Run Jelloid Run!

Did this yesterday!! Woowowoooo. This was an idea I had for my strip but it may not. Marker. Worked from back to front trying to get a foggy effect and it looks better small. Anyway, enjoy.

BERZERK

Crazy primal guy from Mars.

A heavy memory

Dok
was
Caught
Red-Handed
with a
Tuesday
Drawing
on
Monday

Early Tuesday Monster Mash

Paper and pen and nothin' else... on a whim I bought some Pilot Razor Point pens for sketching with. I remember using them when I was a kid and loving them, so I thought I would give them another go. This page is just a bunch of drawings of a snow monster that I'm trying to design for fun. I like the top and bottom left guys the best. I seem to be in a "gorilla proportions" rut right now...

What is it about my babyhood that invites derision?

Click on the mystery Icon to see the Flash animation Dave Adams (co worker, Monkeytropolis) did when he saw one of my freak baby pictures.

For The Gorilla Fans

Have you seen this? A guy here at work claims it's 4 years old. I hadn't seen it...
http://www.ilm.com/ilmshorts.html

Evil Ellis Baby, "Mother...it's time to breast feed again."

Sorry, got too busy to post yesterday but I did draw this yesterday. Does that count?? I originally drew this then added the title. Sorry Ellis but I think adding the title adds another dimension to an otherwise bland drawing.

No valentine here...

... just a craggy alien dude.

"Cupid will NOT be defeated." - Outkast

On her way out the door
Ellie found a valentine
from a secret admirer.

Quick and Green

I may have oversold the idea I was going to do a cyborg.

Missed a Page on The Brubaker Article

I didn't scan the whole ED article in Wizard. So I've added the first page here. i'm going to do my sketch when I get home tonight so i'm all set for my Tuesday Post. Jeff, my Mom didn't come up with that Flying Saucers Over Gravelly article. I cut and pasted some of her letters to give it the flavor of her writing and then did the first and last paragraph myself. I did it to get a horrified reaction out of her.

It's not Tuesday!

Non-Tuesday drawing! More Sci-Fi goodness!

Swine Wars

Obi Ham Kenobi:"Your father wanted you to have this, it's called a "Link Saber".

Pork Stywalker:"You knew my father?"

Obi Ham Kenobi:"The operative word here is knew. "I cut his legs and arm off and served them for Easter dinner."

Also, Here's something you'll find amusing:

rrrrrrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnhhhh

Considering last weeks post I'm on a Star Wars kick I guess.

Quickey Blobby post apocalypse thingey

I doodled till I had something

TWO-FER TUESDAY!

The slightest invitational gesture was all Ollie
needed to begin his interpretive
"red apron dance."

And it doesn't need a tip... Sckribl inpired this one with all that robot stuff he does... and it feels good to do a Sci Fi kinda thing from time to time. Not much chance to do that at the office!

Trying to TAG Jam another way...

I was planning on adding to the TAG Jam but it seems like alot of steps to do one. (aka I'm lazy) Can we try this one where it doesn't involve anything else but clicking on a link?? Try this:

Artpad

This is an online painting program where you can draw something and then play it back and watch it draw! Kinda like the old animated shorts where a paintbrush washes across the screen and a drawing magically appears. Only cooler.

Here's one I started:

Attak of the Conez!

The Jam would work like the last one. In the commments section, claim the right to draw, draw and then say that you are done and passing it on. Then the next person do the same thing. This will eliminate cross-drawing. If you want to start one yourself you have to click on the "save and send" button to the left, then click on "don't want to send to a friend but want a link click here" (it's in the middle of the dialog box). It will generate a link and you just copy and paste. Voila! Sound like fun? This would be done over time so no rush. This is all in my mind so there might be bugs. Anybody game?? You can tell me to go jump in a lake also.

This is primarily to help Krayonzilla to get off his duff and join the drawing madness!! :-P

OK. Here I added to Jeff's painting. Well It didn't work beacuse I lost track of my url. But I mailed it to myself at work. i'll add it tomorrow, Great Idea though. It's very fun.

Tuesday Night Drawing

Here's my Tuesday night drawing. I'm up in the bay area for the rest of the week, but my brother has a scanner hooked up to his computer so I'm able to post.

I've wanted to do a gorilla for a while now as a "hello" to Ellis, so here it is!

Happy Tuesday, folks! There's no story behind this thing, it's just a weird thing that came to mind. I would like to take this opportunity to plug my version of Skribl's cool comic strip- http://thraxisjr.blogspot.com/ - which can be found at: http://rickart.blogspot.com/

It's What's for Dinner

Heyas,

It's tuesday and my girl has fish on her mind.

ok
Dok

Tuesday Drawring!

