Massive Head Gap Tooth

Friday Morning Haggar

2011-12-02T10:04:00.002-05:00

Why? Because.....HEEEEEYOOOOOOUAAAAAH!

Illustration Friday: Silent

2011-11-11T16:52:00.002-05:00

Illustration Friday: Stripes

2011-11-09T17:27:00.002-05:00

Illustration Friday: FUEL

2011-10-26T18:21:00.001-04:00

From Life

2011-10-26T00:26:00.004-04:00

Anger and Hammers

2011-10-21T15:36:00.002-04:00

You must go see Drive.

Illustration Friday: Scatter

2011-10-21T00:22:00.003-04:00

Go Ninja! Go Ninja! GO!

Hipster couple

2011-09-21T23:15:00.000-04:00

Monday morning sketching

2011-08-22T11:10:00.003-04:00

ZOOOOOOOOooooooooooo

2011-08-08T08:07:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 78

2011-07-21T22:20:00.001-04:00

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa.....I dunno.

Equine

2011-07-17T01:26:00.002-04:00

Need to practice drawing more animals. They allude me and I think in general i usually draw faces. Trying to push myself to draw more things i don't usually draw. Push push push, get angry, get better.

Bryan Cranston is Gordon Freeman

2011-07-13T15:22:00.006-04:00

Ya? We all agree nerds? This must be done....

Also what if.....

Valve partnered with Capcom to make a Valve vs. Capcom fighting game....

AND...what if they had a move that was an in joke into breaking bad....

where Gordon shouts out....

yeaaaaaaaaaaaa....that would be awesome. Don't you agree? Also maybe he could tag in Jesse Pinkman for some crazy Super action.

Supa Mawio

2011-07-12T14:51:00.003-04:00

Need to draw more. Reach goals. Destroy laziness. Conquer fear.

Funky sweater

2011-06-06T00:57:00.000-04:00

Fu-Gee-La

2011-06-01T03:43:00.002-04:00

Rufffff

2011-05-03T10:51:00.001-04:00

Adventures in Pasadena

2011-05-03T02:35:00.001-04:00

Contrary to Old town's pristine image of being uber clean and rich, their are homeless folks all over the place. Here are some.

I hear that in the late 80s Pasadena wasn't such a great town.

skate or die?

2011-04-15T00:47:00.000-04:00

early 90s hipster

Caleb

2011-04-08T02:17:00.002-04:00

I'm in front of a wide screen monitor all day with a very nice wacom. Why the hell am i not producing a sketch every day. Cause I'm lazy pants. Gotta put on the drawing pants.

Nightmare sketchbook page 02

2011-03-14T22:07:00.003-04:00

This isn't actually the second or even the third image in the book but the fourth. The 2nd and 3rd pages were hitting a little too close to home in that they were images of one of my worst fears and nightmare which is nuclear fallout. Really creepy that I only drew it a month or two ago, and now well...

Nightmare sketchbook page 01

2011-03-06T04:35:00.002-05:00

I'm going to be posting a page from the Nightmare sketchbook i did probably once a day along with starting up What the Ffff again, cause I need to inject a bit o energy here on this blog.

It's rough moving coast to coast...almost like starting over, luckily with a laptop a wacom tablet and an internet connection one can work anywhere.

Oh yea and pencil and paper...heh.

I swear to god....

2011-03-06T04:21:00.001-05:00

I do draw....sometimes...

First finished sculpture! w00t!!!1

2010-12-19T22:08:00.006-05:00

Aw man my sculpture class with Dave Cortes is finished. It was AWESOME! Might be doing some work with him really soon that i'm excited about.

I think I did alright for a first sculpt. Here's some more detail:

It's silly that I don't sculpt more because I love it! I've already started scultping my next practice piece; Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln,) from the live action version of the Walking Dead!

Let's see how I do. Here's where I'm at so far:

Pretty awful at this point....lol. Lots of work to do!

Rejected food network art

2010-12-13T17:53:00.003-05:00

This was from a show opening I'm designing. It's going well and I'm pretty psyched that we're doing it in a sort of retro 60's UPA style. What I pitched to them was basically an homage to the Bewitched opening. I think that's why the went for it! WOOT!

What the Ffff #77

2010-12-08T09:03:00.003-05:00

Illustration Friday: Prehistoric

2010-12-07T18:59:00.004-05:00

My ancestor.

"Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic." ~ Keith Haring

I love Illustration Friday because it's such a simple fun idea that gets the gears in my head turning. I've missed a bunch but i've been thinking about it for so long. My only complaint is that their site is a little funky to navigate.

New Year is fast approaching...

I'm always sketching, but not nearly enough as I want to, or to grow as much as I'd like. 2011 is going be the year where I post, update, grow, push my online presence and style more than any other time before. This depends entirely on my drawing constantly with no excuses.

