Happy Valentines Day! My wife and I recently traveled to Costa Rica (which was amazing), so while on the beach one day, I drew us together on a surfboard in the sand.

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My Doggy. My wife always bugs me that I never draw our dog... I never thought I would own a toy poodle.ha he is quite the little guy and I love him even though he might bark a little too much.

just a couple of quick drawings from the skecthbook, the Rio drawings are from the talk with Carlos Sandanah, from some of the slides he had as part of his presentation.

Lunch w/ Carlos Sandanah

I'm really looking forward to this! Hope to see you there.

Mr.Steve Jobs

I don't normally post outside material, but this was too inspirational not to. It's audio clips from Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement speech, put to music and images. I think I am going to have to read his book...

Guapo the Iguana

This is a traditionally animated piece I did for fun. This lazy iguana loves his maple syrup.

The Salesman in all of us.

As I was working on this, I thought maybe there is a little bit of evil saleman in all of us ? Some people listen more to their evil salesman then others. I know things aren't always that easy, but personally, I tend to like those who choose to be a little more honest, generous, and less self indulged... don't you? so be strong, and don't listen to this guy!

NY Central Park

This past summer my wife and I traveled to New York City for a mini vacation. These are some of my sketches from touring Central Park. It was a beautiful summer day.

a jazz band playing in Central Park... you'd have to agree It's kinda nice drawing to music.

these drawings were done just outside the central park south entrance in the morning.

I spent more time watching then drawing at this spot. The New York city rollerskating club, there were some awesome characters here, swayn', jivn' & groovn' to there music.

Outside of the Boathouse restaurant this man played his harmonica. He had a couple of requests from this lady. It was pretty cute actually, she sang to a couple of songs while he played.

Central Park has quite a few baseball diamonds... I've never drawn baseball players in action before...

Surfer Dude, and some summer sketches

more commuters...

Vegas sketches

I recently went to Las Vegas. These are a couple of sketches I managed to throw down while meandering the Casinos.

Yabsta Monster !

Yabsta Monster ! from Kirk Jorgensen on Vimeo.

This is a little animation from a contract I did for Yabsta.com, a few months ago. The design was already done, I just animated it :) as well as early sketches just exploring ideas with the monster.

This animation went with the contact info for the company.

KoRk

2:19am time for bed...

Tim Burton Inspiration

So I was fortunate to get to check out the Tim Burton exhibit here in Toronto yesterday. It was amazing to see his early creations and his concept art from Black Cauldron... none of which was used in the final film.
One thing I took away from the experience was the number of different mediums Burton uses to express his creativity from poetry, to sculpting to varieties of pencils and paints... I guess that's what an artist does... creation & experimentation.
I recommend the exhibit to anyone.
Anyway after viewing his collection of works I had to get a pen and create something. so post exhibit we went across the street for a few drinks, while waiting for Batman Returns to start... here are a couple of sketches on some good ole fashioned restaurant napkins, with a little added color.

Gran

This is a tribute piece to all the sweet Grandmothers out there, who bake cookies, and carry lots of sweets in their purse.
Somethn' about her reminds me of Mrs.Doubtfire?

It started as a sketch.. then turned into a painting.
I used 4 different textures I found on google images,and then just made the layer they were on, into multiply. which makes it semi transparent. As well as texture brushes.

CTN 2010

I just got back home from an amazing weekend at the 2nd annual CTN expo. (or as my wife says "the nerd convention" pshh! o.k.. well maybe a little :)

I attended some great seminars, and got to meet some of the world's finest talents.
So inspiring, educational, exhausting,& yet refreshing!
I also got to meet & thank the founder and organizer of the event; Tina Price, for putting an event like this together.

Hopefully it will offer the same elements and even more next year. I would encourage anyone who couldn't make it this year to do your best for the next one.

Meeting artists that share similar passions & dreams was pretty amazing.

ZZzzzz

people sleepn' on the train.

Getting info..

While on may way to work the other morning, I sketched this man reading his morning paper. He had a lot of character to start off with, I tried to simplify shapes and exaggerate a little.
And then I did this lady on her phone/hand held device... the two generations, I guess.

I took in my first full Ottawa International Animation Festival also known as OIAF. I had a great experience.
A few highlights included: The Friday night Lecture @ the Musuem of Civilization which was presented by animator Patrick Osborne from Disney who talked about the upcoming film "Tangled",(very cool) followed by screening Salon de refuse which included my friend and co worker Kyu Bum Lee's short film "Death Buy Lemonade" . Saturday we went to two workshops, and then to see the film the "Illusionist" which I really liked. The Sat night party @ the Hard Rock Cafe was great to see some old friends and meet some new ones.
Hopefully I will attend next year! & see you there.

CLICK ON LINK HERE TO PLAY!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6204806/MC2Toy!NEW_OCT10.mp4

I've been poking at this "outlet" piece here and there for a couple of months now.... still a work in progress, It's a scene from season 2 of Mischief city, which I re-animated and extended. I liked the voice acting and thought it would be fun to see what I could do with it.
After doing 2, 11 second club entries, I wanted to do something that didn't have such a tight deadline I guess.

I wanted the look and feel of the piece to be a little "rougher" and more of an "organic".which was a much SLOWER process. I also wanted to try to animate it a little more full and give the animation itself texture contrasting the broader actions to some subtle movement throughout.

I figured I better post it, before it gets buried in the dust.

So just what exactly did Cube run off screen to go fetch as thee greatest toy in the whole world??? stay tuned...I'm gonna have to figure that one out.

Oranguey

I had to grab somethn' out of the sketchbook.. it's been too long... I guess I also miss my visits to the zoo.

Tim Brown on creativity and play | Video on TED.com

Tim Brown on creativity and play | Video on TED.com

- besides a very interesting talk, I just noticed my blogger profile graphic appears up on the screen @ 6:29. (well... it's pretty close).

T.V. sketches - The Oscars 2010

I was looking through one of my sketchbooks and came across some drawings I did a couple of months ago, while watching some of the Oscars.
See if you can guess who they are?>
Top left is a tough one...

Beach Time!, Contd'..