It's 9:47 AM

It will be a couple of hours before Krayonzilla discovers what I did to his art. See what I mean about white space. That's the main reason I wanted to mess with it to make the point to let your art breath.

Click Title to see the art fully realized as a Tat. (slightly adult)

It's 6:40am

Playing around with an idea, kind of Michael Moorcock: inspired.

I'm beat! been up all night sketching...I'm going to bed.

Jeff Podacst on Tall Tales Radio

Title is a link to the podcast.
Tom Racine questions Jeff ....

[t’s time to talk to Jeff Ranjo, story artist at Disney, and John Sanford, story artist at Dreamworks…between them, over 30 years of animation experience, having worked on films like “Surf’s Up,” “Mulan,” “Chicken Little” and “Home on the Range.” John also does the brilliant webcomic “Chippy and Loopus.” We did a great show about animated films in general back on Episode 25, talking about our favorite and not-so-favorite films and TV shows.

This time, we get into the nitty-gritty of how animated films are actually made. Who pitches the story? Who green lights the film? When does character design start, and what does it take to become a character designer? How long does the process take? How is scripting done? When is music added?...and more]


The doodles is me having a scanner

Some progress I think

Top one added 9/6/09

Well it's almost 4am. And I figured I post another excerpt from my sketchbook since I posted the first one on 8/19. I think I'm getting my mojo back. The rag on this recycled paper is really bad. The soft lead just gets soooo messy after a point. Usually put in about 4 to 6 hours a night to early morning. Think I've seen every Fresh Prince of BelAir early morning rerun so far while I work on getting rid of the rust in my pencil.

Finished Torch Tiger

You've got quite a touch with a Chimp Jeff. All the stories were great ( well, maybe not all). The one I read last was the Sherlock Holmes-like story because it had so much text. I ended up liking it a lot.

Why does Byron Howard look so much like Chris Sanders? Who influenced who?

Anyway, great book. Wish I had the first one...Rocket Johnson?

I made the title a link to the animatic I made of the characters depicted in the digitally modified oil painting shown. It's not Torch Tiger related.

Also added a scan of the Ranjo Denny's autograph

Some Initial Success for "Batter! Broil!! Baste!!!"

FYI ... While it isn't a contract (yet), I have been contacted back by three publishers for "Batter! Broil!! Baste!!! The Comic Creators Cookbook," but I'm getting ahead of myself. After putting in more changes two nights ago, I spent last night from 12-3am sending out emails to publishers and companies that I found on a Web site list ... This morning there was an editor from Scribner (a division of Simon and Schuster) who wants me to send an official proposal, then came in an email from an editor at Conde Nast who said, "Please send me a manuscript, or whatever you have at this point. Many thanks," ... and then I got a phone call from another editor who said he rarely calls back from email submissions but made an exception for B! B!! B!!! His company published the book "Taking Woodstock" which recently became a movie by Ang Lee ...

More will happen, for sure. It's only 12 hours since the emails went out.

This is getting fun.

Retro Make Believe Movie Noveliztions

Title is a link to a series of 30. And it's British Retro making it even more novel. Novel, get it?

Rick, Talk about your undeserving Novels for make believe movie novelizations. The Konga is an ACTUAL paperback movie novelization. I found another for Reptilicus

Hulk Not Like Merger

My Stab at it

and NOW the MOUSEVERINE!

I'm Lazier

Parts of Pinocchio stretch so...

I'm Too Lazy to Draw My Own...

... but at least I got it done fast.

HItler's Pissed Again...

Disney Buys Marvel

You probably already have heard the news but blog artists have already begun the drawings of "What If...?"

Marvel Mashups!

This sounds like a TAG drawing challenge if I've ever heard one. Anybody game??

Page 03 for the Comic I'm working on ... And five links to videos I just finished last week

**Snore** ... Colors and letters took from 12 - 3:30 am ... But the "accomplishment" means I'm actually not too sleepy today (well, not yet).

I'll skip a night (I'm sketching page 10 right now) and will color another page tomorrow morning.

Lastly, here are links to other early morning endeavors -- these five segments are for a grant exploring the question "What is Worship?" ... I did the raw videos and sound clips, married everything in After Effects and put together the finished segments (all but one are under a minute in length, and the one that's over is so by only one little second) Each color word is a link to a different segment:

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PURPLE YELLOW GREEN BLUE ORANGE

Los Angeles Volcano erupts

More doodles from my Faces Sketchbook

Used a Generals Layout pencil. Dark but messy. Soft lead.

Mechanic and Tourist- trapeze guy with dome sketch overhead, and skinny, masked super-hero guy and a Mob Including a Spidery Machine Kind of Thing.

The head is some Judge listing a lot of crimes for the jury foreman.
Couple more of the same sort of thing.
And a GrabBag doodle sheet

Met Joe Rubenstein at Comic Con; Here Is His New Onlie Portfolio

The title is a link to Joe's work, both his inks of other artist's pencils and his own color work. If you know of specific industry work, contact Joe about it off of his Web page, or forward the link to your contact. To the best of my knowledge he is finishing up a pro job or two, but in this economy ... after that? You can never have enough work or enough industry contacts.

My First Comic ... Ever.

In the DVD I mentioned below, the Comic Book series from The Write Environment ... Mark Waid mentioned that he had a copy of the very first comic he ever read. I took that to heart and went out on Ebay and found a copy of the July issue of Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom, the one where he battles a mysterious outbreak of prehistoric creatures. I purchased it prior to boarding the SS Barrett en-route to Hawaii where my family was moving. My mom said each of us kids could pick one thing to take on board the ship. Well, that was what I chose. I read that comic about fifty times during the three day voyage, mostly to spite my brother who purchased, built, and played with a Revelle model car kit.

I shall treasure this copy forever.

But I challenge EVERY ONE OF YOU, and that means every one ... to jot down the name and possibly the issue number or month of your own first comic, if you can remember, that is. This should be good.

New Material in B! B!! B!!! (going out to publishers this week)

BBB Dummy Master09
Here is the latest and greatest version ... Especially note Rick Schmitz's great work between the Introduction and Foreword; really nice. Oh, and now the book actually comes up in book form on Scribd so you just arrow press through the pages like it is a book ... I have a list of cookbook editors and will also be social networking and tweeting a lot about this this week. Publishers, here I come ...