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s'been a while...

2007-12-18T08:07:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry... more updates once I realize what I've neglected to post here. In the meantime. DookJoOoky needs some love. Some of YOUR love. Help two young brothers from Virginia "get on" so to speak. We're swell chaps, I promise.

Also, the better half of DKJKY just overhauled his blog. My love/hatred for this cat is everlasting. I'm glad we're in the same camp. Otherwise id have to MERK 'em AHAHAHAhahha. No. Seriously. *meanmug* Happy holidays, folks.

Toodles.

8arm workday

2007-09-21T12:32:00.000-07:00

The Sketch

Love how this looks. Might hide my inkwells from myself for a while and just pencil everything. Maybe even try to freak style that looks like the way I ink just by holding the pencil differently or finally using this jar of graphite power i hardly use.

The Inks.

...Meh. its more obviously to me now after its done it was rushed. Took my time on the face, but the rest, I was already late to work so I crapped it out after that.

The Tones.

So so. I'm teaching myself the art of the bitmap halftone. I had to learn how to do it for a t-shirt design that needed a gradient in it without using too many different colors. Just needed something to fill up the back. Im wishing now I had left the glasses on him from the initial skech.
You can read the article here.

this little piggy....

2007-09-13T13:59:00.000-07:00

Went "CRAPDOOKPOOPFARTGRUNT" all the way home.
Sunday nights at work are brutally boring...

this is what it birthed.

secks

2007-09-09T12:34:00.000-07:00

Wasnt the initial design i had in mind(wanted some pursed lips and drippage HA) but it came out ok for what it was. read the article here. Next few editorials im going to do straight to wacom tablet to test myself. Im think im getting nice as hell with it(finally), if i do say so myself.

nice

2007-08-23T08:49:00.000-07:00

Undercover Illustration finally ran this past tuesday...
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/082007/08212007/309274
It printed a WHOLE lot better than I expected.. all my values came in to a tee I think.

as I groove out to common - the light...

2007-08-12T17:04:00.000-07:00

Love how this came out...

Folks dug it, but since they've been framing all the newspaper stuff lately, hahaha, they mentioned it sucks because now theres an image of Bush in their living room.

Some people I work with were trying to find out if I did it straight to the computer or not. It DOES look like some sloppy straight to wacom tablet... but its really just super rushed + breaking in a new brush pen. Inks...

Also, here are some photo manip stuff I did for an article running Tuesday about effed up flavors of ice cream. Gotta love the Japanese. Wish I had known, totally would've ate some bacon ice cream just to say I did it.

FUCK thats nasty ahahahha. Smooches.

undercoverbrother

2007-07-29T16:03:00.000-07:00

Forgot to post these...

Story was about a local law enforcment's undercover cop program. Specializing in drugs, vandalism and gangs. I'm unable to find the story online right now though -__-

bottles are fun

2007-06-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

Maybe ill try a transparent one next time... would've on this one but I had time constraints and was too tired to sit there and draw it.. AND ink it. All this was pretty much straight to ink.
Read the article (and see the horrible colors) here. Im tired... two mor hours at work.. then I have to turn in some rough drafts/thumbnails for the t-shirt folks.

The life of a starving artist... is one with little sleep and lots of delusions of grandeur/trash talking. Amen. ZZZZzzzz... oh WAIT!

Here's some Japanese hiphop to keep people awake. Ahahahha. I love this shit. Ok.. how about some regular "real" hip hop too.

Ahaha, nobody will see these for weeks.

oh riiight...

2007-06-04T10:12:00.000-07:00

Forgot to post this over here...

Story was about professional shoplifting groups and the new methods/tech to try and stop them. They forgot to quote me for the illustration.. dunno how I feel about that ahahahha. Article here, and here's the SKETCH.
toodles.

she loves bunbun

2007-05-19T16:47:00.001-07:00

Graduation gift for the kid sister of a close friend of mine. Never actually MADE it to the graduation party because; even though Ive driven to the house countless times, had great distress finding that shit last night hahahha, 1hr 30min drive turned into almost 3 hours of getting lost driving around in circles getting wrong directions from random people who don't speak my language, home grown or otherwise :D

Maybe Ill mail her the shit or something. Bah. Missed all that delicious Filipino food and urrything. Jesus. ahahahha.

