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I'm super excited to announce a brand new adventure I'm partaking in! It's a website that features daily comic strips by some of my good friends and myself. Each of us gets a day of the week to share our strip with all the fine folks on the internet. Here's the breakdown...

Monday is Gabe Swarr's Big Pants Mouse
Tuesday is Sean Szeles' Through the Port-Hole
Wednesday is Katie Rice and Luke Cormican's Skadi
Thursday is Ricky Garduno's 1930 Nightmare Theatre
and Friday is Earthward-Ho! by me.

Not to be left out is the amazing Matt Gadbois who has done a great job at building our website.

You can check it out right now by going to
www.dummcomics.com


This here is Sam, he's the main character of the strip. Sam is obsessed with all things outer space. When he's not being abducted by aliens he's looking through his telescope searching for them.





This is a typical "eyball headed alien" that can be seen in this weeks strip...



And finally here is a glimpse at an alien which will be making an appearance in upcoming strips...

El Tigre!

I have the best job in the World, or at least that's what most of my co-workers tell me. When I get scenes like this to layout it's hard to disagree with them. This particular scene is from the episode "The Mother of all Tigres" storyboarded by the amazing Eddie Trigueros. The cartoon is called El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera and it's produced and created by my super talented pals Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua. It airs Saturday mornings(check you local listings)on Nickelodeon.

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A random variety of sprinklings....

A far too flattering caricature of Cartoon Brews very own Amid Amidi. This was done during our tenure on Ren and Stimpy APC.
Caricature of the character 'Dwight' from the American version of the tv show 'The Office'
Random Head Oddity #4

horton cont....

All of these drawings for the Horton test were done on my tablet pc in either painter or sketchbook pro....

Horton....

A while back I was offered a storyboard test from the fine folks at Bluesky in New York for their upcoming Horton feature. The project sounded very cool, here's a character I really liked from not only the Seuss books but also the Jones and Clampett cartoons. Unfortunately the timing wasn't right. I was (and am still currently) working at a job I really like, so I had to respectfully decline. So they came back to me and suggested they could work around my schedule and that I could possibly be brought on doing freelance from home and would I please reconsider. I said that I would think it over. Finally I agreed that if my schedule permited I would at least take the test. Unfortunately, things at work got pretty crazy, in a busy, good kinda way and I was not able to complete the test. I did however do a bunch of little thumbnails and rough sketches for the test and thought I'd share some of those drawings here.

Virgins...

Here are a couple of sketches for my paintings in the upcoming Virgin Show.

Art Show!!!

My first time showing! Hope to see you there!

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Honeymoon's over!

So I know the honeymoon has been over for awhile and I haven't posted anything but their is a realllly good reason...I've been dedicating my free time to making a short cartoon. Unfortunately this doesn't leave much time for 'blogging'. Anyway, here are a few random sketches and etc from my new project, hope you like em'. In the meantime, their wont be anything new for a while but when I finish the first sequence I will definitely post it.

Thug in a Fedora.....

So there won't be any new posts for a while as I'm getting married this weekend and will be away on hooneymoon directly following. In the mean time please enjoy this thuggish picture of my new Fedora (and big fat melon right underneath it.) Bye.

Head Oddities...

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New Sketchbook...

I usually don't like to draw in sketchbooks...it's too intimidating but when a union rep came by cube the other day and gave me a free Animation Guild Sketchbook I couldn't let all that paper go to waste. Besides, some poor cow even gave its' hide for the cover. So now I have a stack of dead trees covered by a dead animal and bound in spiral wire that I feel obligated to put to good use...enjoy.

NEW BLOGS!!!

Added a bunch of new Blogs in the Links section, please check 'em out!

GOOD, BAD, UGLY...

My pal Sean Szeles inspired me with the studies he posted on his blog from the movie "Once Upon A Time In The West" I chose to study from the only Sergio Leone movie I own on DVD.."The Good The Bad And The Ugly" When I intially started to draw from this film I planned on just doing caricatures of all the great faces in the movie. I quickly discovered that the actors were already pretty much caricatures themselves which actually made it more not less difficult for me to exaggerate their features. So besides the great faces the things I admire most about this film are the contrasts between cuts: 'Extreme wide shot directly to extreme close up' and the compositions: 'Background and foreground elements leading your eye to the subject' and 'framing the subject'. I tried to capture some of these techniques in my studies while still slightly caricaturing the actors faces. It's pretty tough going so far, but hopefully by the time I get to the end of the film the studies will improve. If anyone has any suggestions please don't hesitate to share.

Thanks-
Fred

CARTOONS!!!

Heya all, thought I'd share some drawings from the morgue. These are for a pitch I was putting together to take around and try to sell to some cartoon type networks. It's another one of those things that get shelved due to actual paying work and family life and what not. Looks like I may have a chance to develop it further as I'll have some time off between gigs during the month of May.

CARTOONS...and caricatures...

Well, I seem to be over my caricature kick for the time being. Thought I'd share some more cartoony type drawings. The first four are studies I did from Milton Steins Supermouse comic. I think they're from a Jim Tyer issue? The artwork in those comics is so amazing and these studies don't do them justice. Everything is so solid, round and organic with appealing shapes, expressions, and all around excellent drafstmanship. Great source of education in those comics. The last pic is an animation drawing for a cartoon I've been developing for Cartoon Retro called Rufus and Horny. Pretty slow going on that project but I have a ton of stuff stockpiled and will hopefully have some of it posted on Shanes site in the not too distant future.

NEW POST!

Sorry for the lack of posts, I have no excuses. All of these caricatures are done with one of those carpenter pencils with the wide lead. Didn't really help my drawing any but it's fun to shake things up a bit. Any guesses on who these celebs are?