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Eureka! I Got It!

Finally decided on a design for my villain. But this will have to wait, because I just got a job position I am thrilled about.

Wart Hog

It's a hog, covered in warts. YUK YUK YUK YUK!

Original Sketch

Inked in flash

Creature Design Woes

Hey folks, long time no see! Between freelancing, babysitting, and earning a few extra bucks on the side, I barely have any time to post. I even had to put this idea on the back burner! http://jimgrue.blogspot.com/2010/01/it-begins.html But during what little free time I have, I've been sketching ideas for two other ambitious shorts. One of them is about two kids and their run in with a rather odd looking creature. Here are some lunch sketches I have been coming up with.

I thumbnailed the boards, but I do not want to do the full boards till I get this weirdo's design right! ARRRGH! I love a good challenge =) Sketches are © of James Sugrue.

Daimao color practice

There is an amazing artist on deviant art named Dirk Shulz http://themrock.deviantart.com/
and I asked him how he colors his work. He gave me great advice on mixing colors and textures, so I tried it on my favorite Dragon Ball villain, Piccolo Daimao. I'm trying to make my colors more neutral rather than primary and basic. I wanna keep trying stuff like this more. Thanks Dirk!

Original sketch. Piccolo Daimao is copyright of Bird Studio/Toei Animation/ Funimation

Post-it Day

3 by 3 bits of goodness.

This is what unemployment feels like.

I'M READY!

Monster Drawings

I love monsters and demons. I think they're cooler than aliens and robots. Monsters seem to come in different varieties and species. They could be reptilian, furry, have claws, wings, fins, anything! I made up a species of demons for one of my future cartoons. I call them "Deoblins".
These two are a deoblin platypus and deoblin gilla monster. copyright of me.

Deoblin Scorpion Fish copyright of me.

I also like cute little creatures that turn into beast. It's cool when they progressively start to turn into a hulking behemoth. I made up this Wereowl for another one of my future copyrighted cartoons. This is the creature beginning to transform.

Transformation complete.

Piccolo Daimao, Tambourine and Cymbal from "Dragon Ball". Copyright Akira Toriyama, Bird Studios, Toei Animation.

Note Book Drawings

These are demons I made up. Plans for the VERY distant future.
I love drawing in notebooks with a ball point pen. I love the little ink blots.

BTW, Yes I had another post, but my clients wanted to take it down.
Gotta keep it on the mum. I understand. I wouldn't want to tell people my

personal future plans. (BUT I'M DYING TO!)

Freelance updates

The drawings I did are copyright or Evan Strome, Greg Gunter, and Todd Broder.

Sea Food?