medium beige

NEW COVER* FOR MY COMIC!!!

2012-01-26T16:08:00.000-05:00

link

the itsy bitys spider

2011-11-30T17:14:00.001-05:00

went up the water spout

down came the rain

and washed the spider out

when the rain stopped

the itty bitty spider

went up the spout again

allegedly.

SPACE BUG in: GRAVITY PART 1

2011-09-22T12:57:00.002-04:00

1st part of a ToonBoom cartoon that I started earlier this year. I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to complete it or tweek the half dozen or so things that still bother me I slapped a "...to be continued" at the end and as you can see uploaded it to the webernets. special thanks to NASA and the David Rose Orchestra

a less spacially challenged version can be viewed at the youtube link seen below
link

A clean sketch from the 'Next to nowhere' development process

2011-09-09T16:13:00.001-04:00

white eyed floatie

2011-09-09T12:13:00.000-04:00

32cm X 42cm, framed.
Detail

more faux polaroids

2011-08-11T14:30:00.001-04:00

Some preliminary sketches and a final black and white drawing I did for a series development/pitch package I was part of about a year ago.

comic strip pages: UPDATE.

2011-07-20T15:01:00.006-04:00

WHATEVER COULD THESE PEOPLE BE TALKING ABOUT?

Update: You can now find out @ BESIDE TOP SECRET!!!

I WANT TO BELIEVE

2011-05-25T11:53:00.002-04:00

Potential cover sketch for a series of comics that I'm putting together right now

UPDATE

2011-05-25T11:45:00.006-04:00

Its' been way to long since may last post. Which is a good thing 'cause it usually means I've been busy.

So to update you a little about what's been going on in my art world: I've had my 1st first pieceS exposed publicly recently in a group show. My S.O. and I exhibited with her father and to of our mutual friends.

It was covered by the local media and you can read about it hear.

These are the two pieces it exhibited.

Everybody's got that cross to bear: Cyclops #28: the Templar Knight's Glory

Selective Memorial : Cyclops #17

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SPACE BUG!

2011-03-21T10:57:00.005-04:00

here are some screenshots from a SPACEBUG cartoon i'm working on these days when i have the spare time. hope you likey likey.

tentative tile: "GRAVITY" an alchemical journey!

...maybe a little too much?

special thanks to NASA!

TM-L is on the air!!!

2011-02-22T10:32:00.002-05:00

HEY KIDS!

At long last TM-L has been uploaded onto the web for public viewing!

We've just released the a trailer and started our YouTube channel just to test the waters n such... we're finalizing our web site and ancillaries as we speak for a full launch in the near future.

Hope you enjoy it just enough to keep coming back for more! Because there will be more!

2011-02-11T09:57:00.002-05:00

HAPPY FRIDAY!

N-DUR

2011-02-01T19:31:00.002-05:00

Now, y'all make sure to have a happy groundhog day!

Royal Canadian Danger Rangers!

2011-01-24T12:57:00.015-05:00

This is a series proposal and working title I've developed and been pitching around lately. It's based on idea an idea by the Vestibules LINK that I just loved sound of if not the original title.

At the time I 'came up' with the title I was surprised to myself that I'd never heard use of the term 'danger rangers'. That was, until about 2007 or so, when I finally got around to seeing Clerks 2 on the movie channels. That's when I noticed Randall's tshirt had a danger ranger illustration on it(I actually misread it: it read "Ranger Danger". But in the end that made no difference 'cause once I got around to googling it I got this. And lately(er) there's this.

I've also found this . Don't forget to click on the Danger Ranger logo beneath the banner/internal site link bar for extra marketage of the "no way" nature.

Anyways I don't no where that leaves the rights to the IDEA of a danger rangers. Might have to use some other word like 'squad' or "team" or something.

Maybe an acronym, like: C.O.B.A.L.T. or A.S.Q.U.A,D.

We'll have to get some reputable lawyerin' on that at some point.

Regardless, I just love the idea of an underfunded team of government agents saving the world efficiently and cheaply on the Environment Canada's annual budget.

That and developing the whole mythos that might have surrounded such a team. Kinda what the Venture Brothers does so sublimely well these days.

Anyhoo, bye for now. Hope you like.

BRAND NEW PROMO EDIT

2011-01-03T15:00:00.005-05:00

A recent edit of a promo for a series proposal I've been working on lately. It's based on an idea myself and my buddies over at ee's and zee's came up with back in the Oh Oh's (happy new year everyone--hope the tweens aren't too terribly hard on you). Zee provided 3 way cool character designs.

The sound track's recorded a little low so I suggest you crank it.

