Charmander fan art! Pokemon...go!

 Or stop - who knows if anyone is still playing....

Art dumpedy dump...

I had a bunch of random drawings I thought I'd pop up here - just because they don't really belong on their own post and I wasn't really going to do anything with them anyway.  But maybe I'll post some to instagram?

 This was for our stock images site - I thought the idea of two knights facing off would look pretty awesome.  And I was right!

 This is for an undisclosed project I was working on late last year.  I did a version where the kids looked quite young, and they wanted them aged up a bit - so I redrew them as older versions.  I did several styles (with version 2 being my favorite), but they ended up not doing anything with the project, so these drawings just sit here on this blog not doing anything...

 Here's the kid version - they were deemed 'too junior' which could be a death sentence for a show trying to appeal to the older kid audience.

 I was drawing a kid, and this time for a junior show I was trying to develop, who would end up in a monsterous situation.  I wanted him to be as innocent as possible, and maybe have a hint of anime hair.

 Speaking of Monsterous - this was one attempt at the monster that finds the boy above.  As you can see, he's even cuter than the boy is.  Below is version two.  This is yet another project that we didn't get too far with.

 This is for Happy Pantry - Even Mona Lisa was a fan of our aprons.  They're still available on our website at www.happy-pantry.com - and only $29.99!  She's smiling because she's adorable in her new apron!

 At the time I drew this, I was developing a series of cute monster toys.  This was a stitched up doll.  I thought it was rather cute and slightly scary.

 Also for Happy Pantry - Peas on Mars.  Says it all.  It's terrible, and that's why it never made it past the rough drawing stage.

 I drew this shortly after I drew Leonardo deCappucino - I thought it would have been funny to have a silence of the hams...but also, possibly, a little too adult for the kids.  I originally drew his iconic mask as well, but Tracey vetoed that - this cutesy ham was my last ditched effort to get it made, but to no avail.  The boss said no.

And finally - here's the last picture in our art dump.  Another project we were developing - I think this is from 2010 or so, I wanted to have three kids that were kind of reminiscent of Edward Gory/Charles Addams characters and the feel that those guys put into their cartoon/comics.  I won't say much more than that as I still want to develop this into something...maybe...at some point.

Pig Goat Banana Cricket - Pig Ball

I did a Spongebob ball a little while ago and I wanted to do more Nickelodeon characters - so my next one is Pig from Pig Goat Banana Cricket.  It was a fun show that wasn't given enough of a chance - and only went 2 seasons.  The style is so different and fantastic - I loved the line quality and the colors.

I've done all of the characters - and by all, I mean Spongebob and Pig - without faces, and just tried to get all their colors and markings - but that means no nose or eyes, and those could really make it obvious who it is, but I wanted it to be more about the ball which represents the character rather than just replicates the character.

Happy Pantry: French Onion

We went to France way back in 2015 - it feels like so long ago, even though it was just over a year.  While there I did a colored pencil version - and I always wanted to take it over and polish it up on the computer.  So I redrew it and fixed all the things I hated about the hat, and turned it into something I want to make prints of...hopefully someone will want a print.

Here's the original colored pencil:

And here's the photoshop illustration:

I actually looked up reference for what that frenchy hat looks like - other than that, I really liked it.

SpongeBall RoundPants

I was drawing a ball as a prop design for Spongebob:

 

And that got me thinking about Spongebob - and if he was round what would he look like.  So I blew up the ball up to a larger size and drew this:

SpongeBall RoundPants

Just when you thought it was safe to drift in the ocean...

It's not safe in the ocean with all those saws lookin' to cut someone.

Just when you thought it was safe to drift off on the cool ocean breeze....

Can I get a Paw...?

I've been thinking of doing a series of these for a while now - and I thought I finally had time to get one of them.  There are so many options for this parody of the iconic Jaws poster, and I know a lot of people have done Jawas - but I still would like to do my take on that...but first, I give you PAWS!

Shrek goes Minion again

When the new overlords come, they tend to white wash everything towards their way of looking, doing and thinking.  With Comcast buying Dreamworks, maybe we can expect to see some of this with them?  And why wouldn't they use their most popular property, the minions, to breath some much needed life into the old tired Shrek?

Of course, it's a painful process...and it's a rather painful experience for the ones who have to change.

Shrek goes Minion...

Comcast bought Dreamworks - bringing Shrek and the rest of the terrible Dreamworks cast of characters into the Minions family and Universal.  Maybe this will help them change their stories from something terrible to something watchable?  We'll find out soon enough!  Maybe to make Dreamworks more successful, they can have him actually join the Minions movie!

I'd expect them to not be very thrilled with such a eventuality...