Chewbacca ponders that age-old question...

And for the new peeps that have joined us, welcome!! FYI we post a scribble every tuesday. It doesn't have to be amazing as you can see by my post. So post up!

French Spaceman

Here's my almost Tuesday sketch . I'm 8 minutes early

The first Jam!

Okay, here's the Rules: Who ever wants to contribute to the drawing next needs to say so on the comment page of this post. Then that person saves this picture on their hard drive, makes their contribution and then makes a new post and uploads the new image. Then the next person comments on that post and so on. Do not post a "dibs" comment unless you have the time to do it immediately, so as to not make someone else wait around till you get to it. If you don't have the means to draw directly into the image from your computer, print out the drawing, draw on it and scan it back in. Sound good?
Have at it!

Ellis Here. I broke the rules. I just dropped my art in with no check out. I was just ready to go. I can see problems with doing that but hopefully i get away with it this time.

Tripod Sings Frustration

Just wanted to try out this cool new feature from Google Video. Plus it's a funny as hell video to boot!

Lovecraft Jack and Beanstalk

This was done for a Character design class I took at Gnomon. The idea was re invent Jack and The Beanstalk. i did an H.P. Lovecraft take on it.

In Case any of you missed it in Wizard magazine, an article about another TAG member. Ed Brubaker. In the article he is certainly given ample opportunity to mention TAG in connection to his drug taking nadir but doesn't.

My Tuesday Scribble

My little scribble!

BTW great drawing Tom!

Tuesday Morning Sketch

O.K. Here's mine, created this very Tuesday morning, just for TAG. Like your drawing Rick; Mr. Dorious I presume? And maybe a monster from your second monster story?

It's Tuesday... it must be drawing day!

a blog of note...

Here's a blog with a bunch of interviews with different character designers:
http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/
I haven't had much of a chance to read the interviews, but a skimming of the art makes it a must-go-to site.

It also has a bunch of very nice looking sketchbooks for sale:
http://sketchmart-sketchbooks.blogspot.com/

Dave Fenderson! Dave Fenderson, dammit! Finally, I remembered!

Okay, carry on.

R0B0T0P!A

So I also have a personal blog and it' s only a week old. I added a link to the right there. See? In the links section?? See? See?

It was spun off of another blog started by a couple of guys at work . See StoryBoredom on the right? See? See?

I started doing a daily strip (which is explained in both blogs) to get me drawing again. And it's working. I really look forward to doing it and it only takes a 20-30 minutes to draw and upload. Lots of fun and not alot of mental anguish time. You know, that little voice in your head that tells you that it's not good and to start over??

Click on over and tell me what you think??

Disney to buy Pixar?

Hey, I heard on the radio this morning that Disney is looking to buy Pixar. I'm having trouble seeing the good in this... anyone else out there know anything about it?

The Night of the Mollusk

Brains....BRAINS

My Tuesday Doodle

Happy Tuesday! Save me a slice of bananna cream pie at Denny's!

Here's my Tuesday drawing! It's of a character from a novel I recently completed called "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel". I liked the book a lot... this image is Norrel.

Argh, image didn't post. Trying again. Everyone says I'm very trying.

Unearthing Tag

Dok Whitson here - glad to join the throng. Delighted that Jeff got this going! Hope I'm doing it right (thanks Tom Moon if so). This drawing was done this morning, so it's got that quality if no other!

My other BLOG

I'm going to try and load this Blog up with a lot of art, mainly digital painting. It needs editing because I was dabbling and communicating with my Mom about how easy Blogging was while it was giving me headaches.

http://moldbreaker.blogspot.com/

Yesterday I started using my new MiniMac as the way I get online. No more virus worries. YEAH!
....except I can't make a web address a link the way i could with my PC. I right click and get the option to make a link, I publish it, and it's not a link. Oh well. you'll have to cut and paste.

Oops.

Sorry. For those of you who don't know me, Tom Moon is my real name and I am the author of the last three posts.

Let's Try Another

Hello to MJM, Scotty Buncake, Krayonzilla, and Podboy. I don't think we have met. I am a video games artist and comic book collector.

MJM, I have heard your name mentioned often. I'm a children's book collector. I have many works by the likes of Michael Hague, Leo and Dianne Dillon, Anthony Browne, Roy Gerard, P.J. Lynch and many others. I went to both your web sites. You do beautiful work.

Ellis, good to hear from you. How have you been? I love your web site too.