Working on a Nightmare themed book for the sketchbook project and I need to get my ass moving on that pronto. Will be posting that as I make 'em.

Heroes

2010-11-24T12:39:00.001-05:00

Made for the comics episode on the New York Geekcast.

Rejected Art

2010-11-09T16:08:00.003-05:00

Didn't get into Too Art for TV yet again. Oh well. Pretty happy with this piece.

Hoodwinked

2010-10-29T21:55:00.002-04:00

Happy Halloween!

Mouf

2010-10-06T15:21:00.002-04:00

Here's an image from my sketchbook that's a part of the Sketchbook Project. Guess what my theme is?

What the Ffff # 76

2010-09-03T11:52:00.002-04:00

Illustration friday: Immovable

2010-09-02T21:45:00.002-04:00

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

~ Charles Baudelaire

What the Ffff # 75

2010-08-30T10:25:00.001-04:00

What the Fffff # 74

2010-08-27T12:18:00.002-04:00

Big bullies need big unibrows.

Illustration Friday: Stargazer

2010-08-20T00:21:00.002-04:00

"You taught me the names of the stars overhead that I wrote down in my ledger
Though all I knew of the rote universe were those Pleiades loosed in December
I promised you I'd set them to verse so I'd always remember

That the meteorite is a source of the light
And the meteor's just what we see
And the meteoroid is a stone that's devoid of the fire that propelled it to thee"

~Joanna Newsom, "Emily"

Illustration Friday: Caged

2010-08-10T12:11:00.004-04:00

"Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about." ~ Saskya Pandita

This will also be in my "nightmares" sketchbook for the Sketchbook Project.

Illustration Friday: Artificial

2010-08-10T11:41:00.003-04:00

Behind on illustration friday trying to catch up. Ergh.

K.I.S.S. ideas

2010-08-09T23:37:00.002-04:00

Jet Pack

Tooth Pull

Illustration Friday: Breakfast

2010-07-22T21:29:00.002-04:00

Mother, Father and Little Eggy. One big happy family.

Illustration Friday: Diary

2010-07-17T11:41:00.002-04:00

Meh. I'm behind. Here's "diary" and "giant"

Illustration Friday: Satellite

2010-07-02T01:09:00.008-04:00

A love triangle in space. Two satellites in love with the same planetoid. Star crossed lovers.

Also i missed last week's topic which was Paisley. I found this challenging!

Illustration Friday: Ripple

2010-06-15T01:15:00.002-04:00

Fiddler crab VS. Oil Schmuck!

Oil stands no chance against that big ole claw.

Late Illustration Friday for 6/11: Trail

2010-06-15T01:01:00.003-04:00

Internet was down and didn't get to post.

When I thought of the theme i thought of Bilbo Baggins from my favorite book The Hobbit.

Not too happy with this one, but I'm keeping it up. Will have to do Bilbo and Tolkien justice next time.

Illustration Friday: Slither

2010-06-03T18:39:00.003-04:00

Not all things that slither are villainous.

Lots of mistakes all about but overall I'm happy I tried to push both the narrative and composition and I think it sort of works.

Need to use more time to work on these in general.

Also cleaned my palette this time around and used my winsor & newton brushes instead of my quick travel brushes.

What do you think?

Illustration Friday: Early

2010-05-28T00:15:00.002-04:00

The early bird catches the worm...or a beating by the worm's older brother who likes to wear sleeveless turtleneck sweaters.

The original quote was:

“No man goes before his time, unless the boss leaves early.” ~ Groucho Marx

Illustration Friday: Equipment

2010-05-21T00:10:00.004-04:00

Took me 3 tries before I made something I liked. BAH! Ever have that problem?!? Frustrating as hell. But kept pushing and was happy with this!

Based on mah buddy.

"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."
-Christopher Morley

Sketchcrawl 2010 # 2

2010-05-16T11:54:00.002-04:00

Here's a sketch from the second sketchcrawl of this year. This was at the Harlem meer in Central Park.

I did ONE sketch. How lame.

Maybe I'll do more sketchcrawling today.

Illustration Friday: Fearless

2010-05-13T09:21:00.003-04:00

YES! A day early!

I was going to give this to my mom for mothers day but I'm a lazy git.

Quote:

“The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.” ~unknown

Illustration Friday: Cocoon

2010-05-07T02:04:00.004-04:00

A.K.A. Man Child...in his cocoon of geekiness. Don't worry he'll emerge a beautiful butterfly!

But I think the chosen quote sums it up better (I also kind of twisted the cocoon part of the quote around...oh vell!)

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ~ Aldous Huxley

Illustration Friday: Ahead

2010-04-30T00:14:00.003-04:00

YAY! I made something for Illustration Friday for the first time!

