Hey guys.

I haven't abandoned this blog, I've just had some issues of late.

Issue 1: The friend who normally scans my pics is now sans scanner. So I don't have a current way of getting any new drawing onto the specialnet.

Issue 2: My first round of animation with sound proved to be an utter disaster and failure. I can't even post the bits on-line because it would make no sense to you. I may have to start all over.

In the mean time I will try and get something up that you can look at.

Distraction

These guys were a fun little distraction from the pirate project.

I don't know which color I like better. Probably the blue and pink, but I really do like the green and brown one.


The jagged style of the zombie character was inspired by the very cool works of Josh Parpan. See the links on the side of the page for his blog.

Celebrities

Here is Angelina Jolie. She's really big in Japan.
Steve Buscemi is known for his puppetry. He is also a catcher's mit.
Gabrielle Anwar is a person.
Madonna was a person when I was kid.
Probably the most famous of the group is Sponge Bob Square Pants' Driving Instructor. I couldn't get Sponge Bob to model for me, but his instructor was game. She kept insisting that I draw her nude, which was way creepy. Finally I did, but I cropped it out and repressed the memory.

PS. I have not quit the Pirate project. I am still working on it, but because of the size of it there is little to show. I want to unveil it when I have something worthy of you wonderful people. No, not you guys, the other ones. Yeah, you.

Women Studies

Above: Man dressed as woman, zombie woman, fish-woman in a wind tunnel, and Ronald McDonald's mother.
The above studies were to practice lips. I'm not great with lips.
The studies below were to study below. I'm not great at drawing bottoms either.
I felt compelled to edit out the nipple in the above picture. I'm not sure why, considering all of the bottoms and considering the fact that it isn't the first nipple to make an appearance on this blog.

Boat Animation

NOTE: The first time this clip play it goes by way too fast. Play it a second time for the real speed.

So here is my first animation in a long time. There is more to come, but I'm showing the steps because otherwise I wouldn't have a post here for a month or so.

My effort was to make this boat look, relatively, like a normal boat would floating along on the sea. If you think it is rocking too much, or not enough, or if you have any other comments, let 'em fly.

Thanks.

Boats

If you are very careful, quiet and patient, you can catch a pirate dingy in its natural environment.

I rendered this with After Effects. It's primarily for rendering animation, so I don't know if I did this still picture correctly. I probably could have compressed the heck out of it if I had known what I was doing. But I don't. So there.

Long time no post.

Ok, it's been a while.
But I have noticed that I am not the only blogger that has seen a lull in posting. I was wondering if it had anything to do with all of this talk about the Orphaned Works Act that is floating around. Any thoughts?

I looked up the law here:
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/042408e.html

But I think the most important part of the text is this:

Our legislation permits the use of an orphan work only if the potential user performs and documents a good faith search for the copyright owner. If users cannot locate and contact copyright owners, they may use the orphan work. But if copyright owners later make themselves known, and if users have performed a search that qualifies under this legislation, owners are entitled to reasonable compensation. The user will not be liable for full statutory damages in those circumstances, but if a user does not perform that good faith search, the user will face up to $150,000 in statutory damages.

True, a company can avoid the full $150,000.00 penalty for using your stuff by making even the most absurd "reasonable" effort. But if they use your stuff and you come forward you are entitled to reasonable compensation. Let's face it, isn't that what we want anyway? Reasonable compensation?

There are some problems with the law, I will grant that. For example, if I was working on a project and I posted some preliminary pictures, someone could use the pics before I got a chance to. So when I finally got my stuff out it would seem old and perhaps copied to those who didn't know I was the original creator. But I don't think this law is the monster the blogging community thinks it is.

But I've been wrong before.

Anyway... this is a picture/sketch blog so here you go.

This is a colored boat:
And I don't mean that in a 50s-60s, deep-south way.
I just mean that it is a boat that is colored.
Brown mostly. Though this particular boat is open to all colors.