SKETCHBOOK COVERS THROUGH THE AGES(part 2: apres college and the KND years)

If you liked part one

of my

SKETCHBOOK COVERS THROUGH THE AGES

post then

THROW YER HANDS AYER!

Thank you.

So let's check out

the covers of my

sketchbooks 

after I got out of college.

But here's the thing.

When I started working in animation in 1990,

I didn't really draw in sketchbooks anymore.

I was so busy drawing for work,

and doing freelance at night

that I barely doodled for doodle sake.

There were only a couple in

almost a decade!

I did a post of this next one over

HERE!

But then doodles started happening again

(I did a post about this red one over HERE):

But when writing for

Codename: Kids  Next Door

I started doodling less and wording more

It started in these

dumb notebooks.

We talked about this next one over

HERE

These books contained mostly

writing with a smattering of ball point pen

drawings.

But eventually I started using real

sketchbooks again:

Have a peek inside of this next one

HERE:

This sketchbook finished as we were winding down

production on KND.

It's filled with all sorts of melancholy

 musing on the show:

Want more?

No?

Well, forget you.

There's more coming next post!

SKETCHBOOK COVERS THROUGH THE AGES(part 1: the early years)

I've filled a lot of sketchbooks over the years.

No... those aren't ALL sketchbooks.

But the second from the bottom shelf is

packed solid with 'em.

And so's half of the top shelf.

And that's not even including all my 

sketchbooks from high school.

But I sank those deep into the Mariana Trench

so no one has to suffer looking through them.

Blech!

Anyway...

half the fun of a 

sketchbook is

decorating the cover with

stickers and junk.

Sooper pal

Kano

believes that you should draw 

in your sketchbook first 

BEFORE

putting stickers on it.

But he's

LYING!

Ya gotta put stickers on it

FIRST!

So here,

for your enjoyment,

are the covers from my

college days:

My aunt gave me a big packet of

military aircraft stickers,

many of which ended up on sketchbooks

over the years:

I worked at Video Magic for a couple summers

transferring Super 8 films to VHS:

Video Magic was next door to

an advertising agency.

I have no idea why I found it interesting

to put their sticker on a sketchbook:

Not sure where the cover to this one went,

but I used to send silly letters to companies 

and celebrities under the pseudonym

Frank Pierce.

Inspired by Don Novello's

Lazlo Letters,

I liked seeing what kind of responses I'd get to 

ridiculous questions and or accusations.

I don't remember what I sent to 

Oscar Meyer,

but they sent me free recipes:

Don't worry!

There are lots more sketchbook 

covers coming

in part two!

IT'S TIME FOR THE 2014 SKETCHCARD CRAZINESS!

HOLY SNAP!

Holiday Sketchcard Madness

is back in the

printlab!!!

That's right!

Starting 

RIGHT NOW

if you order anything from the 

mighty printlab 

you'll get a

hand-drawn 

sooper original

one-of-a-kind 

sketchcard 

of the character of your choice

for all kinds of 

FREE.

But there are rules, darn it:

• One sketchcard per person

• One character per card

and

• You get what you get and don't get upset

You've got until January 1st, 2015, yo!

Here are some favorites from past years:

But 

WAIT!

It's not the holiday season

without a

NEW

print in the lab!

Look who's making his debut:

As always,

every sooper high quality print

comes inscribed to whoever you like and 

is signed by mr. warburton meself!

We're also making this

unused KND comic cover

available as a scooper 

awesome print:

For more details

on the free sketchcard offer

head on down to the 

printlab

over 

HERE!

OH SNAP IT'S ALMOST FREE SKETCHCARD TIME AGAIN!

So what the heck am I gonna do 

with all these blank

index cards I've got

cluttering up the lab?

Ima draw sooper cool

stuff on them,

that's what!

YES!

It's almost

FREE

SKECTHCARD

TIME

AGAIN!

Well,

they're not 

totally free.

You get one free with any 

order from the mighty

printlab!

But ya gotta wait until after

Thankgiving!

Then the madness begins!

In the meantime,

you can check out some of the previous

sketchcards over

HERE!

HAPPY 20th, LISA SALAMONE

While we were celebrating

Disney Television Animation's

30th anniversary

we were also celebrating

the 20th anniversary of our 

Sooper Powered

Senior Vice President

Head of Production

Lisa Salamone.

And to show how much we love her

all the executive producers

got together and drew

a picture of her.

Craig McCracken

Alex Hirsch

Dan Povenmire

Daron Nefcy

Paul Rudish

Noah Z Jones

and a metric ton more of

dangerously talented artists

participated.

I did, too:

Here's a closer view:

Congrats on your 20th, Lisa!

You rule the universe!

SILVER DRAWING ACADEMY DE OSHIETA

If you heard rumours of 

poorly spoken 

Japanese going on in the

Southern California area...

That was totally me.

See,

I got invited to

talk to a bunch of 

Japanese students at the 

SILVER DRAWING ACADEMY 

You know

sooper famous

character designer

Stephen Silver

even if you think you don't.

He designed

Kim Possible:

Clerks: The Animated Series

And Danny Phantom:

And now he's opened up 

his own drawing school

in Los Angeles!

It's a great space

with lots of great artwork:

Stephen had over 150 animation students 

from Japan come

for a class.

He took the majority of them to discuss character design

while I talked to the rest about

career paths, writing, direction

and that kind of stuff.

While I can speak some Japanese,

I'm not fluent enough to lecture,

so I had the help of a wonderful interpreter.

Hopefully she made me sound smart!

Check out more on the 

Silver Drawing Academy over

HERE!