dailypost-it

Fighting Cacti, Bat Boy, and a Naked Lady

2007-04-04T10:52:00.000-07:00

Doodles that span several weeks... I know I have to get into more of a habit of exploring my creativity and what have you. But it seems my inspiration comes and goes. Sue me.

Oh it's been a while...

2007-03-06T11:47:00.000-08:00

...mostly because I'm a paperless board artist now! Cintiq, how I love you. Plus, I've moved up to San Francisco to work at PIXAR. Plus, there's a baby on the way. Plus, I've run out of excuses. So here's my latest 'digital' post-it. Just screwing around with some PSD brushes. I PROMISE I'd do more at LEAST before the end of March!

"She's wearing the T-Shirt..."

2006-08-03T12:15:00.000-07:00

"...of my favorite band." A line from a Duncan Sheik song I was listening to, inspired the sketch (she's wearing a BNL - Barenaked Ladies T-Shirt). Ah the ipod. Soon after "Closing Time" by Semisonic came on and I drew the tiny lady sitting at the bar. A little later I was rewatching , well, really only listening, to my Flash Gordan DVD and drew some Hawkmen and such. Why WOULD guys with wings need a 'rocketcycle' anyway?

Here there be Dragons

2006-07-31T18:05:00.000-07:00

Well, lately there's been my past work haunting me. The ghosts of designs gone by...

Fire and Ice

2006-07-28T14:43:00.000-07:00

Finally watching the DVD that I got a year ago at Comic-Con...it's about as good as I remember, although I'd forgotten what a Star Wars rip-off the ending was. Some Frazetta/Bakshi cartoon inspired sketches here.

'Cause I'm a liar

2006-07-24T15:37:00.000-07:00

Ok, so if you're one of the one or two people who sneak by here to look for a new post-it, you've probably realized by now that the title of this blog, 'DAILY post-it', is a bold faced lie. I have plenty of excuses, not the least of which is I've been working so much and under conditions which preclude me from doodling on a post-it, nevermind scanning it in and putting it up here...but you have no interest in excuses, do you? You're so harsh sometimes.

In any case, here's a new one. It's actually a little old (I'm back from working offsite, and found this on my desk in my office...I did it a while ago) so I don't remember what the context of a lot of it is/was. Anyway, infer what you will and enjoy!

Michelangelo's Superman

2006-06-14T17:02:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's been a while since I've done a post-it, but I've been in Italy for the past two weeks. While that's great news for me, it's tempered with some bad news - the Sony storyboarding job I'd been interviewing for ultimately went to an 'internal canidate' (ie. someone cheaper than me), although they kept telling me how much they liked me and my work. Oh well. So take what inferences you will from this post-it and how it relates to my mood at the moment.

Superheroes that need a movie

2006-05-03T12:25:00.000-07:00

I heard that Jon Faverau has signed on to direct the 'Iron Man' movie, so I doodled some superheroes who are either in movie limbo or possibly have a movie coming out. Can you identify each of them?

Peak Oil

2006-04-28T11:39:00.000-07:00

At AnimationNation.com, there's a thread in the 'Side Topics' about Peak Oil, and how within the next few decades, our civilization will cease to be as it is currently. Kinda like 'The Road Warrior'. It got me drawing.

Oh yeah, and of course, there are the flying monkeys.

Slightly lame

2006-04-27T10:01:00.000-07:00

Ok, so this post-it is less than inspiring. At the very least, I started with an idea about animating some of David Sedaris's fables, since on Sunday we heard him read one of his stories, "The Crow and the Ewe"...at least, that's what I remember it being called. Then I drew Conan the Barbarian yelling really loudly.

Women

2006-04-20T17:02:00.000-07:00

This started as an exercise in women walking, then just a few women. I drew Sheila's sleeping profile from my memory of looking at her this morning.

Monsters!

2006-04-13T09:58:00.000-07:00

Work has been hectic, so this post-it spans two days. Just having fun coming up with some monsters. The toothy one came out of a particularly stressful work moment.

Jedi Mind Tricks

2006-04-07T18:19:00.000-07:00

Started with a Jedi, then me feeling like another cog in the machine, and that robot, he's not actually flipping the bird; he's supposed to be holding up a pencil.

Jesus was a figure skater?

2006-04-07T09:42:00.000-07:00

Reacting to the CNN news story postulating that Jesus actually walked on ice, and...uh...women.

Foot of Justice!

2006-04-05T20:51:00.000-07:00

Last night's storyboarding class brought out a cartoon cockroach, and last night's dream about artistic scientologists brought out the "OT Painting" (Operating Thetan).
Plus, I tried to do a visual inuendo...something that looked sexual without being too literal...and I think I failed at being sutble about it.

Sheila, Captain Britian, and 'The Choke'

2006-04-03T10:11:00.000-07:00

Among today's doodles are my wife Sheila (from memory), Homer choking Bart and the mysterious issue of Bart's arms during the choke, and 'Cory the Corny Corn Kernel' giving a little shout out. Also, as an added bonus, three doodles of Lisa and Bart and the effects of incredible winds on them.

From Great Heights

2006-03-29T20:31:00.000-08:00

Listening to 'From Great Heights' I drew me waving from the top of a water-tower; three LOST characters, and a Giantus Bunnious.

Michael Stipe

2006-03-27T18:50:00.000-08:00

Michael Stipe, sharks, weird hands me riding a merry-go-round where the horses look like they're going REALLY fast, and yet the ride spins slowly and I'm still holding on for dear life.

Diving Woman

2006-03-25T14:53:00.000-08:00

I drew her head first without even thinking of what the body would be doing, then added her body much later in the day.