Amaze Golf Tourny yesterday

This was my posse that I rolled with for the day. We shot an 8 over for the scramble. The winning team shot a 2 over so we didnt win... :( I had a great time hanging out with pals from work on the course.
I won $50 for the longest drive. Ya gotta like that...It was a good day.

These pics were taken by my pal Lawrence. Swiped em for my own use. :D Give him a holla in the Seattle area for picture takes.

doodly doodle

more drawing time. Just trying to go with the flow of course. I need to really get working on my posing and try to get full body gestures going. I need more figure drawing and more sketchin. Keepin it real yo! heh

as my buddy Todd would say "Keep on truckin"

Purrrrrple!

YO!

Bustin out the wacom for a dust off session. Im really anxious to start drawing way more often that I do. I get so much inspiration from so many sources I really need to start putting some of that to use and just go with the flow. My mind likes to tell me I suck, and I need to get over that. So Im going to try and sketch a little something everyday from here on out. As an artist, the only way to get to the good sketches is to get the awful piece of crap sketches outta your system. I know someone has said that. Was it one of the nine old men or someone else. Ive heard it before.... Well I gotta get the crappy sketches outta my system. May come across some goodies...who knows...It's a process....

Heres what I busted last night...or this morning...tired...must sleep...

Google Earth

Holy smokes, what a time waster. Ever since I downloaded this thing it has sucked up some time. You can get some great imagery of places all over the world. It's pretty dang exciting what google is doing with this. I can see tons and tons of potential with this new tool. You gotta check it out for yourself if you havent played with it yet. You can fly directly over Mt St Helens and get a really good view of it. Really amazing. Ive also looked at the house and street I grew up on as well as my current residence. Ive looked up work as well for some unknown crazy reason. Just good fun surfing around on this. Ive read on some blog about contests on who is able to find national landmarks the fastest with it. :D

Here is the link to go and download it. Google Earth

Been gone for a bit. Back into Seattle safely! :D

Blue mountain pass in Oregon
Originally uploaded by newsquirt.

Hey there friends. Long time no post. Glad to be back safely from my vacation that I just got back from. My wife and 2 kids just recently packed up the Tahoe and took off down to Utah to spend some time with my family and to get a nice break from work which was much needed on my side. We were also able to spend some time in Boise with my wife's family also. It was a good time had by all to go out and enjoy life for a bit and not worry about work.

Some of the things I was able to do over the time away was to go boating in my sister and fiance's boat, which was great. I also was able to play a couple of rounds of golf. The round I played in Utah I shot a 99 for 18 holes and the round I shot in Boise was a 47 for 9 holes. Not too bad for being the first 2 times out this year on the golf course.

One of the other highlights that I didnt get a picture of was being able to ride my Dad's Dyna Wide Glide Harley, which was a joy and made me want a motorcycle even more so than ever. Thanks Dad! heh

Got to also see all my nephews on my side of the fam. Which was cool. Ive posted quite a few pics on my flickr site.

One of the other things I noticed while away was that Ward from the wardomatic posted a link to my blog off his. Thanks Ward...Didnt have a way to say anything at the time. heh Hopefully I can post something cool that will be worthwhile for some of the new traffic from there. And a big ol hello to ya all.

When we were in Boise Id, we got to go to the waterpark there. Pretty much spent all day on the 3rd at the waterpark. I think I was having too much fun that I forgot to put some sunscreen on or I forgot that I was a Seattle whitey who needed to be lathered up in sunscreen. Anyways....Ill spare ya the painful details unless you want to see a great pic of the blisters I was able to get tagged with. I do know this, next time I go and spend a whole day out in the sun, that Im going to make sure that I put the sunscreen on and not try to be tough. Beats getting skin cancer.

Also we spent our 4th of July in a small po dunk farming community outside of Boise, Id called Melba. It was real small, had that home town feel. They had a cool, very small parade that they threw out candy to the little kids kinda thing going so my kids were super happy just filling their bags with candy. Then they also had a small carnival that the kids were able to go and do some fun stuff. After the little carnival we were able to head back into Boise for a bit to hang out then we headed back out to Melba to see the fireworks. For me personally I enjoy seeing my kids have fun and be around thier cousin's but I think Seattle's fireworks are tons tons better in quality and quantity. Gotta figure the market is so much bigger up here compared to down there. Get what ya get...But anyways...We had fun.

You can follow this pic to my flickr site to see some of the photo's or the top pic on the right should take ya there too. Check em out.

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