Half-Assed Wasted Effort

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W.P.A. Xmas Elves | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #067

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Personally, I can’t stand all the brouhaha that gets socially packaged with Xmas: the love; the giving; the goodwill to all genders… and the goddamn decorating!!!

Some non-binary Xmas Elves I drew up to satisfy an over-enthusiastic W.P.A’s vision to dominate this year’s Best Decorated Section at work.

I was cajoled to draw up seven Elves, each one featuring a very basic caricatured face of the W.P.A.s I share a workspace with.

Can you guess which of the below is me?


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I'm a "Man" Of Few Words (Even Less So) | Scribble-Dee-Doo-Dahs #066

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This was quickly drawn up, replying to a rambling, long-winded, nonsensical work-related email inquiry.

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Curious Little Shadows | From The Abandoned Projects Drawer

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Curious Little Shadows was an attempt (c.2011) to go darker than my usual goofy “trying to be funny” illustrations. And was hoping, naively, I’d evolve these gloomy situations into 30 second animated shorts. Or a illustrated story book… sooooo, no concrete objective. What’s new, right?

Essentially, these “Shadows” are little bean-sized creatures with no discernable features, except for eyes and whatever ambient light hits their fleecy bodies. They wander the forest floor clustered together, for the most part, avoiding predators of all sorts (for which there are many)… I never fleshed out WHY they were constantly on the move - I guess I figured nothing in nature has a personal goal to aim for, except for survival.

With almost every dire encounter they face, one of the Shadows will perish. The Shadows, after the initial shock, do not mourn - they have to keep moving, keep hiding, keep surviving.

Looking back almost a decade later, this whole abandoned project (#abandonedproject) was an experiment in self-taught backlighting. More accurately, lots of happy little accidents just happened to formulate some purposeful motive - i.e. hmmm, that whoopsie-doodle slip-of-the-wrist brushstroke looks out of place… wait a minute… what if I add another brushstroke next to it? Wow, that… that works! Wasn’t the plan. Well, dummy, quit arguing with yourself and keep doing it!

I planned to make one of these illos into a 10 second test animation - the toothy red-eyed encounter pic - but never got past converting the pic to 16:9 aspect ratio (below).

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Give A Hoot - Read A E-Learning Book (ugh! awful title)

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Here’s some stuff I did several years ago for a E-Learning app thingy, aimed at young wippersnappers and scholastic dingdongs.

Focus.

Inspire.

Teach.

Connect.

Encourage.

Podium (female option).

Podium (male version).

The below B/W illos were a later extension of the same job. The crucial difference between the above and the below were:

  1. I got paid for the colored illos;

  2. I didn’t get paid for the B/W illos (i.e. I invoiced, but never received a check).

DVD Extras!

Here are selected preliminary roughs/sketches. These drafts are what clients usually sees to better understand the illustrator’s interpretation of their assigned brief (which, in most cases, is as rough as the illo roughs!). It’s raw! THAT’S what I like about ‘em.