It's like a sketch, innit...

Pretty girls and kittens make everything better.

Green Dress

Doodled while scanning. Where can I get one of these and how many ribs do I need to remove to wear it?

I'm doing science and I'm still alive

Holy cow. This is literally the first non-work art I have done in several months.
I have been a leetle busy.
I am STILL a leetle busy. But slowly getting on top of things.

NEVER doing two comics at once AGAIN @_@

Dee Twentee Three

Well, this should be interesting.
Disney's first ever 'fan expo' - D23 - starts this Thursday at Anaheim Convention Centre.
It's not really a con in the regular sense - it's a MASSIVE publicity pimp-out for everything Disney. A con is where you go to see, buy, sell and trade stuff. An expo is where you go to show stuff off. D23 is the latter.

I will be there with Boom! studios on Saturday and Sunday to promote the Pixar/Muppet comics we've all been sweating over for nearly a year now. As of writing, actual activites at the Boom! booth are still being finalised, but no matter - all it takes is the magic words 'FREE SKETCHES' and that should get 'em swarming ;)

I look forward to this with a mixture of fascination and a touch of trepidation. On the one hand, Disney fans are some of the most loyal, friendly and all-embracing of any fandom around. On the other hand, they are hard-fricking-CORE and a liiiiittle scary sometimes. I will be torn between lots of nodding and smiling or messing with their heads.
This is NOT a cheap con, so the cost alone may filter out more casual fans... although I understand that Disney employees get a nice cheap entry discount, so if you're artsy and on the payroll, c'mon by on the weekend and say hi!

Boom! will be located in the Disney Consumer Products section. All the site says is that they're presenting Mark Waid. They appear to have left out 'and Friends' ;p

If you also happen to be a veteran Pixar director, my editor and I would also like your opinion on something. If you have a moment ;)

send help.

Bleah... is it here already?
Sorry things have been so quiet around here, but my every waking moment is spent fused to my chair working on Monsters Inc. and Muppet Peter Pan. I swear one more week and my wacom pen will become a new vestigial digit.
And the end is a loooong way off.

Yup.

DEFINITELY know what the next artbook theme is going to be.

(hint: no, not robots)

Hotcha

Darn. I think I know what the theme of my next artbook is going to be..

Su-wheeet!

A little showgirl expresses her love of cherry pie.

Same planet, different species

I just got back from a 2-week roadtrip with friends to San Diego, Flagstaff and Vegas via as many brewpubs as we could find. I had never been to any of them before, which was cool - I don't count ComicCOn because you never venture more than half a mile from the con centre ;p. I took MOUNTAINS of animal photos in San Diego and we roasted our butts off walking the Strip.
Las Vegas was an experience. You expect it to be kitschy and hot and tacky and overpriced, so that wasn't a surprise. But holy cow, the people it attracts.
These are all actual people I mentally stored from our wanderings.

End of an Era

Bye Michael. The last true superstar.

Yuki 7

Kevin Dart's Yuki 7

I've preordered my book, I can't wait to get it :)

Shutter the barn, boys.

Quickie before bed.

Jus' a li'l ole cornfed gal.

DAMMIT, Jim

Okay, that's out of my system now.
Ack.. Kelley and his craggy middle-agedness!
Shatner's slightly doughy leading-man face is surprisingly hard to capture. I still think it's not quite right. Ah well.

In other news, Monsters Inc! and Muppet Peter Pan comics are now soliciting!. These are my babies, so order now!
Check my devart page or my Flickr account for all the cover artwork, I'm not posting that lot again, I'm tiiiiired.

Uhuralove

I should be working, but I'm enjoying this series too much.

Pretty yeomen in huge blonde wigs may come and go, it's all about Uhura.

Friday dump

For those who missed it on devart or Flickr - another Boom! variant.
More Muppet and Nemo stuff coming soon!


An hour in a Mazda waiting room while McQueen was having an engine light examined.

Brown bookery

Some recents odds and sods from the nearly-full brown book.





Anyone in the Portland area, listen up! Powell's currently has 50-75% off a whole bunch of the Taschen art books, including the all-American Ads series. So GET IN NOW!
I picked up a mini-Taschen of Dian Hanson's Girly Mag History and was inspired to sketch the last one.

Of Muppets and Fish

Phew. FINALLY figured out which of my Boom covers has hit Previews, so here's samples!
Covers for Nemo 2 & 3 and my B cover for Muppet Robin Hood #4.
I think the Muppets look awesome in digital watercolour, but it's a little too labour-intensive for interior art. Covers are okay, though.

Classy Cozzie

We don't call it a swimsuit where I come from. It's a cozzie.
We also wear thongs on our feet and no amount of sniggering from Americans is going to make us call them anything else. Nyeh.

Started off in Painter 9 until I got pissed off with the program(as usual). Finished in Photoshop, which knows how to behave.

..this thing on?

*ahem*
OMG,I'MWORKINGONPIXARCOMICSYOUGUYS!!!!!


What have I been doing the last several months? Only the first, licensed, ORIGINAL Pixar comic stories with Boom! Studios.
Along with a bunch of other great writers and artists, we're all hard at work getting the first wave of stories going. Cars, Incredibles and the Muppet Show will be hitting stands very soon, followed by Finding Nemo, Muppet Show fairytales, Monsters Inc, Toy Story, Wall*E, the whole ball of glorious Pixar wax!

Needless to say, I can't show everything, but now that I have some release dates, look forward to seeing more of my covers and maybe some sample pages of my own titles - the first one involves monsters and doors.

This is variant cover A of Finding Nemo #1 - the interior artist is Erica Leigh Currey, but we're sharing cover duties. (they have to correct the above link to credit me properly, but it IS my art!)

I am thrilled to microscopic bits to be a part of this new series. It's a great plan to bring comics back to children again with characters we all know and love.

Eeeeh, it's a Pixar fan artist's dream job!! :)

Badcrumble

crumblin' down the road...

Kingdom of Slackola

You know what's annoying apart from not being able to post real work?
Filling up a moly and then trying to decide what to post now and what to keep for the next sketchbook collection.

Anywho, here are some potted highlights, practising human and animal caricaturing!

Not dead, just sketching...

So while I am STILL waiting for approval to post my real work, let's crack open the moly diary...

Verbatim conversation from a few weeks ago:




I haven't seen them in a little while, I hope they're all okay :(

Happy 2009

I swear, ONE of these years I'll get it together to actually post a cute little Christmas graphic like all the other blogs actually BEFORE Christmas :/

As it is, I was rushing to finish several art presents and part of the Project I Still Cannot Name before the husband and I left for Christmas in San Jose with the family.

So woohoo, here's some of what I was working that I only have a chance to show now!


I was invited to do the cover of Falalalala's ADVENTures in Carols compilation. We decided to go with a vintage children's book look.


Our Christmas in San Jose included meeting a new member of the family - my very first nephew! Christopher George. This is the illo for his birth announcement.
They love ducks in that family ;)