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 Parents characters

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!