Money is like dessert, there's always room for just a bit more.

Wierd Rain Poster

A movie poster concept...

Ronald Searle Tribute Interview

Take a look at the interview it's worth the time. The man had a reason to do all the work he did.
Ronald Searle Tribute Interview on Channel 4

IAEA of the UN

This is a page that I did for the International Atomic Energy Agency (United Nations) trying to create awareness for Cobalt 60 radiation, and it's use.

Skectches from sick days

Early this month I was out of commission so I got to lay on the couch and look around the room.

Quote

"Defeat is an orphan. Success has many fathers."

A friend mentioned this to me yesterday at lunch. He mentioned that it can other be an Argentinian saying, at least he heard it from an Argentinian friend of his.

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND Week 37

Movie Poster - The First Step to Nowhere

Imagine if there was a movie called The First Step to Nowhere. Then there would have to be the logo for the company that produced it...

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND Week 35

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND Week 34

Skectches From Over The Weekend

I took a couple of days to get out of town... boy that did some good...

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND Week 32

Bedtime Sketches

Took the Time

This morning I took the time to have some fun...

Skectch

A couple of sketches before hitting the bed

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND Week 31

Skectch

Some stuff from yesterday

Skectch

One of the sketches from last night, and some quick color this morning. Have a good weekend.

Roughs

Once more some sketches from before I hit the sac.

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND Week 30

Some More Evening Sketches

Misc Sketches

I usually do some drawing before going to bed in effort to end the day doing something for me. These are from two nights ago, I just added some digital color this morning.

Don Bluth - Don's Club

$5/month for a once a week 1hr session with Don Bluth over an online chat Q & A situation, groups are around 15 people at the moment. Worth looking into it!

I found out about this opportunity on OnAnimation

Here is Don Bluth's site if you are interested in checking things out
Don Bluth Animation

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND test

I've been learning watercolor... This is one of my first attempts

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND Week 29

Rex Ensemble - Let Me Sing

1969

FRANK AND HIS FRIEND Week 28

Quote

"Wealth is relative to the amount of time one has to enjoy it." from The Bourne Identity (1980) by Robert Ludlum

I listen to the audio book over the holidays and had to stop to write that little bit down...

Composing Pictures by Donald W. Graham PDF

As I was going through Daniel Caylor blog On Animation I came across this little diamond, Composing Pictures by Donald W. Graham in PDF. This is an excellent book on design it's easy to read and full of valuable information. The book is out of print, so getting a hard copy is a financial investment when I got mine some years back it was $100. Take advantage of the work that Daniel put in for making the file available.

Enjoy it.

Jan 10 2009
A quick update, the files have been removed from that server... Copyright issues. It was good while it lasted.

Famous Artist Course (1960) & Famous Artists Cartoon Course (1965)

Here is the link to Daniel Caylor's blog
On Animation he put together the complete Famous Artist Course (1960) in pdf format. Thank you Daniel! If you are not familiar with the material you should at least take a look at it and make your own appraisal. In my eyes it's excellent material. The artist that contributed to the material are Dorne whom recruited John Atherton, Austin Briggs, Stevan Dohanos, Robert Fawcett, Peter Helck, Fred Ludekens, Ben Stahl, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell, Harold von Schmidt and Jon Whitcomb and later Al Capp, Milt Caniff and Rube Goldberg. Advisory faculty for the school later included Stuart Davis, Ben Shahn, Fletcher Martin, Ernest Fiene, Arnold Blanch and Doris Lee.

AND, Comic Crazys has the Famous Artists Cartoon Course (1965) available in pdf


Jan 10 2009
A quick update, the files the On Animation site have been removed from that server... Copyright issues. It was good while it lasted. the material on ComicCrazys is still available