GirlsDrawinGirls: 80s Chick

Time I get back into GirlsDrawinGirls topics- here's an 80s chick!

Sketch Dailies: Mary Poppins Casting

A few days late for this Sketch Dailies topic, but I've had this in the back of my mind for a while now.  When I learned that there were other actresses considered for the role of Mary Poppins before practically-perfect-in-every-way Julie Andrews, I wondered what they might have been like.  I think Mary Martin in the late fifties/early sixties would relish another flying role, and wouldn't even have to pretend to be a little boy!  Angela Lansbury at that time could still be a bit of a glamorpuss and would be really beautiful in that setting.  Bette Davis made a super-creepy movie called "The Nanny" and thus would make a great Scary Mary.  Of course, "Mary Poppins" is one of my all-time favorite movies and I wouldn't change a frame of it, but its still fun to speculate.

Daily Crapbook: Head Sketches

Still trying to get my sketchin' goin'...

Daily Crapbook: 70s Chick

Getting my energy back up, trying to warm up with some sketchin'.

"Animator Paper Doll" for CTN Expo

I've been MIA lately because there are a couple things going on in my life that have just taken over.  I haven't had much time to do anything but work, but I had to meet this deadline tonight for the CTN Expo sketchbook project.  Here is my submission!    

Upcoming Penny Serenade Shows

Made a little sketch for the upcoming Penny Serenade shows.

DragonCon This Weekend!

Excited for DragonCon 2014!  "Monkey Rag" will be screening on Saturday at 11:30 am in Animation Block 2, and I'll be part of a panel discussion called "Animation Mastery" at 1pm.  Come on out and say hi!

Daily Crapbook: Bunny Sketch

Daily Crapbook: Mystique

Quick, late sketch of #MYSTIQUE for @Sketch_Dailies

Lauren Bacall Sketch

It's a little late for a warm-up sketch, but I wanted to sketch a little anyway.  Lauren Bacall's image is something you can't forget- very sultry, very mysterious, and very strong.  She's worth studying- I need to put her on my list.  I just wish it didn't take her death for me to reacquaint myself with her movies.  And I wish people would just stop dying- at least for a few days...

UPA Doc: Herb Klynn

Another model sheet done for #TheBoingHeardRoundTheWorld

RIP Robin Williams

I'm normally not affected much by celebrity deaths, even if its a celebrity I like.  But Robin Williams's sudden passing really shook me.  He is probably the first actor I ever became aware of as a child, and I always loved him.  That he is a comic genius has been said, and it is true, but there was also something so real and endearing about him.  No matter what he did or was movie he was in, his appeal never faded.  The idea that this man who brought so much laughter into the world could have been suffering so much is unbearable to me.  So I had to ruminate on him for a little bit today.  Here's to all the Happy Thoughts that Robin Williams gave to us all.       

Louise Loves Art Book Trailer

Hooray!  Last month I worked on a really neat project: a trailer for a delightful children's book called "Louise Loves Art", by Kelly Light.  I really loved the style of the characters (they have a very animated appeal), and did my best to stick to the original inking and coloring techniques Kelly used in the book.  Reality checks kept me from doing full animation, but I'm still pretty happy with how it turned out.  (In case anyone is interested, I animated on paper first, then inked and colored in Photoshop, then composited in After Effects.)

"Louise Loves Art" was also featured in USA Today, and author Kelly Light has some wonderful things to say about the genesis of the story and characters and the important of art in children's' lives.  Its a marvelous book and it deserves to be a hit.  I'm so happy to have been a part of it!  

Ideas to Get Over Artist Block

Sketch Dailies: BamBam

Haven't done a SketchDaily in a while.  So... BAMBAM!