could do better..
There was only one thing I was halfway good at.. and at 15 I started to wonder if I actually could DRAW for a living..
READ MORE..Childhood art
Drawings from my childhood and teens:
Bantha Tracks
I recently found old faded samples of some of the first drawings I ever had “published”; some fan art submitted to BANTHA TRACKS, the 1970s/80s STAR WARS fan club newsletter. Soon after my 13 year old mind was thoroughly blown by STAR WARS in 1977, I saw an ad in a magazine (probably a 1978 … Read more
SPACE FLiK: The Corrector’s Cut
SPACE FLiK: A director’s cut of the super-8 animated film, a STAR WARS parody influenced by MAD MAGAZINE, made when I was 16.
READ MORE..Space FLiK
Recently, I found a cardboard box containing the artwork, and super-8 film spool of a movie I made in high school. A celluloid masterpiece called SPACE FLiK.
READ MORE..On Drawing
The ability to draw, to capture a personal slice of the world, or a quirky phantasm of the mind, is the particular area of human achievement that intrigues me.
READ MORE..1972 Drawings
When he isn’t running his own animation Studio, my friend Steve publishes an excellent web magazine for animators called FLIP. Recently, for an up-coming article, he asked his animation friends for some of their childhood drawings. This sent me on a hunt for a pile of old, yellowed paper I knew I had some place…. … Read more