Phone Drawing

I was just watching the fun bits of 300 today. I liked the movie beacause it delivered what it promised. Fighting and lots of it. Slo-mo fighting too! If only Mandrews was here...*sigh*

Cheetos...that's hot.

Spooky sees truth behind flaming hot crunchy calories

Brush with Brush Pen Goodness

Another meeting drawing.

Critchell Rider

Another caricature of the Critchell...

Drawn during heavy note session with the bigwigs. Me hiding in the back drawing. Felt like emementary school again!!!

Pan's Re-enactment

In Darkest day, In blackest night...

This was done for my office mate Christian Roman's soon to be born child. There is a wondeerful tradition here in the Story department. When a story artist is about expecting a baby, the Story manager surepptitiously gathers drawings from all the other story artists on the movie. These drawings are made into iron on patches and these patches are each affixed to a "onesie".
It's fun!!! This was my contribution. Chris is a huge Green Lantern fan. The Hal Jordan Green Lantern, not that ounk Kyle Rayner.
Fuck him. Hal Jordan rules!!!

Drawing While Dialated

I had to go to get my eyes checked last month and I had my sketchbook with me. The doc dialated my pupils and I tried to draw.

So after the appointment I couldn't drive home so I decided to see a movie. I saw "Bug". Oh man what an awful movie. I walked out shaking my head and comiserated with a fellow moviegoer. I should have seen Pirates instead.

Flynn's Arcade from Tron. Before/After Pics

When I started my new job in Culver City early this year, I was not familiar with the area at all. One of my friends pointed out that right down the street from us was the building they used to shoot the Flynn's Arcade stuff in. I grabbed my camera to shoot some exteriors of the building, but there were some nice guys doing some work inside and they let me take some pictures of the interior as well. I guess it used to be an Italian restaurant, but it's getting turned into something else.
For me this was huge. I loved the movie Tron growing up. I think It was one of the first movies I ever had on VHS.
Enjoy!
Also... Sorry the photos are so huge... still new to all this.

Sketching in the NYC

So I was in New York earlier this month helping sell a "Major Ocean Picture" to the DVD buyers of the world and I decided that since I wasn't going with the family it would be the perfect opportunity to sketch my ass off. I was inspired by my pal Mark Kennedy's blog about sketching Part I and Part II. I always hated toting around a big sketchbook and his posts pointed me toward a small moleskin sketchbook. My first one! Woo hoo!! I got the small, pocket-sized one and put it in my back pocket. I soon found out that you really need to schedule time to sketch. I was only there for four days and most of that was spent running around getting ready for the presentation. I really thought I would fill out that little thing pretty fast but I ended up with it only half done. Here's a few of the better ones.

ay chihuahua! no quiero mas taco bell.

my neighbors plump dog

It's been a long time...

...Since I've posted here. I've been busy busy busy on the movie I was working on, and then suddenly the movie was put on hold. So with a few days free, I decided to come back here with a fresh, half-ass Searle rip-off drawing.
The idea was, I was thinking of the inhabitants of a small, medieval village. There were the serfs, and lords and various different members of any small village. I decided to start with a local bishop of the church. I will try to do more in the coming weeks. The thing is, I'm starting a new project this week, so we'll see how it goes. Anyway, it feels good to just get something up here in the meantime, even though I'm not really not very happy with the color. I really need a new Mac. Painter is really starting to run slowly on the old Mac now. Time for a new Mac Pro. (Oh sweet money, come to daddy!) I got frustrated with the slowness of the watercolor brush in Painter, so I started to get sloppy.

More Cavemen

More sketches for the new strip. I modeled one of them loosely on good pal Sony Story Artist Kaan Kaylon.
Guess which one?

More Meetings More Caricatures

It's hard out here for a pimp...to get his brakes done.

Driving to work this morning I was startled by the "bling" of non other than The Bishop Don Magic Juan. Momentarily blinded by the bling I some how managed to reach for my camera and snap a pic...yes today I win.

It's Magical!!!!!

Our cousins to the north have started their own storyboard artist blog! It was newly birthed so it's a little light on content but they're awesome so I'm expecting to see some rad things in the near future (no pressure). Pay them a visit and show them some love.

Joe Potato

Catholic School Bad Girls

So right before a story/vis dev meeting we were talking to Jessica the vis dev APM and she told us stories about her adventures in an all-girl Catholic High School. I'm going to e-mail this to the Pope right now.

This is what I saw

Busted.

Hide your Sharpies folks...

A Day At The Zoo...

The Batchelor!!!..and some other stuff...

Yes, I watch the Bathelor. I think greedy girls who cry are funny. This latest Batchelor is funny himself. He's a doctor, a naval officer and an iron man triathelete, and yet he still looks like a giant 8 year old. That's why I am compelled to draw him.
This other stuff is for a comic strip I'm developing that will eventually run on the old "Phloo!" blog, when it's ready.
It has cavemen in it, and also a dinosaur.
It'll pop up one of these days.
-John

Attack of the Critchells!

Fresh from a story meeting this afternoon. Chris is a magical person to draw. He has a blog too!!! Sharpie and yellow hi-liter.