WORD!

Im known to throw out the word "word" often due to me running with the wrong crowd as a teenager, and when I said it today to one of my pals at work he showed me this. I thought it was pretty funny. Guess it's been around, but I had never seen it. Maybe you havent either.

Adding my workspace to the mix.

My workspace at Amaze
Originally uploaded by newsquirt.

I love seeing other artists workspaces. Ive seen workspace thread's on tons of threads all around the net, and Ive never took the time to take the photo's to share. Well I was inspired this time by Ward from "The Ward O Matic", and I also noticed one of the guys that I work with posted his new space on his blog too. Danny is one of the new animators on Pirates.

We just moved over the weekend into cubeland. So all my pictures and artwork are not displayed. But I was able to add a bit here and there.

If you click on the picture it will take you to my flickr site which has more photos and notes added 'splaining some areas. Man I really dig flickr, you can really add nice touches to pics. Im thinking of moving on up to the pro account. The free account only gives you 20meg upload room. Not all that much room, if you plan on sharing tons of pics.

Fencing project over Memorial Day weekend

Here is a glimpse of what I did over Memorial Day weekend. All day Saturday was taken up by doing this fence, mainly by myself til my neighbor came out and helped later in the afternoon. I did a majority of all the hard work like digging the post holes and mixing the cement and placing the posts in. I also put up all the 2x4's and the 1st 3 sections you see I put all the cedar boards up. Lot of work. The last 3 sections had to be taken down 3 times, cause things got lopsided, and another time we decided to try and step it down, then I contacted my contractor friend who came over and took a look and said why not just cut it with the skilsaw, so that's what we did. I also cut all the posts to match. It was a lot of hard work but so worth it. The price I was quoted by some fencing co. would've set me back $1200, but I was able to put this up for about $500. Big difference. Damn labor jobs...They kill ya, but they get the job done a lot faster than some scrub who's not sure what they are doing :) Here is another photo

Star Wars Ep III Revenge of the Sith books

Art of Episode III

The Making of SW Revenge of the Sith


2 books that are amazing and should be in your library if you are an artist. Holy smokes I love the Art of book a lot. So many wonderful pictures to look at. I think this is the best book out of all the Art of SW books that have been published imo. So many really amazing artists like Ryan Church, Iain McCaig, Feng Zhu etc etc... I name those 3 because I have their DVDs from gnomon online that are really dang cool too. Awesome to see how they work.

Ill definitely be posting my review and take on the movie once I see it tomorrow. Some pals from work are heading out for a 12:20 showing of ROTS. CANT WAIT CANT WAIT!!!! Im such a dang SW geek... :) Happy to say too! Im not your typical Lucas basher, Ive been a big fan of all his work, cept for Howard the Duck (just gotta make that point) lol Though plot holes abound and yes the dialog will be total cheese and ugh but, I think Georgy is a visionary! We would not have ILM, THX, Star Wars, Pixar, were it not for the man with neck! :) Anyways, more to come as I see the film and geek out over it. Reviews have been mostly kind so that is good to hear. My review I already know will be glowing unless he really f's up, which I doubt.

GO VADER! woot

Amaze Entertainment!

All the published games I've worked on while at Amaze!

This is what Ive been doing for the last 8 years. Just kind of a little retrospective. Kinda like my little resume in graphic format. It sure is fun to look back and see what has been accomplished in the time Ive been doing this art career. Onward ho.

The Drawing Board

One of the sites that I check pretty regularly and frequently get a daily dose of inspiration from is The Drawing Board There are a lot of pro's working in the art industry, ranging from Movies, Games, Graphic Art..You name it artisticly and there is someone from that group represented at the db.

Anyways, part of one of the sections in the drawing board is called drawing jam, in which the mod posts some new photos that are to inspire and all the artists who want to participate can. The new photo that was posted up inspired me Friday to drop my work that I was doing for a bit and do a quick sketch. I kinda liked how the sketch looked so I decided to email it to myself and paint it at home when I got off work. This is what came about.



Still working on all my dang drawing flaws. The remedy to that is to freakin draw! Gotta remind myself daily to pick up the pencil. Can only get better if I practice, practice, PRACTICE!

Out!

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Dead Man's Chest PSP

Captain Jack Sparrow

Cat's outta the bag. This is what I be working on yargh!! http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=9225

Im the lead animator for the project, it's been pretty fun so far. We're just getting the E3 demo ready for the big show in May. It looks awesome. As soon as I can show stuff I will. I'm working with some really amazing artists on the team too. Hopefully it will put us on the map. We need it....

Lack of updates!

I suck..My serious lack of updates is due to sickness and burnout. Two things that dont go well together. I think Im coming out of it now though so that is good and I can get back to updating.

New posts are a comin...

More house plans!

You know those first house plans that were posted a while back, well whatever I did it worked. My bro-inlaw worked me an awesome deal. Some new freelance coming my way. Gotta like that. I didnt know the market for this type of stuff was out there. What a cool way to earn some extra $$. Painting house plans baby... :)






I should probably put a disclaimer on these and say they are the property of CapitolBuildingCo in Boise ID.

Expressive hands

I've always had a hard time drawing hands, and Ive gotten over the years some really valuable sheets showing great expressive cartoony hands. I thought Id share some of the sheets. I dont know who actual drew these but they are really nice.

Drawn! blog

A new blog that looks like it will be an amazing resource. Taken from their site

Drawn! is a multi-author blog devoted to illustration, art, cartooning and drawing. Its purpose is to inspire creativity by sharing links and resources.

