I feel kinda write-y

(I know. SUCH quality. But what am I gonna do, go all the way to school to use a scanner? It's only friggin biro.)


My "new-old" cat -- if the tail looks short, it's because she only has half a tail.


I tried to draw caricatures of the mains of My Life in Film. Obviously failed. It's terrib messy too. But, you know, biro, so there was little chance of correcting myself. Even weirder: although the caricatures are so not and it looks like a bleeding panda fight, I kinda like it! Mostly because I was overjoyed by the mere memory of the show. Anyway, it's the first thing besides life drawing that I've drawn in so many days.
They're all looking somber due to the death of Hugo the fish (in Beth's hand there).

My apologies to Alice Lowe, who's quite possibly the most adorable actress I've ever seen, and to beautiful Andrew Scott, for not doing them justice. Little bit of apology to Kris Marshall as well.

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Two images of Wes Anderson's upcoming Roald Dahl adaptation Fantastic Mr. Fox have popped up on movie sites. I like the look of'em.


I knew it was going to be stop motion animation, but I didn't expect this kind of look, like a dollhouse come to life, instead of ...well, what we've seen in Henry Selick's films or in The Life Aquatic. Not that I didn't love those, but this look corresponds much better with my personal images of the book -- almost perfectly, in fact. So quaint and intricate. I'm swooning over that little badger painting and the realistic-looking miniature books.

There are things that could go wrong but not horribly wrong, I think. No Mark Mothersbaugh and an animation director (Mark Gustafson) whose work I happen to be completely unfamiliar with, but we'll see. George Clooney as the voice of Mr. Fox? I think the whole cast is going to sound American (or, in keeping with tradition, the villainous farmers will have British accents). That's one disappointment. Still, if the Brits never filmed the book during all these years, all can I say is you snooze you lose. Waited since Giant Peach for a Dahl adaptation that looks this promising. I love Tim Burton's take on the Chocolate Factory, it's a darling, funny film but there's an abyss between the book and the movie. More animated Dahl adaptations would be awesome. In my mind I keep seeing Quentin Blake's illustrations of BFG and Witches moving.

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[Oh and since I'm going on about book adaptations... One of the Pitch Party judges this year had a blurb where it said she's currently producing an animated series based on the Little Nicholas -books by Goscinny! FREEEEEEEAKOOOOOUT! :D ]

Pigloo is going to be huge: T/F?

Good news, I've got the flu! I have no idea if it's swine-y or just regular, I don't know how to tell. Whichever it is, I feel nowhere near death. = Good news. Good in the sense that it gives me a legitimate reason to slack off, so I don't feel as guilty about doing that as I usually feel.

My pitches see dem here!




For readers other than schoolmates, these were my entries to the "preliminaries" determining which six pitches our school would enter to Animation Magazine's annual Pitch Party contest. Obviously I didn't make the six, because Mr Wells' composition sucks, TLB was slapped together in about half a minute (not the idea but the drawing!) and Pigloo probably wasn't original enough (Pigloo is totally my own little bundle of joy, but let's face it cartoons are so overpiggisized even if the pig in question happens to live in an igloo) -- whatever, they have a slewwwwwww of faults besides the ones I've already mentioned -- but even in spite of that, the whole experience was positive and I definitely look forward to pitching again next year.

I wish I had something new to post. I am lazy and my brain is even more muddled than usual. I don't even have the energy to check if muddled is a real English word.

How do I reech tees keeds?!

Hey alles, come to life drawing club and bring your friends! :D Seriously, we'll even move it to 6:30 so you don't lose as much super fun Summer Sun Time -- or work, if you're lucky enough to be working. Otherwise, the summer LDC may not continue past a couple more weeks because of the money situation. Waaaah


Anyways, this week at LDC I was utterly out of the zone. Which is evident in how unfinished all my drawings from that session are. I do like ^this one though, because I managed a pretty good facial likeness.
I also indulged in some old school shading which I used to do with a pencil; here I used the conté like a pencil. I don't usually do that nowadays because it's slower, but I was all slow this week to begin with, so what the hell. Kinda nostalgic.

Lots of life. And: I would to-tal-ly watch this movie.

Enjoying myself at life drawing. I had the zen-ningest flow last week, it was just swish, swish swish.
Unshaded croqs are some of my favourite things ever, yet something that probably wouldn't end up in my portfolio, so that's the main reason I always post those here so much.






The Tonight Show with CONAN 's Twitter Tracker is really really making me want to consider actually joining Twitter, OH YEAH OH YEEAAAH! :x I'd probably just tweet about life drawing :P how tewwibly intewesting.
If Carl Hiaasen joins Twitter, somebody alert me so I can join fast as lightning. (As I'm writing this he's not on it yet. I've checked.) I'm on a huge Hiaasen-kick right now - meaning, more so than usual. Is Don Rosa on Twitter? Is Jasper Fforde? I have to do some research on this.

Yes, I would to-tal-ly watch... Milkyrie. Even just for the wigs!!

Aquarium trip

I think this was the best thing I saw all day. Cardinalfish letting a SUPER TINY baby cardinalfish just hang out in its spacious mouth.

I couldn't manage the kind of sketches I wanted. But it was inspiring, and I love watching animals, so yeah, it was a good day.

"You shouldn't say WOOOOO! every time I say we're committing a crime."

GUESS WHO'S FINALLY BAAAAACK!

Oh... Something was framed out of the shot during Conan's dead stylish dash across America on Monday...

Missed you, Conan!


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And remember that summer life drawing is on! Mondays, 5:30-8:30 PM all the way to August 31st (note: NO life drawing on Aug. 3rd)! Arbutus building, regular rates. Hope to see yous there.

I'd also like to say --yeah, again-- you'd really be doing yourself a favour by checking out ucbcomedy.com. God, I could post "The Back Room" -video clips all day long! (OH Mr. Chocolate Pudding, you're a gem! <3) But I won't because I have no way of monitoring whether delicate minors view this blog.