If you've ever wondered...

what a grandmother turtle might look like, here's one possibility.

I'm sure this is in no small way inspired by Estelle Harris and her portrayal of George Costanza's mom on Seinfeld.

Knock Knock

A few years ago I did some concept work for RedEye Animation. One client was Kidmo, a Company that did Christian programming for kids. I was asked to do design a series of doors for a segment called "Knock Knock". There would be a short song, and this door would be seen opening, before a fact or lesson would be given. But my job was just to design some doors. Here are 3 that I did.

The doors themselves are all traditionally painted with Guoache. Then for some reason I can't remember, I added some quick photoshopped backgrounds. I think I just did the doors initially and then was asked to add the backgrounds, and for the sake of expediency did it in Photoshop.

Some time later, one of the other artists at RedEye took the green door I had done and created the clip below to show how it might be animated.

All images Copyright Red Eye Animation.

There he is again!

But who is he?!

Turtle at the Bus Stop

Watch Out!

This little guys been showing up in my sketchbook a lot lately. At first it was only intermittently, but I'm seeing him more and more frequently. He looks like trouble...

Turtle sketches

Some sketches from back when I was trying to develop that turtle character. Just trying to play with shapes and stuff to get something appealing.
To see more of this character, click the turtle label below. Expect to see more of him in the coming days also.

Topknot

This little girl was probably just under a year old, and was running around the lobby at my daughter's dance school. She had one of those single ponytails on top, that look like a vegetable growing out of the kid's head. We call them sprouty ponies in our family.

Point Mugu Pt 2: Electric Boogaloo

Just another quick landscape from my camping trip this past weekend.

Art History Teacher

My art history teacher was really fun to draw. I filled a sketchbook with drawings of her. I don't know if it's that she was any more expressive than other people, but she was active, and had a stocky shape, which lends itself well to quick drawings. Here are just a couple.

Point Mugu

This past weekend I spent some time camping at Point Mugu with my brother and his pals before his impending wedding. I didn't get much sketching in, but did try some landscape drawing with the grey marker and pen that I brought.
This isn't my usual subject matter but I am pretty happy with the results. I wish I had tried this sort of thing on some of my more exotic vacations.

Sitting

I found an old sketchbook, and started scouring it for drawings that I liked. I didn't find any until the last 10 pages. This is one.

It's not a particularly insightful sketch, but it's got a solidity I like.

Forest Background

This is a background I painted for that Kidmo music video I mentioned in a previous post.

Nothing too special- I like that other one with the Island a lot better, but these were quick jobs. If I were doing it again it might be fun to stylize it a bit more.

Long day

This is a kid who was a bit too big to still be in a stroller... ...but who hasn't felt like doing this after a full day at Disneyland?

More preschool yearbook animals

Some more of the illustrations I did for my daughters yearbook some years back. Some of these have breaks in the art, where they were overlapped by either text or a photo. Below are the Yellow Ducks:
The Purple Caterpillars:

And the Red Dinosaurs (I think these are my favorite).

Just a quick sketch

...of a mother who was at my daughter's ballet class.

I like how accurate this is despite it's simplicity.