbed at nothing in the air, and I bit my lip in frustration.


You catch yourself doing that, you figure you'd better get your hands good and dirty with graphite again.

local birds

One of my neighbors walks her macaw(leash-free, no less!)on the sidewalk in front of our house every weekend, then sits with him out on the porch. I haven't been officially introduced to him, but I feel I know him as he is very, very vocal. Macaws are LOUD.

brown eyes

Big page o' Cintiq doodles

Click it to make it big!

3 Bettys

Way back when "The Notorious Bettie Page" was released, there was some little picture on the sidebar of Yahoo or somewhere of Gretchen Mol dolled up as eponymous Bettie; she looked pretty darn close, all things considered(no one could fully capture Miss Page, just as no one could capture Marilyn--or for that matter, anyone--completely satisfactorily). Just for fun I doodled (on the Cintiq) a version of Mol-as-Page, then did another doodle from that one, then a third from the second. Um, there's not much difference...obviously I find it almost physically hard to push things into caricatureland...but I kind of dug the 3 versions anyway. And they all look like Gretchen Mol if they look like anyone, nothing like Bettie--save the hairdo.
I find Bettie to be very difficult to do justice to; she's truly a one of a kind beauty, just sparkling. And of course an amazing body--shapes that work together so well, she might have been designed by an artist. A living doll.

And I still haven't seen the movie.

Gretchen #1

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