Li'l Non-Entity... IN COLOR!

Yep, my daughter & I had the ol' watercolors fired up on Friday. This is what I ended up with before her attention span crumbled. I also doodled out some more pencil doodles. As you can see I had varying degrees of results...

That one with the "cats eyes" really creeps me out!

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May 15, 2006 I created this blog to post my first cartooning lesson from the PRESTON BLAIR book. You see, noted cartoon animator guy, JOHN KRICFALUSI had started his blog and was posting on-line drawing lessons, based on the book. An on-line community of eager bloggers sprung up and we attacked the lessons with much gusto. Many of us were committed to near-daily postings of our results (I hesitate to call it "progress!")

Well, it is a year later. My actual cartooning lessons pretty much derailed at the end of November, but for some reason I keep posting.

I guess it's what's called "inertia."

Anyhoo - happy birthday to my blog and thanks to everyone for their visits, comments, support and inspiration!

Mo' Faces

I kept my pencil busy doodling out more of these non-entities. John Kricfalusi indicated that he tries to never draw the same expression twice. This is an admirable goal and I have a teeny-tiny taste of how hard it is to do it, now.
(The idea is that most cartoon characters have a very limited palette of facial expressions and they are usually drawn with most generic, schematic representations of a basic face. that is, there's a single "happy face, a single "mad" face, a single "sad" face, etc.)


Oh well, at least I'm not inflicting more of those magic-marker father-daughter doodles on you kind folks. THE HELL I'M NOT!!!

Sorry, but Mariel is in a hard-core "Lady and the Tramp" phase right now. I'm not complaining, though. "My Little Pony" and her crew are really tough to sit through, lemme tell ya!

Makin' Faces

I thought I'd take a really generic cartoon guy and attempt to draw a variety of "wacky expressions." My goal was to avoid "stock" expressions. Now, I realise these are just full-on frontal views and not very exciting, but I didn't want to over-complicate what I was doing. This was fun and I look forward to building on this.