Dave's Mechanical Pencils: Reviews and Articles

Dave's Mechanical Pencils: Reviews and Articles

I wouldn't call myself a mechanical pencil fanatic but I am VERY particular about what I'll draw with when it comes to these beasts. This blog is fantastic in that, well basically he is truly a fanatic and reviews em all.

::: The Art of Steven E. Gordon ::: Animation Art :::

::: The Art of Steven E. Gordon ::: Animation Art :::

I've never been a fan of American superhero stuff but Steve E. Gordon is such a consummate artist that one just has to just shut up and learn. Fantastic site design also.

Keith Thompson Art

Keith Thompson Art

This dude is sick.

Assault walker

One more step into the world of photoshop painting. This is an assault walker that I did. It's approximate height is 5'5" (the fictional robot, not the PS file). The kind of thing you may run into in the future should you be involved in any antiwar protests, uprisings, etc. against the present power structure.

*UPDATE*

I've just recently purchased a book called "50 Robots To Draw & Paint" by Keith Thompson. It's funny because my comment of how this robot would be used to quell protester activities is similar to one of the robots in this book. I did not use any reference when I made this robot. But if you want a great book on how to draw robots you should immediately go and get the Thompson book. He is a bad ass!

Cartoon Modern

Cartoon Modern

The official blog for the wonderful coffee table book of the same name. If you dig that crazy UPA 50's style animation stuff you besta get over there.

Easter Grass Madness

I've just got done sweeping up easter grass. You know the stuff, the green translucent plastic stuff that is sold every year around this time to pad easter baskets. My daughter had a helluva time last night throwing this crap all around the living room. As I was sweeping it up I began to get really angry. How is it still legal to make something so horrible for the planet? Think about it. Easter grass is the equivalent of shredded plastic trash bags and not necessarily the biodegradable kind. I found the bag that this stuff came from in the kitchen. It came from the department store chain Target (courtesy of grandma), imported from China and has nowhere on the bag that it is environmentally friendly. This shit is heinous! How much of it is made, bought, sold, and trashed each year? It boggles the mind. Now that global warming is being taken seriously perhaps global pollution will start to be as well. There should be serious restrictions on the production and sale of trash like easter grass. Hell if it was more expensive and more conscientiously made then maybe it could be justified as something to adorn easter baskets. But maybe the whole wastefulness is part of the easter holiday. How many colored eggs end up in the trash because kids realize that they look better than they taste? I like boiled eggs by the way but I remember as a kid how gipped I felt when I cracked open one of those festive looking things only to find a mundane boiled egg, with a green yolk to boot (my parents , like most people weren't aware that you must immerse hot boiled eggs in ice water to cool them so that the yolk doesn't turn green). I hope we all start to wake up to the stupid things we are doing to the earth.

Tom Bancroft

Tom Bancroft

Just got this guys book on character design.

Bakemono

An animatic done in flash. Not for anything in particular, just trying some things out. If someone knows how I can get the sound to turn on or off I'd appreciate the tip.

a thousand artless miseries.

a thousand artless miseries.

Ross Campbell, great great stuff. His girls are like snapshots. I could swear I've seen some of them at the coffee shop.

UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER!

UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER!

Another animator's blog that's chock full o' goodness.

Bloo Empire - Art by Keeley Carrigan - Home

Bloo Empire - Art by Keeley Carrigan - Home

Interesting stuff in that high deformo style that makes for great toys.

The Blackwing Diaries

The Blackwing Diaries: "The Blackwing Diaries"

This is Jennifer Lerew's site. She's a story artist in animation living in California. Great stuff here.

Hand Drawn Nomad

Hand Drawn Nomad

This dude is an animator who does handrawn stuff. He worked on the Curious George movie.

Naked Redhead

This is another step in my continuing adventures of trying to paint in photoshop. This was done from no reference whatsoever.

Character Design

Character Design

A blog with a collection of, you guessed it, character designs by various artists.

The Sartorialist: 07/01/2006 - 07/31/2006

I've been trying to find good reference material for learning to draw men in suits. I stumbled on this guys site which has lots of excellent photos of people in various stylish attire.
The Sartorialist: 07/01/2006 - 07/31/2006

BRIAN DENHAM portfolio

Check out this man's Adobe Illustrator mastery.

BRIAN DENHAM portfolio

The Great Adam Phillips

I've been visiting his Brackenwood fanboy site for a while now. He just recently started a 30 animation shorts in 30 days project. He is the ruler in Flash animation right now. Check him out here.

Spacegirl

A bit of cheesecake. I think I'm getting better at more "painterly" techniques in photoshop. It used to be that I would ink this in Illustrator and import it into photoshop but this one was all done in PS. Hurray!

Bobot

I just learned some new techniques in photoshop. Check the faux cell shading action.