doodlin'

Some doodling-having fun doing idea sketches. I came across a guy on the subway, the loud talker, tough talking guy telling stories with foul language but still lovable kind of guy. I started drawing him and he became a character I've been sketching him on napkins and notebook paper ever since. Not sure what I'm gonna do with the idea but i think i might want to do a comic strip sort of thing.

Some Baddies

I sketched this a couple of weeks ago and wanted to color it. Bad baddies you wouldn't want to run into in a dark Mumbai alley!

A logo I designed for a musician friend that has his own business

Finished art finally...

This is the last stage of my work in progress! It's less of a work on progress and more of a finished work! I hope they like it! I'm happy with how it turned out. Thanks for letting me share! ( I did a few teaks to it and re-uploaded it-i had forgotten to add my signature!)

Power Girl Work in progress

A spread I'm doing for Power Girls Magazine. A magazine distributed in schools including Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in South Africa. It's a work in progress this is the sketch phase.



For this spread i decided to ink and paint it in Flash so I'm starting to tighten up the sketch adding details and features. I took great pains to incorporate my three nieces (the two to the extreme left and second from the right) and my little sister (middle top, the one who's pointing).








This is where I'm at now. I'm starting to tighten up and apply the actual inking line with the brush tool. I decided to go with a blue mono-tone color scheme for the crowd of girls at the botton. I just like Blue. The cloud/letters are still in sketch phase but when it's done it's going to resemble sky-writing.

I'll post the finished one when it's done tomorrow. It's due Monday.

Street sign

I took another stab at painting. I'm classically trained so a while back before I decided that I wanted to be a cartoonist full time, I painted regularly.

I plan to do a whole series of these: street signs. I just thought that street signs always resonate with people, folks either live near a street or have a memory of a street. Streets are always there no matter how much a neighborhood changes. Buildings come and go but streets never go away.

I took a stab at painting!

I've been wanting to get back into painting for a while now. This is the first painting I've done in 15 years. I mean, I've painted within the last 15 years but it's always been part of some project or something, not just painting for the heck of it!
It's for my friend's birthday for her to hang in her new office! She has her own Therapy practice so lots of people will see it. It's a scene from Prospect park near where I live. I plan to do more of these. Painting is very Soothing.

Even more kids

I've been having fun exploring these kid's contrasting personalities.
Sooner or later I'll have gotten this out of my system haha!

Mission: Millionaire-Impossible

Que Mission-Impossible music: Dun dun dun-dun dun dun dun-dun...
Drawing more of these kids! Sooner or later I'll get this out of my system...

More kids

Just been sketching away. Having fun drawing this little guy. Enjoy the snow! Those of you who are here to enjoy it! And those of you who are in warmer climates: you lucky devils, you!!!

A kid I drew

I've been sketching and keep drawing these kids. Fun stuff!

Some kids I drew

I got inspired and sketched some kids. I wasn't thinking about 'Slumdog Millionaire' at all when I drew this :P

My Slumdog Millionaire Money! I made a $2,000,000 dollar bill!

GUMBY! Style guide drawing I did

A drawing that I did for the Frosty the Snowman style guide.

Some Chabad fun with Rabbi Infinity!

www.kabbalatoons.com

As some of you know, I've been directing/animating a weekly web toon on Chabad.org! Its been really fun and also enlightening, being a Gentile that has always been fascinated with Judeism I lap the wisdom up!
This above link it one of the most recent ones.
Enjoy!

Did I mention that Joanna Quinn Rules?

Joanna Quinn and me with director Bruce Alcock at the closing night party at the festival! I'm saying,"I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!"

Ottawa, Pumpkins and Piggies

I'm trying to figure out what was the highlight of my day yesterday; If it was getting to meet Joanna Quinn and getting to tell her that I totally worship the ground that she walks on

or getting to meet adorable Lili the voice of Pepa Pig! (If you have never seen this show, go online get a listing and find out where its playing in your area!!! Its so cute!!)

or was it winning 2nd prize in the pumpkin carving contest for the second straight year (the Cartoon Network Swag gets better and better every year in the gift bag they give you)or getting to see the awesome animators, old friends and New alike!!!! I think the whole day was fabulous, it was all one big highlight!!
I'll tell you one thing it was hot outside! I don't think I've ever seen it this hot at the festival! But it came in handy at the outdoor picnic! I came to the picnic with the intention of making a pumpkin microwave for the pumpkin carving contest, basically a pumpking carved to look like a microwave (ten years ago me and my friends made a pumpkin computer!!) so I get there and the pumpkins are all gone!!! So I'm all sad so I run into Royleen Chris Robinson's Mom and Chris's son Jarvis. I am cheered to see Jarvis busy at work on his own pumpkin. After chatting with them and telling them that I probably wont get to do a pumpkin this year Jarvis practically magically pulls a pumpking out of thin air and gives it to me!! It turns out that it was sitting there next to him and he could have just kept it but he gave it to me!!! So I dedicated my pumpking to Jarvis! The size of the pumkin was perfect for another kitchen appliance, a toaster! So that's just what I did, complete with toast_shaped pumpkin pieaces. When I did win, from the the gift bag I presented him Blue from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends!!!
I also received a blue cord from new friend of mine, Jason! He insisted on givng it to me and the toaster cord is what made the pumpkin, right now Lili and I are working on a prototype for a new solar-powered toaster!
Well I am just so excited, Linda Symenski described me as something of a "Pumpkin-Savont" because over the years I have won alot of these things, even though I never expect to win!
There will be more later. I am going to buy this new software called Digi Cell! They have it at a table and they let me try it out, it works like a vertical exposrue sheet!! You can draw right into it and it looks like pencil!! They animated the Simpsons Movie with Digicell! So I might have to gte it and I can get it for only $40! I'll keep you updated! Keep and eye out for another posting later today!
until then!...

Ottawa day 3 and sketching

I was sketching last night at one of the gallery parties, they were screening work and having wine and beer. Me a few few people went into the alcove where we had our own screening on my laptop computer. It was kinda fun because then we ended up having our own little crowd as we took turns and popped our DVD's in.
This is a sketch that I did while I was demonstrating my tablet PC to a bunch of folks. I like him, this is some colonial guy I sorta started sketching, I think I want to see where I can take him.

This is another one that I doodle last night as I was demonstrating. I call him LionKid. I dunno why it just seemed right at the time, I think I'll keep sketching him too!

Well I am off to the Animator's Picnic! I will upload a photo of my pumpkin from the world famous annual pumpkin contest that they do every year. I never do the contest to win, i just do it for fun, but my Pumpkin Viewmaster DID win something last year so ya never know, hmmmmmmmmmm.....