Foxy

Drew this fox.

Also, he moves.

Did you folks know that animation is really fun?  I mean, really, really fun.

Banjo Pig 2

Just messing around in Photoshop.

Check out the Banjo Pigs Blog.

Penguin Ski

I think his name is Gerald. And apparently he's a Gryffindor.

This one was my wife's idea. More on that later.

Office Pig

Still trying to figure this out. Getting there.

Spots

But not on dalmatians.

These are some quick spot illos I did this week. I think I'm getting close to understanding this process. Now I just need to do another 40 or 50 of these so that I can get good at it.

Moo.

A recent sketchbook page.  What, doesn't everybody draw cows with delusions of grandeur in their spare bits of time?  I can't be the only one.

Korean Hamsters in Various Costumes

A couple of days ago I visited my wife's 6th grade class to help out a bit and listen to a really cool lecture on space by Dr. Ed Gholdston of NASA (but that's another story.)  After the lecture I was sitting in the back of the class drawing zombies as I sometimes do.  While drawing I was being watched by a student named Skyler.  He told me that he likes to draw hamsters.  I asked him to draw one for me.  So he did.  

I give you "Hamster in a Santa Suit."

Skyler first saw this hamster on some Korean stationary that his brother (currently residing in Korea) sent to him.  Skyler likes to dress up the hamster in all kinds of costumes.

Add a sombrero and a maraca and you have "Hamster South of the Border, Down Portugal Way."

I love it.

Animals Doing Silly Things

Just something quick I did for fun a few days ago.

Little White Dog

Some more images for work.  This book is about places in the neighborhood.

Eat, Eat

Some more Chinese textbook stuff for work. This story teaches about size relationships (an early math concept.) The text I got started with a kid and a cat. Cat eats and cat grows bigger. Cat eats again and cat grows bigger again. You are now bigger than the dog, etc. The only reason I could think of for the cat to be growing so fast was for the kid to be a mad scientist. Seems logical to me. What, you have a better idea? I don't write these things. I just draw the silly pictures.

Pig Flu Hates Me

So, Tiffany and I got very mucho sick last week.  All week.  We had an unhappy visit from this guy:

I'll spare you the gruesome details but let me say it was unpleasant.

T-Rex-a-saurus

So today I decided to visit the dinosaur zoo and I'm glad I did.  I got some great sketches over at the T-Rex exhibit.  Most of the time you show up to see a T-Rex you never get to see it or it just lays around in the sun.  But today they it was feeding time and even though it was obvious that the T-Rex wanted to hunt and not be fed (you can't just repress 10 million years of instinct) it chased that goat all over the pen until it got it.  Wonderful.

Also, I found this great old piece of paper to draw it on too.

Mad Science

You'll see the rest of this story coming up later. Which one do you folks like better? More intense color or less intense color. I can't decide. Maybe I'll try another couple of experiments. Now that I really look at them, there really isn't much difference between the two.

Counting in Chinese

Some more stuff from work. This is a book teaching counting from one to ten in Chinese. Who is more appropriate to teach this than the Monkey King? Nobody, that's who.

In the story the Monkey King is born from a rock and then, seeing he is alone, creates multiples of himself from his hairs. Then he has ten friends. Count them.

Pretty fun idea for a counting book.

Two Posts in One Day? Is This Possible?

Some more stuff I've been doing for the early reader books for the Chinese Immersion Program.  I think my boss was expecting this story to be about two kids and not two owls.  She's cool with it.

A New School Year

Being married to a sixth grade teacher has it's advantages.  I regularly get to come into her class and teach art lessons, which is very fun.  I also get to do fun stuff like decorate the outside of her classroom.  If you read this blog regularly then you might remember this from last year.

This year Tiff decorated her room with monkeys so I drew a bunch of monkeys holding name tags.  I didn't have time to draw a big scene for the monkeys to climb around in so I made a huge piece of notebook paper.  It fits.

I think I draw better than I did at this time last year.  I had fun with this.  (Also, if you look closely at the names you will see that Tiff is teaching Donny Osmond's kid this year.  He's a cool kid.)