GOOFUS.

YET ANOTHER.
Drawing heads seems to be something I do a lot of lately.
SO MANY THINGS TO VARY AND PLAY WITH IN SUCH A CONTAINED AREA. SO MUCH SO, that I finished the paint and then played with deforming that jpeg'd to feel out some new shapes. And basically muddle around with.


Thanks for Lookin'
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MEATHEAD!!!

I am back from Detroit!!!..
Missing my family after only one day...
But, I have drawings to keep me company. This is a brush pen fiddle, from my trip back home. Photoshop colors and such.

He's really a swell guy....just not too bright.

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KRATOS

Great game. But, sorta wish the character had a little more dimension to him.


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Chupacabra

Your favorite goat eating buddy..

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BEAR!!

Seems like there is light traffic lately. But, I guess I have been in a rut.... Will try to do something new and exciting soon to get this thing moving again.

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TRAPJAW

HERE's another ETERNIA BADDIE.
GOOD OLD TRAPJAW. The recently remade action figure for him is actually really pretty creepy...But, if you look it up online you will actually find some dude dressed at cons with a very SCARY makeup kit that makes him look...

WELL PITCH PERFECT FOR THE PART...... LIKE HIS WHOLE JAW WAS HULLED OUT....SPOOKY..

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CLAWFUL!!!

SCOURGE OF ETERNIA. I was always a fan of the design for this guy...I remember having the action figure as a kid...the spring in his claw arm was Really pretty strong.... It could do a fine job of crushing your finger.

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QUICK AND UGLY....

GO CAPTAIN!!!!

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REQUIEM FOR RODENT SAGE.

Well there it is. Four of them, I don't thin I have any others I wanna render even though I have a few other sketches.
So many other things to put some time in on. So, I'll do those now.
Many thanks to those of you who have commented and checked these out.they've been fun exercises for me and I will keep right on doing them until I'm better at all this.

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p.s. This rodent sage decided cloths where for wusses, so he just totes around his sage cane. Besides he's got all that fur right?

RODENT SAGE RETALIATES..

Here is the third one from that page..
For you to check out, and possibly enjoy.

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RETURN OF RODENT SAGE

SO here's a completely different rodent sage...
There might be others after this, I found a small group of them on a page in my stack of scribbles. Must have drawn them shortly after seeing Kung Fu Panda...

Before I wrecked my ankle... But, I have some other drawings floating around so Check back...while I fiddle with color....

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RED RODENT SAGE

Little color study on an old drawing...

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Bear Squared

Here are two Bears...
Acutally they are the same bear sorta. So, I guess twins really.

Needed to put them out there because today was a really challenging one at the office.

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SEAGHOUL

This is A SEAGHOUL.....he prowls the ocean depths and mangroves looking for the remains of lost sailors....

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Some Like it HOT!!

SO, Guess who this is....then tell me if you think I got the point across. This was a lot of fun to fiddle with. Might have to do more.

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Time for a Bear.

Every once in a while, I need to remember that this thing has Bears in the title...
So here is a Little URSA Action. As for the Beers mentioned in the title...I'll probably have them when I get home..

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ALMOST ONE YEAR AGO...

YEP,
This skribble is about one year old...I probably drew it after getting a massive fix of Chris Sanders (gotta love the guy) at SDCC, and loving the west coast sun...
I will have to GOGOPEDRO TO SAN DIEGO NEXT YEAR.
I've thrown some color at It here and am sharing it with you all today...Enjoy!

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Somewhere down the Road...

I will be an Old Man, But hopefully a cool one.
I will probably loose all my hair...
I will have some really awesome mustache and beard action.
I will have wrinkles.
I will draw things and possibly teach others to do the same.
But, right now I will just stick up this post of a drawing for Chopshopshapes...

Sorta looks like my grandfather, and eventually me.

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I Just dunno....

SO, Try to get back into the swing and this is what came up.... I am calling him BLOTHO... I fiddled him out on the train and cleaned him up over my lunch burrito.
He gets me to thinking about doing some monsters and beasts throughout October...maybe one for each day.... Not sure on that yet..

I realize that I really love drawing monsters and stuff. I can sorta Identify with deformation of the body right now...with the way my foot/ankle feels and looks....
Plus I get to be creative with my anatomy and such...

Well if you dig BLOTHO let him know.

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Last Minute ART!!

Well,
Yesterday just before lunch I was asked to tune out a card for one of my co workers who has moved on from the agency and is going to teach kindergarten...
Scott, has my admiration for being both a very cool guy, and a very skilled fabricator of all things cool.... Truly a Jack of all trades. I am sorry I didn't have more time to work with him...Come to think of it...I wish I had more time for a lot of things and people...
Well here's the card... The likeness got mixed reviews, but general approval. Besides, I did it all in a little under an hour... So, go easy on me.


