MY DEMONS (part 1)

Remember that sketchbook I kept next to my desk?

The one where I drew a 

random character in profile

every day at work?

Well,

after that was done I needed to 

come up with a theme for the next sketchbook.

Like maybe,

I dunno...

Monkeys?

Varieties of Pasta?

Bumbling Politicians?

All great topics,

but I eventually settled on

doing an entire sketchbook

filled with devilish

DEMONS!

So I splattered a bit of red paint onto

a sketchbook Disney Jr.

had sent over as a present:

WARNING:

While most of the drawings are kinda silly,

there's a little nudity, naughty stuff and 

creepy subject matter up in here.

 So if that kinda stuff gives you the willies

maybe you oughta skip this post.

But if you're cool with that

then read on:

The goal,

as always,

is to just get a drawing down quickly.

No laboring over details.

No hours of crosshatching.

No fussing over whether it's

"good".

Just draw a demon,

and give it a quick description

in the top corner.

Here was the first one I did on

April 4, 2016:

Any favorites so far?

It was fun getting a little more

edgy than usual.

And coming up with the descriptions was

really fun!

Check back for part 2

in the next post!

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THE PEPPER ANN FINALE CHARACTER DESIGNS

I recently did a lovely interview 

with someone planning a 

an article

celebrating next year's

anniversary of

Walt Disney's

sooper fun hit show

Pepper Ann.

We talked about early design

development and what it was like

 being the lead character designer for the series.

And one of the questions that came up was:

What was one of your favorite 

episodes to design?

THE FINALE

came right to mind,

of course.

Because after drawing the characters as tweens for many years,

I got to figure out what they looked liked

when they were older.

Here was the design list I was given:

This is just some of the designs I did from the episode

I'm not sure why I don't have a design for Milo.

 remember

Pepper Ann (27 years old)

Nicky (27 years old)

Milo (27 years old)

Mom (50 years old)

Moose (22 years old)

Aunt Janie (older)

Alec Kane (older)

 Baron von Gus (older)

Ms. Stark (older)

Ms. Bladdar (older)

Coach Doogan (older)

Mr. Finky (older)

Cissy (27 years old)

Dieter (27 years old)

Craig (28 years old)

Mr. Carter (older)

Gina (30 years old)

Gwen Mezzrow (27 years old)

Mark Hamill (older)

This background character named Natasha

was based on head writer

Nahnatchka Kahn

and designed by Sue Rose.

Pink Eye Pete (27 years old)

Principal Hickey (older)

Stuart (27 years old)

And I was really happy with this 

background character of 

Sue Rose I did:

Tessa (27 years old)

Vanessa (27 years old)

Trinket (27 years old)

What a fun show to work on.

Not every show gets to do a real finale

so it was an honor to get to finish 

Pepper Ann with such a bang.

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