Big Brains

Mistah F.

Batman study

Long Duck Dong

Name that movie!

Forgotten Icon
I did this Tony the Tiger a couple years back in an experiment to merge classic and modern Tony designs. It seems I never finalized it and well, other things come up and some ideas fall by the waste side. I think I was never happy with how the shading turned out.

Hawaiian Punk

I finally got back around to coloring it! Next!

Supergirl Sketch

I'm attempting to get back in the habit of semi-regular sketching since our baby arrived.

Not to mention prepare for con season and hopefully assemble a new sketchbook.

I did use a photo reference so I feel she's a little stiff. I think I might want to go back and take another whack at it for a more cartoony feel.

11 Second Club Pencil Test
Rough pencil test done with a Wacom in Flash for The 11 Second Club.
http://www.11secondclub.com/
Audio is from "The Birdcage".
Characters copyright Bob Renzas and Animal Qwacker Producktions.

Tommy is Here!

His mommy wouldn't let me name him Kal-el.
Our son Tommy arrived a couple weeks ago and is very healthy, happy and gassy.

Holy Crap, it's Animation!
I've been playing with this here new fangled techno-whatsis called You Tube.
Has anyone heard of this?
Anyway, I uploaded a couple old pencil tests to it.
Some other files aren't cooperating with me just yet.
First, here's a rough pecil test I did for the 10 Second Club (now the 11 Second Club) a few years back. It was the first time I tried using Flash as a pencil tester for traditional animation.
Audio is from Animaniacs.


Next is a pencil test done directly in Flash with a Wacom featuring Bill Halliar's Evilman with dialouge from Army of Darkness.

Finally finished a short comic for Art Baltazar's Patrick the Boy.
http://www.artbaltazar.com/

and a bonus pin-up for the back!

In non-news, a certain long running publication was naturally cancelled the second I was going to submit samples to it. Ah, well.

Yo, Joe!

I've had Gi Joe on the brain for some reason lately. Not that I'm ready to post my drawings from the 80's or anything.

For now, here's Duke and Serpentor.

Twinkie the Kid's Last Stand

Hawaiian Punk Revisited

Due to the overwhelming response I received from my takes on popular food characters at Wizard World Chicago; I'm dusting off an old sketch to finally ink and color it.

It seems in this day and age you can't just haul off and sock somebody who desires "A nice Hawaiian Punch!".

Next on the deck in this series will be finishing the Twinkie the Kid sketch I did a while ago.

Also, since there was so much demand for one, I'll have to do my take on Count Chocula eventually.

Wizard World Chicago

I will be sharing a table with the omni-present Bill Halliar in Artist's Alley table #4314 A.
I'll be selling copies of my sketchbook Gorilla Salad as well as some prints.
Bill will be selling his sketchbook Roughbeasts. http://roughbeasts.com
Come on by and spend your money frivolously!

Shorty Comic Strip

Trying to get back into a comic groove.

The Simpsons???

I dunno, I think I kinda creeped myself out with this one.

Maria Dare (from Ben Caldwell's Dare Detectives)

http://www.daredetectives.com/

Summer Events!


San Diego Comic Con
July 25th - 29th.
I don't have a table this year since it's a very last minute thing. Unless some generous soul takes pity on me and offers up a spare 6 inches to sell my wares, that'd be mighty swell of ya!
Otherwise, I'll be trying to reconnect with people I met last year since I had to put everything on hold due to recent events.

Wizard World Chicago
August 9th - 12th.
I'm going to have a table in Artist's Alley with the legendary Bill Halliar selling sketchbooks and prints.

Hope to see everyone there(s)!
Be sure to buy plenty of thing from me and plenty of beers for me!

Acting!

I was inspired by a recent post on John K's blog regarding realistic and cartoon acting:

all kinds of stuff: Acting 5 - Ren and Stimpy "realistic" sitcom acting#links#links

To illustrate his point, he posted several screencaps of a scene from the Honeymooners.

I thought it would be an interesting excercise to sketch out this interaction with two of my characters in Ralph and Norton's place.

I know they aren't necessarily on model or to scale, but that wasn't the point. It was to get a more expressive and subtle performance out my characters that I may not have done before.

There are some I like better than others and I can see where I could have added more but it was still a fun little excercise to do. Go ahead and give it a try!

Groo the Wanderer

I did a quickie submission for this year's San Diego Comic-Con souvenier book (even though I can't go this year).
I don't expect anything from it, but it couldn't hurt to try.
Plus, it was fun to do anyway!
"Did I err?"

Spider Woman in Colour:

Spider Woman

Ice Age Fireman

For the Outsider Art Club

http://outsiderartclub.blogspot.com/

and a little somethin' for the movie I won't be seeing...

Other randomness...

Just Stop...

Stop shitting on me!

Random Stuffs:

Comics!
(Based on actual events.)

Hey, uhhh...Fred?

Some Quick Colors:
I know, I know! Ewww!
But it must've been a common occurance.


And Hong Kong Phooey Colored:

Welcome to San Diego
When we arrived on Wednesday (preview night) of the con, we stopped by the Tin Fish across from the convention center for a bit of lunch. For our dining pleasure, we were treated to the site of a 5'2", D-E cupped, 60+ year old hooker "refreshing" herself over the intermittent fountains in front of the restaurant. Further proving to you youngsters out there that you should never drink water from a public fountain. I did this with a brush pen, but a more accurate representation could be achieved by making a sculpture comprised of Slim Jims.

and Hong Kong Phooey!

A Group Sketchbook Too?

Well with about six months of prep time, we managed to assemble a group sketchbook for the San Diego Comic Con in about 2 days! The good folks at RapidPod quickly assembled it and it is en route as we speak! This will be exclusive to the San Diego Comic Con next week, a supplies are limited.
The book: An InCONvienient Booth -or- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Con (see if you can find the secret 3rd title on the book!) features art by Tom Bryski, Joe Feliciano, Bill Halliar, Melly Curphy, Felipe Smith (also his cover) and myself.


Come by table E-6 and get some! It's the table with about 43 artists crammed behind an eight foot table (we were screwed out of our second table).
Don't forget to pick up a copy or three of Gorilla Salad (see below) and I'll have some prints available as well.

Robot-Damon-Books!

Just squirted out this hansome devil for the Matt Damon caricature jam on the Drawing Board.

Finallly finished a pinup I was asked to do for
Rob Schrab's Robot Bastard! dvd.
http://robschrab.com


Last but not least, my sketchbooks are here!
You can even order them online right now!
http://animalqwacker.com/GorillaSaladPage
Or, I'll just see you at our table, E-6 in San Diego where Chicago will be representing big time!

My Sketchbook Proof is Here!!

And it looks awesome!!
The actual sketchbook will be softcover and if all goes well it will be here in a few short days.
If we ever get approved for our table at the San Diego Comic Con it will be available there as well as some nifty prints n' stuff.
For those who can't attend or if we get screwed out of our table the books will hopefully be available for sale online as soon as next week! Aren't you lucky?

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