Remembering Del...

New stuff, in rough thumbnails:
the beginning of a Del Close anecdote.
John Ostrander shared this story with me,
and I'll keep pecking away at it until it's
at least in animatic form.

...Ruh-Roh!

Been offline for a while--I've just wrapped up work on a "Scooby-Doo"
direct-to-DVD movie for Warner Bros, and here are a few pages of initial roughs,
with finishes to come.
It's been surprisingly fun & challenging, drawing the Scooby Gang...
Iwao Takamoto's original 1969 character designs are deceptively simple.

..Audition Knight, part one

Something lost has now been found;
a series of initial sketches for my
first "Batman Beyond" audition,
when the first season was airing on the Kids' WB--
it got dissected (constructively!)
by series director Dan Riba,
and I auditioned twice more before landing the gig.
Still, Dan liked the energetics of the initial attempt.

...Audition Knight, part deux

...Audition Knight, part trois

...SMACK

Haven't posted anything new for too long; here's a phone-sketch for the moment.
When in doubt, draw a human body doing something dynamic...one of my favorite
human-figure resources of all time is Mas Oyama's hardcover "THIS IS KARATE",
circa 1976 or so.

The Third Bunny

Sketches from a character idea I'm batting around.
"Watership Down", it ain't...

"...I never Metatarsal I didn't like."

Well, I guess Will Rogers never met THIS guy...
lookit the FEET I drawed on 'im! What gives?!!

...Moleskine-Fu!

I do a lot of sketching, but only recently switched over to Moleskines,
thanks in part to Tony Akins' malevolent influence.

I also still do a ton of quick-gesture sketching based on martial arts practice...
which, over the course of several years, sort of accidentally taught me
how to animate.