Mister Black

This week we are making some promotional videos for Nike. They have created a character named Mr Black who travels to rivaling highschools and get the kids excited about a big upcoming football game and about Nike gear. Mr Black is played by a improv actor whos real name i forget. I believe it is Pat. He is tons of fun to work with. Not only do I get over a weeks worth of work out of this deal I also get new shoes. They gave me the opportunity to go pick out any footwear from Niketown, downtown Chicago. Usually I would not wear Nike, but it's free and an I get to have ridiculous shoes I would have otherwise never invested in.

Confusing Phone

I had a dream that I was still painting. I had a big job the following day but no one would tell me the address the night before. I had a few too many drinks and woke up late and hungover. Still without the address I had to follow someone else to the jobsite. They were driving too fast. I was groggy and out of it. I hit a cop. I blacked out.
When I woke up I had no idea how much time had passed. On top of that I did not have my cellphone. Being concerned about if I had missed the job I needed to make some calls. The new phone I found in my pocket was overly complicated. It unfolded with many screens and keyboards and even a little retractable mouse. It kind of looked like a stings of paperdolls when I unfolded all of the pieces.

Moving Days Moving Days

These are my last few days not living at PopcornIsland. I have even begun to move my stuff in. It will be exciting to get a lot more done here and have a cleaner and more organized environment to live and work.
Also it is exciting and scary because the rent is much more than I am used to, but i think that will be a good thing for now because it will push me to work much harder than I have had to in the past.

Dobsonfly Larva

So I was camping and floating down a river in Southern Missouri. I was having a great time picking up rocks from the shallow river and looking at them.
Lots had deep holes in them and little bugs crawling around on them. It was a little creepy. One larger rock I found had a large hole and a big bug head sticking out of it. It had big scary pincers. The head was so big and interesting looking I thought I would get the entire bug out of the hole to see what the rest looked like. There was a thin strip of bark floating in the river I began to use it to try to pry the bug out. It clamped down on the bark and I could feel quite a bit of resistance as I pulled back. That was scary as well. The bark was too flimsy so I went into the woods and found a more ridged stick and got the bug out. I set it on top of my kayak. It again was very scary. I drew this picture from memory and later googled random things until I found out it was most likely a dobsonfly larva.

Bug

Werk's for Jerks

I thought this would be a nice cartoon for people to print out and post up in their cubicles.

Mad Goat

Hockey Pictures

The Allowance

This is an illustration I did for a short story written by Red Clark. The fun thing though is I didn't read the story. The only thing I knew was the title, The Allowance.

Applecore Kitty

Air Plane

Plane_01
Originally uploaded by Stujmar

This is a picture I drew while flying to South Africa on an Air Plane. It is also a test of blogging through flickr. P.S. I made a flickr account.

Rolling Thing

This is a concept drawing for a short animation idea I had where a giant rock would roll through the countryside slowly breaking away pieces until it was a film reel. Then film would start playing on it and so on.

Josh Tallo

Here is a picture I took on my new canon XTi. It is the first real camera I have owned. I am pretty excited about it. The last few posts of drawings were actually pictures taken on the XTi of the drawings. I used a tripod and a work light. It was a kind of makeshift animation stand. Probably scanning would have been as easy. I got some modeling of color from the lighting and I think it made the pictures look more gritty and real.
As far as the actual picture goes here is Josh Tallo shooting a film with a canon 5D. There is a good deal of lighting and smoke effects going on. Pretty sweet stuff. You can click on it for the larger version as always. To see the film he was shooting go visit "Beyond the Still" at PopcornIsland

Hi Steve

Cup Cake

Peppermint