"Becky pose #2"

Here is a plein air painting from saturday. After about 2 hours of sketching I finally liked a drawing enough to paint. After the drawing was acceptable I spent another 2 hours bringing the painting to this point. I am pretty happy with it.

Sunrise painting.

Here is a painting of my neighborhood at 6am.

commissioned painting!

This is oil on canvas 18 inches by 24 inches. I really like this one, I hate to see it go but a friend of mine actually "Commissioned" this for a little dough. I really started to enjoy working on this one.

New Comic strip, "Clint Against Clint"

There's more than one clint on campus these days.

Must Paint.

I need to be painting more than once a week. I have been stressed out of my gourd-melon for the past week and I am finally starting to get a grip again. So here is a full update; I canceled the Polar bear cartoon that I was pretty close to finishing, the problem was that I had to look the project in the face every time i wanted to work on it and know that I can do better. A lot of it was just plain wrong, bad rigs, lazy animation, confusing story that kept pulling itself in different directions. Bleh no thanks. Ten weeks of working on that and I decided to just forget it and write it off as a learning experience.
I am currently working on a new cartoon that should be about a minute long, I say it "should" because I am trying to take the time in the pre-production phase to really plan it out so everything about the cartoon comes out closer to what I really had in mind for it. Without writing a novel I will say that it is a commercial for a device that lifts up overweight people and drags them throughout their homes. It's called the "In-Home-Hook-ME-UP!" It will focus on the device itself but the overweight character "Scooter" is where a lot of the comedy will come from.
The script is in it's second draft, Storyboards are in their second draft as well, Designs for Scooter and the device will be done and ready to finalize by the end of this week. I am writing this all out to try and light a more intense fire under my ass and I think it's working. I cant wait to put all this together knowing it was done correctly, (or at least a hell of a lot better than the last one).
Oh yeah, here is a painting from Saturday afternoon Painting sessions, this one clocked in at just under 4 hours.