I just framed some of Mike’s drawings that I have. Two are self portraits and the other is just fun . . .

I’ve always been a fan of the creepy classic Disney shorts. I used to wake up an hour early before school everyday just so I could watch all the Disney shorts.

I wish I could find “Dough for the DoDo” or the later color version “Porky in Wackyland”… they’re one of my favorite creepy Looney Tunes shorts.

I’ve watched this video 7 times in a row. It was cut together with found footage.

Here is a collection of concept drawings my drawing mentor and friend, E. Michael Mitchell did for a Merlin project. Mike is also the cover artist for his friend J.D. Salinger’s, Catcher In The Rye.

Whenever I feel stuck, it’s because I’m lacking a larger goal with my work. Having a larger project/theme helps to fuel more pieces. Read a book and visually develop it for film. I had been working on some charcoal rabbits. My friend, E. Michael Mitchell saw them and suggested I read the novel “Watership Down” and to continue my drawings as visual development for the book.

Recently, for myself, I’ve been taking recent movies or TV shows and doing my own concept art for them…kinda reverse conceptualizing.

The way I think about drawing is all thanks to Mike…

If you’re in a mood where you don’t want to draw to a theme or concept and you have drawing block. The best thing to do is to draw from life around you. Draw that can of shaving cream, draw your cell phone, and draw it a few times, a dozen time, a hundred times. Draw all the objects around you on just one page, draw on top of the same drawing 20 times.

Paint like you draw, Draw like you paint.

Just accept the fact that you aren’t going to know what your drawing is going to look like before you start it. Its like playing a game of hockey on paper between your pencil and your imagination.

You are always going to get bad drawings, but you have to work through those to get the ones you’re happy with.

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