Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
DRAWING COMICS. LESSON #1
Drew this when I was, like seven, and it's clear I didn't know the first rule of drawing comic strips -- write out your character's dialogue BEFORE you draw the word balloons...
Friday, May 2, 2014
HANNIBAL SEASON TWO EPISODE 9 "SHIIZAKANA"
This was the initial sketch I came up with when we writers were putting our heads together, trying to come up with inventive bad guys for HANNIBAL. I had this idea of a guy in a suit using a dire wolf skull strapped to his head to eviscerate his adversaries -- in stark contrast to the title character's own neat, urbane method of killing.
For the picture, I started with an old phrenology chart for the human head and added the wolf jaws (cave bear jaws in the episode -- bigger, chompier...) to it. Colored and "dirtied" it up to make it seem more old-world.
And yes, dire wolves were real creatures that roamed the earth once upon a time...
For the picture, I started with an old phrenology chart for the human head and added the wolf jaws (cave bear jaws in the episode -- bigger, chompier...) to it. Colored and "dirtied" it up to make it seem more old-world.
And yes, dire wolves were real creatures that roamed the earth once upon a time...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
CRAIG'S CORONER
These are some photo-phunnies my friend Craig McNamara sent me. As he explained, these were shot back in his agency days, as illustration references for a layout... and Craig later pasted them together and made a story out it. Old gag, but so is the telephone... and the rich Polaroid highlights and skin-tones. And that's Craig himself getting the bad news.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
CRAZY MONKEYS!
Hand drawn T shirts rule!! This was one of many identical shirts I drew for a birthday party game for one of Laird's parties. 'Crazy Monkeys' was the team's name, and the red splotches are paint -- no blood sport at a Vlaming kid party.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
BACK TO THE FUTURE I - THE ORIGINAL PLOT!!
Originally in BACK TO THE FUTURE, Marty McFly and Doc Brown never get their time-travel experiment off the ground. Their endeavor is halted by Hill Valley Councilman Dick Winston (Craig McNamara), all part of the film's initial backstory involving the city's eminent domain junction against Brown's property. "Originally we saw this as a taut drama," explains co-writer Bob Gale, "The story of 'an everyman-against-the-powers-that-be'. The whole time-travel thing, that was just there to steer the story into the courtroom nitty-gritty." In the original cut of the film, Marty and Doc return home to fashion a legal defense and leave Dick Winston to be gunned down by the Libyan terrorists...
If you don't believe it, enlarge the picture and look at the photo caption!
Friday, April 11, 2014
"BUENAS NOCHES, I'M ALFREDO HITCHCOCK..."
Okay, at the HANNIBAL offices, an amazing series of framed 50's and 60's Hitchcock movie posters -- some a giant 4'x6' - adorned the walls. From the writers room I could see two of them and at slow moments, I sketched the Master of Suspense. For whatever reason, I blackened his hair and added sideburns and a moustache, the end result looking less like Alfred Hitchcock and more like character actor Miguel Sandoval.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
60's AD ART?
Not really -- this is a doodle I did at work and realized it's in that great sixties style you saw inTV advertisements that used cartoons. With my truty, dusty Corel program I fattened up the lines, dropped in the colors and added the very-60's san serif type.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
RAIDERS OF THE LAST LOST CRYSTAL TEMPLE OF THE CRUSADE
Actually these are all production stills from RAIDERS OF THE LOST ICEBOX, a super-8 spoof we shot during college and all filmed in Edina, Minnesota. Kirk Mathison was great as a German baddie and my brother Jonathan played the lead character, Louisiana Jones -- professor, archaeologist... and gourmet.
Watch the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpBeq2OlLHM
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
LOST SCENE FROM 'RETURN OF THE JEDI'!
Word has it John Williams composed a stellar rendition of Pomp & Circumstance for this scene which, sadly, was cut from the final film.
Written and rendered by my pal and STAR WARS STRIPZ co-author, Craig McNamara.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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