Tuesday, August 19, 2014

San Diego Transits - Then and Now Sketches


Old San Diego Electric Railway streetcar
New San Diego Trolley
and Former San Diego Transit Bus

Wa-wa Co-lor

Davelyman Out!


Monday, August 11, 2014

Ginnie Hippopotamus...

...has been known to skinny-dippo bottomless!


Watercolor, Prismicolor

Davelyman Out!

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Eric Quacker...

... Is An Epic Hacker

Watercolor and Prismacolor.

Davelyman Out!

Monday, March 10, 2014

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Board of Directors

 Dan D. Sparks
President. Yes sir! President!
 
 Lettuceleaf M. Malone
Chairman

Robin DeRail
Traffic Manager

Count DeMonet
Minister of Finance

Arnie Clever
Director of Development

Davelyman out!

Monday, October 24, 2011

"That's Right! We're Animatin'!"

Here is a great vid by Dan Povenmire (who I worked with on the Hey! Arnold Show) and Swampy Marsh, the creators of Phineas and Ferb, documenting the production of a TV animation series:


I'm a Sheet Timer, so I can tell you what that is- but I won't! Ha!

Davelyman out!

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Hornbill Willie ~ Rough Turnaround

Birds are tough! But after a lot of fussin', here is a rough:

I gave him more of a crazed look to his eyes so that he looks like he's beyond hungry. And because its funny!

Davelyman out!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Scoutin' Around

From my sketchbook:
Some of the scouts from Troop 583 Castaic, Ca. Drawn with a Pilot G-2.

Davelyman out!

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Hornbill Willie

My story calls for a bird to go after the Chameleon. Looking up the natural enemies of Chameleons, I discover that one of its more exotic and beautiful hunters is the Hornbill. So I decide to go with that and start drawing Hornbills.
But as I'm drawing these birds I keep thinking I've seen this bird somewhere before. Then it hits me...

It turns out that Zazu from the Lion King is a Yellow Billed Hornbill! (And he's designed a lot better than mine too >:-(  I like how they designed the tail. I might have to "borrow" that!).
So you know what that means. I have to design a Hornbill that doesn't look anything like Zazu. Taking the drawings I did of the real birds (top), I'm looking for shapes I can exploit.
Boomerang shapes are always cool. The design on the bottom right (above) looks good. Lets see if I can come up with a body shape for it:
It looks like I'm getting somewhere with this. Playing with shapes and proportions here. I'm favoring the upright position of this bird as opposed to the "squat" position of Zazu. That will help distinguish my bird from Zazu. I'm going to go play with this some more. Davelyman out!

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

LC Character Rotation ~ Preliminary Rough

Alright, a full character turnaround. A logical next step after the head rotation.


 He's a... funny looking character, I must say. He doesn't look like what everybody else is doing. Maybe thats a good thing? Maybe not, one guy thought he was a frog :-(. But there is a reason for this design, I'm trying to stay somewhat faithful to his original 1985 design I did in my young 20s. But I do want to push the appeal of that design. He has come a long way. But he still has a way to go. I feel I have pushed his design as far as I can but he still needs more. I'm going to have to show this around and see if I can get some quality input and really nail his design. Your comments are welcome too.

Davelyman out.