Nerding out like usual

Comic KHAAANNN!!!


I'll be there Saturday and Sunday, floating around.

I was on a panel about trying to work in tv animation at the 2010 Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Here is a section of the panel:

(Sorry about the weird commercial, I don't know how to circumvent that. )
Crazy! Part 2 is up! :O

The people on the panel were Will Feng, Lori Lane, me, Jay Olivia, Valerie Fletcher, Alan Wan, Irineo Maramba, and George Krstic. It was alot of fun, and thank you to those who could make it. Met alot of nice people!


My birthday was last weekend! My friends drew me things, and my friend Lori bound them into a book! Look! These are AWESOME!!! THANK YOUUUUU!!!!


Anna Chambers

Carlos Martinez-Flores

Christine Nockels

Claire Lenth

Luke Weber

Dan Riba

Dave Sherburne

Frank Peak

Glen Murakami

Lori Lane

Mary Hoffman

Nora Berden

Thomas Perkins

Roger Oda

Valerie Fletcher

Matt Youngberg

30 year quest for whateverz

Photoshop barf, totally took the life out of the sketch. Those rodent-y critters are discussing their latest supply of soup bones. Num nums. Yay! I'm tired. Woot!


Thank you too all the nice people I met at AX 2010. I'll be getting back to answering emails this weekend, still kinda detoxing from the madness! I still have Billie buttons left, so I'll be bringing those to Comic Con for anyone who may want them.
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I got tagged by another blogger thingy award. So thank you, Barbie Miller! Now onto my excuse to post some blogs that are "LOVELY".

1. Katie Shanahan ktshy.blogspot.com Makes lovely funny comics!
2. Ben Jones hamfist.blogspot.com Lovely idiot style drawings and a lovely Comic Con update.
3. Anna Chambers burgerlog.blogspot.com My excuse to say poop is lovely.
4. Chris Meesey meesimo.blogspot.com Draws lots of lovelies.
5. Jake Myler lazesummerstone.blogspot.com Makes lovely monsters.
6. Destiny Wood destinyw.blogspot.com Is lovely and amazing.
7. Uncle Phil philrynda.blogspot.com Needs to post more lovely drawings.
8. Tara Whitaker taranicolewhitaker.blogspot.com Needs more love.
9. Derrick Wyatt derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com Draws lovely Velmas.
10. Kristen McCabe kristens-sketchblog.blogspot.com The power of 1 million lovelies!!
11. Amy Mebberson amymebberson.blogspot.com Lovely Princess Pie!

I was supposed to pass this on to 15 other people, but was trying not to link to people who've already done this. I'm not expecting anyone to pass it along, so no pressure. Just an excuse to annoy my friends for being amazing dorks! HA HA!!

Here are the fancy rules for anyone who'd like to pass along more LURVES:
As acceptance of this award,
the following criteria should be met:
~ Accept the award, post it on your blog together with
the name of the person who has granted the award and his
or her blog link.
~ Pass the award to 15 other lovely blogs.
~ Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they
have been chosen for this award.

Coffee, Tea, and Biscuit

Happy Birthday Mom!

(I was listening to Perfume's "Zero Gravity" at work, and it sounded like they were saying "Coffee Tea" instead. Stuck in my head all day.)

Girly Poo!

Contest Time!
For anyone who cares, Now it is time for a contest! I'm giving out 10 codes, I might get some more later.

Here is the dumb question:
Where is the song used on the end credits of my student film,"Movie Munchies" from?

Leave your answer and I'll send you a download code. Yay.



Click!

"Girly Poo", the sketchbook app is now in the iTunes store. It's 33 pages, ten are exclusive to the app. The rest of the images are hi-res scans that have been posted on my blog or website before. I would have liked to have 33 new images but free time has been elusive. The good news is that the app is cheap, $2.99. There is an actual page from "Billie the Unicorn", two new pages of Tricky and Gorf, two new pages of Banana Cat, bunch of girl drawings from when I was on 3000, and a few others.



Anyone going to be at Anime Expo this coming weekend? I'm going to be on a panel at AX 2010 in LA, unless I chicken out or come down with ebola.
Here is the info:

"Breaking In! Working in Animation!
Giving tips on how to break into the domestic animation industry. Speakers will discuss how they got in and how anime influenced their work. Guest speakers will vary from writer, creator, director, character designer and production."

July 3rd, Saturday, 8pm, room lp2

Speakers so far on the panel are Jay Oliva, George Krstic, Alan Wan, Derrick Wyatt, Ciro Nieli,and Will Feng. If you are a student or interested in the mysterious rituals of TV animation this may be a good place to come ask questions, or watch me make an idiot of myself.



I will have buttons. Skippy hates them.

Beautiful Wedding Day!

One of my dear cousins is getting married today! This is for her and the groom.

Otter you happy to sea me? :D

Some old otters, keepers of an ancient to do list.
Stuff I drew during meetings. Trying to keep my eyes open in the current freezing studio I'm at.

Inspired by Nemurism, she's amazing! http://nemurism.blogspot.com

Paul Robertson is awesome!

Eeny Teeny Sketchcards

Little bitty bristol cards!




Going to Disneyland today with Mary! :3

Happy Last Minute Berfday Dad!

My Dad's cat McLovin' has a message!!


Barf kitties I drew when my eyes were dilated last month.

German Shepard outside the coffee shop today. He had a squeaky hedgehog, that he had to share with everyone entering and leaving. :)



Here is a video to torture my Dad. He watched this with me 3000 times when I was a wee child. He still curses at the mention of "Strawberry Shortcake" to this very day.

