Beat the Heat down at the Dump!

Here's August's illustration for Cartoon Dump

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The SKAppiest Place on Earth

Just finished up some buttons for It's A Ska World After All 2 1/2

These will be promotional giveaways at the event and at the pre-party show. Originally, both characters were going to be wearing Mouse ears, but they just wouldn't work on the girl's head. Instead I gave her the hat that Minnie Mouse wore back in the old black and white Micky Mouse shorts from the late 1920s and early 1930s.

I drew the same characters from last year's poster.

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The pose of the pose of the kids  is intended to be a refernece to teh classic image of Walt Jabsco and The Beat Girl.

Here's the original pencils. I sketched this out earlier this week on my lunch break and in between renders at work.

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Look who's turning 5!

Here's this month's promo illustration for Cartoon Dump. It's the 5 year anniversary show!

This one was kind of a rush. I started working on a rough sketch with the idea that the show was on the last Monday of the month, so that would give it a week to be used for promoting. Turns out I was wrong, and the show is tomorrow. 4th Monday of every month, not the last Monday. So Jerry needed it within about 2 hours, so I sorta flew through this one. It wasn't so bad since 80% of Moodsy's body is reused from a previous design. But I still feel there were some problem areas that could have been tightened up. Oh well. I'll have more time to work on August's design.

"Fun" Fact: For the cake, I swiped the colors from the cake that Mr. Burns made in the Simpsons "Scenes From A Class Struggle In Springfield" (Season 7 Episode 14)

 

He pickled the figs himself!

Random sketchbook pages

Nothing much to say about these. Just various pages from my sketchbooks.

Let's All Play In The Cartoon Dump!

Here's the final poster image for Cartoon Dump. I posted the rough character sketches a few weeks ago.

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The characters are caricatures of Erica Doering as Compost Brite and Frank Conniff as Moodsy The Clinically Depressed Owl. Jerry wanted a nice 1950's kind of design to the characters. I flipped through my copy of Cartoon Modern for reference

Here's an alternate design that Jerry had the idea for

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The characters were really fun to draw. Jerry had the idea that I'll draw them out in a different pose every month for each show to be used as a promo pic on Cartoon Brew. So, expect to see more of these guys in the future.

Fat Kids with Floaties = Comedy Gold

Here's the "Summer of Ska 2012" US tour poster I drew back in March. The cat from Candy Coated Fury got a cameo here.

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The poster was screened onto shirts and are available on the tour currently. I'm not too happy that my signature was removed, but what can you do.

Skankin' in the Magic Kingdom

Here's a commissioned poster from last year. I was pleased with how it turned out over all, but I feel there were way to many sponsor logos and it kinda junked the whole thing up. Oh well.

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 original concept sketch

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