20mins. Brush Pen.

parte'

2007-05-09T13:56:00.000-07:00

Latest newspaper thing thing. First friday of the month block parties.

Sloppiest inking job ever... im ditching the brush pen for a second to get my swagger back. Was good while it lasted, I must admit. Colors made it stomachible to look at though. Props out to Aysha Sheim for the texures ♥

Shit made me hella lazy though. Much like photoshop and my marker/gouache game that used to be kinda sweet. Shameful.

wopwop.

Nerdface McCoy

2007-04-27T22:32:00.000-07:00

Something I did for myself... purely.

S'been a while... There are three others I need to finish up in the same style to go; with.

i cheat my meat

2007-04-25T14:53:00.000-07:00

Half of the editorials ive done thus far have been composites of separate images done on their own paper, usually. Unless I'm hard up for time I usually do them on separate paper. Oddly enough, the ones that are my favorites/look the best are the ones that were done all one on sheet of paper. Go figure. Here are the pieces...

I'm sure doing it this way is what causes me to almost miss deadline sometimes. But doing it like a puzzle helps keep my mind clear and helps me focus more, even if it does take a few hours more with the scanning and such. I'd never do this for my own person stuff. I just like to have better control over my shit when dealing with this particular employer... incase they want to make change @ last minuet it can be done in seconds. Read the article here.

More sketchy NON-COMPOSITE type things in a few days. Peace.

President Thomas Jefferson

2007-04-09T16:18:00.000-07:00

Ahahha.. yeah, go ahead and laugh. It's cool. I expect it. CRAZY fun to compose. Running tomorrow. I forget which section. Makes me want to do a rack of other presidents and such. Good times ♥ Peep the sumbliminals yo.

coffee wars

2007-04-07T09:35:00.000-07:00

Instead of uploading the finished version i figured id keep it fun and upload the pieces of it and how it printed on the actual page. I should upload more doodles and junk. S'been a while, yo. Here are some of the doodles alone and stuff... Way too much fun.

some stuff and some other stuff

2007-04-02T22:03:00.000-07:00

Another commission for the paper. Story was about how zoning is all effed up in the burg. Being that technically I live in spotsy, 2 miles out of city limits, but our mailing address is fredericksburg. ...this goes the same for stafford residents and some other people. I dunno. I didnt like how the colors turned out for the version i turned in so ill be fixing those up to post and shit. It has this dope insane maze i made combining 3 mazes i found together then adding walls and deleting walls all with the pencil tool.

monseur plastique

2007-03-15T09:06:00.000-07:00

Colored version. Came out pretty good I think. Not quite Hanuka, but DEFINITLY in the vein of thier styles. I'll have to hold on to this one and do a lot more so I can get a sustem down on how to do this fast so I can crank out more fully finished peices. Rock.

You can read the article here.

plastic surgery n'shit

2007-03-11T20:12:00.001-07:00

Sketch for an illustration running in this upcoming Tuesday's paper. Stupid excited to finish this shit and lay some Hanuka Bros styled coloring over it I've been wanting to do for SO long.. but waited until I had the right lines to lay over it.
Word. Felt weird drawing semi-realistically again. Hope I can keep the torch lit to bang out some comic pages this week.
Derick changed his blog. Peep that shit yo --->

Cheerio ♥

people dont even read this

2007-03-10T13:04:00.000-08:00

But ill update with some recent crap anywho.

First one was for a "going away" gift for a CRAZY-talented(and cute) friend/co worker of mine. Her last day at the paper was yesterday. Wish I had a color copy of the photos they made a joke newspaper page for her with. Ahahha... TOO sexy/hilarious. Good luck to her on her travels. The second one was for the husband of another talented photographer I work with. A caricature of his friend who recently passed, to go on a t-shirt for a race they're holding to raise money for research in the cancer he had. HEAVY. I usually scoff @ doing stuff that like.. MEANS something to people. Crazy pressure :D I havent done a "classical" caricature in well over 4 years. People seem to dig it I guess.

im sleepy... wish i could sleep. but i have work in an hour. awesome.

more corporate whoredome

2007-02-16T08:10:00.000-08:00

Another spot illustration I did for work that ran in Thursday's paper. It didn't run as large as the previous one, but more people are likely to see it; it was printed during a weekday and not weekend. I'm wishing I had pivoted the screen so it was at an angle... You can find the article here. Really, read it. The young woman who wrote it... ♥ cutie. Much like all the young women here. Whomever's doing the hiring around this place... I'm not mad at you homey :D

This time around there was more of an idea which had to be shown, though I dig the last better. They kinda let me do whatever. I draw a page or three of thumbnails of how i'd do it. I run it by one or two people and they point to the one I should finalize. All the color stuff(I hate coloring anything, which is obvious in the quick polygon lasso stuff) characters and inking style is primarily my choice. I'd honestly like a shorter leash.

