Sunday, August 28, 2005

Coffee People...

Some interesting people at Starbucks...

Monday, August 22, 2005

Animal Lover

This weekend I went to see Coldplay in concert. What an awesome show! I've been a big fan for a while, and this was the first time I got to see them live, and oh man I was not dissappointed!! Chris Martin is a consumate showman, able to crack jokes, improvise all the while singing with enormous passion...for example, the band messed up the first few bars of a song and had to stop. Chris laughingly comes up to the mic and jokes "Sorry sorry, we havent played this one in a while, we'll owe each of you 25 cents for that one!" The enormous energy the band gave off was amazing, and reflected in the outpouring of fan cheers all throuout the almost 2 hour concert. Great show!

On a DVD side note, I just saw My Neighbors The Yamadas from the infamous Studio Ghibli. So funny, so charming, so beautiful! The animation style is so deceptively simple, yet elegant and pleasing to watch. I highly recommend that everyone see this one...

Here are some more story session sketches, this time a disgruntled girl and a small furry creature....

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Farmgirl

Here are some sketches from a narrative figure drawing session. These were a lot of fun to do, and it gave me a chance to work with tonal markers again...yay!







Lately I've been on a Milt Kahl kick...reading Illusion of Life, watching The Rescuers, Jungle Book, Sword in the Stone. Known to be the hard working, tough talking perfectionist of Disney's Nine Old Men, Milt is a huge inspiration not only for his work ethic, but for his outstanding draftsmanship/animation skills.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Here's what I looked like last week...















In the mean time, I picked up The Simpsons Season 6 DVD and having the time of my life! One of the BEST seasons ever! The Stonecutters, Gummy Venus DeMilo, and of course...Clown College! ("I'm seein' double! Four Krusty's!")






Thursday, August 18, 2005

Down time has come...

Phew, ok...I got some of my freelance stuff out of the way...for now...
Sorry I haven't posted in a while...but believe me, I've been drawing drawing drawing away...
I've been catching up on sleep which has been just great.
I just saw Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. I thought the first one was great, funny stuff....but this one left me... unsatisfied, as I'm sure Rob Schneider would do as an actual gigalo. Deuce is back in the gigolo game after his wife (remember the one legged girl?) dies soon after they get married. His buddy Reggie (Deuce's He-Pimp) calls him up to join him in Amsterdam for some European fun. Soon as Deuce arrives, the trouble starts...dun dun dun! There is a killer out on the streets targeting all the male European prostitutes, and through a misshap Reggie gets blammed as the killer. So Deuce, has to get back in the game with the "flawed" ladies of Eurpoe to find out the connection between the killer and all their clients. The comedy bits were not that funny, let alone very unoriginal. The best part in the movie is seeing my favorite actor, Norm McDonald, as a heavy Irish-accented prostitute. There were moments of chuckle-hood, but overall I'd settle for the original.
Anyways, until I scan in my new stuff...here's some old sketches from early this year...












Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Busy Busy Bee....

Just coming back from Siggraph last week, I've been exhausted tryin to update all my art/animation work.
(I'll post my Siggraph photos later this week). What I thought would be a relaxing weekend, ends up only me getting offered some more work. Which is really good and sorta bad, and I'm not one to turn down work. More details to follow later...
Right now I'm in need for some serious energy, I can feel a cold coming along if I dont get some much needed catch-up sleep. With caffeine on my mind and a bottle of Odwalla Citris C Monster by my side right now, I hope everyone reading this is well rested and jolly....here's Erich as a zombie....

Monday, August 08, 2005

Some 'mo work...

Ok, looks like there is more than one person who looks at my pitiful lil blog, so I'll belly up and start posting some legitimate stuff...

Here's a re-post of my Robot Bastard pinup I did for Rob Schrab's upcoming Robot Bastard DVD.


Friday, August 05, 2005

Typical First Blog

Here's my first blog entry...

Um...hmm...what to write.....

(long pause)

Uh....

Hmmm....

Oh yeah! Welcome!

This site is mostly (well pretty much all) due to Eren for signing up with blogger.....

For some kewl artwork, if anyone is reading this other than Ms. Eren, go to:
www.GarrettShikuma.com


Cheers
GARRETT