Gettin in the groove

I've been working on a short comic called Coyote's Strawberry. It's an old native american (crow) tale. Here's a little peek.


That's not really a berry.

More to come.

Best dream ever

My fish died

Ice cream poo

It's been almost two years but...Ice Cream Man is officially FINISHED.

It's kinda interesting to see the very first storyboards I did back in 2008, and comparing them to the final product now. I cringe a little now seeing these old drawings, but I think I'm more embarrassed by the few drawings I did where I apparently failed to notice the possible sexual connotations i.e. second board panel. Oh well, good thing I revised that shot.



It's been an insanely long process but I learned a lot from making this film. I think I'll take my time before jumping into the next one. Watch for Ice Cream Man to be up on youtube sometime soon.

In the meantime, check out this comic I did when I went to Costa Rica two weeks ago. A lil slice of life.

Comic vomit and other things

I haven't posted in a while. I'm distracted by summer. Bad, bad blogger.

These are some quick comics I've done in the last few weeks. I get really impatient sometimes drawing comics because I don't want to take the time to lay out boxes and set up each frame. So I've been trying something different where if I think of a good gag, I try to get it down on paper as fast as I can despite the sloppiness. Apparently, I can't think of anything other than people with animal bodies.

A semi-autobiographical experience while in LA in early June.
Some sketchbook stuff.

Oh yea, some news! Too Art for TV has accepted my series of bird heads (see two posts before) for their show in September, so you'll be seeing some in-progress construction in the next month as I attempt to make a giant duck head. Should be fun.

Byes!

Dreams

I have really bad dreams a lot. It gets kind of annoying. This was one of the more vivid ones.

A quick comic I drew on the train after a particularly grumpy morning.
Speaking of dreams and comics, I recently read Julie Doucet's My Most Secret Desire. It's a drawn compilation of Doucet's dreams--disturbing and intimate. She dreams about being a man a lot and giving birth to cat-babies. I like reading about dreams; even though they're not real, I do believe they provide a lot of insight on a person's character. Anyway, I liked the book.

Twilight and funny people

I love Twilight. It's sickening. So much staring and sexual tension!!
*13 hour edit later: Oh yeah, I just checked out Blake's blog and his little bit about this ridiculous movie. That's him down below.
I think the main reason why I enjoyed it as much as I did (besides the vampire thing and the hot dudes thing) is it reminded me so much of when I was 14 years old and I wanted so badly to have an out-of-this-world experience. Reality was pretty insufferable when my imagination was so easily catered to with young adult fantasy novels.

On another note, I came upon these two doodles on my computer. One is of this funny-looking redhead I saw at Wawa Canteen and the other is my redhead video art teacher. I like drawing random people but it's kind of hit and miss for me . Sometimes they end up looking silly and nothing like the person at all, but other times I happen to get down the right lines and it's a good resemblance. Does anybody want to ride the trains with me and draw people?

I'm going to China next week for Christmas break. I think I'll buy like 20 Twilight bootlegs and give everyone a copy.

I'm ready for Thanksgiving

Haven't been drawing too much lately due to working on the films. I've managed to doodle some during subway rides and class time.

I saw Don Hertzfeldt at IFC on Wednesday, which was awesome. He's quite the interesting guy. I started drawing this bear on his shirt which I liked.

A comic. A colorful week...not so colorful on paper.

The weather's been nice these days

I'm kind of glad it's not too cold just yet. I need to prepare myself before having to deal with trekking about in sub-zero temperatures. Best part though about winter coming is the snow. The beauty of newly fallen snow! I always wanted a snow day like this:

It was nice out on Halloween, too. Here's a recap of that night.

Random doodle during my video art class. I don't know.
That class is pretty fun. I get to make fun videos which are a refreshing break from all the hardcore animating I've been doing, and I get to be exposed to a ton of weird shit. Here's this one video I've been showing people that I've been particularly entranced with:

More ice cream man

Boy, I've been spending a lot of time at the lab...

I'm playing around with the houses and cacti for my film. I can't seem to break away from that same old boxy look for the houses. I want to try approaching the design from a different direction. Maybe next post.

Sketches of Isabella, one of the kids.

And now off-topic...the mice in my apartment are such ballsy little bastards. I would be sitting in the living room and they'd come right out in the middle of kitchen and stare me down. It's a never-ending battle.

Sketchbook dump

I'm so excited for fall!

I used to have these daydreams in high school where I would see giant black figures walking in fields. I didn't really know where these daydreams were going, but they looked kind of creepy and cool.

In my apartment, the toilet and the bathtub are built in separate rooms. I get tired of people asking me how I shower after they take a dump in my toilet so this is my answer.

I think I'm gonna try to do more short comics. Just little funny things that happen around me.