Go check it out!

http://www.drawn.ca/

Basketball

Had one of my good nights in basketball tonight. I scored 15 points. Boy my shot was hitting every time I got the ball. You gotta love that when it happens. Get the ball and take it to the rack man! Im learning to be more aggressive with the ball. One of my downfalls, but Im learning. I've been watching a lot of the And-1 stuff on ESPN. Man those guys are just sick the way they play. Amazing.

The team that we played was all under 25 or so. The team I play on is made up of mostly older guys over 30, but we have a couple guys in the late teens and early 20's. One of the guys we have just joined us. He's still in high school and he's 6'6 or 6'7, it's super fun to play with him, cause you can pretty much just watch him dunk the ball every time he gets it. That was the case tonight, a number of alleyoops, and slamma jamma. It was sweet. Our team just played some really good fundamental basketball and we crushed the other team. I think the final score was 45-20. Kind of embarrassing for the young guys actually. We were playing regular 2-3 defense and we were shutting them down. It was a lot of fun. It's games like tonight that make me keep coming back for more. Killing my knees and my back! haha

On the way to work!

Washington has to be one of the most beautiful places on the planet.

This was taken with my camera phone on my way into work today. The sun has been shining lately up here in Washington. I have to say when the sun is out here, it cant be beat. Trees everywhere giving us the fresh clean air.

I was trying to get the mountain in the picture too..Well actually it is in the picture, but you can't see it. My camera phone takes shitty pictures. It's really awesome when it's out. I come around this corner on I-405 and if the mountain is out "Blam, it just sticks out like a sore thumb." It's a massive volcano too, sweetness...Cant wait for it to blow it's top..NOT!

The singing hellova dancing pedo.

Man it's really sad what my man Michael Jackson has come too huh? I really admire his amazing musicianship and he will live on in his music but with the trial starting up, I have a feeling he's gonna get busted this time around. Ive always been one to really believe in MJ but there's something about this time that Im having a hard time keeping him not guilty, til proven guilty.

Im gonna try and catch some of the reenactment that Court TV supposedly is gonna televise. That should be funny...a reenactment...What an idea...Jeez..

Jackson May Testify, Pop Star's Lawyer Suggests.. That should be interesting.. hah yeah..

I dont know, there's something about ol Mike that really just reeks of pedophilia now days. Maybe it's cause Im older, but I use to be soooo naive as to what Mike was doing with all those kids. He's wacko Jacko to me now.... sad really....I wont be surprised if they find him guilty.

Good luck MJ, you're gonna need it. Dont know if money's gonna help this time round..Maybe it will who knows. Look at OJ.

Making it happen!

I came across this guys blog a little while ago, and I really enjoy what he has to say for the most part. This guy has a great way with words, though most of it was through his Grandfather. It's a nice read anyways.

Making it in life

Colored house plans

I just recently did these for my brother in law who designs houses. He needed some colored up so this is what I did for him.


house

house3

house2

house4

Retro drawing

This thread over at the CartoonRetro forum has a great discussion about Christoper Hart's new book coming out which looks atrocious compared to the "Real retro artists". Like it's stated in the forum, "Why go to that book looking to draw retro, why not just go to the actual source"

Like subscribing to Cartoon Retro! Which I plan on doing soon. Sooooo much great stuff over there. Plus some of the stuff Shane is planning on adding seems like it will be pretty valuable.

Seattle Comic Con Sketches

Here are the sketches from the con that my son and I were able to get. Good times. Im going to the San Diego Comic Con this year, and Im looking forward to it. Im going to make sure I take my sketchbook with me this time so I can get some more sketches.


Pigtale sketch!

Lieber's batman

Awesome Rex sketch from Michel Gagne

Kevin Hanna's sketch
I forgot that we had gotten a sketch from Kevin til I went home and grabbed the sketches to scan so here is Kevin's site too http://www.frogchildren.com

Kasey Q's sketch

Emerald City Comic Con

Over the weekend I went to the Emerald City Comic Con, which was awesome. Really inspired me to want to draw for sure. My son had come out with me, and he seemed to have had a really good time. He was able to get some really great sketches from some really good guys. Ill have to scan them in so peeps can see them. We were able to get sketches from Ovi Nedelcu, Steve Lieber, Michel Gagne, and Kasey Quevedo. Each has a website showcasing their art.

Ovi Nedelcu's site is http://www.ovinedelcu.com/
Steve Lieber's site is http://www.unrewarding.com/steve/
Michel Gagne's site is http://www.gagneint.com/
Kasey's site is http://www.kcqillustrations.net/

Ill try and post the drawings that we got real soon.

I also watched the movie Ray with Jamie Foxx this weekend. Wow, what an amazing movie that was. I think I was more amazed at what Jamie was able to accomplish in the role of Ray Charles. I really hope he wins the Oscar. He deserved it very much so. He's a pretty dang talented piano player himself. He went to school on a piano playing scholarship. Really cool.

Incredible Annie Awards

Congratulations to Brad Bird for his take at the Annie's! The Annie Awards were last night and The Incredibles won a ton of stuff. Deservedly so. It was such a wonderfully inspiring film I thought. Let's hope they win the Oscar as well. Shouldn't be a problem going up against Shrek2 and Sharktale. I didnt really care for either of those films too much. We got to work on the games for Shrek2 and Sharktale at the company I work for. I didnt get to work on Shrek2 but I was the lead animator for Sharktale (PC games btw).