Fairly Odd Pirates...

Grandma and Gramps...!

Timmy finally meets his Grandparents from Ustinkistan....

Grog

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

"not the pole!"

Quick cintiq sketch

Frozen!!

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!

Big Head

4X5 gouache/digital

Peg leg!!

Gouache

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!

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.

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!

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

Viva La France..!!

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

Fairly Odd....YAK??

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

Three heads are better than one....

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

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!

That creepy old man...

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

3 quick post-it sketches....

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

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.

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....???

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....

RATS..!!!

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

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..!

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.

Caveman

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

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.

Dad eats...arm??!

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.

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!

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!!

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!

Fairly Odd...Elephant!

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Bored cave people...

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

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.

Golem

Dr.Scooter

Space....

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...

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....

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.

Smile, it's the best medicine...

Gouache8x10

Gouache sketches

Here a few gouches sketches I did one night.

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.

67

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

doodles....

A photo

Having a little fun with the old camera...

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.

6745 Schaller

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

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...

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!

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...

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.

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