Jan 11 2011

#303 – Fatter than your average bear

Kung Fu PandaWent with a bunch of other video and visual FX people on a tour of Dreamworks Animation today.  They do a lot of very cool work there, especially in character design.  I drew this based on a life-sized statue that was in one of their lobbies.

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Jan 10 2011

#302 – Duck hunting equipment

Auburn helmetAfter watching the BCS title game tonight, I drew this as a tribute to Auburn’s win over Oregon.  I’d considered drawing something based on the mascots — something more needlessly visceral, like a tiger actually devouring a duck — but this was just a lot quicker and easier.

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Jan 9 2011

#301 – One giant leap

One giant leapI don’t know why it’s taken so long, but I finally got around to watching In the Shadow of the Moon today.  A great piece of documentary filmmaking.

I guess in a way this is a companion piece to yesterday’s sketch:  science fiction vs. science fact.

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P.S. Yes, I believe they actually did it.


Jan 8 2011

#300 – Injection-molded cannon fodder

StormtrooperDid this one as a counterpart to last week’s “Back in Black” sketch.  Just a little tribute to everyone’s favorite bumbling footsoldiers.

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Jan 7 2011

#299 – Taking my ball and going home

MoneybagWell, after the last few days of back-and-forth, I’ve decided to hang onto this for now.

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Jan 6 2011

#298 – The contest continues…

Tug-of-war

The corporate sellers of this house have countered again.  I’m running out of visual metaphors here.

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P.S. Yes, that’s a hint of pregnancy belly showing on my wife.


Jan 5 2011

#297 – Ball’s in your court

Backhand

The sellers have countered, and now we return the volley.

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Jan 4 2011

#296 – Balancing act

See-saw

We’ve submitted an offer on a house, and now comes the counter offer.  We’ll see how this works out.

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Jan 3 2011

#295 – Back to the salt mines

Back to the salt minesAfter 11 days away from work, that January 3rd alarm clock comes pretty painfully early.

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Jan 2 2011

#294 – Back in Black

Darth Vader

Returning to the black paper stock for today’s sinister sketch.

Today was my last day of a nice 11-day break from work.  So did I go out and do something adventurous?  Of course not.  I got together with a couple of friends and watched a back-to-back-to-back triple feature of Star Wars Episodes 4, 5 & 6.  A good time.  So here’s little tribute to the role so big it required three actors.  And a stunt double.  And later, apparently a little kid.  And a petulant-sounding twentysomething.  But let’s try not to think about those last two.

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P.S. This sketch is based on a common photo found online — one for which I can’t find any copyright info.