Don't know why I didn't join this sooner. It's awesome and actually has me doing stuff. Lots of fun stuff on their site.

Quote for this theme:

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ~Henry David Thoreau

Title card doodle

2010-04-21T18:30:00.001-04:00

Working on an animated title card for my reel. Some quick thumbs.

Big Head Comic # 1

2010-04-19T11:22:00.001-04:00

What the Ffff # 73: CatManDoo!

2010-04-16T14:43:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff #73 is actually...

Catmandoo!

Champion wrestler and mediocre Elvis impersonator.

He is both Cat and Man...with one fierce doo!

Knowing well his hatred of cats his arch rival Shamaniac (2 time champion; though both outcomes were protested,) sprinkled magical dandruff reducing dusty stuff on his head....turning his head...and other undisclosed parts of his body...into a Cat!

"I haaaaaaaaaate cats....rather be a hound dog baby." says Catmandoo.

Shamaniacs treachery backfired, because this man cat is on the prowl and has nabbed himself the championship belt!

"Hail to the cat baby!"

For Funsies

2010-04-08T17:47:00.002-04:00

Fresh wares for the collecting!

2010-02-26T22:40:00.000-05:00

Shapesmith Volume 1

2010-02-22T00:31:00.002-05:00

Saturday, February 27th I'll be selling my new sketch book...Shape smith Volume 1 at The New York Comic Book Marketplace.

It's jammed packed with all sorts of funky shape drawings that came from my massive head!

It's $10 to get in. I'll also be selling prints and my Monsters Book alongside the beautiful Cynthea Mazur who will also have beautiful prints to sell!

Come by and pick up some great artwork yo!

Very soon I'll be putting up a store here on the blog and on my site where I'll be selling prints, Shape smith, Monsters and a new mini-comic I've been working on!

GET READY 2010 I'm about to kick your ass! UGH! OW!.....my big toe.....

It's rated ARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

2010-02-15T23:09:00.000-05:00

What the Ffff # 72

2010-01-27T11:02:00.000-05:00

Luigi

2010-01-26T22:43:00.003-05:00

I guess I'm on a Nintendo trip. This was a shape drawing. Trying to do that more often. Though....I should be doing it all the time...trouble is that it's not second nature for me sometimes.

How does he do it?

2010-01-25T17:05:00.002-05:00

Link....ah Link. How the hell are you carrying around so much crap on your adventure? Maybe it's cause you're an elf. And elves have magical pockets?

Ah hell I don't know.

What the Ffff # 71

2010-01-12T11:52:00.001-05:00

What the Ffff # 70

2010-01-11T18:28:00.002-05:00

Inspired by my buddy David Haines and his Dinosaur Lawyers.

What the Ffff # 69

2010-01-08T10:31:00.002-05:00

Fisherman Delgado

2010-01-08T01:19:00.003-05:00

My buddy Pedro in a former life. Or is this his hobby after dark? I have spotted him along the coast on my sea travels, hauling crab out of a net no less.

Apple Girl Complete

2010-01-05T19:41:00.003-05:00

A while ago I posted a sketch of this Apple Girl Illustration I was working on. I finally completed.

I'm really happy with it because while I feel like I'm really good at using watercolor for sketching from life or just coloring a character quickly I find it harder to plan an illustration with watercolor. When I do finish one I usually don't like it.

This one was different because I thought about it for a bit (way too long,) and created a color thumbnail for it which helped immensely. I also had a false start but it proved to be useful since the second time was much easier and I felt more prepared to finish it off.

I'm going to be making more Illustrations like these in the future.

Happy New Year

2010-01-04T14:57:00.003-05:00

Just in time for.....oops....nothing...everything has passed.

Picking up the gauntlet for 2010: The Year Nelson makes Contact with.......himself....EWWWW! No that's gross.

Here's something family friendly to start us off right!

Expect much more this week.

What The Ffff # 68

2009-12-23T12:06:00.001-05:00

What the Ffff # 67

2009-11-24T09:17:00.001-05:00

What the Ffff # 66

2009-11-20T08:13:00.002-05:00

What the Ffff # 65

2009-11-19T08:38:00.002-05:00

What the Ffff # 64

2009-11-18T07:55:00.002-05:00

What the Ffff # 63

2009-11-17T09:25:00.003-05:00

Score my t-shirt

2009-11-02T17:21:00.002-05:00

Hey guys,

So my design made it onto Threadless.com but it's not a shirt you can
buy yet!

For that to happen you have to score it within the next seven days.

If it works out not only can you then order a cool shirt but you can help me win a prize. YAY! I love prizes....you too?!?

Please tell your friends and family and even your pet parrot Bonkers!

Threadless design

2009-10-29T15:01:00.003-04:00

And here it is on threadless:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/239030/Animal_Lover

This is just a tribute...

