I’m running behind on the sketchblog this week, but here’s a peek at a work in progress. It’s a detail (reproduced larger than actual size here) of another small gouache painting.
(Feels sort of Heavy Metal-ish – I think it’s from reading all those “Were 1970’s Comic Books Any Good?” threads that have been floating around lately.)
Don’t mind me, I’m supposed to be working.
Student animator Lewiss Needham interviews me about my animated serial Teddy & Anna. I worked obsessively on Teddy from roughly 2000-2004, running out of steam at Episode 7. Hopefully I’ll finish the storyline someday, though I don’t know if it will be in animated form.
Click through to the school’s main animation page to see student work and an interview with Naoki Mitsuse (creator of many Flash series and an inspiration to me when I started on Teddy.)
I also have a comic starring those two that needs finishing. I left them up in the air (they’re piloting a dirigible), getting hit by lightning from a giant Tesla coil. Here’s the first page of the story.
A sketch from a few years (sigh … already?) ago, and one of more recent vintage. I think the first sketch is inspired by Moose Malloy from Chandler’s Farewell My Lovely. Moose is a rather formidable guy, described as “not larger than a beer truck”, and wearing a suit with golf balls for buttons. Now that’s fashion.
The gentleman on the right is a more refined sort, who has perhaps just heard that, sorry sir, we’re out of Corbel. Also the letter opener was found to have your prints on it; whoever was in the cage dangling over the Electrified Lamprey Pool, isn’t there now; and the Beast-Men have just wandered into the ballroom and glimpsed the buffet table. Will there be anything else, sir?
Looking for the right look, if you know what I mean. (Unfortunately what it looks like is that the background character has a fire hydrant for a leg, but the feel is right.)