You can view a non blog blocked version ici

merry christmas till it hurts, evrybody!!!

2010-12-26T18:37:00.001-05:00

colossosaurus

2010-12-16T10:50:00.004-05:00

this is an illustration i been sitting on for a while. it's a long overdo Art Jumble post that i finally got around to colouring.

at the tip of Colossosaursus' tail i've incorporated Das Chupa's Wolversarus. perched atop his head is the lovely and talented Spritus Arielalis Ombrefelintitus.

red and blue

2010-12-06T15:00:00.003-05:00

i'm having a lot of fun these days drawing these fellas on pieces of wood that i find lying around the house. as always, i hope you likee likee.

Pink n Stubby and the 3 Sprites

2010-11-29T15:09:00.003-05:00

another drawing on a piece of wood

wasp

2010-11-27T11:03:00.004-05:00

another piece drawn on wood using faber castell polychronos

short and bug-eyed

2010-11-25T11:37:00.004-05:00

lately, i been drawing on wood.

little red riding hoods

2010-10-17T17:34:00.004-04:00

nothing like a sunday afternoon spant whipping up a blog post. these are
2 takes on the classic warner brothers' cartoon - i mean - grimm's fairy tail.

2010-08-30T11:49:00.001-04:00

TM&L SKETHCES

2010-08-16T10:02:00.012-04:00

THESE WERE DRAWN FOR THE WEB SERIES I WAS DESIGNING AND ANIMATING AROUND THIS TIME LAST YEAR.

ONE OF THESE CHARACTERS IS IN THE MAIN CHARACTER LINE-UP THE REST WILL PROBABLY BE USED IN VARIOUS WALK-ON ROLLS AS SETTING MAY DEMAND.

WE'LL BE LAUNCHING THE SERIES IN 'EARLY' SEPTEMBER. MAYBE OCTOBER. STAY TOONED FOR FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS.

THAT'S THE BUZZ YER HEARING IN THE BACKGROUND. WE'LL BE ENDEAVORING TO BUILD IT SLOWLY AND STEADILY TO A NICE CONSTANT RATE BY NOW.

WITH THE UNIVERSE'S ACCORD IT'LL BUILD TO A NICELY RESONATING HUM. FINGERS CROSSED.

WE'LL BE POSTING A TEASER ANY DAY NOW.

ANY MINUTE.

2010-08-15T14:35:00.000-04:00

one page for a christmas special pitch

2010-07-13T16:44:00.004-04:00

PSA: beware the black eyed kids

2010-06-16T16:27:00.004-04:00

one of the creepier things i've come across lately during my internet travels is the urban myth of black eyed kids (or BEKs): they knock on your door or approach you in your parked car, asking to use your phone or for a ride somewhere. they come on softly but get more agitated and forcefully angry in you don't acquiesce. their breath apparently stinks to high heaven.

the only stories of them are the one told by those who get creeped out enough to not let them in - locking the door behind themselves. begging the question: what happens when you let them in?

dance monkeyboy dance

2010-06-05T17:10:00.002-04:00

angels wearing gasmasks

2010-05-25T12:02:00.005-04:00

these were a bunch of sketches that i did 2 summers ago that i thought, at the time, were kinda zeitgeisty.(i was actually trying to do something a little provocative since, i've long laid to rest any teenage repulsion i my have been engendered with against being 'pretentious'. i mean, christ, why not not attempt something of merit or significance if you got the time? and i was unemployed at the time ... so what the frick!

anyhoo - looking back at the juxtaposition of the charcoal rendering of the mad scientist archetype(character) with the ink sketch of the gas-mask-angel in the bottom drawing, is bringing to mind a lot of the ancient astronaut/extraterrestrial crptohistorical/fortean esoterica that i've been allowing access to my cerebral cortex lately. as is the general idea of 'angel/alien operatives' needing technological assistance to operate successfully 'down here'.

the scientist representing 'us' rendered in what is basically a burnt stick and the angel in a gas mask representing 'them'* rendered with a highly advanced mechanism utilizing ball-bearing, vacuum creating and plastic manufacturing techniques, this, representation of the differences in technological capacity of the two groups.

the scientist also seems to have a righteous anger burning in the general direction though, not directly at the gma, while the angel has literally glassy eyed gaze encompassing not only the raging scientist but, conceivably everything in that general direction. again representative of the differences between the to groups. this time in the awareness they have of each other.

totally unintentional(and or subconscious). i may not have even drawn the two sketches on the same page at the same time. just filling in a blank spot on the page for the sake of no longer having a blank spot on the page.

but in a world where, as i believe, one gets lied to from birth till death about where and who we are, could any real insights occur if not by accident?

stay tuned folks; we're thru the looking glass now.

like we've ever been anywhere else.

if you're a unfamiliar with ancient astronaut/extraterrestrial crptohistorical/fortean esoterica here's a couple of links from different ends of the spectrum you might find interesting and or highly offensive.

revisionist bible interpretation

ancient astronaut with a good dash of bigfoot

*still not sure if there is a 'them' or that if it's even possible to be separate from anything in the universe in a manner that would actually constitute a 'them' or 'other' type entity.

the concept existing solely for the benefit of them that might profit from the waging of one group against a fabricated 'other'.

