"Walkin' in a mucus wonderland"

Everybody sing along! "In my lungs the germs will build a snotman....."
I got the flu for my birthday! This is what I draw when I have a fever, lol. After the third straight night of hacking and coughing my brains out I imagined the germs in there having a happy time in my trachea. Sledding, building snotmen, making snot-angels, a motley assortment of ugly germs engaged in basic winter flu season shenanigans.
At some point I developed a low grade fever and began sketching since I was stuck inside anyways. I'm on vacation back home with the parents and they keep the house cozy...a temperature range somewhere between what's appropriate for incubating live chicks or forging steel. That combined with the fever, and Ny-Quil made for some strange visions. I hate being sick on vacation. S'not fun at all. :P

Happy New Year!

I don't know how many times this year I have heard the phrase "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" As if life is some toddler following you and picking up lemons off the ground and handing them to you, again, and again, and again. Whenever someone tells me to make lemonade from some unfortunate circumstance, I imagine the lemon comes from some annoying, malicious imp like this. I'm definitely looking forward to 2011 with great hopes that this year will be less......citrusy. Too much lemonade can give you gout, you know :P
Happy New Year everybody!

Merry Christmas!

I can't ever sleep on Christmas eve...so I did some painting! Just spending some good times with family on vacation :) I feel blessed to also have the kinds of friends who share their different and interesting ways of celebrating all the holidays at this time of year with me, and I wish happy funtimes to you all as we close in on 2011! And yes, he is a little crosseyed, but you would be too if you saw a cookie that big. :P

Character study for Bunny

Here it is...me finally getting my behind in gear and moving beyond the pencil-doodle stage with ideas for a short film, tentatively called "Overturned." This is bunny. I hope you can tell from this character study that he is pure, concentrated, unadulterated, calculated evil. Oh, he is indeed.

Jellybean, the inbred unicorn

So the topic was a strange one this time... "inbred unicorn."  I tried *so* hard to make it look like he's got one nostril and one eye, in addition to the one leg,  but when I walk away and come back for another look it reads like a side view no mater what I do, AGH! . Darn the human brain and its uncanny ability to resolve unfamiliar shapes into something that makes sense. As for the name...well, if someone asks you to "taste the rainbow" in this case....you should say no.

Dreams About Flying

 This sketch group round is especially exciting because all the entries will be looked over by James Robertson of Pixar! The topic this time is "flight." I've always wondered if birds fly in their dreams when they're asleep in their cages. I'd like to think they do. The main expression I was going for on the bird was a serene longing. It's a wonderful skill to be happy wherever you are, and having dreams can be big part of that.

Camoflage

Camouflage was the topic of this round. Hide rat hiiiide! I think I'd like to try simplifying the tones on this one to get  a stronger focal point.