Gangsta

Bad guys

With names like Kung Pao Chicken, Wild Turkey,Mad Cow and Crazy Horse how can a designer go wrong..? Here are a few rough designs of these characters that I did for Tough Puppy for season 1. So why is it that bad guys are always more fun to work on..?? Sorry for the super small thumbnail...

The Wizard!

Fall color in Michigan

Just got back from a short trip to Michigan last weekend. After living in LA for so long now I guess I had forgetten what fall really looks like. The colors, the smell in the air, even the angle of the sun. It was so nice, really brought back great memories of growing up there.

The Lunch Lady Bug

Everyone remembers the Lunch Lady's from High School, with their hairnets, dishing out that food....that we somehow used to eat? Well, here's a design I recently did for Tuff Puppy which will hopefully bring back all those memories.

Wolf

Here's a quick sketch I did for my friend Cheyenne Curtis, check out here work, it's pretty GREAT. I think she's going to post other versions that were done by other people as well, can't wait to see!

From Paris

I recently went to Paris, my first time, it was so amazing for so many different reasons. The food, the coffee, the people watching, the Museums, the architecture, visiting the local fromagerie and so much more. Such a great place to celebrate being an Artist. One of my favorite places was "The History of Inventions Museum" I put together this small collection of objects, gadgets, textures and colors that I saw while there and around.

Tuff Puppy and Fairly OddParents

To try and catch up a bit I thought I would post a few more recent things from both Tuff Puppy and Fairly OddParents...

Tuff Puppy...

Wow, I guess it's been a while since I posted anything. Been working pretty hard recently I guess, not much time for anything else it seems. With that said here are a couple of crowds I recently did for Tuff Puppy. Crowds for me are always lots of fun, It's a challenge to make everything work, kind of like a giant jig-saw puzzle.

Things that go bump in the night...

Seattle 1999 or so...

Saw this guy quite a few years back when I was in Seattle. I was at a free concert downtown and this guy walked buy, he looked
like a character from a David Lynch film....

LA Farmers Market

the apple....

Some recent doodles....

My flickr page....

Besides posting stuff here on my blog I also post things on flickr. Most of the work here is animation related but on my flickr page you will see more of my personal work, doodles, paintings Illustrations and other fun stuff I do outside of work. If you have a minute have a look...thx.

TUFF Puppy Designs

A few designs from a nice Dave Thomas board...

Tuff Puppy Villains

A cluster of villains I designed for episode 103 based off of some nice Fred Gonzales board drawings. It's always fun drawing bad guys for some reason...??

Hallow.....

A quick doodle in the spirit of the season....

Agent Racoon TUFF Puppy

These designs are from episode 3.

Post it drawings

For the last 10-12 years I have been sketching, doodling and carving out a very personal style on Post it notes. After much encouragement from a friend I am finally going to start sharing them. In most cases they are heads or faces or random thoughts that are on my mind at the moment. Here are just a few...

Agent Pig

More Tuff Puppy designs....

Tuff Puppy designs

Well now that T.U.F.F. Puppy aired I can finally show a few things that I have been working on. This is one of Snaptrap's evil Doom agents, he's an English bloke named Ollie. On the advice of a co-worker I modeled him after the tall thin English character Horace from 101 Dalmatians. I did several very rough passes at him and Butch just picked one, with almost no changes it went off to clean up...that doesn't happen often I must admit.