Picture Test

O.K. Now I will try posting a picture. I was not a member of the original TAG group, though I wish I had been. Since I know over half of you from BlueSky Games, I thought I would join in and meet the rest of you. I'm currently working on Everquest 2 at Sony Online and looking for a reason to keep sketching regularly.

Hello

Hello?

This is my first post ever, anywhere. Did I do this right?

Dave Decoteau?!

I found a picture of Dave thanks to A9.com. Time's been good to some of us.

MOST OF THE DENNY JAMS

If you'd like more of this incredible artwork...

http://www.ellisgoodson.com/resume_files/Tag/

You'll now find all 29 pages, two tag jams per page. 58 jams, reduced to a much smaller size. Enjoy

I had forgotten how funny they are.

Done for a Character design Course.

Thanks to some friends inviting me to join another Blog, I'm finally getting the hang of how to post and edit Blog stuff. The only point of this exercise will be to show off my art. Posting pictures. This painting reflects some skills newly acquired in photoshop. Primarily duplicating layers, adjusting the duplicates color, darkness, color balance etc, then making it an alpha channel that I mix back into the original. Because color painting gives me so much anxiety ( I'm color blind) I first finish the painting as a gray value study and then colorize it with a complimentary color scheme. Here it's mostly orange and blue.

Job Openings

We have a couple of art postions open at Turbine, if anyone out there knows someone who is looking for work.
http://www.cytiva.com/cejobs/cojobsTurbine.asp

OK, Thanks Jeff. I get it now

I was trying to get pictures into my post by clicking on the "BlogIt" button at the top of the page. Jeff directed me to sign in on the home page of Blogspot, navigate to "new post" for TAG's blog and then I can find the buttons I need. I dig it . It's great to see that foto of all of us when some of us were kids. Thanks for posting that.
The above is Sgt Scorpion. Done for some soldier in Iraq who advertised for a cartoonist on AWN.

For anyone interested , I have a HUGE PDF of doodles. 109 pages! It takes about 2 minutes to load with a DSL connection. It is titled IDLE HANDS because it represents all the idling I did in my last job. Every one of those doodles was done during the work day. I think I owe somebody a paycheck or two.

http://www.ellisgoodson.com/ComicBook/IdleHands.pdf

http://ellisgoodson.com

Hey guys. The link above takes you to my current website. I would have been here sooner but Blog is too sophisticated for me to understand.

I want everybody to do this Tuesday sketch deal.

Just signed on, here's my Tuesday Sketch

I sent Ed's info to Jeff, so maybe he'll be joining us soon.

My (Belated) Tuesday Drawing!

Here's mine! I did draw it on Tuesday though.

Here's mine! Happy Tuesday!

Let's Get Shaking!

Hey you guys, we need some activity here! (I'm just recovering from that lovely California flu and finally have some energy back.) Who all have you invited? Do we need to send them personal nags? What about a Tuesday "assignment"? (Here's a sketch from my latest book "Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick")

I just noticed that for some reason my BookArtists info is showing up in my profile.

Comic-Con: July 6th, 1991

Who are these folks?? This is a contest. The first person to identify all of the people in the picture wins a prize from me! Special bonus points for identifying the guy standing next to "the fellow with the fedora." And special special bonus point for who took the picture. Have fun!!

This is the only photo I have of the group. It's been hanging in my studio ever since 1991.

TuesdayArtGroup: Pixar at MoMA

Ronnie Del Carmen

Jeff Pidgeon

Pixar at MoMA

Over the holiday break, I went to see the Pixar art show at MoMA in NYC... very cool! There were lots of sculptures and concept drawings, story boards and "colorscripts".
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/pixar.html

Lego Writeup

I was written up in issue #2 of Brickjournal, new Lego Magazine catering to adult fans. It showcases my nerdiness for plastic robots!

Here's the link:
Brickjournal


It's a PDF file so you need to download it from the sidebar on the left.

One correction though. They say that I am "Head of Story for Sony Pictures Animation" but I am only "Head of Story" for Surf's Up.

:-B

request

I don't seem to have access to the links section of the blog... I thought that might be a good place for any TAG person to put a link to their own site... such as Skribbl's Lego site. Also, our good friend Marty has a blog that we could post there: http://www.eurochino.blogspot.com/ , and of course my own site... www.rickschmitz.com

Hello there!

Rick here! Although I've been reading blogs for years I've never contributed to one before. Once I figure it out, perhaps I'll start a Jam Drawing to really make this authentic... then all I'll need is a Denny's chocolate malt...