SNEAK PREVIEW

2010-05-06T14:45:00.004-04:00

here's a little look at a development package i'm hoping to pitch in the near future.

STAN MIKITA:update

2010-03-21T18:45:00.004-04:00

i'm glad i scanned this earlier stage of this sketch, looking back, i think i may have lost a little something when i went over it one last time with the purple prismacolor.

by far the most beautiful man ever to grace god's green earth: the one and only Stanislav Mikita.

seven

2010-03-21T18:14:00.003-04:00

here are seven links to seven things directly or indirectly linked to the invasion of iraq by a coalition of international war criminals commonly referred to as willing.

zombies!

2010-03-16T20:19:00.003-04:00

this has been sitting in the corner of my desk stop for, like, years almost now.

as good a reason to be blogged as any, i guess.

hope you like.

maybe, i could make a green one, for st. paddy's day tomorrow.
regardless i'll be trying to blog more recent stuff in the future.

how 'bout that CAPRICA show on space, eh! that's what were talking about.

KCLAAaannAANG!!!

2010-02-23T19:33:00.004-05:00

In this early post war (mock)photo(for use in a pitch package I put together recently) we see Boom Boom Jeffries wielding the mystical hammer Mjolnir after having wrested it from the mighty Thor himself at the height of WW11. Thor, of course, fighting for Nazi occupied Norway at the time. And we see young Billy Miller holding up Admiral America's invincible shield of Ultimate Virtue as the Admiral keeps a watchful eye.

Good times.

series development collage

2010-01-18T17:13:00.008-05:00

the great thing about working on developing an animation series, especially in the early stages, is the shear amount of drawings you have to go through trying to come up with characters and 'styles' of animation. as for style in this case, i got the feeling early on, that the client, though wanting something cartoony, didn't want anything that was, y'know, 'too cartoony'. and it was just a matter of finding out what each of us thought the other meant by 'cartoony' and 'too cartoony'

these are selections from the ever expanding research and reject file...

Real Canadian Superheroes! For Real!

2010-01-08T16:12:00.004-05:00

These are a series of trading cards issued along with series of postage stamps that came out in 1992 or 93.

I modified two of them somewhat so as not to arouse any copyright houndings and include them in series proposal I put together late last year.

Two other ones are complete fabrications based on characters in the series.

Three of them are untouched and are shown as they were issued with a little worse for wearage along the edges.

Can you guess which one are which, kids? I knew you could.

I'm not saying I did such a great job with the photoshopping and the fakings but the and vague status of most Canadian superheroes makes it a pretty easy task for one up to such enterprise.

Johnny Kanuckehead is a personal favorite.

These are the stamps themselves: Issued to commemorate Superman's birthday and the discovery that he's apparently half Canadian. I thought he was half Jewish myself. But what do I know?

I'm pretty sure it was his left side that was Canadian. The side that that Neofacsist Batman always hated. Or was Superman the Neofacsist? Labels. So hard to keep track of who's what and what's what mean.

But I digress.

One these stamps is a fake also. It's pretty easy to spot; it's the one you can't read at this size.

li'l CHUCKIE BANG BANG + BOOM BOOM JEFFERIES

2009-11-27T10:23:00.010-05:00

the world's biggest midget and the strongest boy in the world kicking axis ass as shown here in this commemorative stamp issued in the mid nineties.

boom!

2009-11-17T12:17:00.004-05:00

something a little halloweeny. just in time for the halloween season

2009-10-29T14:42:00.007-04:00

Tai-Ming and Livraison

2009-09-14T17:12:00.005-04:00

'been a while since my last...

...thought i'd pick up where i left off and update the web series i got sidetracked from by a little storyboard stint that i'm just coming up for air from.

whew!

TM&L (tai-ming & livraison*): some of the characters have minor changes. some are exactly the same.

i still have a half dozen secondary and handful main characters to flesh out.

i'll add them in as we go.

we'll be launching the site once we get a few more episodes in the bag(2 so far, kinda almost sorta). and get started with proper production blog as well in the near future.

