The Flannel RabbitDerek's Art Blog

This is a sketch from a meeting I had.   I haven’t had a long meeting in a while so I have no recent doodles.

Here are a couple of sketches I made to block in some traditional animations I was planning to do.

I hate Manga as a style.  I think its a paint by numbers way of cartooning.  The lack of lip sync and volumetric construction is just lazyness, but like so many other “cartoons” its called a style to exempt it from standards.

That being said I figured I draw a Manga style zombie.  I don’t know why.  I didn’t have enough interest to take it very far so its not finished.

This is  a self portrait from this morning.  Having to get up at 5am to drive my kid to Hockey practice takes a toll.  Technically this is, in reality, another zombie sketch.  They are one in the same really.  I think most of my drawing have some hint of me in them.  Notice the striking jaw line and muscular physique.  That’s all me.

His hair and clothes might be a little neat for a zombie but I figure since no ones actually seen a zombie, its entirely possible that they are both image conscious Hollister fans as well as brain eaters.

I’m not sure what I want the Plaid Zombie.com mascot to look like so I am just going to experiment for a while.  I don’t really have a style of my own worth pursuing so I will probably just keep trying different styles until I find one I like.

On a side note.  This is one the of the first sketches in really long time that I’ve done in red.  I usually work in blue colored pencil but,  I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and her sketches were all done in red.   I thought since hers stuff looked better than mine a color change couldn’t hurt right?  So there it is in red.  Turns out her work is still better than mine.  Who’d have thought!  I was thinkin’ I was really on to something with that color stuff.

This is a sketch of a plaid zombie.   I am trying to come up with a character for the new art blog I’m starting with some friends.

I went to the Comic-Con in July.   It was my first one.  I did go to Wonder-Con which was fun but nothing compared to Comic-Con.  I was in SoCal for 2 weeks on vacation.  I stayed at Disneyland for a week and went to the San Diego zoo while I was there.  I figured (back in May,) that since I was going to be down there anyway I would go to the Con too.  It was hands down the best part of the trip.  I’m going for all 4 days next year!

I will also be wearing a long sleeved shirt because there are a lot of fat sweaty nerds that bump into with their B.O. laden glandular problems.  Not COOL.  Comic-Con 2010 needs a Purell booth.

I got to meet John K. the creator of Ren and Stimpy.

I don't think I would want a picture with any other celeb.

He did this drawing for me. Awesome!

I hung it above my animation desk to remind me I'm not that good.

Here are some more photos from the best day of my year.

Not a big Trek fan but the new movie was cool and I couldn't resist doing the Kirk lean.

Everyone got a free 15 foot statue but I accidentaly left mine by the pretzel cart. Damn their salty goodness!

Oh and the Twilight movie sucked ass.  So lets hope they don’t make the trip next year.