HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL
Thank you all so much for visiting and for leaving comments. It's been so much more fun than I had thought it would be when I first started this blog. New found artist friends on line is something I did not imagine at the begining and your support and encouragement is greatly appreciated. All the fantastic animation/art/sketch/design blogs you are posting, is mind blowing and incredibly inspiring.
What a wonderful thing.
I'll be back posting again right after the holidays. Have a wonderful Christmas.


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This is the html demon that has caused major mischief on my blog over the last few days. He's even managed to make his picture all squiggly. Click on him to get rid of the noise and see him sans squiggle. I'll repost the header up again in the new year when I get it working correctly.
I wonder what he put on his wish list for Santa?

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For Illustration Friday.
Imagine that.

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Brand new header on the blog. Expect this to change every one in a while. And now the pic for the day.
Sarah was never keen on bringing her pet monster out for Christmas shopping.

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Saturday fun.

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Almost time for mistletoe.

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The bird tried to explain to his friend why everyone in the room had ignored him

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for Illustration Friday
Larry was just about to find out that he was not alone on the island.

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Hooray, my hit counter just passed 10000 visitors. Thank you all for visiting and for the encouragement along the way from all over the globe. This sure beats having my artwork sitting on my shelves or stashed away on my computer. I am a happy man.
Here's todays illustration.

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Also "Chair" for Illustration Friday.
Let's start the week off with a book.

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Ahhh, back to the previous theme.

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Tiny quick sketch for today.

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So here's something a bit different (again). I thought I'd post these for the fun of it. This is what amuses my three year old. Hopefully it will amuse the three year old in you too. It's funny how non scary monsters become when you give them a lollypop.









My little fella wanted toes everywhere on this guy.


And faces on these tummys and a bar of chocolate in the the other guys hand.

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Tuesday post. Sticking with this theme for the moment, the very talented and funny Elliot suggested variations on a theme. So this one's for you pal. More of these will follow soon.

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Here's a Monday post
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So, all the regulars will know that I like to change things up a bit. Here's something a little different than what you're used to seeing.

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More with the watercolor pencil and the waterbrush.

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Feeling sporty today? Eh...not really, but this popped into my head.

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Dare I use more than one colour? Naah, just shades of the same one will do.

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Well, you haven't seen one of these for a while. It doesn't mean that I've stopped doing them. Still like the pencil you'll be happy to hear, and I still do these even though I've been posting other stuff lately. Typical sketch book page.

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So for all of these illustrations, I've used the simplest shape and amount of lines to describe the form. Big influences for me, among many, many others are Hirschfeld and Eyvind Earle. If you thought that Earle just did beautiful landscapes, you should check out his figurative illustrations. Clean, simple and graphic. I suppose being an animator, I'm always looking for clean lines of action, readable shapes, and simple graphics so you can instantly see what I want to draw your eye too.

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Happy Thanksgiving to all my American blogging friends.
Extra note...Oh, this seems to fit the newest illustration friday theme so instead of reposting I'll just link you here....oops, sorry for messing up the initial post to IF.

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So much for breaking away from a theme.

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Have a gorilla, if you please.

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Here's another sexy girl.... oh....eh.... nevermind. I told you the theme would change soon. The reason you're seeing this vector work is beacuse I was having trouble uploading certain type of files. Rather than wait to hear back about a fix, I stumbled upon a work around and switched mediums so I could keep posting. I'll get back to posting some sketches soon, but I'm having too much fun right now to stop. All these vector sketches are done straight on a tablet. No ruffs, no messing, and exploring as I'm finding my way through the program. Experimenting is good.

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There's something nice and simple about using these vector lines to create an image. Doing this with a wacom tablet has such a different feel to it. Each medium seems to have it's own style for me. Kind of like each individual musical instrument has a different character in it that comes out when it is played. It's like having a favourate type of pencil or pen. Then again, after a while it's good to break up patterns and styles. I'll probably change up some styles in a few days.

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And another. I've really fallen for using illustrator. I'll be curious myself to see the progression as I learn more about the program.

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Continuing the theme....

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Hmmmm, enjoying this theme. What have you started? More vector fun.

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Alina tagged me yesterday to do a pin up girl. So here you go. Hope you like it Alina. Guess I'll pass the tag on to one of my unsuspecting blogger friends.

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Madagascar is released today on dvd. It was an absolute blast to animate on and it's a project I am really proud of. Hope you all enjoy it as much as I had fun working on it.

Simple lines, less clutter.

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Have a scribble.
Still having .tiff woes. Hope to get it sorted soon.


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Even monsters have teddys.


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Trying out new things.

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Hello, glad to be back again. Thanks for dropping by while I was away. I haven't done too many of these type of drawings, but the flow of the line was just asking for it. Let me know if anyone else is having trouble posting .tiff files. I can't seem to upload that type of file over the last couple of days. It used to work fine.

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Got to run. No new posts for a few days. Feel free to check out the links to the side in the meantime.
D.

Neigh, not another horse.


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More vectors. I'm really enjoying using this.

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He was not feeling the best today.

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for illustration friday...
Unfortunately for Bob,this island paradise was not as remote as his travel agent had promised.

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Having loads of fun with the new drawing toy. Looks like endless possibilities ahead.

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More vector fun.

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Just started learning Illustrator. Vectors are quite nice to work with. Here's my first sketch. Coloured in photoshop.

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Dog time

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More exploring. Much better proportions on the couple of the sketches that work. Thought I'd post the others to show the trial and error. Scribbles to work through problems. I love seeing a process of how others work. I find it fascinating. Unfortunately, I don't have perfect drawings, hence all the attempts. But this process is all about seeing which shapes work together and which don't and learning from that.

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Here's a couple more. The bottom one is again too lanky, but I like the lines in it.
Still searching.


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