Monkey Paradise

Cork 38

Me is productive lately.

Dean Cornwell-Hot Link-Fail

I joined this Heitage Art auction place to see large jpgs of great art. I wanted to see if this hot link from their site works. You have to be a member to access the full size art but maybe when you have the url, anyone can see.

Well, it tries to display the full size resolution and that messes the blog up. I'll do the usual upoad.

Click the title to get the really big jpg

Here's another big JPG....

http://tinyurl.com/yh4u53x

I recommend joining this auction house to get these big jpegs that aren't watermarked.

The Smallest Robot

I like the little one legged robot design the best

Gun Nose Roughs-First Page-Digital Inking Tutorial by Doug

My New Credo


















I'll get this done by the weekend and publsih it on the blog as well as send it along to Tom Carroll.

Added my pencils for the characters on the first page. I'll be com positing it all together with backrounds eventually. The 2nd page is simpler.

Digital Inking Tutorial by Doug added

Where the Doodles Go from now On.

I'm going to quit junking up the Tuesday Art Group with my truly random doodles. This is the destination Blog for that level of art effort henceforth.

Cork 37

Here, after the usual hiatus, is the new Cork. Just setting up everyone's place in this universe. Gloot needed a purpose.

Got the next one planned already. Hopefully you'll see it soon.

Drawing with Flair

This is Flair pen over pencil (with the pencil erased). Done on the bus. I used to use Flair pens when I was in grade school... Working with one now, after so many years, is kinda cool. Also, I had recent occasion to draw with this pen on a photo, which works really well, let me tell you. I'll share the results of that effort in a while... it's hanging up at work right now.

Placemat Proportions

I think this is the last of my random, no purpose doodles.
From this point forward, unless I have something I'd happily display on conceptart.org, I won't post.
That should limit my posts to about 2 a year. Heh Heh

I added a rough of the idea for the painting done off the top of my head. I've got my Tura ref ready. I'll do some more sketching plus make the monster less of an overt rip off of Frazetta's Spider Man.

Some rough PS work

Ricks sketch, reminded me of some dabbles I did a few years ago back when I was experimenting with PS brushes. I used a mouse.

Any relation to the Lealand that you guys used to work for?

Click on the title to see an Obit for Lealand Cook Jr., Founder of Tradewest. Does this fellow have any relationship with the Lealand game company in El Cajon that Ellis, Scott, Jeff J., Dok and others used to work at?

Another Phony Drawing

I did this today on my ride to and from work on my phone (probably 50 minutes total effort). This wasn't using Brushes, but Sketchbook Mobile, a very watered down version of the PC program. At first I didn't find it as intuitive as Brushes, but it has more options, and some nicer brushes. I'm still looking for some sort of eyedropper in the app, but other than that I'm liking Sketchbook more and more.

Wall-E Game PreProduction Art / Click for Akira Model

The top two ideas here (not mine) were Wall-E would see things trying to convey sentiment, like this love/heart. Or a silhouette of a friendly Dog. When he got closer it reveals itself an illusion. These illusions draw him to areas for some game purpose I've forgotten.

The two on the bottoms were ideas of mine. But ideas that weren't useful because of the shortage of time left on the game by the time I was brought in. I'm prone to draw up what I think is a good idea without understanding that a very narrow range of options exists. I only like the bluesky period of preproduction

Click the title to see a groovy model of AKIRA.

Another lost gem from the 60's

I haven't posted any clips in a long time but I saw this and that long dead brain cell came back to life. I wish shows today would have artsy animated intros again.
Plus I was messing with some video editing.



Also this one I found interesting and forgotten.



And one of my all time favorite intros.


had to throw this in.

Doodles on my Handmade vellum sketchbooks

I cut up some vellum I bought at a garage sale and had kinkos put a spiral binding on the top. Pencil loves this paper

Work in Progress Blog

Watch in amazement as Spanish comic book pages come to life!! From pencils to final color. Fun!

Work in Progress

Age of Bronze #30 pencils

Here's a penciled page from the issue of Age of Bronze that I'm working on.

Age of Bronze is TM and copyright © 2009 Eric Shanower. All rights reserved.

Warming Up with Thumbnails

I'll try and get serious with some real art tomorrow. I'll share as I do them.

Random Video Game Name Generator

Click the title of this post... It's the Random Video Game Name Generator... it's fun. The favorite one I've generated so far is "Fisher Price Ninja Farmer ".

Re-Mixed Art Correspondence Commercials

I ran across this because of a link that Rob Schrab had on facebook.

That link of Schrab's you can get to by clicking the title.

Warning. The title link is ADULT.

Stupid and adult. But I thought it was very funny.