Happy New Year!!!!!

Because of its mysterious transmogrification from a caterpillar, the butterfly is a universal symbol for intense transformation, usually for the better. If the butterfly is in the egg stage, the coming change is still but an idea. In the larva stage, a decision needs to be made. In the cocoon stage, you are working to make your dreams a reality. An adult butterfly flying in the air indicates sharing, or the need to share, your ideas with the world. Happy New Year 2006!!!!!!!!!!!

Old throw Back

here is a pic i did last year that i found on my hard drive. Just thought i'd share it with the family!

Sho'Nuff!!!!

In the streets of Harlem, everyone is just trying to have a little fun, groove a little bit here, groove a little bit there...But now Sho'Nuff, the self proclaimed Shogun of Harlem wants to have total control, and with his amazing martial arts skills, who's going to stop him?, the police!? Yeah right, there's only one guy who stands between Sho and total supremacy, and that's Leroy Green the man who can catch bullets with his teeth, who is known by his fans as Bruce Leroy.

12/20/05

Today is a SLOW day for me again, but not for you lucky andre-nites out there that have been waiting like good slaves to see more of my evil deeds. Here are two quick ones i did today while joking around with my office mate and between checking emails and updating other stuff. The first one is a quick one i did of Usher. I don't think it looks like him but two people came by my office and yelled out is that Usher. LoL! I guess its the point on top of the head that gave it away. hehehe! The other is a pic of Fosters. I just finished on a game for that show so i was in that mode of drawing those characters.

Quickie

Got a slow week this week. Not sure what I'm doing for the hoildays since I'm a member of the Broke Phi Broke club this month. The closing cost of the house took more then i thought and what i was told from day one. But anyway here is a new sketch i did in sketchbook PRO 2. just thought i'd keep it loose since i do so much of my art clean. A-Town out!

More Sketchbook Pro Stuff

Today I got the new wacom that you can draw on the screen with and its sweet! No more having to scan in anything if i don't want to. Well i opened up sketchbook pro and had my way with it. hehehe! well here are two drawing i did today. Just got to get use to drawing without paper and pencil.

One by One

Well I love animation, well i love good animation. One short that I've been wanting to see is this Disney short that I heard about called One by One! I don't know why they didn't promote this short better. It was suppose to be on the new Fantasia 2006 DVD but Disney cut that DVD all together. So They stuck it on Lion King 2 which was dumb. Now I have to go rent Lion King 2 just so i can see this 6 min short.

gtactiks unite!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah I forgot! I'm part of a group of artist that are trying to take over the world with this art thing mane, called gtactiks. We have a blog thats just getting on its feet so check it out also. The link is over to the side. We got some talent and we trying to make some serious moves next year.

Venture Bros flash Game

I was lucky enough to work on one of my favorite shows Venture Bros. well let me reword that. I got to work on the flash game for a cartoon that i love which is Venture Bros. Here is some stills from the game thats coming out on Adultswim.com I think this monday 12-12-05. I did all the character animation for the game and its a multiplayer game so look out for that next week. I sketched out everything and did clean ups in Adobe Illustrator and then into Flash MX.

Well the link to the game is

HERE

quick post

Perfect Hair

Awhile back I did a few designs for the Perfect hair cartoon and I never thought I'd ever see it again. Well the jokes on me lol! I had to work on the Perfect hair Forever game. Its not finished yet. The programmers are hacking away at it now. But here is a drawing i did for it. Except the Background i just added that for the post but he is riding his cloud from the show. Have a good weekend.

New House

Well I havnet posted much this week. I been really busy moving. I got my first house this past weekend. Not use to all this extra room I have now. lol! Its gonna take some time to fill it up with new junk but I'll get it full sometime.



Here is a pic from the Hawks game I went to this week. Man the hawks suck bad and i mean really bad this year. Well at least i got to see Wade play for the first time live.

Alias Sketchbook

Today is slow and Thanksgiving is closing in on us fast. I downloaded a copy of Alias Sketchbook Pro which is a pen-based sketching tool that gives you the power to draw like you would on paper. Its pretty cool and easy. Well here is a quick sketch i did on my wacom in the alias sketchbook. If you'd like to try it out here is more info on the program,

Alias Sketchbook Pro 2

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Quick sketches 11/21/05

Its Monday and I really didnt get any new drawings done over the weekend. I'm in the middle of moving so I thought i'd post the last thing i drew in my sketchbook from last week. Drawing people never really was my thing until I got a chance to view a few other artist sketchbooks. I'm really getting into it and knocking these things out. I've been trying to do at least one head a day and fell the page if I'm lucky.

