Unicorns, gallery shows, and suprises OH MY!

Hey everybody! Gallery shows next weekend, one in Burbank, CA. The other one will be in Lincoln, NE!

The Burbank piece.

Billie and her cousins having a picnic with a very difficult Queen, and her Gear Grunt robot. This drawing is not part of the "Billie the Unicorn" book, but the Queen and one of her robot guards is.
They'll be in the "Women in Animation" gallery show. The flyer and list of girlie artists can be found HERE!

This Friday, March 4 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Gallery 839 @ The Animation Guild
1105 North Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA


The next two pieces are for "March of the Unicorns" at the Lichen art gallery, in Lincoln, Nebraska.




Billie and her bees will be there.
A local girl scout troupe will be displaying their hand made books at the gallery too. I really want to see those, wish I could go. It's such a great idea to get the local community involved in art. Hopefully there will be some photos online later. I don't have an artist list yet, but here is the info, and gallery website,

March of the Unicorns
March 4th–25th
The Lichen
2810 N. 48th St.
Lincoln, NE 68510


I got the final proof for "Billie the Unicorn" a few weeks ago. It will be hard bound, and the color came out really close to the original artwork. I've been giddy since then. I don't have an exact date when the books will be here, but they will definitely be at Wondercon in San Francisco March 31-April 3. I will be at the Immedium table, hopefully with a few extra goodies. Never been to San Francisco or Wondercon before, looking forward to adding a bunch of new art books to my collection!

Recent Youtube favorite! Why does Studio 4°C have to be so awesome? I was lucky and had dinner with one of the directors while in Tokyo. Interesting talk on the differences of which animation principles are taught in US schools vs Japan's. Seems like we start with sack and ball bounce animations, they focus on composition first.





Barfy composition.

Offense Defense

Arghh, I keep sitting on my feet when I'm working. Pins and needles!



Don't worry, the blue one's wings will grow back, and then she's going to be super angry.

Happy Eat a Million Cupcakes Day

Was going to draw an epic cupid drawing, but no time. So here is Skippy with a cupcake, and Jimmy Durante. Awwwww.

Strolling along

Unicorns like strolling.
Skippy does not.

Josie and the Purdy Cats

No more Avenging, now onto Mysteries. Gonna be busy next few weeks. More art farts later.
Josie and Pussycats would be a fun thing to work on.
Here's the theme song, it will haunt your dreams.

PS. Anyone know what that fluffy poof monster is in the top drawing? Twenty extra dork points to those that doooooo......

Tokyo and 2011!

Survived Tokyo, and Comiket. The trip was amazing! Met up with a lot of nice people, took a lot of photos. We walked everywhere, took the train everywhere, so much to look at. Now it's a new year, and there is already many things happening!

First up, I will be at Wonder Con, at the Immedium booth. That will also be the earliest anyone can get their hands on "Billie the Unicorn". The book will be out early April, but my publisher will have early copies at the convention. Later in April, I will be at Anaheim Comic Con!

I saw "Tangled" before heading to Tokyo. A barefoot princess with a frying pan!
Why didn't I draw the frying pan?! BOOOO!!
Lots of well crated animated movies in 2009! Gave me the warm fuzzies, and stuff.

Wouldn't this make an awesome racing game, a'la Mario Kart? ....and now for some Tokyo photos, under the cut!

Tokyo

Still in Tokyo. Seen Harajuku, Shibuya, Kamiedo, and went to Comiket. Comiket was huge, and insane. Alot of fabulous art! Met up with Nemuri and Sen, they were super nice! We traded art, look what they made for me!



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My Comiket haul!






Going to the Aqaurium now. More photos later!
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Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Hope everyone is having a safe and relaxing weekend.
I made one last marker video, and there is a suprise at the end!
The music is by Keiko Takamura and the Shebangs. Keiko was nice enough to give me permission to use her music in the video. If you'd like to hear more, please checkout keikotakamuraandtheshebangs.bandcamp.com
There is an official music video for this song too! Grayscale video

So Billie is done and in the can. A can of marvelous magical mystery meat. Figuring out some exclusives for people who preorder directly from Immedium, and also will be doing some readings. 2011 is going to be busy and exciting!!



