Monday, January 30, 2017

ANOTHER SKETCHBOOK GOES TO SKETCHBOOK VALHALLA


Done.

Another 
sketchbook has died in battle and joined it's
brethren on the shelf.

This one started on
August 30th, 2016,
right when we were officially ramping up on
Muppet Babies.

The cover originally had this
Banksy/Pokemon
sticker mash-up:



Now,
after much wear and tear,
 it looks like this:



Normally, I can't start working in a sketchbook
until I've got the title pages worked out.
But we got
SO
busy
SO
quickly
I never drew anything:



Which makes this book feel kind of weird and incomplete.
But I thought it'd be weirder to add something so late in the game.

Most of the book os filled with top secret
Muppet Baby
brainstorming
stuff.

But it's also filled with a lot of meeting doodles.
Because we have a
LOT
of
meetings:





 

































One of the things I love about working in a studio is the  
abundance of post-it caricatures.
Here are a couple passed around by
Supervising Director
Matt Danner
and Art Director
Chris Moreno,
mostly of 
Director
Guy Moore:








Here are some 
homemade
Yu-Gi-Oh
cards
my son Kelley made that 
were too good to throw away:



And then,
as is bound to happen,
the book was finished
after five months of loyally
recording my every move:


And now it's on to the next book.

Stick around and I'll show it to you 
when its done!




Monday, January 16, 2017

THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER


It's a new year!
And that means
NEW
TABLE DOODLES!

And who better to doodle with than
Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
creator
and sooper pal
Maxwell Atoms!


He and Deva came over for a 
mega-tasty dinner whipped up
by the fabulous
Meg Gallagher
and then we
got to drawing!




Inexplicably,
I decided to only draw
assorted versions of
Beholders for most of the evening.


Don't ask why.
I don't have an answer.
It's not like I've even played
D&D in the last 100 years!











Mr. Atoms joined in,
but added an
from memory:


And a lot of stuff around it:








Deva got in on the action,
but skipped the 
Dungeons and Dragons crap:





 I gave this guy a very stylish 
orange peel hairdo:



Which got destroyed by
the Death Star:

















Man,
I love having a good
table doodle!