Making a Mark

A Friday afternoon sketch.

I don't know whether it's my impatience or what, but I draw almost exclusively with pens when I'm not working digitally (more on this later). Last night, while refilling a reservoir brush pen, I found some cartridges for my long-neglected Pilot Parallel Calligraphy pen. So, I pulled it out of retirement and was reminded of how much fun it is to draw with. I decided on this cool electric blue cartridge, and the first bit of the drawing shows darker because of the remnants of the previous navy cartridge that was in there from months ago.


Maybe I'll make some more drawings with it soon, instead of letting it sit around unused for several months in a row... :)

Power Girl

She has powers.

Idle Sketching

Now and again I find myself with a little free time. I've recently discovered a drawing program called Colors on the Nintendo DS that's pretty handy. It's nice because its capabilities are limited and the screen is tiny--which prevents me from overdoing anything or trying to get too fancy. Plus it's got this neato playback function that tells you everything that's wrong with how you make drawings.
Here are a handful of my initial explorations.









A quick shout-out to the dudes that made Colors and the drawing playback possible.

There was supposed to be some kind of rest period...

Hooray.


So, the big news is: I finished making a cartoon movie (sketch above, totally unrelated). I actually finished it a little while ago, but have been pretty busy submitting it to a number of festivals so I haven't had so much time to blog about it.
Customarily, here is where you might see me post a link to the short, but apparently lots of festivals don't like it when you make your cartoon a free online viewing experience for mass audiences. So I won't actually be able to post it until after it makes its run through the festivals.
However, I'll try to post about when and where it will be playing in case anyone is feeling adventurous and wants to see it on the big screen. For people living in Utah, if you're free this weekend, Mashed (that's the title) will be playing in the LDS Film Festival in Orem, UT on Saturday the 23rd, in a line up of other shorts starting at 5:00 pm. Ticketing info HERE.

Also, as this is my last semester of school, I'm currently putting a portfolio together. What I thought was going to be a pretty relaxed semester is turning out to be down right crazy. Rest period = officially over. Apparently you're supposed to get a job when you're done with school.
Anyway, here are some recent doodles from my sketchbook. Sorry I haven't posted in so long--I'll try and be better about that. (Below: crazy Santa, also unrelated to my cartoon movie.)


(The sad part about this is that it's not even a late sketch from Christmastime--I drew this last week in class--call it a nervous tick...I draw Santas...kind of incessantly. Some people can't quit smoking; I can't quit drawing the jolly Brother Kringle.)

Mr. Chung

Look out behind you.

What seems like many moons

It's seems like it's been awhile. Here's some new sketches--I hope you love them!

Baby Sawyer-saurus under attack.
A dudette with a rose-laden hat.
Raar.
Sometimes, when I'm bored in class, I like to pretend that I'm Lupin III.
Or I doodle aimlessly on Japanese homework. I like defying the laws of natural physics.
A hooded figure from a recent figure drawing session.
And I can't take all the credit for this last one. Sawyer and I went for a walk when we saw this El Camino; Sawyer was strapped to my front side at the time, so he helped me draw it...and asked that I post it here for everyone to see.

Doodles and Comics

Sometimes it's fun to just let your mind wander and do some good old fashioned doodling--without any particular aim, or without paying attention to how "good" the drawings are. Y'know--just for fun. Here's some stuff I came up with while I was in the car traveling to Zion National Park this last weekend (I promise I'll post some of those photos soon).



Also, while we were in town, I noticed a local confectioner with a tantalizing window display (You may have know this, but I have a weak spot for chocolate--and that spot is about the size of Canada).

In other news: