Happy 108th Birthday, Chuck Jones!

Celebrating one of the greats! Chuck Jones is one of my personal heroes… he’s been a huge inspiration to me ever since I became a Looney Tunes fanatic when I was a li’l kid. I really can’t put into words the debt I owe to the guy, and the way he and his work have put me on my career path– well, I probably can, but not in a half-assed blog post.

Happy 108th, Chuck!

More Testin’ Out The Tablet

Still warming myself up to the new Wacom… fortunately, I was right in my last post here when I said I’d probably get used to the brush thickness settings!

It’s been a while since I last animated, so I took Harmony for a spin and made a quick-ish Boo Boo walk cycle:

Nothing too elaborate, but it was just meant to get me used to the new tablet, as well as re-teach myself some animation basics I’d been neglecting the past couple of months.

I also drew a caricature of Mickey DeSadist, frontman for one of my favorite bands of all time, the Forgotten Rebels:

Some self-esteem boosting news: the official Rebels Instagram and Facebook pages both shared it, and a fan of the band asked me if they could buy it as a print (working on getting that done)! All in all, that was a pretty good couple of hours for me.

Also, here’s… y’know, I’m not really sure what this is:

And a Jabberjaw:

Finally, just a couple of minutes ago, I doodled Bugs in Photoshop:

Bugs has always been a tricky character for me to draw right… it’s weird, I’ve been drawing the dude since I was first able to hold a pencil, and yet when I’m going from memory I’m never quite satisfied with how the drawing turns out.

This wasn’t meant to be based on a specific director’s take on the rabbit, just rendering him in my own sorta style.

Anyways, I’m having fun with this thing! I’ll post some more of what I come up with on it later.