In my first week at an old day job, I got my first All Employees e-mail while my creative director was setting up my computer. The e-mail was from an unhappy soul in sales, whose lunch was taken from the company fridge: Whoever took my packed lunch, I hope you enjoyed it. I have to go hungry now. Thanks! Aside from reminding myself to keep my lunchbox at my desk, I didn’t take much notice of the e-mail, until a…
The file modified date was May 24, 2006. At that time, I was thinking about maybe applying to Portrait Adoption as an artist and submitting some of my half-assed throwaway digital paintings to them instead of letting them rot on my hard drive, unseen. Much good that bit of consideration did. I never applied, and I never submitted any images. This little digital painting rotted on my hard drive. Until now. Heaven help us all now that this has seen…
We’re too hot to handle. There’s absolutely no doubt. The Tiger team is really mean. We’re gonna knock you out. Too hot to handle. [Clap. Clap. Clap.] Watch out! It’s been so hot today, I’m regressing to my high school days, trying to cool off. It was 118 degrees in the Valley (Los Angeles), so I guess I should be happy it wasn’t as bad here. Still, it’s pretty bad. There’s no wind, no cooling breeze. The air is unbearably…
H.E. and I have come to love the town where we live, so much that, like all the locals here, we sport town stickers on the backs of our cars. We like to hang out at a nearby “village” to eat our meals alfresco, watching all the people around us as we chat about this and that. It’s a nice village—far enough away from the beach that there are no tourists, just people who live in the neighborhood, close to…
I thought it might be cute to show one of my Loose Id lizard cartoons in progress, so here it is: This is something I’m working on tonight, though a part of me wants to veg in bed for the rest of the day. It looks flat because I haven’t airbrushed in the shadows and highlights yet; I’ve only put in the color base, and I haven’t put in any background. Every time H.E. and I go to the movies…