Angry Birds and nonplussed Pigs

I'm addicted to Angry Birds.  I don't know they came up with the concept - but having little birds launch into green pigs and destroying precarious structures just keeps me enraptured week after week.

They had a movie that came out based on the game - but I don't know if I need to see that - I'd rather the interactivity that comes with the game.  And it's weird that the movie versions all have arms and legs...it's like they couldn't just figure it out with what they had originally designed.  But, I guess, it's easier to emote and to interact, not to mention move about if you have limbs.

Doctor Strange

I remember really liking Doctor Strange when I was young.  I feel like I read a lot of those comics - but I couldn't tell you a thing about them.  I have no idea who he is or what he does.  I know there's magic and that he lives in....um, an apartment on the same block as the cosby show...?  Or, at least, that's what I remember....

So maybe I don't know anything about Doctor Strange.  But a movie came out - and I drew this shortly before hand.  Hopefully the movie holds up to the comic book....that I have no recollection of.

Spongeybob!

I started working on this amazing show in season 9.  Can you believe Spongebob has been on for 10 seasons?  Here's to hoping it continues indefinitely!

ooooooohhhh Alice!

There's this beautiful song in the last (horrible) movie version of Alice in Wonderland.  Danny Elfman has been mailing in some of his more recent compositions (see all of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...or, better yet, don't see it!) - but this one song is incredible.  And it inspired this ridiculously cutesy illustration:

Here is the song below:

Charlie Brown strikes a pose

I did a pose of this with the head the other way, but that struck me as odd - so I turned his head around and he looks a lot better.

I don't remember why I thought of it, but I thought it would be funny to do a version of that iconic illustration of the little girl on the beach getting her bathing suit pulled by a dog but with Charlie Brown.

I wanted to do a stylized version of the two characters and experiment with some new photoshop brushes I found.

Negan's Bat

"Lucille" or "He took it like a champ"

It was a brutal episode of The Walking Dead...we knew something bad was going to happen, but it was worse than anyone thought.  I thought about drawing this all night, so I had to get it out and on paper (via photoshop) so I could move on.

I thought about including spoilers, but meh, I'd figured people should find out what happened by watching the episode, not looking at lame drawings they had the misfortune of coming across...

New Episode of Spongebob this Saturday

I prop designed this next episode of SpongeBob.  It was my first episode of season 10.  Below are a couple of the props I designed.  I believe I did the entire episode - there are a few reused props from previous episodes, so I didn't technically design everything....

The egg from the 3rd season of SpongeBob makes it's return in this Saturday's BRAND NEW Spongebob epsiode! The episode is called WhirlyBrains and is probably on at 10:30 (but check your local listings!), and probably has nothing to do with eggs. I added that shadow line to the existing prop design!

 SpongeBob's television has been seen in many episodes - but it's never been broken in half.  So this is one of the harder props I designed for the episode.

Anyway - check out the show - new episodes every Saturday for the next few weeks!

Saturday's SpongeBob SquarePants is ALL NEW!

Hey guys,

Turn in to Nickelodeon to watch a brand new episode of Spongebob Squarepants!  It's at 10:30 am, and I did the prop design for this episode!

Here's a sneak peak at what you'll see, if you look close enough:

I've learned, now that I've been on SpongeBob for over a year now, that this prop has too much information on it - for something zipping across the scene (you'll have to watch the episode to know what I'm talking about), it only needs the picture of the onion for the viewer to understand what it is.  The words are superfluous.

Why is a sack of onions zipping across the screen?!?!!?  TUNE IN this Saturday to find out!

What a fork! Happy Pantry

i posted this 4 years ago today!  That's how long we've been doing Happy Pantry drawings.  It's still a lot of fun...I'm happy we've found something we like doing that others seem to like as well.

I was channeling a little bit of myself in this drawing.  Which is weird because I don't wear bow ties, nor pocket protectors...and I would get new glasses instead of taping them together.

Who would tape their glasses together?

Alright, I caught all the Pokemangos...

Did you know there's two acceptable ways to spell Mangos?  For some reason they can be spelled Mangoes or Mangos.  Unless you're writing on a blogger website like this, then it puts a big red underline under Mangos - and then it kind of defeats the point.  But I looked it up!  You can spell it both ways!  Dumb ol' Mangos...don't even know their own name.

  I play way too much pokemon go....

Pokemon Go

This Pokemon Go fad has really hit me hard.  I can't stop playing.  It's such a ridiculous game, with very little skill and has more to do with how much time you invest into it....so I've decided to invest too much time.

One thing is that every time I hear the name, I think it sounds like Poke a mango.  So I drew this.

I can't stop catching pokemon, and I can't stop poking mangoes....