Mine and Derick's joined website, is real close to completeion. Been eating up the majority of my freetime as of late. Keep my phone off, havent been online.. alladat. Really excited to see this project lift off and explode.

you corporate whore, you

2007-02-03T13:32:00.000-08:00

Pin up/spot illus I did for work in the beginning of the week. It ran in today's paper so I'm allowed to post it now. Basically the idea is its cold as FCUK out... but there being wine tasting to warm up :D Wasn't my vision, but my execution.

I think it came out GREAT for what it is. I hope they give me more assignments often/soon.

Also, you can find a small version of it(but why would you click that when the big one is here? lol) and the story it went along with over at fredericksburg.com. Scroll down and you should be able to find it. Ill scan or photograph how it looked in the paper.

Also added some new links. My future love slave, Mickey (michaela colette) and a new friend Paco Desiato(has a skydoll type style, really slick sherbert coloring style) are now among the ranks.

work sucked today. goodnight.

2007-01-28T18:11:00.000-08:00

entitled : Black Tide.

"It looks kinda like that one famous Japanese painting".
yeah, "The Big Wave"... I noticed the similarites...
like, water and... waves... -____-

and its awesome, but mine is cuter ;p changed my page because it was too bright for me at the current moment in time. im sleeping all day tommorow. god have mercy on my lungs.

*cough*

PICTAP!

2007-01-11T23:54:00.000-08:00

http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a121278
Yeah... of course jumped the bandwagon & did one too.
...actually, four.

http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a121113

http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a120671

http://roxik.com/pictaps/?pid=a120821

Props to my baby brother Kevin for putting me onto this boredom killer. I haven't used my wacom tablet in FOREVER. I think I'll keep the dust off of it this time around ;)

Back to the grind...

Santa Claus is a SUCKA

2006-12-23T21:06:00.000-08:00

Didnt have anything relevant or clever to put as my title... I actually am quite fond of the fat white man. He and I have a pretty good history. Props out to my boy Kris Kringle. Stay up homey ♥
Did this for a friend at work. She seemed to dig it. Gift to her boyfriend. Says he's hard to shop for. Why not some art, right? I NAILED his face perfectly I think(tho took liberties with his stubble... being that there wasn't any). HER face, not so much. I wanted to take it back from her, stop time and do it over. But my time machine is on the fritz. Never trust ACME products.

u__u Here's a secret; ALWAYS been bad at drawing the head/neck in that position. Even with live models. SHHhh... don't tell anybody else :D

Happy Holidays yo. 2007 is going to be an AMAZING yearfor art/animation/ME.

caught left handed

2006-12-09T19:49:00.000-08:00

Derick and Kevin are lefthanded... screw them both ♥

Got slow at work tonight so I drew my favorite little guy Tijolo(tee-joh-lo, i know its pronouced wrong)... with the EVIL HAND. Looks good for never using this hand except for smudging and turning the paper. Maybe ill ink it with the left too.

more later, or something, maybe, i dunoo, leemee alone, gosh!

randomity

2006-10-31T18:17:00.000-08:00

You know that short JohnK did with Yogi Bear and such? Cartoon Network should contract him to add his touch on all the classic H/B characters in thier own 5-10 minuet shorts. That'd be ill. Ahahaa.. even the new guys... imagine a John K PPG or Dexter or Samurai Jack...

Shit'd be hilarious... and twisted.

thats all, carry on.

introducing!!

2006-10-15T19:27:00.000-07:00

SQWAARRRRRR!! Whenever I think of that name I imagine you HAVE to yell that siht at the top of yer lungs. Sqwar © my baby brother, Derick Brooks (linked to your right). I love this character to fcuking death! I'll scan/upload the other insignificant doodles of him/her/it once I get my home computer problems settled... machine is dead again. Im SO switching to mac once my dough is right, which could be a while.