*livraison means 'delivery" en francais. ergo, timing and delivery. yay!!!...multilingual puns! when is that never any fun?

Tai-Ming and Livraison: 1st pass at a character line up

2009-04-15T08:57:00.007-04:00

what's passing (so far) as a working line up for a small independent web series with some attempts at secondary characters being regulated to background decorations. it's based on the montréal music scene, circa:just a little while ago or is it the not so distant future?

we'll have to wait and see, i guess.

2009-04-12T14:01:00.006-04:00

a bunch of rough sketches for a little web series development i'm doing right now

Captain ProAction

2009-03-30T10:14:00.004-04:00

a rendition of what i thought a 'superhero' might look like if one were actually running around the inner city landscape. the name's a throw away.

sketchbook dump for the sake of a sketchbook dump

2009-03-20T12:01:00.011-04:00

six long years

2009-03-19T14:50:00.003-04:00

almost completely unnoticed by our beloved msm, year six of the most heinous of criminal acts: Operation Iraqi Liberation(O.I.L) later known as O.I.F. the 'f' standing for freedom or more accurately f*cked

ye olde super cute baby illustrations

2009-03-16T11:24:00.009-04:00

guess who's making animal pictures for the baby's room...

rex murphy

2009-03-06T15:18:00.005-05:00

possibly the funniest looking head in canadian punditry, rex murphy also uses a rarefied lexicon (a lot of big words) that makes one haveta end up looking up the words in the dictionary assuming one has a dictionary lying around these days.

my buddy zee inspired me to take a stab at this humdinger of humanity. you can see his stab here. he really pushes it.

tired patience v. willful obstinance/ignorance

2009-02-25T13:02:00.008-05:00

my girlfriend used to get really annoyed at my continual viewing of the political gabfests that litter the sunday morning television landscape until, one day, i referred to them as 'my stories'. this seemed to put her at ease a bit because, i guess, she realized that i didn't take them too seriously.

if you've never seen the mcgaughlin group in action someone's compiled a pretty funny edit together here.

SpaceBug Ep_2 "gravity"

2009-02-20T15:30:00.011-05:00

in this episode, our little hero meets and greets that most dreaded of space/time phenomenon: the black hole!

SpaceBug Ep_1 "lunch"

2009-02-19T11:54:00.019-05:00

This is from a series pitch i had done back in the early oh ohs. i spruced it up somewhat for internet consumption.

a little work in progress

2009-01-05T12:52:00.001-05:00

2008-12-13T11:23:00.003-05:00

2008-12-09T12:39:00.000-05:00

billy & friends

2008-11-27T13:36:00.003-05:00

a page from the sketchbook. with a little bit of photoshop fandangling.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

2008-10-31T16:35:00.005-04:00

this is from an invite, for a halloween soirée m'lovely cohort and i are throwing.

novelty seeker

2008-10-24T16:09:00.003-04:00

an illustration i submitted to a local poetry journal. submission less than fully accepted.

paranormal polaroids

2008-09-12T16:14:00.007-04:00

a variation on my submission to this week's art jumble subject

more hippos

2008-09-10T13:30:00.003-04:00

it's confirmed: hippos are fun to draw.

RGBcolored hippopotami(and maybe a goofy polar bear)

2008-08-27T16:45:00.008-04:00

i can't believe how long it took me to find out how much fun it is to draw hippos.

i'm telling ya, its a lot of fun.

ye olde cranky septegenarian(sp)

2008-08-08T17:44:00.007-04:00

real pencil smudges on real animation paper from a real animation studio. original inspiration sketch for a character design for a t.v. show. i tightened up somewhat after the fact. more importantly, though, it's the 8th post published by me today.

crazy.

well, have a happy pineapple express day or '08 olympics day or whatever you chose to do on this most auspicious of days.

so far.

7th of 8 posts on 080808

2008-08-08T17:39:00.004-04:00

2008-08-08T17:30:00.002-04:00

i drew this one about 2 summers ago on st. catherine st. inked it maybe a few months later.

2008-08-08T17:22:00.005-04:00

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sometimes i draw with a purple pencil.

2008-08-08T17:18:00.002-04:00

ink doodles are fun. fun is good.

2008-08-08T17:16:00.003-04:00

3 bugs in ink and pencil crayon

2008-08-08T17:14:00.002-04:00

BG screen shot

2008-08-08T14:25:00.001-04:00

this is the final background for what has come to be know as the 'plumber' sequence.

COLOR screenshots.

