Idle Hands, a funny movie, but a bad situation.
Okay, its been a week. i don't ever want to go this long without posting again, because its purpose is to keep my daughter happy and also grow as an artist. I've been emailing as many professionals that I can, just to get insight ans criticisms, so that I can grow and blossom, rather than stagnate. Not posting for a week doesn't help this process, if fact, it only helps me to grow lazy. So, I have been moderately bus with work, daddy stuff and sketching, not a lot of sketching, but still, some sketching.
Attached are 3 sketches for a group that is local to a great friend and brother of mine, Tom Rebello. The sketches are his and were sent off to him this morning, begging that I be able to use them here. The inks are mine, no copy catting, pirate peoples! The next is the progress I've made on the Oompa Loompa, not much, but some, its still slow going.
And lastly, are two pencil sketches. One of a baby chick I'll be using in an upcoming digital sketches for my little girl of a baby chick, a sheep and a goat, all filling up her pool. The second is of me, done while watching an anthology of the essential Beani and Cecil DVD, which is a cartoon MUST for any and all animation lovers out there!
Enjoy! Critique! Comment! Wipe your feet and don't steal anything!
posted by Edward S. Smith Jr. at
7/27/2006 01:35:00 PM
32 Comments:
In that sketch of you ....is that me in the background? Is this your subtle way of telling me i have a dumpy ass? If it is you can just come out and say it tough guy. No hiding behind your pencil. You did't have to draw me as an admiring sheep from afar. You could have wrapped a can of slim fast and passed it off as a birthday gift. Cartoonists are so cruel.
Your baby chick looks good. Pure attitude. Reminds me of a certain three year old who does not , by the way , wear hawaiian shirts.
I cannot critique the way uncle Tommy or Uncle James can but as your sheep...i mean wife... I can tell you ....oh who am i kidding . i can give you an edjucated opinion on bechemel or advice on how to make a propper roux but i don't know anything about drawing. Anything you do looks good to me. Just like when Riley brings home projects from school . I'll tell you what i tell her. "good job baby, I'm so pround of you !" so .... do you want me to hang these on the fridge for when you get home?
Kisses,
Red
When you wait a week... EVERYONE loses. Sniff.
Great Chicken Sketches!
James.
Ed!
I have a moment to offer a critique, or perhaps I should say suggestion if you want it. The shapes and proportions on the "Oompa" are a little off and wonky, which kind of adds to the fun of the drawing… EXCEPT… I think the inking is so clean that it potentially brings attention to those elements as flaws, rather than energetic license.
I think if you added some dry brush, and "rough" inking effects it would really make the image more exciting. Something like rough dry brush shading under the brow line, and then overlapping the brow creases, with a stray broken stroke or two through the front of the hair, and then a strong broken effect around the silhouette of the entire image. Just enough to add more of the rough energy from the sketch back into the finished version.
It all looks good anyway, and I never take the time to do good drawings these days, so I'm certainly in no position to talk. I love Tom's second pose on the second sheet, you did a great job inking these!
James.
No, jerky! The sheep is the mommy of the family that I'm drawing for her. If you were the sheep, that would make me the goat, and I'd have to put a bathing suit on the chick, instead of hawaiian SHORTS, (I did write shorts on my notes, didn't I?)
I can't wait to see wait Jim and the Rev have to say about this post. Wait until I knock out the MAce Windu sketch!
I think Laura compared your drawings to a 3 year olds drawings!?! Am I right or wrong? It doesn't really matter, but it does matter that you said there are 3 sketches of Tom's and there are really only 2 there...you may need to fix that. If you post the smoke drawings his hair and wrist band thingy should be black, by the way... What else... Um, the oompa looks better colored, though I'm not a fan of midgets. Beani and Cecil, you sound like James Russo. What kind of professionals are you contacting? Real professionals? I want to know who... and you don't have to update this thing more than once a week... I think you're too busy for this... Well anyways, I hope I helped you here, there are a few typos as well, if you really care you'll find them :)
missed some stuff here and there no biggie. pencils weren't really dark enough so maybe thats how you got lost. i loves me some midgets! uncle tommy?! can i be called uncle remus instead????? uncle jim, very incestuous! (snicker to myself) i don't see the hawiian shirts?! oooooooooh snap, your wife said you draw like a 3 year old!!!!! see you on the flip side!
Wow, lots of comments today! From the top then, until I get more comments from other people besides my extended family who read about my artistic progress on the digital information super highway!
Jim, You're right about the proportions being off and wonky, I was trying to go all Popeye on the arms and legs, to give it a real midgety feel to it (is midget the right term to use? I think the new PC term is 'little person', isn't it? Hopefully EEbs will jump in here and straighten me out!) As for the stylized brushe strokes, they're going to be my step two, not as an extra process in illustrating it digitally, but because the rough, broken brush strokes sound like really good ideas, and the roughness was going to come about when I went into Photoshop at the end and started to play around with the textures and shading of it all.
Jules, I DID say 3, didn't I? But alas, these sketches were all that the good folks at Blogger would let me post for this entry. I dunno, maybe there's a limit to images, so that everybody has to keep an even productivity pace. Don't want to upset the productivity bell curve of mediocrity, now do we? As for the professionals I've been contacting. . . well, I don't want to post their names here in my blog, as if they see them, they might not want to leave me comments, but rest assured, the day I see their comments, I'm gonna poop my pants and pass the peanuts! (P.S. feel free to email me and I'll give you list on the sly of all of the good folks I've emailed and begged for advice from!) And yes, Beany and Cecil. Well, Jim and I DO have good taste when it comes to animators, as we both pretty much found Beany and Cecil at the same time A certain Ren and Stimpy creator was bringing him back to the airwaves, plus I want Rye to see good cartoons, not the craptastic half hour toys ads that they put on the air for kids nowadays. And lastly, for the Radtastic little sister, never to busy to put pencil to paper, I've got a newfound creative streak a mile wide, and this time, I'm documenting it!