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ATTEMPTING TO MELLOW.

Hey all,

Still not hitting any stride lately and, there is so much going on lately. I just don't seem to have any focus though.... I am just recently getting together some work for chopshopshapes and one or two of the images jumped out at me...

So here is a little dude with a HOOKA...probably inspired by the shape and the fact that I was watching "Thief and the Cobbler: RECOBBLED CUT" (DICK WILLIAMS GOODNESS!) when I tuned it out......

Feedback is most appreciated. I will make other posts soon so, hurry on back now.

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MONKEY STRIKE!!!

Well I am still trying to get back in the swing of regular posting...But for now Here's an old drawing of a monkey throwing a wicked power strike attack.

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LEAVE IT TO BEAVERS...

There so lovable and cuddly. Like massive saw toothed rats..
Here are some giblets that I had laying about. I added some colors and you have a fun little post.

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Back to the MINES!!

gonna gear up for some more drawin' and postin' an' such. Looks like I will have more free time on my hands here in the near future.

Wish me LUCK.

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BruisePatrol: One week Anniversary.

All the colors of the rainbow.... You might not be able to see it but there is a large yellowish bruise that travels down the lateral side of my foot to my toes also. Sorta nervous lately, thinking that this may keep my ankle from acting the way it used to...

Well at least I know its sore, and I have to imagine its healing..although I am not sure how my body knows how to put it back together. Big Mystery.

Hope your all doing better then I am, and will look forward to posting some more drawings up soon.

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BruisePatrol: Day Five

Look at all the pretty colors.
Shot this image five days after the injury. And right now it actually looks worse, I just don't wanna take it out of the splint to snap a shot.
Seeing the Orthopedics guy today was not fun at all...the dude (DR.Torquemada, as far As I am concerned) prodded, twisted, squeezed, and stretched my poor ankle. All so that he could tell me what I kinda already knew. The bruising is actually getting a little richer hue in a few spots. Because of the visit. Furthermore some of the swelling and pain has returned....FUN!!...

So, I'll be in the cast and crutches for a few weeks....the ligature on the outside of my ankle, is all torn up.

Wish me luck...
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BATTERED BEAR...

FINALLY, GOT THAT IMAGE!!!

Hey all,

Today I am older. I've been on the planet for some time now but realize that there is still much that I haven't experienced. So, a few nights back I gave myself the experience of serious personal injury.

While running in a quest for better personal fitness I jammed my foot into a gopher hole at the side of the running path and twisted up my ankle. The Vital joint made a sound like wet celery being twisted. I came close to breaking it and though that I might have but after some X-rays and about six hours in the E.R. I found it was a severe sprain (which is bruising nicely now) and the doctors recommended it be immobilized.

So, I hobble now on crutches, I am bad at it. However its a new experience....I think this is the worst injury I've ever sustained. Short of a few Broken hearts and the occasional bruised ego.. For this I am thankful, because with my diminished mobility I realize how much I've taken simple acts of walking, or standing for granted.

I have an image to go with this post I'll put it up soon.

Thanks for keeping in touch everybody.

Sincerely,

Pedro

HALF-FORMED...

Here it is without the little framing element.

Man, Drawing Quasimodo like characters is fun for me....
I really Like abstracting anatomy..
Dunno how this one pans out with the color So, lemme know..
Here is a before and after.


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ZOOdles!!

What do you get when you mix?:
-The Bronx Zoo
-Add one overly humid hot and miserably sticky Saturday
-With one horrifically Pale (prone to the sunburnin') Artist and his trusty clipboard,
-Toss in a dash of pencils, and a smattering of paper that's misbehaves because its all damp and moist from the air.
-Sprinkle in the urge to do some doodles with friends at the Zoo, and you get.....

STEAMING HOT BRONX ZOODLES!


I was there about a week back with some A.C. folks. Thanks to Natalie Butler for her organization of this. Also Props to Brendan Tobin for Milling about in the summer heat and keeping conversation lively whilst drawing.
Hope you dig....support your ZOO!
DRAW STUFF!!

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ADDITIONAL MURAL FALLOUT.

A few posts back I mentioned the Mural design and stuff that I did through work. Yes, My parents are thrilled and I think they told my whole family about it. But beyond that, I am exceedingly happy that I had the opportunity to do something I love, which was then in turn put towards something positive.

So yesterday I was kinda surprised when I got a call from the Office P.R. Department, saying that Creative Magazine wanted to ask me some questions related to these designs..
I spoke with Kunur Patel for about five or ten minutes. About the work, the event, and whatever else I felt like rattling on about (really should have prepped some notes). After that the then rattled out the nice little article found here.
GREY TAKES DESIGN TO THE CURB.

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STINKY BEAR..

YEAH YOU'LL Stink too if you spend too much time outside in this heat...
MR. BEAR here is particularly sick of smelling smelly trash in the big city and sweating into his hairy bear carcass. Feels like a humidor when ya' step outdoors.

