more sketches!

People in Elle magazine

Taylor Swift is all the way on the right

     Recently I've discovered two websites, one from Kristen McCabe called They Fight Crime. TFC generates a hilarious Duo of oddball characters that fight crime together. The other I found is called Fellow Humans and has pictures of many many people from different locations, this is great for caricature. I've only done two, the other caricatures was in a diner.

     

      Waffle Woman however is my own creation, yet it wasn't till 2 days after creating her that she was very reminisant of Powdered Toast Man, except she's a vigilante spy but she's inspired by an Abbott & Costello joke and TFC.

This page just has some random stuff, Ruby Poolcue is of course the symbol
of affection from Lou Costello, and Leslie Beanbag is his shrewd neighbor.
I got some Bavarian architecture, and the first drawing of Waffel-woman and Pizza-face!

All of these are based of TFC, the top two I adjusted for my own tastes, an opera singer that becomes obese and a black woman from the 1970s with her Disco Fortune Ball.

Sketches of Marc Anthony from Chuck Jones' "Feed The Kitty"

Strangers with Candy bit players and Shawn White caricatures

more to come!

layout sneak-peak!

Here's a picture (cropped) of a short little 'toon I'm going to try and work on, I hope i can get far, i have attempted to make shorts in the past but have lost interest or have gotten stuck. Not only that but I didn't know much about the process, which also lead to roadblocks. I started layout and it's extremely difficult, once I'm done i have a feeling I'm going to start all over or make many, many corrections. However, once layout is finished it might be all down hill from there, I imagine it to be time-consuming but not as technical as layout.

I hope you like the general look, I've been studying some Chuck Jones expressions, the way he works with eyes are fantastic, and the hands will be inspired by Witch Hazel's hands (Broomstick Bunny). I'm doing layout and maybe the extreme drawings by hand, then I'll scan them and digitally ink them, and breakdowns and inbetweens will also be filled in digitally. I'm also working on one of the backgrounds and it's coming out well. I'm going to digitally paint the backgrounds as well, right now I'm using corel painter not photoshop.

I've never done a short planned like this, so i'm sure to experience bumps along the way. does anyone have comments or suggestions about my process or how they go about doing layout? If so please comment.