Old Men With Kazoos and Beating Drums

Some Art, My Senior Show, And A Lovely BBQ

2008-05-13T11:30:00.000-07:00

Here are some characters:

Here are some backgrounds:

Nico eating me:

If you missed it, here it is, Senior Show!

Nico, Sean, and I walked around after a while to look at the art in the show- quite fun!

Then we all met my new friend Tom Collins, haw-haw-haw!

After a cloudy graduation morning, John threw me a BBQ at his place and unveiled his interpretation of me receiving the highest honor of diplomacy from none other than Uncle Georgie himself.

Then Nico and I ran into some Otis alumni at Daikokuya!

WELL I'M POOPED.

OTIS SENIOR SHOW HAS ARRIVED

2008-05-02T01:11:00.000-07:00

COUNTDOWN! But In The Meanwhile...HEY LOOK!

2008-04-18T01:30:00.000-07:00

Kurtzman inspired drawings of me for my business card, reel, resume etc. blah blah blah.

I GRADUATE REALLY SOON. More info to come when I have time- it's rush to the finish line! Will she make it? Can she make it? Tune in next time to... Men, Kazoos, Drums and all that hoo-ha.

Well, cause I don't have too many thrills right now, why don't you mosey on over to Katie's blog??? I mean, she's like my hero, and best friend and super talented singing, drawing awesome friend! I rekindled her love of Kurtzman when I told her how excited I was about him- see looooooook!

THIS IS A SERIOUS POST

2008-04-04T15:10:00.000-07:00

No, not really. Hey, how's it going? I don't really have time to say much else- hope you like my class notes!

Not Quite Dead

2008-03-25T23:25:00.000-07:00

Flu turned into Bronchitis, almost turned into death, but I cheated the Grim Reaper again! Hah! So, here's crap from the past few weeks. By the way, I graduate in little over a month- so I might not be around so much- but I'll be back!

JOHN DOODLES!!!

John and I collaborated on this exclusive Eddie magazine collection featuring Eddie's cover on 16, and Crusty!

UPDATE! My pal Nico made a nice post about our fun times last week on my Spring Break, even though I probably gave him the plague! Here's a sneek peek:

Oh dear...drunk drawings....on my cable bill??? Yeeeeeeeeeee, hahahaha....

Lauren Bacall + Boy In Puberty= My Voice Right Now

2008-03-15T00:35:00.000-07:00

Painting background studies for a class, tah-dah.

The happiest day of my life. I love this book, now I can play HOME, HOME ON THE RANGE! WHERE THE DEER.......ok I'll stop.

Ode to the only two colors I've been seeing the past few days.

Doing forty-five caricatures is harder than I thought. These are for Senior Show 2008, oh god- will I finish in time on top of my side jobs and homework for seven classes???!!! Unlikely! Hahahaha..... oh god. If I had more time to investigate ech head I could make 'em more cartoony, but at this point all I'm concerned with is: a) people not hating me for making them funny looking, and b) getting them all done in time.

A friend of mine took this photograph in Arizona a while back. PRETTY COOL.

Thanks everyone in the last post who wished me well- this is the nasiest flu I've had in years, and it's still kicking me around like a rag doll.

THE FLU

2008-03-11T18:55:00.000-07:00

The symptoms of the FLU:

A Close Up on the FLU:

There is hope yet:
1. Eating soup.

2. Swallowing various HUGE vitamins.
3. Getting plenty of rest.
4. Drinking fluids, and eating fruit.

I might just make it! Of course, having an encouraging loved one helps too:

FUN PARTY!!!

2008-03-05T15:25:00.000-08:00

UPDATE! Eddie talks about poetry, then I cut him off so that we can continue working, haha.

FUN PARTY!

Melody is the dradle song: Doodle, doodle, doodle, I made you when I was bored, doodle, doodle, doodle, I wish I could doodle more!

FUN PARTY!!!

John Doodle Time! Below is a true story.

John drew me a wonderful tablecloth, no?

Table cloth Part II: I colored it today at work- this thing is really HUGE. John can't draw small, hahaha.

The end to the FUN PARTY!

Inks and Infinks

2008-02-29T01:00:00.000-08:00

Some fashion magazine, Flash ink studies:

For Ellis Goodson's class:

Back to work...

UPDATE!
Mr. Goodson put up my caricature I did for him! How sweet! Go say hi here! He's a bigshot video game designer, iffin' ya's didn't knows it!

