Enclose

For today's 'What the Doodle?' on Creative Juices.

Quick story: I almost lost this image to Flash Limbo when my file went corrupt on a system lock-up. This is where you click on the .fla, and Flash politely informs you that it is unable to open the file. Period. Gone for good. GAME OVER. Well, this time on a whim I tried swapping the file extension to .jpg, and then back to .fla. And when I tried to open it, it worked!—but only for a few moments until the file would crash. So, I published it as .swf to get the artwork out, and then re-imported the .swf into a new Flash file. It worked, image saved! So, it's worth a shot if you find yourself in a similar (horrible) situation.

I leave you with this thought: Wouldn't it be cool if you were inking a drawing on paper and it all of a sudden vanished (POP) from the universe? No, it wouldn't. This is what is fundamentally bad about computers. Your artwork doesn't exist anywhere outside of those 1s and 0s. Artist, beware.

Mucky

My laptop came back from repairs last night (new logic board!) just in time for me to quickly work up something for today's What the Doodle: Mucky! ...Hard to pass that one up.

Check out what everyone else did here.

Handrail

For today's "What the Doodle?" on Creative Juices.

Ricochet

For a new What the Doodle? over on Creative Juices.

Ghostwriting

Latest doodle for WTD? over at Creative Juices.

Welcomed

Here's my image for today's What the Doodle? on Creative Juices. The word this week was WELCOMED. If you click on the image you'll notice I went for a "zipatone" effect using Photoshop's halftoning feature. I'd never tried this before—liking the result a lot.

Preparation

For this week's What the Doodle? on Creative Juices--> Preparation

Inked and colored in Flash.
Be prepared.

Tanning

I drew this chump for today's What the Doodle? over at Creative Juices. The random word this week was TANNING. I normally don't use gradients (I'm a flat color guy), but tans do have gradation in certain areas, so I went for it. Drawn and colored in Flash.

Interbreeding

The "What the Doodle" word this week (with no influence from me...I sware...completely random) was interbreeding.


Here's my inking from Flash:


I drew the critter below as a spare...some kind of lobster/rabbit mutant.


Be sure to stop by Creative Juices to see what the FableVision crew came up with. By the way, a few people have asked—this is the random word generator we use.

Espouse

I wrote a quick gag comic for this week's "What the Doodle?" The word that came out of the random word generator was ESPOUSE. A tricky one for sure. I decided to play the fear angle. Not sure how successful it is, though. Here's what the rest of the FableVision crew came up with on Creative Juices.

Pelagic

Here's my contribution for this week's What The Doodle? on Creative Juices. The random word generator spit out the most obscure word yet: PELAGIC. Which, in a nutshell refers to the open sea, or the creatures who inhabit the upper layers of the ocean.

Stop on by to sea, ahem...see what the rest of the FableVision crew came up with --> here.

Trace

This week's "What the Doodle?" on Creative Juices was TRACE. I drew this guy with a brush pen in my sketchbook and added some color in Photoshop. Check out what the rest of the FableVision crew came up with here.

Creative Juices is on Facebook

We recently passed our 200th post on Creative Juices! Not bad since we started the blog almost 2 years ago. (We're at 208 on Drip!—forgot to celebrate) If you haven't ventured over there yet, it's a group blog run by a bunch of us over at FableVision. We started it as a way to share interesting links with each other, but everyone can tap into the pool of creativity and inspiration. Also, every few weeks we publish the latest WTD? (What The Doodle?)—samples from which you've probably seen here periodically.

There's been some activity going on behind the scenes as we recently launched a Fan Page on Facebook.

If you frequent Facebook--> Join here!

You'll get Creative Juices updates in your news feed and you can leave comments on our wall. This was on a suggestion from CJ contributor Naomi (thanks!).

We're also working on a new branding. Here's a little guy I conjured up.


And some possible logotype treatments.


Stay tuned for more.

In other FableVision-related fun and widgetry, check out this bunny car Keith came up with--> here. Just click around and he'll zoom back and forth. This will soon be part of our huge FV Studio website update.

Cartoon Silhouettes

I'm not sure how many of you have made it over to my group blog, Creative Juices, but I just posted on something that I thought most of you would find interesting. I had a little theory that I wanted to test. Which is that most if not all memorable cartoon characters can be reduced to a silhouette, and still be immediately recognizable. It was an extremely pleasurable exercise for me, as I think about shape, form, and positive and negative space when I design my own characters. It's so much fun to investigate character design at this level. Here's the direct link to the post.