Tom, it's eating me alive! I have to know what I missed on those pencils! I darkened them in Photoshop before I used them to ink, my curiousity is just killing me and I'm not even part cat! I'll get you those revised Smoke inks tomorrow morning, I've got a little girl to snuggle and sketch for.
BTW, for those of you interested, she recited the Pledge of Allegiance in the bathtub tonight, I couldn't have been prouder.
"Pledge of Allegiance"
How CUTE! For which country?
James.
Julie- About the midget- im not a fan of humans with small extremities and ginormous heads either.
Uncle Remus- If thats what you really want.(giggle)
Uncle James-Her "Pledge Of Allegiance" was VERY cute!
You all can see her in October. Well be in the area for a wedding.
Honey- You know i think your phenomenal.I will always have your drawings on our fridge and framed on our daughters bedroom walls.
All of you take care~
Ed- See you tonight(wink)
L
Julie- About the midget- im not a fan of humans with small extremities and ginormous heads either.
Uncle Remus- If thats what you really want.(giggle)
Uncle James-Her "Pledge Of Allegiance" was VERY cute!
You all can see her in October. Well be in the area for a wedding.
Honey- You know i think your phenomenal.I will always have your drawings on our fridge and framed on our daughters bedroom walls.
All of you take care~
Ed- See you tonight(wink)
L
ed in the drawing of you what is is going on around your mouth is that pudding, poop, are you lips dry and cracking i needs to know! oh and midgets rule!
Actually, if you must know and point out my foibles, its a home made poop pudding I put around mylips to help them heal, because they were dry and cracking. Thanks for pointing that out. Jerk.
And midgets DO rule! Monkeys, midgets and E.T. 4eva, my mickels!
Edward,
Thanks for the e-mail. I would say that you have alot of great work. I would suggest that you really pay attention to all the tangents that are happening within your designs. focus on making things clear and readable. On the top character, I felt the facial features were getting a bit to cluttered and that there were to many floating lines. By connecting those lines will give the illusion of more flow within your work. Good luck. and press on.
Silver
Edward,
Thanks for the e-mail. I would say that you have alot of great work. I would suggest that you really pay attention to all the tangents that are happening within your designs. focus on making things clear and readable. On the top character, I felt the facial features were getting a bit to cluttered and that there were to many floating lines. By connecting those lines will give the illusion of more flow within your work. Good luck. and press on.
Silver
Believe me, I'm literally tearing up because Stephen Silver both replied to my email AND posted on my Blog!
ha ha cry baby...(this coming from the man who weeped openly when mike mignola said he liked his work)
Wait until someone like Mike Oeming, or Joe Kubert posts a comment on my Blog, then there will REAL tears of joy, and not just the mistiness in the corner of the eyes thing!
will oeming be looking at it hung over? i love the mans work but he seems to love him the drinky.
The first two have a very Ren & Stimpy feel to them. Nice work!
ren and stimpy? oh god no cartoony yes ren and stimpy nooooooooooooo!
don't get me wrong i think john k. is a very talented guy and his shows are very funny but i don't want to ture into one of "the K.clones" so i'll blame ed's inking..."dang you ed and you evil inking making my stuff look all K-ish!"
i really don't see the john.k but then i'm not a super fan so maybe i'm missing what in those drawings looks like the K.'s stuff.
ig 88 could kick john.k's butt!
I'm thinking more Tartokovski than John K., its all good though, we each see different things, that's what makes perspective such a good thing about diversity!
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Jules, you're right Mgnola wouldn't give me the time of day if i handed him a watch. Oeming might, as long as I offered to buy him a beer the next time I saw him.
And Steven Silver waas talking about Tom's work as far his floating lines comment, which is great, because THAT guy's designed enough cartoons and worked with enough people in the industry to kow exactly what he's talking about. So Tom should be VERY pleased, more so than me! The Tangent comments were for me, thoguh and those are a bit sore for me.
You should check out Steven Silver's work, I'm sure you've watched some of it at some point and not even realized it.
(Kim Possible, Fairly Oddparents, Danny Phantom, the Clerks cartoon, a certain upcoming Napoleon Dynamite cartoon, I thin khe even worked on Clone High, but i haven't gotten an answer out him on that question yet.)
The next post is going to be cute, good-looking and fairly remeniscent for the friends who read my Blog that have been around since I discovered that girls do NOT have cooties!
you discovered girls do not have cootie? When?
L,
L
The last time I gave Riley a bath and saw she didn't have any in her hair, like most of the other troglodytes in her daycare.
i'd be jazzed to be a clone of mr.Tartokovski. speaking of samurai jack did you hear mako died? does that suck or what?!sad sad sad
Please, I'm still broken inside from losing Eisner and Toth. My heart doesn't heal so fast. MAy 14th still holds a pain for me, because of Sinatra.
and let's not forget don knotts
Mr. Limpett, we hardly knew ya. (sniff)
Ed, I updated Tom's art bloggie, check it out!!!!!!!!!!
no new hottness! what's the deal boss?!
Bro, you would not believe how BUSY I have been for the past three weeks! I barely have time to sleep and eat, let alone pick up a pencil and draw things for myself or Rye! I'm working on some new stuff for my next post though, trust me, it'll be worth waiting for, and when I post it, there'll be enough of it for everyone to forget about the absence of any Ed-based sketch work and float around on nothing but pure enjoyment for a while!
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