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The Happy Life of Thom Glum

My friend Jason Reeves has gone and written and illustrated a great childrens book called 'The Happy Life of Thom Glum".

Self published through Lulu's Press the description of the book is as follows...

"With the help of a very small friend a glum man named Thom finds happiness through giving."

Very well done and certainly worth a look.

Mr.Reeves has many good ideas which I hope follow in Thom Glums footsteps.

You can order the book HERE.

Decisions

A pattern?!?

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More Ink

Two in a row? What's the world coming to?

New

Now what indeed...

6AM

When I was a kid there was usually a Saturday morning ritual. Get up as early as possible creep downstairs get a bowl of Frosted flakes ( or the cheaper alternative...Corn Flakes with massive amounts of sugar) and turn on the tv to watch 6 hours of cartoons straight.
The good cartoons usually started around 7AM. For some strange reason now forgotten by me, but since realized by my own children, I would get up at 6Am. Sometimes 5.
Now there were only two things on the television at that hour.
Professor Kitzel.
And Tales from the Wizard of Oz. (Often followed by The New Adventures of Pinnochio).
I've done many a search to find clips from this series but have always come up empty.

Until now.

Thank you You Tube.

A couple of Brownies

Check it out

It's been a while since I've posted a link to anything inspirational. So, without further ado check out Julia Rothman's blog on inspirational books called "Book by it's cover".

New year, New blog

I'm not sure if this is a New Year's resolution but it's something that's been perculating in my noggin over the last couple of months.

I'm going to attempt to create my own series of shorts. They will be, by necessity, fairly simple but hopefully entertaining.

I have created a new blog which I will make available shortly. I hope to showcase development art as well as the shorts themselves once completed.

First up will be animating the title.

Stay tuned for further details.

In the mean time here's a little test colour key, a sample of what's to come.

Yeh, I know

I'm hoping that with the Christmas break coming, and along with it 3 weeks of vacation, I'll actually have some time to draw again.

I sketched/doodled this little guy at lunch today.

Kind of a Snoopy/Bone/whatcha macallit.

Back again?

Well it sure has been a while since I've posted anything drawing wise. A little bit of being busy and a little bit of being uninspired. Happens from time to time with everyone only it was my turn this time.

I been getting small little bursts lately and with a combination of Randall Sly's latest post of Ward Kimball designs and Nate Wraggs designs from the Ancient Book of Myth and War, I've decided to jump in again.

Now these images have nothing on the fellas mentioned above, but you can't hide forever.

Drawn on legal size paper with a green col-erase pencil, painted in photshop.

Inspiring

Check it out. Very dark and rather bleak. But very cool.

http://www.aardman.com/pearcesisters/

An actual painting

I broke out some of my old water colour paints yesterday to paint with my kids.

Most of my brushes have disappeared, leaving me with only two wash brushes. A little hard to get detail with a flat wash brush.

Anyhow the kids had fun learning to paint with something other than the goop they use at school.

The above is my attempt.

And the award goes to

I've just won an Emmy award for Individual achievement in Animation!!!

Wow.

I have spent the last couple of years working on The Backyardigan's, a show that I now AD on, and it is for this work that I have been so honoured.

Janice Burgess(the creator of the show) and the rest of the gang at Nick Jr. were extreemly thoughtful in throwing my name into the ring for consideration. It was an incredible surprise when Janice called me last week to let me know that I had won.

I will be traveling to L.A. for the award, which happens just before the regular Emmy awards, on June 14. I can't wait.

Now all I have to do is figure out where my wife is going to sleep once I bring this little lady home.

Cheers.

Reluctant wizard

I have recently switched positions at work and am now an assistant director on a show called The Backyardigan's. I have been an animator on the show for the past couple of seasons and welcome the new challenge.

A lot of work but very interesting and fun.

As a result I haven't had a heck of a lot of "me" time to doodle.

That being said here's a quick one to hold you over.