I'm heading to Comiket in Tokyo this Tuesday, and will be gone for awhile. I made some sketchbooks to take with me to treade with friends. There will also be much photo taking!
Enjoy the last week of 2010 everybody!

Drew some more stuff

Finishing up on Avengers, last minute tweaks to Billie, putting together portfolios, Christmas shopping, and packing for a trip.
Slowly easing back into another personal project. Skippy still likes food.

Mermaid vacation!!

My family and I just got back from vacation on Maui. It was really restful, and I drew whatever I wanted! Yay! Drew mermaids all day, and took photos of them with my cell phone. I drew alot of other things there too, but that is for something later. XP
Pineapple tastes so good over there. I could eat it forever.

Insomnia

Finally going back to bed. Going on vacation Tuesday, didn't realize how welcome it will be till tonight. I think my body is used to doing the four-three hours of sleep, and going to bed at a normal hour confused it. The kitty can sleep thru the night, he followed me into the office and is passed out on the floor. So many skills he has. The art for my book is done, I think after a week of walking around smiling like an idiot is over. Now it is time for sleep, and later sunshine and sweet smelling breezes!

Hope everyone in the states has a relaxing Thanksgiving. Here is a video on how to make a delicious feast!

Bunny!

A bunny!


I have bunnies on the brain after watching Kathryn Calder's music videos. The album is really good too!

"Slip Away"
Directed by Dean Tzenos


"Arrow"
Directed by: Jon Busby
Produced by: Jesse Davidge and Marc Demers
Produced at Blatant Studios, Vancouver BC



The "Monster Mythos" book I drew a griffin for is out! This is not the image I turned in for the book.
To purchase it, head over to tikimachine.blogspot.com/

Playing around with the flip camera. I'm planning to make one more video, but that won't be up for awhile.

My Little Snow Monkey

I was very mopey today, until I remembered that this month I will be traveling somewhere warm! Then later on, somewhere cold, but there are snow monkeys there! ( I realize they'd make horrible pets and like to eat faces and feces.)

Empty Cage

Halloween time, if you run into someone like this, run as fast as you can in the opposite direction!




Here are spooky type videos.

This is particularly horrifying!

Coffee Shop Friends

Ugh so sleepy, brains mushy. Time to go pass out. Bye!

This week's Poop brought to you by the letter Pee.

Derpa derpa doo doo.

I drew a girl on a post-it looking annoyed. What else is new?

Cartoon Network has started airing new episodes of "Batman, the Brave and the Bold" on Friday nights. I got to board on some of those.
Disney XD is going to start airing "Avengers" October 20th. I started on episode 18 and on, drawing some characters. Lots of people running around in their underwear. And who doesn't love underwear?

If you do like super heroes, aliens, and other odd critters, please check out my friend's app! He is drawing many Avengers for you, please contribute to his coffee and Subway sandwich fund! Thomas Perkins: A Collection of Odd Folk!!

Out of Sight

Gesukapper on my twitter feed posted this lovely student film from Taiwan. I love it so much! This is wonderful!

Info with the video:
"This is a graduation Production made by three students graduated from the National Taiwan University of Arts.

The main character of little girl in the story confronts a robbery and strays from the road she is familiar with. After passing a hedge, she enters an unknown world and unfolds a magical adventure depending on senses other than vision and her imagination. With soft and cute colors as the main key, we used simple designs to depict the little girls' imaginary world.

官方網頁 Official website:
http://www.evaty.url.tw/oos/"

Just a quick link, click the little girl at the bottom of the page to view their production progress! Paper and pencils! http://nccu.edu.tw/95306074/oos/making.html

A sad tale...

She thinks she is really a bunny. Sad.

Windy Autumn Days

It hasn't been very windy, actually.


Early summer waiting-on-an-oil-change drawing.

For the #mrvlcats meme on Twitter.

gad-ZOOKS

Your nightmares are in the mail. Sorry it took so long.



I went thru twelve new markers this week. That might be a new unimportant record for myself.
Everybody else, sleep well. Remember to eat your potatoes.
Gwa ha ha haha ha ha ha!!.................