Runaways

I did these a year ago while in San Francisco. It was a bit disappointing seeing how fast they would get taken down.
But I always felt that putting my characters outside in a urban setting was where they really belong. I desperately need to get back out onto the streets to post up more runaways.

Hungary Bear

Another unused design for Blue Collar Distro.

Buddy

A few months ago I helped teach a four week animation workshop at 826 NYC for kids. They came up with the story and drew all the characters which was then animated in Flash and put on a dvd for the kids to keep. This is the cover for the case I designed.

Hungry Cub

A few years back, I had a lot of baby stuff planned with Blue Collar Distro that never got made. This was one of the designs I was hoping to see grace a baby bib.

Ghosts!

Bugs!

I was hoping using Blogger would make blogging easier, but every time I try to upload an image, it crashes my browser.

Rodney

Bridges, Squares

Here's the last few days of sketching all over different locations of New York from Washington Square Park, Union Square, Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum. Sort of a bit of a sketching walking tour I suppose. I felt rusty. My ratio for good to bad drawings must of been something like one out of every fifty.

Take two

I switched from using Wordpress to Blogger, so I'm going to restart this all over again.

I've had a ball drawing again in the past week starting with the draw-a-thon last Saturday. Almost eleven years ago during my senior year in high school(my ten year reunion is today! I'd actually go if I wasn't three thousand miles away.) I spent honing my skills by going to after school animation classes at Rowland Heights, sketching at the Los Angeles Zoo and the Glendale Galleria mall, and then going to life drawing classes at either ASIFA Burbank or Associates in Art in Encino. Luckily my school schedule was light, I got off of school at noon and spent the rest of the day drawing. It was a gamble, I knew I didn't want to go off to college after high school so I threw myself into animation with the hopes that something better was ahead. Within less than a year, I went from having no animation experience to building a portfolio worthy enough for Disney Feature Animation(but curiously enough, not Calarts. Huh? But that really was to appease the parents more than anything).

Now more than ever I feel the urgency to get back to that dogged determination and mentality. Especially with New York City as a vast resource, there's no excuse not to get inspired and motivated.

With that said, I'll post sketches from this weekend later on Sunday night. I spent a few hours during the evening at Washington Square park sitting in the fountain area where a not-so-impromptu fire juggling/unicycle/sword swallowing act took place not too shortly after I arrived! In the meantime, enjoy this etching from Anders Zorn.