Ever draw/ink something halfway and realize you're better off leaving it unfinished because you're starting to mess it up because you're too anxious to finish?

Yeah, me neither ;p Just came back from a cross country drive to seattle.
Check out the pics.

death by WACOM

2006-10-02T12:35:00.000-07:00

This was brought on by me, after a whole summer of $15 tutorial magazines, still sucking in painter/photoshop as far as digital painting is conserned. HEHHHhhh. Ive been known to blame my tablet for that though.

Yeah yeah, its the motion in the ocean, but a bigger junks WOULD help me along ;)

Beter yet... screw a tablet. Gimme a bunch of cheap brushes, my dusty gouache set, some cardboard and a Django Reinhardt soundtrack and im good to go.

cartoony styleings

2006-09-13T21:35:00.001-07:00

Saxton Moore is a beast. Not much else to say about it.
...damn.

miss mary mack-mack-mack

2006-09-07T14:47:00.000-07:00

Inside joke. It's safe to go back to ignoring me now.
But yeah, I forgot to prop-out my man Dark Marc for splashing some color on my self-portrait from a few weeks ago. Go check em out.

Updates ...in a second, yo :D

Leggo my Eggo

2006-08-18T20:07:00.001-07:00

I'm having the hardest time in the world finding out what studio/artists are responcible for that new animated Eggo commercial. Its so dope, I love thier animation style. It has a strechy family with the daughter eating breakfast and the father tries to take her waffels but he accdentally lassos a truck passing by out of the window and gets yanked through it. Sounds awesome right? IT IS!

I tried all your basic youtube, metacafe, dailymotion, putfile, zippy videos, even ifilm(ha, theres a RACK of these places). Im a bit obsessive when it seems as if the internet has BESTED me :D I'll try and take a photo of it and maybe some really really bad quality mpg of it if I can catch it on again.

Usually airs on ABC Family, Cart.Ntwk &Boomerang ...cuz thats all I really watch outside of animal shows and cnn.

UGMO Prince of Fred'city

2006-08-13T18:16:00.000-07:00

Im the self proclaimed ugmo prince of fredericksburg, virginia.
bow down.

(broke in some new brushes and ink on an old sketch i forgot i did)
I ♥ inking. someone gimme lotsa work so I can support myself doing just that. I'll be your BFF. Promise.

ps: just to warn you, the full size of this image is massive.
someone should color it... that'd be awesome.

hamsters suck...

2006-07-18T10:09:00.000-07:00

no really, they do.

I used to be all obsessed like alot of other art-dorks about little furry rodents and whathaveyou. But now my tastes lean more towards rough and tumble animals like porcupines, wolves, owls and crows and $h!t. Embracing my inner evils... being that I keep them under such harsh lock and key lately.
I got out of working later tonight, yesterday(main guy broke a tooth, and i said i had something to do). So I could trek down to see max(and possibly derick) for a day or two... but when I woke up I felt bad and called in and said I could work. So now Ill be KILLING MYSELF and driving down after work tonight. Im too nice to bail. I drew a rack of little doodles in max's sketchbook last night... totally need to act like scanning em.

best shot of the night. scary bastard. rest here
i have a card reader now, so needless to say i shoot photos all day everyday.

ps: don't worry pixar, just because we'd rather bang them doesnt mean we dont still LOVE you. Anticipation for a film hasnt been this strong for me since... i dunno when. Rotoscoping or not. Looks amazing.

i still love toona

2006-06-24T10:56:00.000-07:00

Both of these take place beFORE the one previously blogged.
Just more old-ass clips to deter peoples attention away from actual updates. Yeah... DEFINITLY revisiting this story/concept in the near future.

sam I am

2006-06-12T07:14:00.000-07:00

"occupation : professional treeclimber/frog catcher"
more of her later... i guess. i dont particularly dig her mouf, any suggestions/draw overs?

gay jokes sunday!!

2006-06-04T21:25:00.000-07:00

Not really... but, yeah. Doodled this overtop of some techy-notes during a hellacious all-nighter at work last night while waiting for some dvds of big-ass photos to burn. I think this guy is going to be a reoccuring character. Imagine the fun times a young girl and her flamboyantly gay pet alligator can get into.
YOU'RE WETTING YOURSELF WITH EXCITEMENT I KNOW IIIEEEEET.

