Another Billford Space Thing

"Keep looking up!" -- Jack Horkheimer.

Americana

My stepmother will become an American citizen tomorrow morning. To celebrate her immigration from Mexico to the U.S. of A. I made this card of her as the statue of liberty reinterpreted as a Mexican Folk Dancer. In the corner is her dog Baldo as some kind of mini-Uncle Sam.

color layout and preliminaries.

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.

Via Comet

Sorry I haven't uploaded in such a long time. I have been doing lots of doodles but I'm becoming more nit-picky about what to post. I'm going to try and have nice "finished" looking drawings like the one above. I realized that i'm not that fantastic at painting, it's something that I really need to work on.

small paintings and gestures

Billford lost at sea.

Avant-garde symphonic composer Krystof Penderecki

Silent film actor Ben Turpin

Gestures of people on the bus

Gestures - and the first 8 pages of a book!

These are all doodles of people in the television-box, with the exception of the cat. I have Rita Hayworth, Orson Wells, Oprah, Groucho, Chico, Heidi Klum, 2 contestents from project Runway, a weird looke Tim Gunn, as well oddly rendered alec baldwins and the guy who plays Kenneth the page.

Harpo on the harp, and another gentleman from the movie I saw singing. I saw "Minding the Store" which was... alright, i think "A Night in Casablanca" was better, oh and the Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles was from "Lady From Shanghai" which was awesome, highly recommended.

people on the bus

And here it is. The first 8 pages of Walt Stanchfield's "Drawn to Life" read, print, and enjoy!

doodles meet watercolor

i've been using watercolor a lot more often. Partially because I try my best to sketch everyday, when I don't feel like drawing i just color in ones that have been previously done.

Blind gesture drawings I think look fantastic colored in! I think i'm going to do more in future.

Watercolor kind of crinkles the paper of course, but it's alright i think it makes the sketches look more completed and makes em' more interesting to look at.

Also tomorrow i'll scan in the first couple pages of Stanchfield's "Drawn To Life" it's got lots of goodies in it.