One last one for tonight folks… My wife like Tinkerbell quite a bit and had asked me to sketch her out for her…
This ones for you Ange.
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So an other friend asked me to draw a sad flower pulling out it’s petals…
Here’s the first sketch…
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Here are some random sketches.
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So a friend of mine has been getting some pretty sweet tattoos that I’ve been helping out with concept sketches and ideas…
Here’s the latest concept sketch.
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So the lemon car saga continues.
For those not in the know… My Santa Fe, which has been running great since the day I got it 5 years ago (barring it getting totaled 2 months after getting it) was about to out live it’s warranty. About 5 days before the expiration, my power windows, locks and mirrors stopped working. I took a look and found that all three systems were all under the same 30amp fuse… that had blown. So… I went to Canadian Tire, bought a new one, put it in and everything started working.
The next day, it blew again. So I called the dealership and booked an appointment… for 2 days before the warranty expiry. Bring it in, and get a call later that day stating that the cause was a badly insulated wire in the door.
So I pick it up and drive home. The following day, I’m leaving work and all those power systems stop working again… Look under the hood and the fuse is blown again. So… back to the dealership.
They look at it all day long and call me, telling me they can’t figure out what the cause is, so they placed an order to get a new fuse box. I get to the dealership… I don’t even get out of their parking lot before it blows again.
A week goes by, nothing from them, so I call them… they tell me that the part hasn’t arrived. An other week goes by and still nothing… so I call them again, oh it’s in, you can bring it in on Friday (it’s Monday).
Friday arrives, I drop it off at 7:30am… ask them if I should just wait, or take the courtesy shuttle back to work. They tell me they won’t get to it till the afternoon… I go outside and see them bring the car in. I ask them again… No no, they’re just making room in the lot. I’m about to get on the shuttle and see them opening the hood… ask one last time… again, they tell me to just go… The shuttle drops me off and they call me to tell me it’s ready…
The weekend goes by and all is working… starting to get my hopes up, until I’m out at lunch yesterday and can’t close the windows… I had a spare fuse, so I pop it in… it blew.. so I’m stuck with the windows up and it looks like it’s going to rain.
Call the dealership and get an appointment for 1pm… I drive it in, they had closed the case… After blowing up at them, they agree it’s the same issue and should still be covered.
So I get a call from them a few minutes ago… and they now think it’s the ETAC… but they don’t have the part in house and have to order from overseas… so I’ll be an other week without windows… Now, they assured me this is the cause, but mentioned that if this isn’t it… they have NO IDEA what it could be.
I HATE CARS!
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Well, the OIAF just started selling tickets and announced the selections for this year’s festival. Can’t wait!
If anyone is interested in going, let me know, cause I’m hoping to be there everyday.
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So in 23 days Ange and I will be in Hollywood!
For someone as immersed in movies as me, this is a dream trip.
As I mention the trip to friends and co-workers, the standard question (other then asking if I’m going to a job interview at Pixar… Pixar’s in Emeryville people, not Hollywood) is, what do I have planned down there… Well, here’s the current plan.
We’ll arrive on the Thursday at around 1pm… get down to the hotel which is iin the same block as Mann’s Chinese Theater, the Kodak Theater, the walk of fame and Hollywood Highlands… After checking in and what not, we’ll be visiting those theaters, we then have reservations at Musso and Frank’s, Hollywood’s oldest restaurant… If there’s time somewhere in there… we’ll also check out Madame Tussaud’s (then collapse from jet lag)
The next day, our day will start off with a walking tour of Hollywood, it’s small groups and they go into lots of details. Later on in the day we’ll be going on a Home of the Stars tours. Ange has always wanted to go on one of these… so why not. We’ll then check out the Hollywood Museum and then in true Disney fanboy fashion… we’re going to see a movie at the El Capitan Theater.
The El Capitan is a movie theater, owned and operated by Disney, located literally across the street from our hotel. They tend to go all out and decorate the theater based on the film playing there… if ONLY we were going a week earlier, we’d get to see Toy Story 3… but no… they had to read Ange’s mind and pick something SHE would love… *shudder* Tinkerbell 3 :P
Saturday will be spent at Universal Studios… We’ve been to the one in Orlando a few times, but this is the actual Universal Studios, so I’m looking forward to it. We had also originally planned to go to the Hollywood Bowl as well to check out a show based on the music of the films from 20th Century Fox… however due to some issues with Ticket Master… (grrr) we won’t be doing that.
Sunday will be spent at Venice Beach, shopping, walking around and taking it easy… we may also have to find a way to get to Sprinkles, a cup cake shop that Ange has been dying to try for ages now.
Monday will be a tour of Warner Brothers Studio… again, something I can’t wait for… they offer 2 different tours, a 5 hour VIP tour… that costs a small fortune, and a 2 hour tour, that we’ll be taking. Later in the evening we’ll be taking a tour of the Egyptian Theater.
Tuesday we’ll be packing up and heading to Anaheim… again, due to circumstances out of our control (DAMN YOU Disneyland Hotel check-in Time) we won’t get a chance to go to the Disney California Adventure Park… I was actually really looking forward to seeing it (and yes, go on the Pixar Inspired rides), but I’m not paying 144$ only to visit the park from 3:30 pm to 8pm :P, so we’ll probably just slum it at Downtown Disney.
Wednesday will be spent at Disneyland. This should be interesting… I’ve been to Disney World more times that I can count, both as a kid and with Ange… I’m pretty sure I’ll find it odd, finding the rides I’m used to, located in different areas, and the small differences.
Then we leave to come back here and start planning our trip in march… on the Disney Wonder Cruise ship (more on this later)
So, as I started saying, everyone asks me what I plan on doing down there… once I give them the list… most people then ask… and are you going to take a vacation to relax from that?
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I had to leave for my wife’s Grandfather’s 80th birthday (I swear, he and his brother are going to be the inspirations for the two characters in Liar’s Bench) before I got a chance to post an other sketch…
This one is just tons of sketches… you’ll see a concept for one of the Ogres from Silver Lining as well as the baker… and some other random doodles. (This should make up for the few days I missed.)
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This little guy is one of the concept sketches for the main character of a few shorts I’ve been working on.
Hope you like him.
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