I talk more than I draw. nature of the beast. sharpie, red inkpen and a green colerase pencil. as if the mediums used here intrigued you u___u

i love toona

2006-05-20T05:16:00.000-07:00

More of this character real soon. No forreal. Those are fish going into his nose by the way... compression killed some of the detail. Youtube logo covered up my name. Suck.

Anyway, clip description here.
GAH! I miss animating u___u

YES, I still draw.. stop askin that -__-

2006-04-11T22:23:00.000-07:00

Well, actually... my ACEEEEE Derick Brooks drew it, I supplied the wobbly gay-ass inkeronies. Dig his lines? Gimme a minuet... you'll see a fuckton more of em, jack.

Them dookjooky boys is takin over for the 2007 son. word.

shnykies

2006-02-17T18:25:00.000-08:00

John K(ricfalusi) has an art blog now?
...and all of geekdom rejoices. good to see ol boy has new things in the works. I dont think I saw all of the new R&S before it left Spike.

updates soon...

brickahbrackah

2006-01-18T00:32:00.000-08:00

My beloved and long time favorite character to draw, Tijolo.

If you stop by my deviantart account you'll find a handful of talented artists over there that've fan-arted him (plus the 3-4 other drawings of him ive done) Hard to hate the little rocky, naked guy.

Trying to get back into painting. Once completed I want to look much like the works of my current favorite children's book artist, Glin Dibley. Amazing style, be sure to look em up/buy his works.

Every few hours I spend on it i'll scan it/take a photo. This'll be the first time ive ever done a progression on something. Wish me luck. If you have any suggestions/tips im more than open for em. Peace.

New Year = new faces TO BLOW INWARD

2005-12-31T19:59:00.000-08:00

Plan on writing a better filler paragraph later.. its quittin' time yo.
Ill drive around until it chimes 12am then ill take my tired @$& home.
...ill post the newer version of this guy later as well.

cartoony stylings

2005-12-31T08:16:00.000-08:00

Ill NEVER have one of those styles.
I cant see how its natural to draw like that.
But this guy is pretty awesome to me today. I might add him to the right side when Im feeling less lazy. Kevin, give me a demo... how do I draw that animated style withOUT biting?

Cat has a lot of legit/impressive work under his belt.
Im jealous.

my first wacom drawing

2005-12-25T21:24:00.000-08:00

Introducing...
Gregory Wigglesworth.

Got a wacom tablet for christmas! Smaller than I assumed due to the size of the packaging... but this is a good size one to learn on I suppose.

Kinda like learning to drive stick on a 87 Mazda Pickup, then graduating to a STOOPIT crazy/sexy DEMON on wheels :).

Anxious to check out a few tutorials ive been saving for the past 2 years or so.. OR just whore Kevin, Enrico, Lamar and The Rhodes Bros sites and just VIBE off thier shit and learn by watching.

Happy Holidays People ♥

flightless birds are the devil

2005-12-21T21:47:00.000-08:00

B/W version here. Wrote a short story for a friend's anthology book dealie a while back that I LOST due to reformatting. But its main focuses were snowboarding, Sherpras, The clubbing of demonic baby seals AND killer 6 foot emporer penguins... which are my favorite animals outside of Hedgehogs, Naked Mole-rats and Sun Bears.
Might try and rewrite it.. tho I dont think it was more than just a premise. I dont ever remember putting these online, but correct me if I'm wrong. More sporatic updates after the holidays, for sure.

a few cc's of that sweet sweet plasma

2005-12-15T18:40:00.000-08:00

Original linework Kevin "Dalto/Bloodfrog" Dalton.

HE penciled and colored this thing a few months ago tho not many people may have seen it because I'm not sure if he showed it around too many places or not. But when he was at my spot over thanksgiving i snatched it from him and printed it on cardstock.
A few small mistakes here and there but overral I think an ok job.

Sumi Ink, 10/0 brush.

liberties...

2005-12-13T21:46:00.000-08:00

Original Line art by Sean "Cheeks!" Galloway.
I know lovers of his work will probably scoff at this travesty of me mucking up his lines... but if its any consolation; his stuff is crazy fun to ink!

Theres an insane amount of tiny line weights here so a full-view might be in order.

2005-12-09T16:13:00.000-08:00

the pumpkins never get old...

2005-06-09T05:25:00.000-07:00

Despite all my rage; I am still just a rat ina cage.