Oh Sweet Bootay

I drew this today while talking to somebody. I picked up a fairly dry brushpen and my mind just filled in the blanks. Now the question is: Is it a man or woman???

Teaching My Mom To Blog Long Distance

The Picture is of my Dad. He is quite a fisherman / hunter. Probably killed a deer for every year of his life. Many of the shots being going away shots using the white tail to focus his concentration and aim.

He also has some computer skills. Unfortunately my Mom doesn't like to discuss coomputers with him or let him touch her computer unless absolutely necessary.

So this is the kind of letter I'm sending to my Mom to teach her to Blog....

Mom,

Sure you can start an account. Just follow the
directions.

Here's a dumb one I did.

http://moldbreaker.blogspot.com/2005/11/i-dont-have-business-card.html

I haven't done a new entry since I started it because
I lost the password. And the Blogspot people haven't
sent it to me even though I went through the password
recovery procedure. I don't care. I'm not a blogger.
There is nothing I want to comment on.

Go here...

http://www.blogger.com/start

click on that red arrow that says "create Your Blog
Now." and follow the steps. They are easy steps. Just
don't be dumb like me and forget your password. Also
bookmark the page after you finish typing and pasting
graphics on it.

Mom,I'm going to teach you to cut and paste. It's
easier than making mud pies. You know your right hand
button on your mouse.? You use that button for "right
clicking."

1.Right Click your mouse cursor over a word in one of
your articles and a menu pops up.

2.Select the words "Select All." That will 'highlight'
all the text in your article.

3.Right click over that slected text and the menu pops
up again. This time pick "Copy."

All that selected text is now being held in memory
until you turn the computer off or select something
else and copy that.

4.Put your cursor over the window where you are
supposed to type in your blog and right click and
bring up the menu again.

5.This time select "Paste." Your entire article will
appear in the new window. That is cutting and pasting.

Here is a page that explains what you are doing.
Pointing and clicking...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-and-click

Just the presence of that address above is an example
of cutting and pasting. I selected the address, right
clicked, copied and "pointed" my mouse cursor into the
body of this letter, right clicked again and Pasted.

When you see a picture you like on the internet you
right click on it and select "save picture as." and
save it some place on your hard drive. Of course this
is also a way to get viruses so it's not necessarily
recommended.

I had a good week. Except for some very bad commuting
when we had a little rain. Today was Veteran's Day and
that amount of Government workers that were off today
made the commute just perfect. Didn't stop once. Cut
the time by two thirds. So I solved the problem of Los
Angeles gridlock on the freeway. Just make Los
Angleles Government employees into MANDATORY mas
transit users. There. It's so simple I'm surprised no
one else ever thought of it.

Hope you and Dad and doing good. Tell him Hi.

Write me if you figued my instructions out
successfully. Bye now. Love you.

Ellis

This is the sort
Of thing I want my Mom blogging. And the reason I felt it was necessary
to give her cut and paste instruction. She writes a column called "Gravelly".
This sample is from a couple of weeks ago, Nov 05 , 2005

Subject: Gravelly news byG lenna Goodson

Two blondes with hammers, Becky and Sally Ann, were doing some carpentry work on a house.Becky who was nailing down house siding, would reach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail and either toss it over her shoulder or nail it in.Sally Ann,figuring this was worth looking into asked,"Why are you throwing those nails away?" Becky explained,"When I pull a nail out of the pouch, about half of them have the head on the wrong end and I throw them away." Sally Ann got completely upset and yelled. "You moron!Those nails are not defective!They're for the other side of the house!"

The Scott County comedian, Tommy Vanover, told a story I just must pass on to you. Several years ago when his daughter was getting married, she prompted her Dad as to what to say before the minister. She says,"Now Dad, when the minister says,"Who gives this woman to be married to this man,"Don't say"Maw and me," say "her mother and I." As they were marching down the aise of a full church, Tommy stops, pulls his pockets wrong side out and says,Honey you got it all."I'm sure he had the support of the pohotographer cause he took Tommy's picture, showing his empty pockets.

At Rover Baptist Church Wednesday night we were reminded to pray for a minister's family in Texas. The minister was baptizing a lady, reached up and touched the microphone, and was electrocuted. After services, Johnny Turner said to me,"I don't believe I've ever heard of anyone dying in church."I told him I knew of a man dying of a heart attack while in church andJohnny says"Were you talking to him?" It's Johnny's belief that I will talk you to death!!

Gene James stopped Tuesday to visit with Fred. He told me I could come pick turnip greens from his patch and also have some turnips. I tried to find Gene and Margaret home today but never did, so Fred and I went to the turnip patch and picked turnip greens. I'm going to cook them to take to Loucinda's Saturday night.

