Sketchamagowza!

ARE YOU BEING CUTE IN THERE?!?!

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:02:48 -0400

ARE YOU BEING CUTE IN THERE?!?!

BARTKIRA. more info here.I asked for just one page knowing...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:15:14 -0400

BARTKIRA. more info here.

I asked for just one page knowing I’d be too busy to do a full five pages. I didn’t get a very exciting page to draw but at least it offered me some challenges.

Little Obakey

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:23:00 -0400

Little Obakey

DEADLY PREMONITION This is a birthday gift for Lowtax, my...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:16:57 -0400

DEADLY PREMONITION

This is a birthday gift for Lowtax, my favorite employer. He is 4000 years old today so be extra nice to him.

WHY I DRAW WITH A MOUSEPeople ask me what programs or tablets I...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:04:00 -0400

WHY I DRAW WITH A MOUSE

People ask me what programs or tablets I use to do animation. My answer is always very simple. I animate in Flash with a mouse. Oh sure, I do actual physical drawings with various pens and paper and cardboard, but when drawing digitally the mouse has always been my device of choice.

“That is completely insane” they say. “How can you draw with a mouse!”
I learned. I learned very early on.

I always knew I wanted to make animation. More than comics, more than painting, I wanted to make art that MOVED. The main obstacle there was that I came from a poor family. Getting an expensive video camera was out of the question. I didn’t even have a computer! The first computer I got was a Commodore 64, well into the 90s when better computers were already out (but that’s another story.)
What I did have was a Super Nintendo. I got very lucky and the very second game I had was Mario Paint.

Mario Paint was an important tool for me. I learned how to make the most of my limitations. It taught me how to draw digitally with a mouse. I hooked the Super Nintendo to two VCRs and filled tapes with silly animation loops. I would use what little money I saved to buy a RadioShack audio/video mixer for 60 bucks and added music and voices to the short animations. These cartoons looked and sounded terrible, but I still pushed on. In high school I did science and book report presentations on VHS tapes using these tools. I knew I’d have to retire Mario Paint eventually though. I pushed every ounce of possibility out of that cartridge.

In the early 2000s I got Flash (from a generous donor) and I’m still learning many things from it. I use it to make nearly all my animations and I’m still drawing with a mouse. I’ve been mouse drawing since I was a teenager. It’s a craft I’ve perfected and only gotten speedier at. At this point a tablet feels like it would just slow me down. Even if I were to get a Cintiq, which I could quite possibly afford now, I know I’d still go back to the mouse for little things now and then.

I love the mouse. It’s so bad.

if you get why she’s in the DARE shirt you are great.

Tue, 07 May 2013 05:08:00 -0400

if you get why she’s in the DARE shirt you are great.

kirby and rick telephone time

Sun, 05 May 2013 02:46:00 -0400

kirby and rick telephone time

Some proof-of-concept sprites for A Prince Rescue Game (working...

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:22:00 -0400

Some proof-of-concept sprites for A Prince Rescue Game (working title, I’ll pick something better later.) Maybe one day a game will be made where a girl protagonist saves the boy… here’s hoping! Even if someone makes a game like this before me I still want to go through with this because the world needs more of it. Boys have plenty of game characters to choose from but there aren’t many girl protagonists. I decided to make the character funny as well as powerful, like all my favorite platform heros. I based the design off of some “fake game maps” I made a couple months ago.

UPDATE: I PLAN TO MAKE EVEN MORE SPRITES FOR THIS GAME, EVEN IF IT NEVER GETS MADE.

UPDATE 2: Thank you for your continued interest. All I ask now is that you have a little patience. I have a regular job and I made these sprites in my spare time. Even more assests and ideas need to be put in before a serious proof can be made… and then a pitch! Don’t give up hope!

Super Princess

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:00:54 -0400

Super Princess

go to bred

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:55:56 -0400

go to bred

storm clod

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:37:00 -0400

storm clod

a lovely dress

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:35:50 -0400

a lovely dress

neat trick 2

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:38:30 -0400

neat trick 2

you first

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:10:46 -0400

you first

jerkcityhd: http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity60.html this is my...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:02:27 -0400

jerkcityhd:

http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity60.html

this is my entry for Jerkcity HD, a new blog where many talented artists remake Jerkcity strips in their own style without changing any of the text.

BUSINESS CAT, my collaboration with Weebl, based on this GIF.

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:07:44 -0400

BUSINESS CAT, my collaboration with Weebl, based on this GIF.

sad cats

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:53:49 -0400

sad cats

oh my

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:57:59 -0400

oh my

send in the puppies…

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 01:01:50 -0400

send in the puppies…

this adorable thing

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:41:07 -0400

this adorable thing