Animal art you say? Hmmmnnn…. ANIMAL art!

a group of cartoon characters are sitting at a table with signs that say canada and usa ALT: a group of cartoon characters are sitting at a table with signs that say canada and usa

Hahahaha!!!

Amen. I’ll take what I can get and my collection of xeroxed artwork from back in the day is more than enough to appreciate for the time being.

Yeah… the Wars part was what I wanted back then as a kid and so the stories that were told and the fact that the Ewoks had no spaceships at all just lost me. But it’s probably worth checking out with a fresh eye!

I remember watching Ewoks and the Droids cartoon but it don’t register much in my long term memory unlike plenty of other shows… but looking at this little clip I feel like I should find it and look at it from a new perspective. This clip just is too funny with the acting and expressions!

“Who Dunnit?” Always sounded to me like the music that would play over a video montage of a group of people on a drunken bender that got progressively more smashed and dangerous as the night dragged on. Definitely not boring, but seemingly made for reasons I’d love to have a deeper explanation over.

Man, what I wouldn’t give to see something, -ANYTHING of Dan Haskett just talking about his memories of working on different things and his approach to drawing. That man is AMAZING.

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There’s always my perennial go-to favorite! :D Sophisticated entertainment! *eyebrow wiggle*

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Ok, I’m old enough to remember watching this cartoon back when it first aired but I DEFINITELY don’t remember it looking *this* entertaining!

I am such a sucker for mood lighting and arcade ambiance. I will forever want to visit Kevin Flynn’s arcade from the movie TRON with the animated neon Recognizer in the wall. I can hear what your room sounds like with all those games running at the same time. Wonderful cacophony I’m sure!

That setup you have is a thing of beauty. Love the neon Galaga spaceship!

I will always and forever be delighted seeing someone drawing with traditional media at an animation table. Images like this helped put me on the road to what I do today although I have some regret that I never got to work on any storytelling animation production.

Oh man, I LOVE talking to people about art! I’m at the Bewhiskered convention and I’ve had so many conversations on the nature of talent, skill, learning, technique, passion, dedication, education, and entertainment, and it is just so damn fulfilling to share my enthusiasm for all this!

Beeeaauuuuutifull!!!

Aw thank you for that! :)

I’m on board with this then! I mean, Jumpman actually appeared in his own Olympics game (alongside that blue hedgehog) and so my expectations for jumping are pretty high! Sky high even!

Was there a *lot* of jumping? Like, when a movie stars Jumpman I really feel there needs to be a certain minimum threshold for jumping that must be surpassed.

Here's an older sketchpage commission for Hexadoodle, the wildly cartoonish frog whose appendages, and indeed entire anatomy seems to be open for debate. Super exuberant and completely goofy!

Last autumn when I was visiting friends for a week I challenged myself to actually do some sequential art storytelling. It's not yet a *comic* but it's a start. And starting is GOOD.

Behold the screaming adventures of Powder and Sparx! Together, THEY FIGHT CRIME!

Oh these are adorable!

*pfft* that’s a shared experience for sure.

Man I LOVE visiting Muir Woods! What a stupendous place to be!

For those who don't immediately recognize the context, this is a picture that puts Erik's character Jasper into the context of the original P.D. Eastman book "Are You My Mother?". The book tells the story of a little bird who falls out of the nest and begins searching for their missing mother, encountering more and more dead ends and frightening situations, eventually resulting in a happy ending. For me this book was one of the very earliest examples in my life of how art and cartooning would hit me in a profound way. I checked this book out from the school library in 1980 when I was six years old and the look of the drawings and the storytelling contained within made an indelible impact on me. P.D. Eastman along with another children's book author / illustrator Bill Peet were animation industry artists in the 1940's through the 60's and their stylistic background was a HUGE influence on me when I read their children's books. In fact I know that I checked out "Are You My Mother?" from the school library in 1980 because in 2007 when my daughter was born my mother pulled out a bunch of children's books that she'd kept for decades and there it was... with the library card still inside it after 27 years. We'll just keep that little secret to ourselves, yah? I wonder how much the late fees would add up to? Anyhow, drawing this was a really special thing, both to express a shared sense of wonder over the turn of events in Erik's life and to touch a bit of history that had been inside of me since I was a little kid.

A personally meaningful illo from a few years back for @bluecanarygallery.bsky.social after finally reuniting with their birth mother after a lifetime apart. The story reminded me of one of my earliest artist influences: "Are You My Mother?" by PD Eastman and I relished the chance to do this.

Gawd, my heart just skipped a beat thinking that because hotel staff were getting chewed out that registration for vendors had already been concluded. **panic** I quickly looked at the MP website and was terribly relieved to see that they're not opening applications for another 2 weeks.

HAWT

I love the exaggeration on this and the utter joy that smile exudes!

Last one from the past few months.

I'll channel all my road rage and uncivilized behavior into Gloria too.

More Gloria doodles from a couple months back.