I was visiting Loucinda last week and O.L. Briggs came by to visit. Since I really love stories ofthe "good ole days", I really enjoyed listening to O.L's stories. He shared that in 1942, he taught a "term:" of school, which was 4 months, in Dillon,Ar. He had goneto Ar. Tech for 2 years and he said he was not seeking a teaching job, but when the school board at Dillon asked him to teach one term, he accepted. He taught first grade through sixth. There were 12 children enrolled and an average attendance of 6. His salary was $50 per month. He said his school children presented a Christmas program forthe community and he was proud of the results. He ate his first coon whle he was teaching and said he did not care for it and never ate another coon.O.L. is almost 90 years of age and he still works with cattle and in the hay. He was more "perky" then either Loucinda or me!!

Friday, Loucinda, Mamie Glover and I went to Waldron to see my cousin, Dortha Putman. Dortha had cancer surgery 2 weeks ago in Fayetteville and she'd gone back to the doctor Wednesday. He told her the surgery was a success and urged her not to bend or do any work for one month. Her sister, Peggy, is taking good care of her. We took food and visited in the afternoon. The beautiful leaves were just outstanding as we traveled to and from Waldron.

Gerald, at Gerald';s Automative in Danville, ordered me a car door handle and put it on for me last Wednesday. I went from there to the Dollar Store. When I left the store---you guessed it--I turned the wrong way.After about 3 miles, I realized I was going the wrong way, and turned around. I need one of those directional finders like my daughter has on her car. I got a kick out of that technology as I was riding with her. Imagine a voice saying,"in 2 blocks, turn left," then, "3 more blocks and you are there." and then I laughed when the voice says,"you are here." Now, that's what I need, a voice to tell me "You are here."

I want to remind you that the day the next Record is published, the 10th, my little great-granddaughter, is having her eye surgery in Kansas. She's only 21 months so please pray for her. Her name is Allyson Goodson.

Cindy Clements has outside cats.One of them ,named Easter, started "visiting" me. I let her in my house, fed her and allowed her to sleep in my bed. Fred came home and since he's never been fond of cats, I thought the cat would have to go but he likes this cat. I was sleeping late one morning and Fred said"that cat woke me up meowing for food. I told her I did not know where her food was and she went where her food was and scratched thesack for me to see." Now I am not affirming that story!!

I sent Michael Buford a Halloween card. Michael sent me back a card and it was addressed "Mrs Glenna" and inside the card he printed,:"Thank you for my card." Since Michael is only in first grade, I will treasure that personal card.

Debbie, the director of the Ola Fitness Center, is conducting a contest for those of us who want to participate. I don't know yet the time frame, but the one that loses the most weight is awarded 3 months free membership.She weighed and measured me last Wednesday. Sure wish I had not had to go back on insulin, and I might have a better chance of winning the contest. I asked Lorie, the pharmicist at Plainview, why you can hardly lose weight when you are on insulin and she said the insulin forces fat into your cells. What a bummer!!

I had checked out a book from the Danville library.My book was already overdue so I had it in my car Wednesday to return. I forgot, and when I was in Fowler's later in Plainview, I told Phyliss I would have to go back to Danville to return my book. She said she'd be glad to take my book back for me, as she drives that way on her way home. I appreciated her kindness.

Our granddaughter, Melissa, will be married Dec. 31st in OKC. She's in her second year in college and plans to finish school after she is married. All of us are pleased with Melissa's choice for a husband.. But I told Melissa she will be sorry her anniversary is so close to Christmas. Mine and Fred's anniversary is the 21st of Dec. and I'd like it not so close to Christmas. But after 52 years, it doesn't matter!

Diane Hunnicutt has sold her beauty shop. The lady that bought it will move the building and use it as a home for herself. Diane has already moved her tanning bed into her house and her beauty shop supplies. She will continue with a few customers in her home.

My granddaughter, Robyn, that is in a drug treatment center in Guthrie got her G.E.D high schooldiploma last week. I am so proud of her. She dropped out of school in 9th grade so she has not been in school for over 6 years but her test results were very good. You are required to score 2,250 points and Robyn scored 2,940. Your average score has to be 450 and Robyn scored 588.She's doing well and I am looking forward to seeing her drug free and whole again. Of course she can hardly wait to get her children, Jake and Allyson, back. I am so thankful that her brother, Ryan ,and his wife, Heather, were approved by the D.H.S and the kids have had a wonderful, loving home for almost a year now.

Time is flying,so don't waste a minute!!


Mom, a last word. You ca do it.