Also:
Season 5 of Voyager, not my favorite!
It might be in need of some Mark-Ruffalo-Hulkness to give it more comedy juice.
Hulk on Voyager, now that is some fanfic writer’s hot dream!

BONUS LINKS
1) More great stuff about Storyboarding by Sherm Cohen: 7 Hidden Patterns of Successful Storyboards
2) Videos from the Animation Expo
3) And this

IN ANY CASE:
I did some illustrations for super writer Dylan Klymenko and that was fun!

His article is describing various personalties (turned into monsters) that tend to share a subway car with you and as a daily subway user, I can attest to them being 100% real.

A sneak peak into some of them:

The guy that eats the most disgusting stuff and smells like warm cheese with butter and garlic toppings

The person that needs to check in the windows if her makeup/hair/dress/shirt is still as awesome as it was when they left the house/office 3 seconds ago

That individual that constantly looks like it’s about to break out crying because there are too many people around them. No touching!

Some process sketches:

Cheerio and until next week!

Haha, headaches, fun stuff!

Deadlines coming up, more on those next week!

Step TWO
Doodle some characters on the side that would be fun to draw, realize that you have no clue how to draw a cool dragon creature.

Step THREE
Feel good about the first draft, buy groceries on the way home and do a rough version of the story in photoshop.

Step FOUR
Remember some other deadlines, panic and work on those.
Don’t forget to cook for your wife.

Step FIVE
Be unhappy with the characters, question yourself a lot and look for the “FUN!” in your drawings.
Doodle while watching “Celebrity Apprentice”, making comments about Aubrey O’Day’s hair and that she would be an amazing hardcore art agent to have.

Step SIX
Do another storyboard, this time with the new character design and an extra page to show more passing of time

Step SEVEN
Watch movies while drawing, watch movies while drawing, take breaks to play Xbox, watch movies while drawing, watch movies while coloring
Don’t forget to talk to your wife!

Step EIGHT
Finish up, hate Photoshop for flattening layers it was not supposed to flatten, turn everything into PDF’s, upload, breathe, worry about another deadline.

Step NINE
Be exited about holding the printed product in hand and say “thank you” to the nice people that invited you to participate

Oh and here is the finished page one:

Some lunch break doodles, trying a new brush:

I also tried out the new Wacom HD:

And Mass Effect 3 is super good.
I have no clue why the nerd troops are hating on it.. the story is fun, it has way more humor in it and the gun play is challenging thanks to better enemy variety.
Making certain decisions made me FEEL more regret then eating Nutella with a spoon and how many games can say that?
NOT MANY!

And:
People have probably already turned this into a meme but I just discovered it now.
It’s all over the subway here in Toronto:

Now.. what does this poster tell us?
John Carter likes riding weird cow aliens?
Why are the other two characters so far back?
What is alien garfield doing there?
Where is the excitement? Where is the adventure?

It blows my mind a bit that they spent so much money on a big movie like this and then go bananas with the subway posters.
Mysteries in movie advertisement!

Other things linger around, screaming for attention but nothing is REALLY in that phase where you sit down and work it out.
Ideas and sketches are still just getting thrown into the pot, simmering below the lid.

It’s a phase to watch movies, read books and GEAR up with fresh stuff I think.

With things the this for example:

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.
I picked it up because I was looking for books about forests and all kinds of tree things and I’m glad I did!

It’s a fun read and I understand now why every bookstore on earth has 2982 books of Bryson on the wall.
His humor is surprisingly mean and dark and the books is full of facts about bear horror stories, the Appalachian Trail and why it’s unwise to eat Snickers in the wilderness.

THE GUARD
I had this film on my desk for a while, not really ready to watch it until last weekend.

And I get the good reviews now.
It’s fun, moves fast and Brendan Gleeson plays a character that is so much fun to watch that he could easily carry his own TV show, t-shirts or at least one more movie.

I had some bright moments last week, here is one:

Another one was POWERING through BATMAN “Arkham City” and getting the biggest headache ever from it.
Screw Detective vision!
And Batman is kind of a dick in it by the way.

I also doodled this:

Videogames, videogames..
LETS TALK ABOUT MOVIES!
Who loves “Raiders of the lost ark”?
If the answer is “me!” then take a look at this gem:

Raiding The Lost Ark: A Filmumentary By Jamie Benning from jambe davdar on Vimeo.

It`s everything you ever wanted to know about this movie and more.
It has interviews, behind-the-scenes videos and even storyboard sequences that never made the final movie.
Some fun stuff that I got out of it:

- Indiana Jones was first called Indiana SMITH
- This documentary contains test footage of Tom Selleck and Sean Young rehearsing the “bar scene” where Indy meets Marion for the first time
- The famous fight scene in the market (where Indiana Jones pulls the Gun like a bad ass) was so quick because of Harrison Fords diarrhea!
Who would have thought!

Here is a doodle I just did for a SKYRIM TUMBLR

Hagravens, the cool witch hippies of Skyrim land!

And here is a sneak peak to something I just worked on but I`m not clear if I can show it yet:

Adventure Time, the show with characters that look like they are having FUN!