coming home from work during the fires.

Got to do yet another fun thing at work today. For soem reason there was a portrait of a Cockatoo in the storyboard, I have no idea why, but Carl let me do it and here it is. thanks again Carl!

Last weekend Rachel signed us up for a class at the Getty Villa on Ancient Greek cooking. It was very fun and inspired me to do greyscale on this drawing i did a while ago. We learned some fascinating things about Greek drinking parties and there'll be some drawings about it comin up soon.

Got to do something fun at work today, not that reference lists aren't fun. There's a very special episdode of Chowder where he battles Dislexia and I got to draw up some comps of him battling letters (and a number). thanks Carl!

I just got CS3 installed on my computer at work and now I can finally use all those cool brushes I stole from Chris Appelhans without crashing. I made this amazing piece of new age art, it's either something you see from the Hubble Telescope or that VD you picked up on the toilet seat at the Renaissance Faire.

Haevn't had any time for fun postings lately because of so much freelance work. But here is an entry from my 2nd favorite book called "The Word Museum" full of antiquated English words like:
GARDYLOO: A cry which servants in the higher stories of Edinburgh give after 10 pm when they throw the contents of chamber pots out the window onto the street below. This also coincidentally is seen in the first shot of the pilot I'm working on with my friend Darrick Bachman.

Here's somehting from work. I got to do an album cover for "Molten Steel" from Pete Browngardt's storyboard. Thanks Pete!

Saw this at lunch today. Oh Burbank, how I love you.

Turns out this was a type of candy.

I have to preface this one by saying that like everywhere we go, 99% of people couldn't be nicer to us and Austria and Bavaria were certainly no exception. We met many many very sweet, nice, friendly, helpful people. However... they are no fun to draw. And we did meet a few people who lived up to the stereotype of being very harsh and severe... and they are fun to draw. So here they are.

The 2nd thing was seeing a pigeon picking at an abandoned Bratwurst. It was pretty disgusting.

Just returned from a 2 and a half week trip to Austria and Bavaria. And of course noticed a lot of things I Like and Don't Like about it. The first thing was getting off the airplane after 12 hours and walking right into the middle of a huge cloud of cigarette smoke.

I felt the black and white version didn't quite capture the majestic nature of the scene. This is more how I remember it.

Here's an old sketch from Romania I inked for Cindy's Art Auction at Cartoon Network

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The thing I loved the most about Tokyo is that it's a city that happens in all 3 dimensions and maybe even a fourth, as opposed to LA where thing only happen on the x and y axis . Anything can be anywhere at anytime. Bowling Alley or a Toilet Showroom on the 25th floor, no problem. Full Scale Retail Mall or Pachinko Parlor 2 stories underground? also not a problem. As well as embracing things you don't ordinarily find in an American City like 50 foot tall Gorilla Statues hanging from the sides of buildings or 100 foot tall animating Crab Signs flailing their legs on the side of a sckyscraper. And at least 7 layers of transportation starting with 3 levels of subways underground, street traffic, local trains, bullet train tracks and the expressway above that towering 100 feet off the ground.

Just when you think the wheel can't get any rounder, leave it to the Japanese to improve one of the most perfect inventions ever made. This is not a chicken drumstick, but an ingenious new form of Q-Tip with one end equipped with a small spoon for scraping the gunk out of your ears. I like this invention very much.

Just got back from 2 weeks in Japan. My head exploded about a thousand times while there. I didn't do as many drawings as i would have liked, but I did a few and over the next few weeks I'll be chronicling what I saw and what I "Like and Dont Like" about Japan.

Our trip started with a bit of Japanese culture right here at LAX as we saw a ravenous horde of horny teenagers tearing the porno magazine rack to shreds.

Ordinarily I don't put stuff from work up, but since all I've been doing lately is work related, and since I kind of liked the way this one turned out, here it is. It's from Darrick Bachman's and my short in development at Cartoon Network.

Here's something I saw a while ago while waiting to get a haircut. It was beautiful.

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Went up to the snow this weekend.

Got into LAX last night at 12:30 when they were putting all the planes to sleep. They had the back doors opened up and were throwing garbage bags out into a heap on the ground below. It looked like all the planes were taking a shit. I call this one "Planes Taking a Shit".