Well I just wanted to post something new that I've been taking my sweet time to work on and finish! Here is a pic form my What's Happening super quick teaser. I just wanted to do a screen-saver for myself and a few friends and its coming along pretty well. This isn't finished gotta add the other main characters to the shot but here is a shot form the animation. Maybe someday i can pitch this to a network, but i am thinking of posting it on a podcast if it turns out good enough.

Dawud Anyabwile

I just wanted to highlight a fellow artist that I get hype about every-time I see something new from him. His art kicks ass and makes me want to burn every drawing I do and start over just because he's skills are so much more advanced than mine. Some of you may know him form his Brother Man comic books from back in the day. Well enough chit chat just check out

Dawud Anyabwile's site

Grad School

Being on Blog I've run into alot of artist on here that i love their artwork. Gets my blood pumpin! All i can say is I hope that i can give that same feeling to someone when they look at my art. Well here is a little something I did for American Greetings this year. I had to design diffrent types of grad students i think i did about 10 of them but here are just three. I'll have to post the others later. I'll have to find the files. I need to label all my cds with my backups on it.

Fellow artist #1 Saxton Moore

Once a week I'm going to highlight a fellow artist that I either know personaly or someone that I really look up to as a artist. So here is artist #1. He's my old roommate and has been really steppin up his art as of late.His site is Here. he also has a blog site that is pretty cool.Saxton Blog Here.

Public Enemy #1

Growing up I was a big hip hop fan and still am! Just that alot of the hip hop out right now is negative. I miss the good old 80's where we had righteous hip hop like self destruction and all in the same gang and fight the power!!!!! Well here is a look back at the 80s.

How do I Look?

well here is something I did yesterday as a quick sketch that I decided to put a little color on.

New Sketch 11-01-05

Well today is a slow day in the office so I thought I'd post some new stuff! I've been really busy at work of late plus I'm in the middle of trying to close on a house. Yeahhhhhh my first house! but I've been trying to make time to draw in my sketchbook and really hit the nail on some good ones. This is really two pages from my book that i put together for one post. Just some random faces I drew as time was passing.

the second one is some guy I saw on myspace that i thought would make a cool pic! ROCK ON!!!!!

Another Dad Pic

Here is another pic i found that I did for American Greetings awhile back.

Sketch of the day

I've been trying to keep up with a sketchbook as of late and I been doing a pretty good job of trying to do at least one a day! well here are two pages out of it. Not my best pages but I did like the way these came out. I tried not to spend too much time on these! Just 3 min or so on each one and move to the next one. Trying to get my speed up so i can work faster but still put out good art work.

More Shaman King

Found some more of the trading cards I did awhile back.

Zapp Mama

Well last night I took the wife to see Zapp Mama! Boy was it a good show! a really good show! She rocked it for 2 hours straight and only left the stage once to change clothes while the band kept playing. Erykah Badu stole alot of her act now that i saw her perform live. It was bad enough that they sound so much alike when they sing but their stage shows are also pretty much the same. Here are some pics from the show. I really hate my digital camera i think its time for a new one i got it so long ago and it doesn't have a zoom! I was right up on the stage and these came out like i was far away.

The Female MC

Anybody that knows me knows that I'm a hip hop fan, I mean i love hip hop its in my blood! I listen to alot of good hip hop not that radio stuff or that Crunk music which i think is trash but thats for another blog. lol!!! if you look back on my blog i got a hip hop related pics so why not one more? This is for the lady MC's out there!!!!!

The Batman

Here is a Batman pic i did for the ending of a batman boat game on Cartoonnetwork.com. You have to beat the game to see this at the end which i have yet to do. I did a few short animations in thru out the game.

Gotta Keep her Happy!

Well for awhile now me and the wife had been sharing the same computer. I'd be trying to work and do a freelance job and she'd come in and and waant to bump me off to check her email. I'm in the middle of a job here and you want me to stop so you can check your email. Well after alot of going back and forth at it i went ahead and broke down and got her her very own toy!!!

It's FRIDAY damnit!!!

Well since it's friday I thought I'd post some more stuff. I been trying to keep it to one or two post a day at the most but its friday so i thought I'd post some more cool stuff for ya! Well at the top of the year I did a freelance gig to do some Shaman King Trading cards. Well here are a few of them. I don't even know if these ever made print.

Trying to get loose!

Well the other night i started on my all girl sketch book trying to get loose and get back into the flow of drawing something that didn't require Flash Mx or cleaning up mu pencil lines. Well here is one of the first things I drew.
Enjoy!!!!!!

Freelance character designs

Well awhile back I did a freelance job where I had to design some Dads for fathers day and I never posted them. Don't even know if they used them or not. Doesn't matter I guess i still got paid. LoL Nothing like a a freelance gig that pays and pays on time. Well I did like 10 different dads so here's a few of them.Tell me what you think.

Some Logos

Here are a few logos i did for a freelance gig awhile back for some cell phone wall papers.