I like this. My Dad just told me he hates the Purple Pieman, and every time they would add a new character, because that would mean more crap around the house.

Secret

Last week was pretty positive! Kinda weird, if 2008 hadn't sucked so bad, this past week wouldn't have been so good... XP
Drawings!


A coworker found nothing humorous or entertaining about these kittens. :P

Power Girl is very brave. Very brave indeed.



I really like this song.



*****I had some recent trouble with my webmail! I lost some messages I haven't had a chance to reply to (I've been really slowwww -_-!!!) One that I know I lost was from a girl who sent me some of her sketches. I'm really sorry, I don't have your email to reply, please email me again! Eep!!!! <:O

Weird old stuff because I want to go to bed now.

I want to go to bed, and not turn on my Dell that is still hooked up to my scanner and all that jazz. So these weird things are going up instead.

Back in 2006 I was asked along with some other artists to design a potential mascot for the Chinese World's Fair. I never heard more about it after I pooped these drawings out, but I remember I named the fish "Pearl". She wears glasses, cause fish should wear protective eye wear to keep their eye balls from popping out. Oh, and the bug thing has bicycle shaped glasses. Yupz. More lameness next week probably. Toodles.
P.S. I dedicate this post to the Chinese Spammer Bots.

Ancient animation from an amoeba

My Mom sent me a vhs tape of a really bad film I made when I was 17. It was part Senior High school graduation project and college/scholarship portfolio. It was made with a JVC camcorder that could shoot on something close to 8 frames a second. It had to be shot in one take, and then the sound was re-recorded over the vhs. It is horrible, but it was so long ago and if I hadn't made it I wouldn't be getting to do what I get to do today. So thanks Mom for investing in the camcorder. Happy Early Mother's Day!
Song: "The Puppy Song", written by Harry Nilsson, sung by Victoria Williams


...and here's an old drawing from 2006 'cause I'm too tired to make something new and not secret this week.

Billie the Unicorn

"Billie the Unicorn" is a book I've been working on the last few years. It's 33 pages of unicorns, flowers, corn, bees, and some other stuff all drawn in old-school marker on animation paper.
It'll be out in Spring of 2011, and will be published by Immedium. I'm super excited that it's actually happening, it's been tough finding a subject that I'd want to illustrate for 33 pages. Billie was originally created for "The Unicorn Show" at Gallery Nucleus back in 2006, and I never felt that Billie and her cousins should be stuck on those solitary post-its forever. She's changed a lot over the years, and her story is one I think alot of artists migrating away from their comfort zones will relate too. There's also a bit of hodge podge from my senior film in college, and I'm hoping to do a little animation with Billie eventually. Depends on how full time work goes. So in the meantime, if anyone is interested in updates, please join the Billie page on Facebook. I promise not to spam too much.

My publisher is also being very supportive, so please check them out and their awesome books!



It's available for pre-order on Amazon.


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This is post 333, dun dun dun!!

Five year post!

I randomly noticed yesterday that my blog is five years old today. It seems like the past five years have gone by fast, but this blog makes me realize how many things have happened in those five years. I started it when I was working my first in-house animation job, with people who already had years of experience. I have had close friends drift away, and gotten to know others like family, watch them get married, have babies, and have met wonderful people online in person. The blog was mostly started to keep my family up to date with daily going-ons, and to start being more open about my artwork. Also, it makes me feel old. Yay! Who knows where we will all be in five years, probably in good places and spirits!


So I had to draw a horsey thing for something at work. Which led to the desire to draw a pegasus for fun.


The next two images were ones I was saving for an upcoming sketchbook app, but since they were drawn on small post-its I'm worried they might look really bad for zooming in. So here's some stuff that's been hoarded for awhile.
The bunny is actually from 2009, when I was on "Brave and the Bold".


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Super special secret add on!!! I was going to wait a couple of weeks to announce this, but the press release is already online.
Won't you be a friend of Immedium to keep up with the updates? :D (click it already!!)

Pencily post-its and poop-its

Finishing up some super fun freelance and fun stuff at work, then back to my personal projects soon! So excited!
Anyway, here are some random scribblings that aren't work related from the last couple of months. Things are crazy!






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Just found out my "Soul Mates" piece from "The Last Unicorn Show" is going to a happy home and a hardcore unicorn fan. Yay!!!
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Almost forgot, here's a song I over-listened to this week. The album is on iTunes.
Heavenly Star-Genki Rockets

The Last Unicorn Art Show

"The Last Unicorn Art Show", Friday, April 16th, 7pm-11pm at the Tattoo Factory Gallery located at 4443 N. Broadway in Chicago.
A full artist list and movie screening schedule can be found at thelastunicornartshow.blogspot.com
I really wish I could go to this in person. Peter S. Beagle is going to be there, and I'm sure there is going to be alot of cool artwork for this. There's also going to be a screening of the movie with a Q and A with Mr. Beagle. Chicago peoples are so lucky!

I did two pieces, the next three images go in one frame:




This is from the short story "Two Hearts" that followed up the original book. It's a bit of a spoiler, but I wanted to try to draw something without the pressure of the look of the movie.


And here are the pieces in their purdy frames. The three small drawings are actually bigger unframed, in case anyone decides they want it.



Sketches.

I was really hoping to eventually draw Sooz, but this is as far as I got.



Some random unicorn drawings from ages ago. I was saving them for a sketchbook, but that isn't happening, not in paper form anyway. Check back later.

Orange kitty drawn with a special brush marker that Tara gave me!

For secret Red Bull drawing, go HERE!