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Tom Waits - again

"No good you say? Well that's good enough for me. You're the same kind of bad as me." -Tom Waits
Sketched whilst eating lunch today. I was looking over my last attempt at him and wasn't too happy - I'm a little happier this time around.

Tom Waits

Warmup Sketch - Boy

Did a warm-up sketch this morning before beginning work on a kid's project I've been contracted to do. I realized I don't draw kids very often, so I needed the practice. The project will be for a cutscene animated in Flash - oh yeah, I'm also teaching myself Flash (about friggen time!)

Sketches from out n about

Drew some of these at various places, including at a bar, at Comic Con and at last night's Animation Nation event with Stephen Silver.

Jury Doodie heads, with KENNY G!!!!

Jury Doodie part Deux. In 2007 I had to spend all day in a stuffy Downtown LA Courthouse waiting to see if I was gonna be chosen as a juror. To pass the time, I sat and drew some of my fellow potential jurors. A few weeks back I had the misfortune of being stuck in the very same building, and again passed the time sketching away. This time, however...after I cleverly talked myself out of serving - as I walked through DTLA's California Plaza, I was delighted to have stumbled upon THE Kenny G. doing a sound check for a concert he was apparently performing there later that evening. OK, maybe I'm exaggerating how excited I actually was, but it was a cool moment nonetheless. As I watched him, I KID YOU NOT, the natural outdoor breeze was dramatically blowing his hair as if he was in a music video or something. It was dreamy. I quickly got out my sketchbook and decided to sketch him, just as he was wrapping up. All in all, not a bad day in LA.

Jim Morrison circa 1994

"It took me like three hours to finish the shading on your upper lip. It's probably the best drawing I've ever done."
This was one of my first "good" drawings I ever made. I was 14 years old, and this was an assignment for my art class. I probably could have gotten a lot of girls with this drawing alone, too bad I was such a shy introvert. Ah well, at least I kept at it and made a career out of it. Art, that is.

Some ladies

Digital sketches

A couple of digital sketches from photo reference, including Walter Cronkite

Burly Bearded Baddies

Well, mustachioed at least. Playing around with proportions and moustaches for some bad guys I'm designing.

Older faces

A collection of older faces I never got around to posting until now, including a Sophia Loren I never finished and a Hans Christian Andersen.

A few faces + Wonder Woman

The the gist of these were drawn at Patrick Morgan's Animation Nation talk in Burbank last week. I did a few sketches of Patrick himself...I'm not sure why I always seem to draw him so haggard looking - my bad dude! The Wonder Woman was drawn on the back of a receipt, I do that sometimes.

Splash Page for ActionAllStars.com

Did this as a splash page for the Time Warp Adventure level for ActionAllStars.com The plan was to make it look like a Drew Struzan Indiana Jones poster, who is definitely one of the reasons I love drawing faces to this day. I think I still have a piece lying around somewhere from when I was like 14 when I tried to copy one of his Star Wars posters . This was indeed a fun piece.

Here are the thumbnails - the story for this level is: there's a turf monster terrorizing the construction site of a new football field, and work can't continue until he is caught. So it is up to you to find and capture this mysterious monster.


Update: here's the final image as used on the site.

Ballpoint Fun

Just some doodles with a ballpoint pen

Gallery Girls @ the Downtown LA Artwalk - 1/13/11

Mexico Nov 2010

I spent a day of my vacation in Mexico to draw some of the passers by in the plaza of the city where my parents grew up, Cuidad Guzman, Jalisco.

Drink & Draw

These were people that attended a Drink & Draw event at Casey's Irish Pub in Downtown Los Angeles.

Celebs - 2010

Drew most of these shorty after Michael Jackson's death, just got around to scanning them. Got a few Jacko's in there, an Elliott Smith and some Billy Corgans, and unrecognizable (but I like how I drew him) Anthony Bourdain, and some poker players.

Comic Con and E3 - 2010

People watching from E3 and Comic Con - 2010

WHALEBOY 3D!!!

Is it a whale? Is it a boy? No, it's Whaleboy, stupid! That's right, boys and girls...Everybody's favorite boy-in-a-whale-costume-with-a-sucker fish-attached-to-his-head is now available in stunning 3-D!!! I made this CG model in what little spare time I had for my buddy Patrick Morgan to show at this year's Comic Con - unfortunately there were technical difficulties and we couldnt get a smooth quicktime of the rendered animating turnaround in time for the masses to behold. Here are some screen grabs I got - I just hope I did the Whaleboy fans proud.


Update: Here is a shot of the Whaleboy I modeled, fully posed and blown up for Patrick's booth at this year's Comic Con. I was pretty stoked to see that!

Gallery Girls 5-17-10

Theme was Super Girl & Wonder Woman - the models started in one outfit, and slowly stripped off layers to reveal their super hero outfits underneath. That was pretty cool.