Be obsessed with what you want!

Been having a blast creating lately! I'm trying not to be too busy to update here everyday!

Preston Blair style hunter sneak rough 2

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Preston Blair style hunter sneak color 2

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I was trying for a loose water color like look, with yesterdays color cycle, but I don't think it came across. So I spent way too long coloring this tonight, but I think it came out a lot better. *Yawn*

Trying my hand at some 3d modeling in Maya, a little test starring Claude.

I've been listening to a lot of Toon In to the World of Animation podcasts lately, and I really enjoyed the episode with Sharon Colman (#28). Who has a lovely accent and also worked on How to Train Your Dragon as a story artist! Anyways at the end of the interview Tee Bosustow asked Sharon what advice she had for new comers to animation, and she said "You've just got to, to really in a perverse way just be obsessed with what you want, and stick with it and don't worry too much about what people are are thinking or what you should be doing, just do it." That's been stuck in my head for the past few days, so thanks for the inspiration!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day. Thought I'd share what I drew for my mom for mother's day. Hope you like it.

Started off having a heck of a time with tonight's Preston Blair Study, but I think they turned out quite nice. Persistence seems to be today's lesson.

Rhys and I went out and saw Ironman 2 at the drive-in theater. What a great time! They even showed old movie theater cartoon adds before the movie and during the intermission. We were both too sleepy to see the second movie How to Train Your Dragon, which we both love, hopefully we'll get to see it again before it leaves the drive in. If you haven't been to a drive-in in a while treat yourself. I'm sure you'll have a blast. Anyways that all was to bring about IronGilligan.


Claude and his turtle Romancing the Stone or Tarzaning. I'm not sure which one's better.


Our little hero vs a couple lvl 1 slimes.


The Mustache Bandit is at it again. Taking a sort of Carmen Sandiego spin with this guy, and loving it.


Since Rhys and I were kinda geeking out over Ironman and comic books in general. It occurred to me that I haven't talked about how much I love Superman. When I was growing up the show Lois and Clark came out and well it quickly turned into a Sunday night ritual. After my dad had seen how interested I was in the show, he introduced me to the actual comic book Superman. He had read a lot of them when he was a boy so he took me to the comic book shop and let me pick out a couple. Lucky for me this was right at the time the whole Death of Superman arc was coming about. What a great time to be a Superman fan. At the time for me this was the pinnacle of drama. I remember Superman #75 it was so engaging. I was hooked. Dan Jurgens' art was like nothing I'd seen before. Thanks for inspiring the little Superman still inside of me.

Finch on the Quick

Today was quite the busy day. I had a long day at work and then went and saw How to Train Your Dragon in 3d. What a great movie! Rhys, I think, said it best. "This is the best kids movie since Totoro!" Sketches today are a bit rougher than usual, but they didn't turn out too bad :). A couple things I gleaned from my Podcast listenings today, from the Asifa Ahaa Podcast I believe it was Eddie Fitzgerald that said something to the effect of "If Anything is easy, you're probably doing it wrong." I really like that. Another idea that I want to put into action I heard about on the Ninja Mountain Podcast. They suggest keeping a library of images around your workspace that inspire you and write down on the images what inspires you or that you find interesting about them.