The Dark Side of Mary Blair

The ASIFA animation archive just posted some images from a Mary Blair book I've never seen before called, "Baby's House." I assume that's supposed to be a Raggedy Ann Doll but it really looks like a dismembered child shoved in a box. And look at that creepy rabbit and the expression on the teddy bear's face. (The other images are great, you should go look.)

Belated Mother's Day

Made this card for my mom. The hen is holding a teacup cause my mom really likes tea. :D

PS, I'm done making stuff with pink backgrounds, for real.

Funny outfit...

Saw this girl on New Montgomery street today on my way to work and decided to sketch her. It was 97 in San Francisco today! That's a new record, up from 91 in 1970. Crazy.

More Cats

Here are the other two paintings I did for the Berkeley Humane Society auction.

Wanna buy one?? The important info:

2nd Annual
Purr-casso Art Sale and Gala

When: Sunday, November 4, 2007
12:00pm - 4:00pm

Where: Hollis Street Project - Grand Hallway 5900 Hollis Street, Emeryville

All proceeds from this event will benefit the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society. For more information call (510) 845-7735, ext.13.

Vintage: The Wizard's Duel

The Sword in the Stone is one of my favorite Disney films. Well, that's a lie...I really only like certain parts of it. Namely, the part with the squirrels, the part where Merlin packs his house into a bag, and this part...the wizard's duel. I found this at a flea market on the Cape a few months ago and snatched it up for the awesome illustrations inside. I've created a .pdf of the book and uploaded it to Scribd. That site is awesome! As you can see, (I hope), it allows you to share documents easily. I would like to start some sort of animation library on there, much like a Flickr pool, except for documents and books. So scroll through the pages, then if you like you can download the .pdf through Scribd. (When you open it in Acrobat, or FoxIt as I prefer, you can view two pages side by side, just as the book intended.)

Little Guy

Just playing around in Flash.

Puss in Boots

Here's a painting I did for my mom for her birthday. The two cats are based on her own kitties.

Concept Art: Skull Cave

Ehhh....needs work.

Concept: Circus

Circuses are fun...right? MAR HAR HAR

Concept Art: Market

I like concept art. In fact, I'd love to be a concept artist someday. I did this piece after getting some pointers from the amazing Simon Rodgers. Thanks Simon!

Some sketches...

Illustration Friday: Cats

Did this one early on in the school year. I was gonna make a series of 6 paintings in this style...but then I had to make a thesis. So it's been postponed. Cats! (That's totally gonna be my mom in a few years...)

Illustration Friday: E is for...

Enlisted officers coming to your college campus and tryign to get you to sign up for the army! Heh. So yeah, this was for my college mag, Reporter. But that topic's so wide open that I guess it works.

Illustration Friday: Surprise

Thought you were gonna play in the big game, HUH? Well, surprise. You're not. HA!

Illustration Friday: Free

Though I don't necessarily agree with the message I was asked to convey in this illustration (for the Reporter mag) I thought it fit well with this week's Illustration Friday topic. The article this illy goes along with is about the seperation of church and state, specifically about the lack of God in the classroom. (Can you tell that's the capital building?)

Illustration Friday: Broken

I'll be honest, this was another illustration for the Reporter. (The cover, woo.) BUT it is about evolution and the direction that we could be headed in- a break in the evolutionary process through technology. (I didn't stretch that too far, did I? I really miss Illustration Friday. ;)

Reporter Illy's: Intelligent Design vs. Evolution

Here are a couple illustrations for the Reporter this week. The first is about Intelligent Design and Evolution, the second is about artificial intelligence and cyborg theory. Fun topics!

Reporter Illys: International Students

Here's a couple illustrations for Reporter that were for articles about international students at RIT. Also, I just got back from Ottawa so I will have to post my thoughts on that a little later...

Reporter Illy: Katrina Relief

Reporter will be running an article on colleges that are providing relief and housing for misplaced and affected students after Katrina. Illy was done in Maya.

Reporter Illy: Sports

And now for something completely different from my last post...