Yeti December: Madness

yet another Yeti drawing

Yeti December... and hands

Yeti Yoga, I've never actually done yoga before so I'm not sure if this is even a yoga pose. if it's not, then it should be and I would call it Yeti Crotch. Im just sayin'... try not to stare at his man bits for to long.

and more hands, ignore the dark black hand that looks like a very badly drawn darth vader glove. I couldn't seem to figure that pose out.

Yeti December Again

Yeti on the move... looking for some Baked Beans.

11x17 Charcoal on Paper

Make sure to check out all the Yeti's on Hats Blog, and make some time to draw a Yeti and post the link to your artwork in the comments on Hat's blog. That way he can keep track of all the Yeti December Madness.

Later,

Joey

Yeti December

Here is my first Yeti drawing for Yeti December... maybe I'll do another tonight. check out Hat Lieberman's Yetis they are spectacular. He is also responsible for declaring this month of December, "Yeti December".

So if you feel like it, do a drawing of a Yeti post it on your blog or what ever you have and then leave a link on Hat's blog. or on mine if you want.

Later

Figure Drawing

Feet, hands, and a naked lady... Its good to do some figure drawing now and then. I wish I did it more often. I've got some more stuff to post in a little bit. It's gonna be a big blogging day for me :) let me know what you think about this stuff will ya!

Manny and Khan Online... again...

OK so, its been a while since I've posted. In my last post I was talking about the BG's from Manny and Khan and I was going to follow it up with a few more posts about the paint but, I've been kind of slacking in the blogosphere and I apologize for that. I would still like to do a few posts someday regarding our paint and the work that Big Star did but for now im just gonna post the actual short with good audio.



It was a few months back when Manny and Khan was inadvertently leaked on Big Stars Website and then found its way onto youtube. Since then its been re-posted twice. The second time it was posted on youtube it was with all the Cartoonstitute shorts which as most of you know now was not done by Cartoon Network because all the shorts were taken down after about a day. Since then I've seen copys of them popping up again here and there form other youtubers that ripped the videos. Now, the version of Manny and Khan that has been posted on RacattackNow's youtube channel has been up for almost a week and it hasn't been taken down yet. Which is weird, I'm not sure why this is. Anyways, seeing how it hasn't been taken down, Josh and I decided it would be a good idea to post a version of M and K with a high quality video and audio. Which will most likely come back to bite us in the ass. oh well, there it is anyways! MAN-HO!!!!

Thanks to all all the amazing comments on Racattacks youtube channel and on Toonzone. You ROCK!

The Awesome List Of Awesome People Who Posted Awesome Comments...
Racattack
chdr
Mickialla
The Huntsman
Daxdiv
Pogorikifan24
soundmonkey44
HEATXZ
Chazooma
Raguoc
Dr.Pepper
dothesmartthing
Sketch
~Shoяe
Aj1
Foxface321
Pogorikifan24
PalmelaFC
El Dahveed
Comics_the_QB
Chazooma
Master Toon
nakak
Mini Garbonzo
CCFridays
stargirl
Rho
DeanBurrito25
Jack_6428
tehsquirreldude
12gerard

I tried to get everyone but I'm sure I am forgetting somebody who has posted something nice about M and K in the last few months. If I have forgotten someone I am sorry, please know that your comments mean the world to me. Thanks Again!!!

p.s. How amazing is Danger Planet!

A little Background info on Manny and Khan (part 1 of 3)

In these next three posts I will attempt to go through our experience creating the look and feel of Manny and Khan's world.

We had a little less then three weeks to establish a style in the rough drawing phase. Not to mention create the 40 or so rough layouts that we would send to Bigstar for reference. So we turned to "dream-boat" designer Chris Tsiriotis.

We meet with Chris and showed him some concept drawings that we had done and the final rough drawings of our characters.






We talked about shows and styles that we liked.

We wanted to create a forest that felt dense without having to fill the entire screen with trees. We also wanted it to stay true to the natural organic way a forest grows but still feel cartoony, that way Manny and Khan looked liked they belonged. Our plan was to create a sort of vignette style with lots of negative space that would eventually be filled with a base color that would carry through all the scenes. We also wanted the drawings to feel very loose. We didn't want to hide the fact that it was drawn by hand, we wanted to celebrate it. We also wanted Manny and Khan's tree to look as if a meteor had smashed through it, leaving a giant chunk missing.

Below are just three of many drawings that Chris did after our first meeting




After seeing his first pass we went through and discussed what we liked and didn't like in all the drawings. Josh and I naturally gravitated toward the middle drawing above because it was so loose and rough. We asked him to explore that drawing some more and he came back a few hours later with the drawing below.



It was so close to the rough, hand-drawn, vignette we were going for. All it needed was a little variety in the types of trees, some perspective to add depth, and a little more of the roughness that he captured in the original pass. We talked some more and then Chris came back with the drawing below.



And the style of Manny and Khan was born.





check back soon for part II - painting the BG's with Tim Barnes...

And thanks again to all the amazing people at Toonzone, you're Awesome!!