2001's H.A.L. (to Dave) , "...I've still got the greatest enthusiasm...in the mission."

here's some more HP Tablet PC drawings; some life, some work...

more digital drawings...

here's some work-related ones. i've tried to adopt the storyboard method of my pal adolfo martinez (whose cintiq i first ventured out on!...); wherein one starts with traditionally drawn thumbnails , and he wisely draws them on thumbsized post-it notes keeping thumbnails from growing into full-sized 'roughs'. then, once the visualization and most adjustments are made in this fast scale, one redraws them on the tablet.

DIGITAL DRAWINGS ! OMG! he's gone digital...

recently bought a new/used/off-the-back-of-a-truck HP Tablet PC (with the wacom tablet screen on it) as a baby-step towards doing my work on the cintiq. the eventual plan being: 1) a cintiq for the office 2) the Tablet PC for home & travel.

 i find it alot of fun, even though i'd spent alot of time these last few years on photoshop (thanks to the endless tutelage on spidey from the legendary anthony zierhut!...), there's still a learning curve to drawing exclusively with the photoshop tools. about a year ago, i drew a sequence on a cintiq for 'Terminator 4' over a couple of weeks time; and i remember feeling kinda sad using this new techno-tool. i, literally, sighed looking over at my markers & refills laying idle. worse was thinking , "...what if i never get to use those again? a lifetime spent acquiring a language with those tools" ...i'm not sure what or when the 'seed change' occurred for me (maybe i became a replicant and i'm actually coming-home to my digital nature...yikes!).

more likely i believe i wanted to challenge myself to do it, as bronowski said, "... the hand drives the subsequent evolution of the brain...". as for myself, i'm often driven by some vision of myself being better at all of this stuff.. ha!

my first drawing with it was of fellow storyboard artist dan sweetman. next, i thought - 'if i want to learn to draw with this, what better than to take the tablet drawing' , so i took the tablet to life drawing ; since then came the rest shown.

the drawing club

just a drawin' fool...

although storyboarding is my job, drawing is my life. anybody who knows me, knows that sooner or later i'll be drawing you, probably at lunch. i used to carry a sketchbook ALWAYS, the habit started under john lincoln's life drawing tutelage @ CSULB. we all carried them then & we were always drawing. it becomes a part of how you interact with your life's events; to record them & in some way honor them, the drawing as part of the event remembered, even if it is just lunch. in time i've streamlined the process - i carry 5 x 7 index cards & a stub of a black prismacolor pencil; the drawing being done in the time between being seated and getting our food. being index cards they're easier to dole out & insist others draw too! shown are some restaurant sketches of my family; and a couple by them as well.

life before hollywood...

... you mean , there was life before hollywood? well... there was school before hollywood for me. was looking at old, old stuff & thought id better post something! heres a comic strip from my high school newspaper featuring my alter-ego hippie/surfer dude 'hal roach' (the word 'slacker' hadnt been coined yet) & some editorial 'toons from my CSULB days on the union newspaper.

"Draw lines son, and you will be a good artist..." Ingres' advice to Degas

Draw, draw, draw... there's a Gertrude Stein line in her book about Picasso, wherein she says "...he was an artist who constantly needed to be emptying..." . I can't claim such a profound wellspring as my source, but a guy can pretend,est-ce que je peux ?