2008-07-25T10:18:00.006-04:00

just finishing up on a small gig for an instructional video on hemophilia and i thought i'd put up a couple of screenshots. y'know; for the heck of it.

2008-07-11T16:26:00.004-04:00

these are some rough prep sketches for an animation. its for an instructional video i'm working on right now.

the roman numerals are wrong.

2008-06-30T17:43:00.003-04:00

a little something i've been frikkin around with lately.

bon yoyage.

2008-06-23T10:52:00.005-04:00

beaucoup bibbittes

2008-06-18T15:22:00.004-04:00

M-M-M---MOTHRA!!!.

2008-06-05T12:45:00.010-04:00

the black and white drawing with the colour illo i done gone and did for this week's topic over @ art jumble.

metabugz

2008-06-02T13:16:00.006-04:00

i love drawing these critters so much i had to give 'em a name.

the one at the bottom maybe not so much.

three drawings on paper

2008-05-30T15:09:00.006-04:00

2008-05-27T13:14:00.007-04:00

some life drawings from a recent session that i think tuned out all right.

10 to 15 minute poses. i think.

2008-05-20T15:09:00.003-04:00

a little spider-man for no particular reason.

2008-05-14T15:44:00.005-04:00

it's been a while since my last post so i thought i might upload some recent excursions in life drawing, for the heck of it.

some ideas for animated television shows that Iive been sloogging away at in recent weeks.

2008-03-25T12:18:00.013-04:00

guernica gaspump red

2008-03-18T15:05:00.002-04:00

crikey! i hope this is the last one of these i hafta do!

a little of what's been keeping me busy these days

2008-02-27T17:32:00.004-05:00

still from a spacebug cartoon

2008-02-13T17:14:00.003-05:00

el cucaracho Ep004 'winds of deception' predator mx

2008-01-29T10:05:00.002-05:00

remix of episode 004 with borrowed soundtrack and some older versions of a couple of scenes still in the cut

3 pictures

2008-01-08T13:59:00.002-05:00

three works in progress

2007-12-31T14:35:00.000-05:00

peace and all the best in the new year!

2007-12-22T14:20:00.001-05:00

a little animated xmas greeting. lots of love!

royal canadian mountie squawd

2007-12-14T14:09:00.002-05:00

royal canadian mountie squawd

2007-12-05T10:48:00.001-05:00

el cucaracho episode004 is on the web and it seems our hero still has some awkwardly earnest political/black helicopter issues to overcome or at least come to terms with before he can focus on being all postmodblackhumouredgypre/postironiky all over there asses. maybe next time.

i started with an actual storyboard this time and though it still kinda grew organically from there it's a lot more STRUCturEd then episodeOO8 in all its many forms.
the key difference between the two is that i made pretty concerted effort to turn down the suckage on this one in every scene; not just the ones i thought might be demo reel material(my aim is to turn down the suck until it is no longer apparent at least on first viewing. maybe next time).

so without further preamble.....bon cinema!

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4226133510942863178

choose your cookie and choose often

film poster ideas

2007-11-26T16:54:00.002-05:00

i thought i might make some poster mock ups for my latest short film while i have it put aside so i can look at it with fresh eyes again before i download onto you tube.

sketchbook stuff

2007-11-08T12:36:00.004-05:00

2007-10-31T12:13:00.002-04:00

playing with photoshop

2007-10-18T11:40:00.001-04:00

the FRIKKIN FANTASTIC EFFFEN FOUR, MAN!

2007-10-02T13:58:00.001-04:00

benjamin grimm the ever lovin' THING and the johnny storm the HUMAN TORCH!

having fun with photoshop whilst i ponder my next move....

N 2 N

2007-09-03T18:04:00.003-04:00

3 pictures

2007-08-30T01:32:00.003-04:00

some odds n sods from me photoshop file browser

2007-08-02T22:34:00.003-04:00

WHATEVER KNOWS FEAR BURNS AT THE TOUCH OF THE MAN-THING!

one of my favourite/lame-ass characters/concepts to ever come out of comicdom: mindless swamp thing critter roams swamps and such, pretty much minding its own business unlessin some poor schmuck comes across it, in which case there's gonna be some touching and some burning.

Well, at least he's fun to draw.

sketchbook drawing rendered in ever loving photoshop.

2007-07-19T19:13:00.002-04:00

some selections from a recent sketchbook

royal canadian mountie squad

2007-07-12T01:31:00.002-04:00

more of same as shown below.

royal canadian danger ranger squad

2007-07-11T19:06:00.002-04:00

a few selections from a recent adventure in series development.

2007-06-12T16:26:00.002-04:00

had fun doing this today.