He'll have to make a change....a BIG CHANGE.

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KUMA KUMiTE!!

SO,

A few weeks back one of my coworkers pointed me to this clip on ebaums world.
NINJA BEAR!!!
(WATCH AND SMILE.)
Needless to say, I started drawing.
So here are some lost scroll of the Great Bears Art of STICK COMBAT!!

HEEEEE YA!

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MR. MURAL

As promised yesterday here are the originals to the mural photos posted below.
Also here are a few others. It was getting hard not to over complicate them. Because they'd need to be reproduced in mass by a wide group of artists, and assistants.


I think the interlocking recycling rings where my personal faves.
All of these where cranked out in Flash.
Enjoy...more art soon.

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GIVE by the POUND!

So,

I had a partial day at work today. We had this (GREY GIVES) community works function planned through the agency to beautify the southern end of HIGHBRIDGE PARK. Some weeks back I'd submitted a few mural ideas for this project. I'd heard a few of them where selected. But, I didn't know this was happening with them.
1,900-FOOT CANVAS!!
Three murals I submitted wound up being selected for as a repeated pattern down a stretch of the high bridge bike path (photos to come).. More astounding then this was that I saw my name in the NY Times (blush). Other then that I was doing some murals that where presented to a local public school show below.


Even Weirder still is that the Shirt I am wearing in that photo won me a little prize for best shirt design of the day. Too Bad your too far away to see. I will share it on down the road. I wanna try to make another one first.

I coulda' spent all day on these murals but, am exceedingly thankful that I had all the assistance from team #16 to crank them out in a little under 3 hours. I will post up the original images I submitted for the mural judgings tomorrow, along with a few others that didn't make the cut.

In the end I painted, chatted up some of my friendly co-workers, publicly danced like a fool, won a t-shirt design contest, and planted small bushes in the occasional patch of poison ivy..all while almost falling down a hill..... It was an awesome day.

Hope your all well,

Thanks for checking in...I promise more art in the next post.

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MUSKETEERS

Three of them no less.

No characters in particular. Simply throwing some colors down over sketches I did whilst watching that weird Disney Musketeers flick, some days back...

You know the one with Keifer Sutherland, Martin Sheen, and Oliver Platt.
Check that flick out at your own peril...however I will hand it to Tim Curry for Reprising his roll as Villain with the most appropriate voice for his portrayal of Cardinal Richelieu.

The man makes a good Villain.

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AUTOFART!!!

Hey FOLKS,
Based on the positive response to ROBIN AND LITTLE JOHN, I guess I should do more fan art based on Disney stuff. But,NAW!!!...Your stuck with some of my other stuff for now.
Thanks again for all the support and stopping in to make sure I am all productive and respectable. ....Alright maybe just productive, respectable is a lot to ask.

Here's another automobile.. cutting a wicked AUTOFART!!

"SOLID GOLD HUBCAPS"

Well I didn't design or animate these guys but, I did fiddle out this image...
LOVE THIS FILM...come to think of it...I LOVE XEROGRAPHY in Disney films...
Made the animation feel really natural for me.

This image goes out to my buddy Joe (STUCKYSTUDIO!), who got me going here in New York. Please harass him into putting out some more drawings if you have a few minutes handy.
ENJOY

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MONSTERS ARE COMIN'

HERE'S a monster...in commemoration of my buddy Nelson's (MASSIVE HEAD GAP TOOTH) first book...

Congrats nelson, my the monsters be plentiful in thy future..

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DMC

Scribbled this on the train a few mornings back....Submitted it to SugarFrostedGoodness
and figured it could go here too. I know its off model, just a nostalgic little drawing spawned of a random base shape.

Hope your all well, and look forward to hearing from you.

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Giant Menace!

Here's my most recent CHOP SHOP SHAPE ASSIGNMENT.
I kinda like how it turned out but I rushed it, it could be much more...for now though its done...
See it all, Here

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TMT: SOUTHPAW ON FRIDAY!!!

THIS COMING FRIDAY!...
TEN MINUTE TURNS @ SOUTHPAW in BROOKLYN!

INFO HERE>> TENMINUTETURNS!!

I'll be at the show..causing trouble...if you wanna come and check it out...I may not be going out much in the weeks to come.

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CARNY

HEY ALL,
KEEP ON KEEPIN ON!!


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Thinking about Audio...Inspired by DAGAN MORIARTY.

Busy here and feeling a little out of sorts...gonna get some good sleep under my belt.

Some time back I fiddled this out and though that it was kinda like a Dagan drawing....Well just a little....I slapped a little finish on it and wanted to share it with all you good folks..

Good AUDIO is fun!

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P.S. Check out CHOPSHOPSHAPES! ITS FUN AND EDUCATIONAL.