The Mighty Chipmunk

Camping season came and went again, without a single camp-out in my family.  We can try to blame it on a one year old baby, but let's face it: the real problem is we don't have a Chipmunk 2000 with which to camp in style and comfort.

I did this all in Adobe Photoshop, which gave my digital painting skills quite a workout.  I'm quite proud of it.

My first Snowman

Skyline Drive

On Saturday my family and I went on a lovely (and slightly harrowing) drive through Manti-La Sal National Forest on Skyline Drive.  We got up there and we were inside a cloud most of the time so we couldn't see a whole lot until we came down the other side and saw the screaming-yellow aspens against the blueish green pines.  It was a lot of fun.  If you ever have a chance to drive any scenic byways, do it.

Gordon T. Bear

 I did this fun sketch (below... and yeah, I can't believe my scanner sucks that bad either) and decided to take another stab at Photoshop painting (which I'm still getting the hang of).  I ended up spending about 100 times more time on this than I had anticipated, but I think it turned out pretty good!

 Most of the time I think I have to do a bunch of different takes on a drawing before settling on the one I like, but this one kind of just came to me.  I'm glad I changed his somewhat unsettling face to something more appealing though.

Oh and I named him after my little boy Gordy.

Anteaters and Toucans

I just did some of them-there animal sketches.  I especially like the anteater who is explaining something.  I don't know what he would be explaining, but I am sure he is very knowledgeable and sagely.

Flour Shower

Of all the things I've animated, this one gets more laughs than anything else.  It was the first thing I ever animated by hand, and I think I got a little ambitious.  I also shot it with a woefully inadequate camera so the quality is rock-bottom, but it still has some charm.

It took me about a thousand hours to do this dang thing, but I'm still pretty proud of it.