Sunday, November 8, 2009

Fairly Odd Pirates...

Grandma and Gramps...!



Timmy finally meets his Grandparents from Ustinkistan....

Monday, November 2, 2009

Grog


some more development art I did for Nickelodeon a while back....

Monday, October 5, 2009

"not the pole!"


Quick cintiq sketch

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Frozen!!

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Ripped...!


A quick drawing I did today of Cosmo tugging on someone's leg. It's been so long since I posted anything, I'm glad to be back in the game, thx for looking!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Big Head


4X5 gouache/digital

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Peg leg!!


Gouache

Friday, May 15, 2009

more Wishology designs....


A few aliens I did for the Star Wars section of the Wishology, it was a fun section to work on. Great clean up on this one from our clean up crew and great color by Alex Deligiannis, nice work guys!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Turbo Thunder


This design was a very collaborative effort. Me, Matt Whitlock and Butch Hartman all kind of had a hand in it. I think the end result was pretty cool with great voice acting by Brendan Fraser.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Kiss Wishology designs!




What a blast it was to not only design the Kiss characters for the Wishology but also getting to meet both Gene and Paul when they came in for their voice records. I was also lucky enough to get them to sign both of the original roughs I had done on paper, thanks guys!! To read all about it you can head to the Kiss Website or for even more fun check out the article in Rolling Stone!

Friday, May 1, 2009

WISHOLOGY..!!



Tonight is the big premiere of the Fairly Odd Parents Three hour extravaganza WISHOLOGY!! There was a lot of hard work that went into this so please tune in and check it out!! In the mean time here are a few rough Wishology poster ideas that I did. They decided to go with something else in the long run but it was still a blast to do these. For even more info head to the Nickelodeon Wishology page
http://www.nick.com/shows/wish/index.jhtml

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Viva La France..!!


A cheering French crowd that was fun to draw...!

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Fairly Odd....YAK??


Here's one of Dad draped in a Yak skin for some reason..??

Monday, April 20, 2009

Three heads are better than one....


Gouache sketches for fun....been looking at Mr. Sasek.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Good Ol Days!!


Here 's an old model I stumbled across from everyones favorite FOP episode Good Ole Days!! It's Cosmo and Wanda
as foxes, that was a fun one!

Saturday, April 11, 2009

That creepy old man...


I think in every town there was that one house that everyone was afraid of....

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

3 quick post-it sketches....


From time to time I like to doodle on post its...here's a couple that I did recently.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Mummies Alive


About 13 years ago I had my very first job in the animation Industry. I had just moved to LA from Detroit and had no idea what I was doing but was lucky enough to land a job as Prop Designer on a show called Mummies Alive. It was a fun project, eveything had to have an Egyptian look about it. I must admit, designing an answering machine that looked like it was from ancient Egypt was challenging! In case you don't know Mummies Alive was about a group of crime fighting Mummies who slept in their circoficus's by day and protected their city and fought crime by night. Here's a small collection of props I did for the show.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

phone "dudeles"....


I've been a chronic phone doodler ever since I can remember. I was talking to a friend the other day for a while and I sketched out these 6 dudes. Phone doodles are interesting....there is NO thought that goes into them, total auto pilot. But yet you sometimes come up with some decent stuff sometimes....???

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

The Monk of Madness consults his mighty staff!


It's been a while since I posted any personal work so here goes. Did this piece a while back but felt it wasn't quite there yet, so I put it aside for a bit. After a couple recent tweeks the other day I ithink it's getting there....

Sunday, February 22, 2009

RATS..!!!


A few mangy looking rats from Fairly Odd Parents...

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Mr. Birkenbake


Another very early design, Mr. Birkenbake the Science teacher. The super mellow 60's reject, I think we all had at least one teacher like him in junior high. I had just come off of time Squad so this one is still pretty Time Squady but I think it still works for the show.

Probably one of the first crowds I ever designed for Fairly Odd Parents, It took me forever. I remember taking my time to make sure they all had interesing clothes and so forth. When I finally saw it cleaned up my Boss changed everyones clothes and put them all in matching joggin suits to fit the scene...! Which I didn't even know about??

Doa..!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Werewolf....


Although he's kind of looking a little like a bat too, I guess he's the new breed of Werewolf's...??
Another design from Fairly Odd Parents.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Caveman


Here's a Caveman design I did a while back for a development project at Nickelodeon....

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

random sketches....on paper!



Here's a small batch of sketches I did a while back, these were all done on paper. Although I love working on the cintiq there is still nothing like working on paper. Personally I don't think it will ever be completely replaced.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Dad eats...arm??!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Shallow Grave...


A new take on an old character. Shallow Grave is a character that I designed for FOP several years ago, he's the Truant Officer. He's one tough customer, blood and guts. Army Drill Sergeant, Lee Marvin and Jack Web all rolled up into one. I never really liked the version I did before so here's a real quick revision of what he might look like If I had another chance. Although this one may be a little to far out...but it's getting there.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Timmy Turner.....melting??


Here's a rough design I did of Timmy Turner melting. This one was done on the cintique.Next to it is the color version
done by one our very talented color stylist Alex Deligiannis, Good color can really make or break a character....thanks Alex!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Fairly Odd Fairies....?


Here's a rough I did recently of some random fairies...these are always fun to design because just about
any size, shape or clothing style that you can come up with works!!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Fairly odd...rough


This is one that I had posted a while back but for some reason took it down...now it's back up!

Friday, August 29, 2008

Fairly Odd...Elephant!

