Not "Mobile Phones", but "Wireless Telephony"!

I received my first bill from Canadian phone company Fido (which uses dogs for it's ad campaigns) and I thought I’d give their slogan a bit of a twist.

Yankee Irving

Yankee Irving, now re-titled “Everyone’s Hero” is a project I worked on during summer 2004. My job was to take original character design sketches, and map them out for 3d modeling. I drew diagrams called “orthographic character views”, “orthographies” for short. Orthographies are a spread of a single character in front, side and back views, drawn in a position suitable for rigging. It’s kind of like a model sheet/character roatation, but more strict and technical. Our team did orthographies for every character in the film, the 3d modelers used them as a guide for building the characters you see on screen.

Characters

I designed these characters for my Sheridan portfolio. I was always inspired by how the Looney Tunes directors used animals for caricature. My favorites are Babbit and Catstello in Bob Clampett's A Tale of Two Kitties, and The HoneyMousers by Bob McKimson. Frobster is based on Alfred Hitchcock, Marlon Brando and Sydney Greenstreet.

Bad movie dept.

When I sit in fort of the tube to doodle, I come across all kinds of stuff, current Hollywood movies tend to have little or no appeal to me. A recent viewing, “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”, was simply horrid.

They added something new, though: clips from classic Tex Avery cartoons played to the tunes of Sixpence’s Kiss Me, during the main characters’ first kiss...

Tex Avery is known for his outstanding sense of humor, but I don't think he'd take it lightly.

Captain Jean-Juc Picard

Baldy went where no one has gone before.

Girly drawings vol.2

Five letters, opposite of 'Hired'...

"If you think about leaving me like this, you can look for a new job, START INKING!"

Go ahead, punk...

Make my day!

"Brilliant, Holmes!" dept.

Here's Katie Holmes with teen heart throb Tom Cruise. Below are some of the drafts I made for this caricature. I'm a real perfectionist about these things, I like caricatures with a tangible feel.

Murder, She Animated

Inspired by Brock's excellent ''Columbo'' post, I attempted at another TV detective from the same era.
I don't think Angela Lansbury is gonna find this freaky caricature too flattering!

What's the deal with airline peanuts?

Another attempt at a comedian who startled cartoonists for years.

The King of Gestalt!

No comic artist rules gestalt like Harvey Kurtzman, What is gestalt? It’s a German word, referring to how people look at things. There’s a whole bunch of methods to make a page easy to read, and draw attention.

This panel is a great example. At first glance it looks too detailed, but at second glance, you get to follow the planned rhythm, and it gets very easy and fun to read. First you focus on the title “Bat Boy and Rubin” and then the two figures at the center. They’re surrounded by white (reflecting light) and drawn in black (absorbing light). The ass kicked villains follow a curve indicated by bat-boy’s punch swing. At the end, all links us to Wally Wood’s signature, at the bottom right part of the image. Wally’s done some of his most amazing work in the early days of Mad Magazine, the days when founder Harvey Kurtzman, drew “blueprints” or rough layouts, for each artist to follow.

Here’s another treat, “Little Annie Fanny” is a comic Kurtzman did for Hugh Hefner, With Mad colleagues Will Elder, Jack Davis and Superman creators Siegel and Shuster. Before Playboy, Hefner was trying out as a cartoonist too. It was his idea to have it fully painted. And by the way, Al Jaffee has a famous take on Playboy’s “Centerfold”. Color prints were very costly at the time, and since mad always “worked in the opposite direction” the “Fold In” was born!

Napoleon Dynamite

This guy is fun to caricature. My first post, enjoy!