6AM

When I was a kid there was usually a Saturday morning ritual. Get up as early as possible creep downstairs get a bowl of Frosted flakes ( or the cheaper alternative...Corn Flakes with massive amounts of sugar) and turn on the tv to watch 6 hours of cartoons straight.
The good cartoons usually started around 7AM. For some strange reason now forgotten by me, but since realized by my own children, I would get up at 6Am. Sometimes 5.
Now there were only two things on the television at that hour.
Professor Kitzel.
And Tales from the Wizard of Oz. (Often followed by The New Adventures of Pinnochio).
I've done many a search to find clips from this series but have always come up empty.

Until now.

Thank you You Tube.

A couple of Brownies

Check it out

It's been a while since I've posted a link to anything inspirational. So, without further ado check out Julia Rothman's blog on inspirational books called "Book by it's cover".

New year, New blog

I'm not sure if this is a New Year's resolution but it's something that's been perculating in my noggin over the last couple of months.

I'm going to attempt to create my own series of shorts. They will be, by necessity, fairly simple but hopefully entertaining.

I have created a new blog which I will make available shortly. I hope to showcase development art as well as the shorts themselves once completed.

First up will be animating the title.

Stay tuned for further details.

In the mean time here's a little test colour key, a sample of what's to come.

Yeh, I know

I'm hoping that with the Christmas break coming, and along with it 3 weeks of vacation, I'll actually have some time to draw again.

I sketched/doodled this little guy at lunch today.

Kind of a Snoopy/Bone/whatcha macallit.

Back again?

Well it sure has been a while since I've posted anything drawing wise. A little bit of being busy and a little bit of being uninspired. Happens from time to time with everyone only it was my turn this time.

I been getting small little bursts lately and with a combination of Randall Sly's latest post of Ward Kimball designs and Nate Wraggs designs from the Ancient Book of Myth and War, I've decided to jump in again.

Now these images have nothing on the fellas mentioned above, but you can't hide forever.

Drawn on legal size paper with a green col-erase pencil, painted in photshop.

Inspiring

Check it out. Very dark and rather bleak. But very cool.

http://www.aardman.com/pearcesisters/