Hey, it's tonight-ish now! Here's a few painted sketches.

In the event that I might not update for another month and a half, I'd like to take a moment to point out a few new(er) links on my site in the sidebar to your left.

Third one from the bottom is Adam Arsenault, former college buddy turned Fatkat animator turned former Fatkat animator turned Ontario resident and employee to an animation studio I can't remember the name of. Dang.

Beneath him is the reason he went there in the first place, his wonderful fiance and animation student at Sheridan, Melanie Daigle. There's a little accent above the first 'e' in her name, and I don't know the keyboard alt numpad thingamajigger for it, so please try to imagine it.

The third I only added today. Nuclear Raptor is a joint venture between three ridiculously talented individuals. Derek Murphy, Justin Lee, and Tyler Noiles make up the band, each one with his own diverse approach to the pencil and each one equally commited and amazing at what they do.

All three of these links are worth visiting, so if you haven't done so already, check these people out, or as God as my witness, I shall never Hyperlink again. Maybe.

New Drawings! A big one to make up for lost time. Sowwy.

Pink is the new hip...?

Bugs and Fudd are drawings copied from frames of old Loonies cartoons. Both frames can be found at John K's place.

You might have noticed Lucy's looking a tad redesigned. New horns and much rounder features. Let me know how you feel about this new Lucy. This Newcy, if you will.

More coming tonight!
-ish.

Design for an animation thing, currently in progress. I'll be sure to put it on here when it's done.

There we be, a nice big sketch post, just like Ma used to make.

Forget the whales. Those flesh-eating jerks take priority!

Abandoned concept design. Welllll, more like on hiatus. It'd be a shame to abandon him so quickly, handsome devil that he is.
Original concept for this character by Katelyn, a friend of mine. Fun to draw. I may even finish it some day.
The first thing that went through my head when I drew this guy was 'Timecop'. Odd since I've never seen Timecop before. I didn't even know what Timecop looked like. Only just now did I actually google Timecop to see if I was anywhere near the mark. Wow, I was way off. Even so, he shall remain a Timecop.
David Cross. Drawn whilst listening to David Cross. He's a comedian, and he's adorable.
Concept art for a writing RPG me and some pals online are working on. The guy on the left is a character one of them came up with. The girl on the right is mine.A character I was asked to design.

I did this one up as a practice run for a painting. I've never been too hot with acrylic paints, so I did this up in Photoshop to get a fuller understanding of color application. The end result was featured at the SPCA for the 'Kats on Cats' art auction. It's current fate is unknown.


Next up is the robot section. I'm nuts for robots these days. Might have something to do with the recent movie with all the robots in it. The ones that turned into vehicles and stuff. Robotech, I think it was called... Two heads and a torso. Coming soon to NBC.

I want to send this in to Hasbro. He turns into a freakin' Moose. And dammit, I want the toy!

I expect a lot of people will think this is a tribute to G.I.Joe/The Transformers. But really, the people who know me better might think it's more a tribute to this. They thought right.

I don't even know what this guy turns into. Something ridiculous. Like a toothpick. The last place you'd expect to find a living war machine would be in your mouth, picking extra food stuff out of your teeth.

Gotta stay positive when doomsday's approachin'.

Goodnight everybody.

A character I used to draw back in the olden high school days. Lotta nostalgia went into this one.

He really should be ashamed.

Gives a whole new meaning to Jolly Green Giant, dun'it?

Haha I'm going to hell.

Keep yer mind on the job, Brucey.

Of course I say this, and yet I drew this at work.

Hey look, I'm a day late! Ah ha ha ha, nuts.

So here's a few digital thing I've done this past month. I'll try for a sketchbook post next. Till then, enjoy da purty drawerins.

New Update!


...coming Saturday. I hope.

Seems I've neglected you all! I'll make it up to you with a sketchbook post next time. For now though, here's some Photoshop stuff I did over the last month. I didn't have a lot of time for drawing due to long hours working inventory. But no more of that, thanks to my new job at Fatkat animation. Hot digity!

Dear God...

The Mario Brothers give our generation a chance. A chance to learn.

There's a lot of things wrong (albeit awesome) with this, but I think what caught me off guard the most was how incredibly manly Luigi sounds.

So hey, true story (meaning a fairly dull one, so skip this blurb if you're not in the mood), me and my gal Kim were doing some random sketching one day and she asked me if I knew anything about drawing giant robots/mechs. I had to pause for a second and tell her, "nope, not a thing". Wasn't that an interesting story?

Thing is, I haven't been asked that particular question since high school, and my answer for each time was the same. I just couldn't draw the damn things well, which doesn't bother me more than the fact that I never really tried. And not just with robots either, a lot of mechanical type things. Vehicles especially.

So I feel guilty about it, yet also empowered, inspired. It means that on the rare times I do draw anything mechanical, I feel the need to push myself and try different approaches and directions in drawing them. So, that's cool, right?

Well, here's an attempt at just that. I've been watching a couple of episodes of some of the more recent Transformers cartoons to get down some ideas from those cool designs. I also watched Beast Wars to see those robotic designs that really needed to work in 3-dimensional space. Well partially. I watched Beast Wars because it's an awesome show, really.

I had a lot of fun sketching Prime, so I think I'll keep at it for a while. Of course at one point I'll have to draw him as a truck. *shudder*

I'd like to describe how much an enjoyable run this portfolio stuff's been, but I'm typing this during the most frustrating DVD burning of my lifetime. Currently, my opinions are a tad skewed.

Oh, but hey! My website is online! Go check it out. Do it now!

http://animationnb.com/07/rcole

Well?

Can ya?

Punk?