Accelerating to Orbital Speed

Lately, I've been a little slow getting the story going, mostly because of hardware problems. I had a little snafu with my Cintiq but thanks to the helpful folks at Wacom I'm back in business...and so are Donut and Betty.

When last we left off, we were T-0. So enjoy the flight and buckle up!

-J

Can I get a little help ovah here?!!!

Somebody needs to work on their communication skills.
-J

Once upon a time,...

in an age without mercy, lived a care-free lass.

Remember to eat your veggies!

-J

I'm all out of neutronium...

It's been a while since we've checked-in with our heroes. Hopefully they've got enough neutronium to get the dark matter drives up an running or it's going to be a short trip off this rock...Anyone know where a gal can purchase a little star core material on the quick?!!

See you soon,

-J

Every day is a new day...

...and a new set of challenges, problems, annoyances, near misses, triumphs, rewards, joys and heartaches. However you want to see the world...be it a glass is half empty person or half full.

Being the morning person that I am, I always find it funny that people are miserable in the AM. I had a conversation today with a coworker (also a morning person) about being happy and cheerful in the morning and why more people aren't psyched up in the morning. After all, you did just wake up alive!!! I mean that's something to be glad about, right? It's one more chance to make it right.

So chug some caffeine and get out there...into the unknown. Even if it seems like an unforgiving alien world.

-J

Chapter #2 has landed!

Every great space epic starts with a complete breakfast. *This chapter is sponsored by Sugar Toasted WORMHOLES. Available at your local spaceport.

Join us next time, when Betty and Donut take one small step for canine kind!

-J

Top o' the mornin' to ya!

Exploring the galaxy is rough business. You gotta get up pretty early in the AM if you wanna beat the Farkalians to the outer edge of the Oort Cloud and back.

Every morning growing up, my father used to come into our rooms and declare a rousing 'Up an at 'em!' I began to hate those words by the time I graduated.

More to come...

-J

A Hare at the Beach

Found an old sketch recently but never felt like it was finished, so I threw some color and texture at it. Hope you like it.

Wishing it was warm now.
-J

Oh noooooo....

 

...run for your life from the Twinkie Invasion...A war is waging on planet earth and the invaders from Planet Hostess are laying waste to our world with their armada of Twinkie ships and strange Monkey Bear robots.

Found this little gem in the archives when I was doing a little studio cleaning. It's the last one for a while. 

First come, first serve for the special price of $40. 

11" x 20" artwork with 1" border on watercolour paper. Gently loved.

-J

Fright Night...

It's been a long time since I've seen a really good scary movie...I've had to settle with American Horror Story...and not to say it hasn't been great, but it doesn't make me check the closet or under the bed. Hope you enjoy.

-J

Night of the Purring Dead

Just a little mood setter for Halloween. Started this zombie cat whilst watching The Walking Dead....okay, gotta go toilet paper some houses....Cheers

-J

Your attitude sucks!

Had a little time on my "vacation" to do some animating. I put together this little animation test from a VO I found on an animation site. I took the voice over from the list and came up with an idea and characters... et voilà you've got what you see here.
Hope you enjoy the best 6 seconds you'll have since you left facebook.

For more fun quick animations from another site and the originator of this concept:
11 sec animation club
It's mostly dominated by 3D animation nowadays but still lots of fun.

Cheers,
-J

Candy Cane Strut

A little test animation I whipped up for Betty and Yeti. Looped 2x for double the fun...or not...

-J

Twit Twot Tweet Tweet

So I came across these little guys...while doing one of those random walk-abouts through my old files.
I thought it was a bit strange when I realized I made this like 5 years ago. Not that I have a shot in hell of retrieving any royalties from Twitter for the "tweeting" little blue bird. But I can fantasize, right?

Cheers,
-J

Yeti like candy!

So it'll be summer in a couple weeks and I don't why I'm posting this, but here it is. I have so many unfinished pieces, I'm not quite sure why I gravitated to this one on the list but here it is. I just finished it up. Hope you like it!

Have a cool one.

-Joe