Here are some poopy phone doodles- the first is Otis friend, Thomas Yamaoka. I beat him up for not drawing my friend Monica properly.

WHOO! MAYBE I'LL GO GET ME SOME SHUT EYE!

If It Weren't For Doodles I'd Be Way Stressed Out Right Now

2008-02-25T15:15:00.000-08:00

John drew me my favorite boys! I've been staring at them for hours now. Oh yeah, he did these from memory, so he doesn't think they are good- but I do! Love!

I have like 40 more doodles from the past couple of weeks that I don't know what to do with- anyone want a doodle surprise gift package? Oh yeah, that reminds me- I'm not taking anymore commissions! I have so much work that I don't sleep, and I miss sleep, it's fun to just lay there and do nothing but switch off. So yeah... no more!! But feel free to buy anything you see that's on here. Email me at this location! Later alligators!!!

Listen To The Mockingbird

2008-02-21T23:00:00.000-08:00

Like music? How about country-folk-earlyrock kinda stuff? Well then if you'd like, go add Kot'n Katie and Kali Kazoo!!! It's our Myspace contraption thingie, you can add us right now in fact! We'll love you FOREVER!!! Our album that will have well over 20 songs is coming soon- so look out!!!

The picture above is from my animation... ya, eh.

Here we are! We're running away from the authorities!

And now for.... random doodle time! Random, random, random, doodle, doodle, doodle, time, time, time....

John Doodles! Yes, he indeed doodles, haha. He is a doodler among doodles and doods.

We're Gonna Have A Party, Party Papa!

2008-02-16T18:45:00.000-08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! The bottom got cut off by the tiny scanner, but it pretty much says LOVE KALI.

Happy Valentine's Day!

2008-02-14T19:00:00.000-08:00

Happy birthday Eshiner! And those gals up there are dedicated to Hammerson and Trevor- they're gassiping about you guys!

Iffa Ya Wanna Be Kissed, Well You Gotta Kiss A-Me Too

2008-02-12T11:55:00.000-08:00

More school doodles as the work starts to crush me.

The other day at lunch I tried to remember heads from the Annies. By the way, Vincent if yer out there- meeting Tom Kenny was like seeing your caricature come to life! You did an amazing job! Brad Bird below, well kind of...

"Hi, I'm Tom Minton."

I wish I were in Squirrel Meadow right now.

What's everyone doing for Valentine's Day? Tell me stories.

Class Doodles!!!

2008-02-04T23:20:00.000-08:00

Painter study.

Special treat!

OH YEAH! Have you met my friend Monica? Well you should! She's really nice and says funny things to me- and she drives me to school sometimes, really sweet, eh? Well her she is: MON-ICA

I ♥ Katamari

2008-02-01T12:20:00.000-08:00

Some homework sketches for a videogame re-design. All pretty rough, but a lot of love, because it involves the wonderful K♥A♥T♥A♥M♥A♥R♥I!!!

A poopy Painter space thingy- with crappy late night Photoshop cut out. Wha-la.

We ♥ Katamari pretty much rules balls.

Now back to more work on a million different things.

The Everlasting Hills Of My Balona: Doodle Dump

2008-01-29T14:20:00.000-08:00

Otis students in their natural environment: class. These drawings were all done yesterday in class. I've found I work best when my attention is needed elsewhere.

These are the tiniest drawings I have ever done- the whole thing is 7" by 8" approximately. Japanese pens are fun!

Michael Wright.

A tiny excerpt from my tiny world pic. Oh! The secret is out! Katie and I are working on an album together! Old country and folk type stuff! More information to come, hahaha. Check out her site, she has some genius Hillbilly studies up! I'l give you a sneak peek below!

There's Buckets Of Rain Outside My Winder!

2008-01-25T01:15:00.000-08:00

My first attempt at using Corel Painter! I took a John doodle and messed around with it. You know whose head it is!

My character for a class where I have to design stuff for a video game re-design.

Le Markers.

Le Color Erase.

I found this when I was unpacking! I drew this when I was 8 years old! I loved Earthworm Jim and Princess What's Her Name. My brother and I even had a pet Earthworm named Jim. He died after a day, I think.

And doodles from John!

I switched out the last doodle- because I realized I had already posted it at some point! So here is a rare doodle of John doing John.

Buckets of rain!
Buckets of tears!
Got all them buckets comin' out of my ears!
Buckets of moonbeams in my hand!
I got all the love, honey baby you can stand!