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Vicky Bot

Here's one I did for our second movie "Channel Chasers" Vivky the baby sitter who is already known for being pretty evil transforms into a robot. This was a fun design and I think the clean up and color departments really did and excellent job!

Fairly Odd roughs....

Here's a few roughs form the last season of FOP. After this stage they go off to the clean up department and then off to color.
The rough stage is a lot of fun but it's also very challenging...! It may not look like much, but it's a lot of work.


Baby Poof as a Ninja...hiiiYA!!

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Ink drawings


Here is a small cluster of ink drawings I did for fun. Most of the stuff I post is usually related to my work in animation but every now and then I post some of "MY" stuff.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Fairly odd...designs!


Here's another cluster of designs that I did for FOP, some are older and some are new. Most of these were done on paper but now days most of us are working on the cintiq. I really enjoy drawing on the cintiq but it can be tough on the eye balls.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

standard Pirate


Here's a pirate a I did a while back. When I was a kid I loved drawing Pirates, Cowboys and Soldiers, oh and of course Dinosaur's...I guess old habits die hard.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Robots in space


Here are a few robot designs I did a few years back for Fairly Odd Parents. I did the rough someone else did the clean up and color. Our clean up and color people are top notch, they always make me look good!

Monday, April 21, 2008

Cave people Fairly Odd Parents


This is for an episode that's kind of poking fun at the stone age, the whole episode looks very Flintstones.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Anti Fairy Ship Captain Fairly Odd Parents


Here's a design from Season 5 of Fairly Odd Parents, he's an Anti Fairy Ship Captain. I couldn't find the rough but here's the cleaned up version and the color version.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Bored cave people...


Here are a few characters I designed for an episode of Fairly Odd Parents...some very bored looking cave people??

Monday, March 3, 2008

Grandma Wanda and Grandpa Cosmo


Here are a few sketches I did for Fairly Odd Parents, Cosmo and Wanda's Grand Parents. They were really fun designs to do, I really enjoy doing extreme characters like this.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Golem

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Dr.Scooter

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Space....

Monday, December 10, 2007

TOP


I really get a kick out of collecting spinning tops. It started a few years ago when a girlfriend of mine brought me one as a gift. From there I started buying them when ever I saw them, now I have probably 40 or so from all over the world, India, Mexico, Germany, Japan, ect...

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Brick building...


Every once in a while I like doing pen and ink drawigs. It just feels good to break out the bottle of ink and the pen nibs and scratch out a drawing or two. Here's one I did a while back....

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Tea


This one is dedicated to caffeine and tea in particular....I used to be a real coffee junkie, sometimes I drank 5-6 cups a day but I gave it up. Nowdays I drink tea and everything is good.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Smile, it's the best medicine...


Gouache8x10

Friday, October 26, 2007

Gouache sketches


Here a few gouches sketches I did one night.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Ogar


Gouche 9.5x11

Ferry House


Back when I atteneded Art School in Detroit some of my friends lived in this great old house over on Ferry Street. Save those old "almost" dried out markers, they're good for sketching.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

67


Just did this one for fun....Brush pen, marker and a little digital stuff.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

doodles....

Monday, July 2, 2007

A photo



Having a little fun with the old camera...

Friday, May 25, 2007

New Zealand

This is Rotarua, famous for their natural hot springs


The water is green from all the minerals. This entire area really smelled of sulfar. It just felt so prehistoric, the plant life, the trees, the hot springs. To see a Dinosaur off in the distance would'nt have surprised me one a bit.

Hot spring


The water was warm....like bath water.

More hot springs...

Amazing park in Auckland....

Maori Culture

Eggs and Bacon on Panini...YES!


Everywhere you go there are cafe's in NZ with amazing sandwhiches,big gooey pastries and great Latte's and Cappuccino's.
Even McDonalds has something called McCafe in each store selling Cappuccino's and really delicious looking pastries!

Double rainbow with cows...


Boy, these guys really have it made....

LARGE tree


Wow, what a beautiful place that is if you like blue skys and lush green rolling hills.

Saturday, May 5, 2007

6745 Schaller


A drawing I did from memeroy of the house I grew up in back in Michigan.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Bzzzzz



Like I said I still like to dabble in other types of art. Here's a painting I did a while back for fun...

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Big Gun




I also like to do a lot fo Post-It doodles...for some reason by doing these I get more inspired to do my job??

"Fairly Odd" designs

Porty the "Mouseketeer"



Over the years I've worked on quite a few different animated shows. One of the most fun has been Fairly Odd Parents. One of the things I like about working on that show is that Butch Hartman the creator really gives guys like me and Erne Gilbert (the other designer) a lot of freedom when designing the characters. We were both always pushing the shapes and attitudes of the characters to make it more fun for ourselves, and Butch always seemed to respond in a postive way...he rarely ever changed anything!

Friday, February 2, 2007

Sunday, January 21, 2007

TV


When I first moved into my apartment I had this little TV set. When the sun came through the window it created some interesting shadows...

Thursday, January 11, 2007

12 quotes from Pablo Picasso --Spanish Painter 1881-1973

1. I drew every day, and sometimes when I felt like it...

2. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

3. Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to
understand the song of the birds?

4. Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

5. I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

6. In drawing nothing is better than the first attempt.

7. Genius is personality with a pennies worth of talent. Error
is that which chances to rise above the common place.

8. The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.

9. I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original cost
thousands of dollars--it's a luxury I can't afford.

10. I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money...

11. Every child is an Artist. The problem is to remain an Artist once they grow up.

12. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

3 faces