sketches for short

holy crap 2 posts in one day! roughs for a short piece I'm working on for myself. I figure if anyone reads this they can tell me "Phil, how's that personal project going?" to make me feel guilty that I never finish anything I ever start!

After a couple of drinks with Bryan and Sean I drew this.

memory sketch from the train

Man, This guy kept coughing on me this morning on the train ride in. I was trying to read Harry Potter and all while dodging spit, I guess that's what airborne is for, eh?

Quite the Adventure

These are just a couple of designs I worked on for the latest Tek piece. The first version of Tek wasn't spacey enough, I agree.
The girl is Tek's gf, Jana, who used to be named Ginny. The Colbert peeps were/are alot of fun to work with, not too picky at all, they let us worry about the art, while they worried about the story. Man, I wish I could have my summer back , I'd trade a couple of Tek season 2 deleted sequences for a weekend off in July.
If you see it on Youtubes or something let me know how we could improve. Simon Ampel did a smack up job on desinging the other half of the characters, my fav. being the dying agent (voiced by Jon Stewart). We all did a bit of everything, Bryan Cox did some nice bg's of the assembly , and Max Porter had designed the bg's for the pitch we did to get the job in the first place, plus a few other bg's in this episode. Anyways, we're waiting for the second script, I don't really like fall, so I won't be missing much.

100% Genuine Napkin Drawings

So we were out last Wednesday eve, started at Toasties for an innocent beer, it turned out that Michael Ferraro happened to see Bryan Cox and I and we went back to his studio to check out his latest project and then off to (I forget the name now) on University and 12th...Jacks? maybe. But Steve the bartender there hooked us up with some Fondue and some whiskey, and we drew on some napkins. We folded them into 3 sections, working off the previous artist's lines, not knowing what they had drawn. I call the first one the Beetle, and the second one Radish Man.

Subway Rider

I rode the subway behind this guy a few months back, and saw a sketch i'd done of him from the back while cleaning up my files at work. I figured he'd look something like this from the front.

My brother on a Scott towel

It's been so long I forgot that I even had a blog, not that I've got a huge following YET!! or anything....This one was drawn at 5:30 am after a night out with Patric Lockerby in Brooklyn. He was sleeping, I was watching him, 'cause If I wasn't he'd have missed his flight.

Memory Sketch

From friday, this gentleman was seated across from me as I was returning from the Mets game with a friend. I still have another person to sketch from that evening, I haven't forgotten.

Monday Night

Thanks to Autumn for all the great recommendations for places to go in Miami...if anyone else has some, let me know.
This is her friend, Liz, who seemed stand-offish at first, but warmed up to Jon and I by the end of our stay at Prey bar. Thanks for sending me the picture.

Char designs.

I thought I'd dress her up in Knee highs, and a t shirt that my friend Todd is makin'.

Drawing on gum packets

I sketched this guy playing guitar last night, waiting for the train.
I didn't have a sketchbook on me......so I used an excel gum package instead.
He was really amazing, had a crowd, and all, and these girls were dancing. I gave him 5 bucks. I know it looks like two different people, but I didn't have my glasses on me, and besides, it was 1 am.

Rainy Day

I took a portal to lunch today, then I walked back to work, and this girl was walking in front of me.
When's this rain going to stop? Feel like I'm back in Vancouver.

Phone Sketches

I was catching up with Justin last night, we spoke for at least an hour, then I looked down and realized I had been doodling the whole time, and these are some of the results. They both started with just one eye, and evolved into something completely surreal. The subway scene I put a bit of thought into, starting with the kid in the middle, then smudging it , realizing he was wizzing by in a train, then adding in the rest. not as exquisite as my shot in the Tripplettes of the train slowing down matrix style with all the char's just sitting there. I realized a couple of years later that I had no idea how to properly clean up and inbetween, (it took me far longer than it should have, but Sylvain was too crazy running around to notice)......only after my friend Mario Carmel at Pascal Blais showed me, (2-3 years into my carreer as an animator). Then I thought it'd be a good idea to work on Sinbad as a clean up/ IB artist for a couple of months to really say I knew how.
what was this post about again? oh yeah, I was just chatting with Justin, and this is what I drew.
Free drink of whoever can tell me which train they're riding.

Union Square drawings_02

Some more sketches from Union Square park on my lunchbreak. The guy was watching the dogs at the dog park, the girl, selling something, probably worked for Greenpeace, and the last guy could sure use a break.

Subway napkin drawings

a true napkin drawing, on the subway around 11pm last night. A couple of nice older ladies saw me doing these sketches and handed me one of their notebooks to draw them. They didn't speak english, but they seemed happy with what I gave them. I only had two stops to scribble something down... that's never happened to me before, it was really cool!