Awhile ago, I did this pixel drawing of a penguin using the Pixen software. Here’s an painted version of the same sketch where I used Corel Painter, like I usually do.

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Let’s face it, most of us will never make it onto The Simpsons as a character on the actual show, so we might have to take matters into our own hands… I created a quick self portrait this morning of what I, myself, might look like as a Simpson character.

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Messed around with some character sketches this morning in order to loosen up a bit. Extra credit question: Which one has constipation issues…?

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Sometime ago I downloaded a bundle of software from macheist.com, which included a neat little app called Snapz Pro X. With that I can video-capture my screen while I draw, so I decided to give that a go.

This is a little sketch that I penciled, lettered and inked digitally in Corel Painter X on my Wacom Cintiq 21UX. Very simple, but it shows the process.

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Aardman Animation is perhaps best know for its brilliant Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit movies, but here’s a little nugget that’s just as amazing, but very, very different. The Pearce Sisters short film, with its mix of 2D and 3D animation, is perhaps somewhat disturbing, but also stunning both in story, visuals and sound.

It should be noted that the movie is not suitable to children.

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A Fort Madison man who posted a “Dilbert” comic strip on an office bulletin board has lost his job for implying his bosses were a bunch of “drunken lemurs.”

Scott Adams, “Dilbert” creator, responds:

“Most ‘Dilbert’ comics don’t come right out and call management a bunch of drunken lemurs,” Adams said. “So I can see how this one might have been a tad over the line.”

Read the full article from the Des Moines Register.

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I wanted to experiment a bit more with watercolors, so I painted this “Bear Attack” cartoon today.

The original cartoon art is for sale, if anyone’s interested. Just email me for details and this cartoon could be yours.

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Here’s an article from Variety about the new boom in French animation. I hope we get to see a lot of these movies in the US in the years to come.

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Another inked illustration from my sketch book…

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I have no idea who these cartoon people are or where they came from, they just sort of appeared in my sketch book this evening…

As usual, the sketch is done using the Faber-Castell PITT brush pen and just inked straight with no pencil drawing underneath.

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