Feed the Fish

Birthday

It's fun being a poor artist-- for birthday presents, you can just draw a picture of your friend or relative, wrap it up, give it to the birthday boy or girl and call it good. (It works even better if it's a picture of them that you give.)

So, happy birthday, oh small, winged niece of mine. As always, watch out for birds of prey and bug-zappers.

Christmas Gift Tip of the day

Draw Me!

I love caricatures..... and I particularly love caricatures of myself. It's fun to see someone else capture little features or expressions of mine that I know so well. It's a blast getting a glimpse of how other people see me.

Recently at work they started a "Caricature Door" where everyone on the animation team posts all the drawings they've done of each other (but had previously kept hidden). It turns out I'm one of the more popular subjects. That means either I'm really fun to draw or really easy to draw (or both). Either way, I love it.

And I'd like to issue a challenge-- send me your drawings of me! I'm sure any of you who know me have secret sketchings of me that are in some old sketchbook somewhere. Or even if you don't know me, whip up a sketch anyway and email them to me! I'm going to be keeping a page on this blog called "Draw Me!" where I document all such sketchbookery. Send them in! rabidmilkman(at)gmail(dot)com

This might seem a little self-centered, but that's not the intent. I just laugh really hard when I see an awesome drawing of myself in all my stout-and-bald glory.

So here are a few draw-rings of me from friends and co-workers.

 The first is from Nigel Style, animation guru at Avalanche.

This beauty came from Thomas Estrada, my mentor at Avalanche.

And this of course is from the late, great Scott Gwynn. I say late because he missed our carpool this morning.

Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!

© Disney/Pixar. For review purposes only.

Nerd.

More fishmen silliness.

This is Betty.

She's looking for a date. Any takers?

As you can probably tell from my posts this week, I'm absolutely loving being a part of the Fishmen in Top Hats blog. There's inspiring stuff from talented friends posted every day. It's a great way to motivate me to try to step it up (and have fun while I'm at it).

Anyway,  I'm gonna plug it again-- if you're not following Fishmen in Top Hats, you're a slimy old curmudgeon.

And Betty would like to meet you sometime.

That's right. I went there.

Space Nudist

Spock Puppet

I love me some Muppets.

The Truth About Scarecrows....

Scarecrows aren't trying to be scary. The name "scarecrow" is a label given them by crows to garner public sentiment for themselves (and more corn). Scarecrows aren't even trying to scare crows. They're just hanging out in the field, arms outstretched, waiting for someone to give them a big hug.

Done for the Avalanche Software Art Blog's Scarecrow theme.

Happy Halloween!