This is my 100th post on this blog and because it’s been a while since I’ve created a sketch video, I thought I would crank one out in celebration. For some reason, maybe because as you can see, I wasn’t using a brand new pencil, I didn’t seem to be as organized or logical in my drawing during this session. So due to my scattered sketching style, this time there isn’t any narration to help walk you through my process. But I hope you can still follow along well enough to get something usable out of it.
A revised version of a rejected client sketch. The nice thing about rejected sketches is that I can add them to the website if I think they might be useful to someone. I take out the custom elements and make them more generic for a wider appeal. I haven’t had time to go to finish on this one, but eventually it will get inked and uploaded.
Just a quick post of a sketch since we’re getting quite busy here at Wiz Studios. This one will be fleshed out a bit more and colored when I get the opportunity.
Long ago, in another lifetime, I used to draw cartoons without any computer involvement at any stage of the process. I recently ran across this example of my purely analog work while digging through some of my archives. It was a birthday present for Bob, the spouse of a co-worker when I was working for the advertising department of Home Depot; a caricature created in ink and colored pencil. A more recent photo of Bob is shown for an idea of how close I captured him back in ’94.
Here are a couple of pics from last week when I stopped by my favorite grandson’s kindergarten class for an hour to sketch some cartoons. I think we ended up with about 10 or 12 sketches after I took requests for a horse, cow, dog, tiger, truck, race car, mermaid, bumblebee, and more.
It was busy that day and I was bumped from my early morning time slot to the hour right before lunch by the Magic Tooth Fairy. Really. She did magic tricks about teeth. So after my first half hour the kids began to get a bit restless, but even so, everyone had a great time.
While I was pulling these stills from the video, I got a very enthusiastic hug and kiss so I guess I must have made a nice memory for Christian.
Here’s a cartoon I cranked out today for an emergency client request. We’re getting swamped here at Wiz Studios lately, so I drew most of it, scanned, then duplicated, flipped, and merged to save some time.
April 13, 2010 10:00 am | 
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