2009-10-28T12:33:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 62 and diatribe about content

2009-10-26T17:47:00.004-04:00

So i don't usually write too much here but something dawned on me today that i think is worth discussing.

I was working on a new site design. This is probably like the eighth version i've come up with and that's not including designs that didn't make it up.

With the main page finished I couldn't think of what the layout should be for the next couple of pages that would've held the art, animation, and bio.

In frustration I checked out my site recently and I realized why I used wordpress again.

The reason was: Simplicity.

Wordpress made it so simple to update the blog and fill it with CONTENT instead of worrying about the aesthetic of it.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. A stylish website will only exhibit the taste of the artist. But when it comes down to the nitty gritty It's the art that the site is made up of that really matters.

After I remembered this I stopped working on the site in photoshop and took out an illustration I hadn't finished.

To the core, what really frustrates me is that I don't have the type of content I want or enough of it.

And so content is what I shall make in the coming days....art...heaps and heaps of it.

First step is more what the ffff sketches.

Anyone else out there frustrated with their output?

What the Ffff # 61

2009-10-16T21:46:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 60

2009-10-15T10:32:00.001-04:00

Turkey and Spain part 2

2009-10-13T12:11:00.007-04:00

Here is the Hagia Sophia from the top of our hotel where we ate breakfast every morning. Turkish breakfast is basically raw materials....hard boiled eggs, tomatoes, cheeses, bread, olives, yogurt.

Various Spaniards.
I love that they have packaged sugar cubes, which seems a little ridiculous to me. But when you see them in a jar all together they make one smile. I really liked this one bakeries sugar cube packets because it had this jolly looking cook on it.

Random Turks sitting outside the Blue Mosque.

Some Turks fishing on the Bosphorus river.

Outside the cathedral in Toledo, Spain.

Turkey and Spain part 1

2009-10-02T11:23:00.005-04:00

Cynthea and I just arrived back from visiting Turkey and Spain this past monday. The trip was amazing!

Before we set out I had decided I really wanted to try and emulate the great Enrico Casarosa's Venice Chronicles which I love so much.

Unfortunately, it was much too difficult to do this at the end of the day after crawling over ruins at Ephesos or just walking around all day.

I did however start the first two pages at the airport. Maybe I'll add more.

Below is the Isa Bey Mosque which is right next to St. John's Basilica. What's interesting is that because they pray five times a day you hear the calls from there minarets which birds seem to really love.

Tea is huge in Turkey! HUGE! I know Tea is huge all over the world except probably the US but i mean....everywhere we went....people just downed Tea like it was ambrosia.

These are a bunch of random Turkish folks that we saw outside of the Blue Mosque. We were sitting at a row of benches where guys were screaming out "CHAI, CHAI, CHAI!" It's so crazy to me that there are TEA salesmen on the street that go around screaming this. It's great!

That old guy bottom row in the middle screamed at this lollipop vendor kid for some reason....cranky old men exist everywhere. EVERYWHERE.

This last image is from Madrid, Spain at the Buen Retiro Park. This park made me realize how much i love central park and prospect park and Olmstead's idea of what a park should be. Cause Buen Retiro was all manicured and very much man made looking. Gravel paths, bushes fencing off every grass patch, and trees cut to look like poodles....yeach! More to come!

What the Ffff # 57, 58

2009-09-10T08:50:00.002-04:00

Ma foi!
"My finger points!"

What the Ffff # 55, 56

2009-09-08T08:08:00.003-04:00

Legendary sports figures. Bobby Porterhouse, the forward on the Texas grill 'ems and Giuliano Alimentari, international superstar golfer and mustache officionado.

What the Ffff # 52, 53

2009-09-06T11:30:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 50, 51

2009-09-04T08:38:00.000-04:00

's infinite playlist

What the Ffff # 48, 49

2009-09-02T09:05:00.001-04:00

What the Ffff # 45, 46, 47

2009-08-31T07:13:00.003-04:00

What the Ffff # 44

2009-08-27T08:38:00.003-04:00

What the Ffff # 43

2009-08-26T08:38:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 42

2009-08-25T08:31:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 39, 40, 41

2009-08-24T08:31:00.000-04:00

What the Ffff # 38

2009-08-21T08:40:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 37

2009-08-18T07:50:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 36

2009-08-17T07:51:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 34 & 35

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What the Ffff # 33

2009-08-14T08:38:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 30

2009-08-13T07:49:00.002-04:00

What the Ffff # 31

2009-08-12T07:28:00.000-04:00

What the Ffff # 28, 29, 30

2009-08-11T23:24:00.000-04:00

What the Ffff # 25, 26, 27

2009-08-07T20:03:00.002-04:00

Truly what the fff...I've been in front of the computer for too long in one location. What do you see?