...what a waste of perfectly good paper

2012-01-18T17:22:00.000-08:00

Latest animation I've been working on. It needs some love in the lip sync, but I'm pretty stoked on the rest of it. enjoy....

2012-01-02T22:41:00.001-08:00

Drawn in pencil then painted in PH; all done in about an hour. Enjoy....

2011-12-30T15:31:00.000-08:00

More fun with pixels. Kinda like this, even if the realism got lost. Enjoy...

2011-12-19T23:20:00.000-08:00

For those of you that didn't make 12 Bars, here's what the shirt looked like. Enjoy...

2011-12-14T21:28:00.000-08:00

More fuckin with PH. Enjoy....

and the image on top is one that I remembered to flip horizontal and had to tweek the free transform like crazy to get it to look somewhat correct. The previous sentence is no longer true. I just didn't like the pic so I killed it. It just feels good to ruin perfectly good pixles

2011-12-14T00:41:00.000-08:00

Just got a scanner again. This is sketch I did a while ago and just tryin to get my PH legs back under me. Looks like I've got some work to do. Enjoy....

2011-10-05T11:26:00.000-07:00

So here's a very recently ruined canvas. I started with only charcoal and pastels which gave it kind of a Rainbow Bright vs. Brother's Grimm sorta feel, but I couldn't get the detail I wanted. So once again your fair narrator turned to his water mixable oil colors. Turned out kinda fun. Enjoy....

2011-06-16T19:46:00.000-07:00

Fuck you Morgan. This is all I've got from the past 9 month-ish. Enjoy....

2010-05-11T20:15:00.000-07:00

Just a quick photoshop sketch while watching the Simpsons. I really want to love the show that raised me, but it's getting tough

2010-05-02T22:13:00.000-07:00

more stuff...

2010-04-23T13:38:00.000-07:00

Revisions Yea! Here's the original color.

And here the lil bugger is with some of the notes Mr. Dudra gave me as well as a few other touch ups.... Enjoy

2010-04-16T16:47:00.000-07:00

Sorry but the posts are a bit outta order but here is a final final with a bit of depth added after Mr. Dudra's crit of previous posts and those that follow are the ones that preceded it.... enjoy

So heres a little progression piece. The original sharpie sketch can be found earlier in my posts. So the first one is just color. Medium flesh tone and some background depth (*slacker secret: BG is just the stock gradient option in PhotoShop 7...yeah eat a dick, I'm still using .7)

Here it is with a bit more depth.
And finally here it is with more steps than necessary.
... gotdamn i need a job....

2010-04-07T23:24:00.000-07:00

I think 4 in one day is probably more time than i should have spent on these. Oh well. Enjoy....

2010-04-07T17:28:00.000-07:00

More fun with Photoshop and this time based off of one of the most badass movies of the 80's.

Here's the original ink over pencil from my sketch book.

Enjoy....

2010-04-07T14:45:00.000-07:00

Here's the Dale sketch with some color.

2010-04-07T12:06:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook doodle with some photoshop lovin'. Enjoy....

2010-04-05T11:43:00.000-07:00

This is just a doodle with a splash of soft pastel work. Enjoy....

2010-04-04T20:05:00.000-07:00

Fun with hatching with a Sharpie! I don't really know what the fuck he is, but regardless i do love him so...

Fun with color pencils. I really want to figure out how the fuck to light stuff. Well that and Daredevil kicks ass!
This is a cat that I used to work with. His name is Dale and he also kicks much ass!

More to come.....

2010-03-08T12:16:00.000-08:00

HOLY SHIT! Don't look now, but Tim actually posted something new and it's not even something stupid like whinny words or t-shirt designs, but actual art! I just finished this guy last night. It's 40"x30" of creepy fun. Enjoy....

2009-03-10T08:25:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone. Sorry I'm late. Traffic was a bitch and well, I'm sure you know what a hassle it can be commuting from a bird farm to the Intra-WEB, especially when you can't seem to the www to make on off ramp to one's bunkhouse. How have you all been? It's good to imagine seeing you all. Well, lets get started. Here's the first real piece of art I've made in the last seven months. It was a long time coming, but I kinda dig it. The lighting is a bit forced and, if you're reading this Russell, the proportions on the character are fuct, these I know. When looking at it with only air rather than pixels as one's main barrier, the colors are much quieter. It was a fun exercise with charcoal and pastels on left over drywall from the bunkhouse. I think I'm going to be playing with clouds and skys quite a bit with these. They play well together and seem to like one another. What I'm truly tickled with is making my first frame with barn wood. We've got tons of this stuff down here and so far I've used it for this frame, shelves in my house and I built kitchen friggin cabinets with it. It's killer. Anyways, here's the early charcoal drawing with a light splash of watered down acrylic paint and the resulting waste of perfectly good left over drywall. Enjoy...

Oh, and here's a sunset from a few nights ago. Enjoy...

2009-02-15T23:28:00.000-08:00

Here's a hack 'n slash panoramic of the view from beyond the great bluff that sits above our humble farm. It's almost silly. Enjoy...

2009-02-01T14:33:00.000-08:00

So here's a few pics of those that I'm living with down here at the Double Rock Ranch. The first is Craig. We were out catching a couple hundred birds, when on of them decided it was time to fight back. The pheasant's target? Brother's face. Withing twenty minutes, he was hit twice by the winged rage of our long feathered fiend. Craig had a good amount of blood emancipated from his face so I clicked a quick pic with my handy dandy cellular phone. Craig's soul is very rarely ever captured in film so I wanted to do something special with this one. To that say he enjoys an occasional zombie film is to say that American's are a little big boned. For his birthday, I decided to kill him, bring him back hungering for human flesh and give him one frame from the movie.

Here we have Brandon Benson. The King Cock of the DRR. One night we were out of the porch, I with my sketch book and whiskey, Brandon with his rum and a desire to express his artist prowess. He drew for me the dairy farm where he was born and raised. Once I saw it, I knew that I would use it somehow. Below you will find an image that contains where he's from, what he's created (the Double Rocks on the left and the pheasant on the right is the logo I created for Double Rock Pheasants) his warm weather t-shirt stylings and, yes ladies, the Superman panties that only a very confident and slightly kinky man could wear. Enjoy...

2009-01-03T13:19:00.000-08:00

Hello all and welcome to (drum roll please) "Doodles that Tim did while he was stuck in 4' of snow in Spokane!" The first pics are shots off of my buddy Sam Foley's front porch. The entire friggin town looked like this.

Sam's birthday is December 25th and I didn't buy him a damn thing. The first night I was at his place, he talked about playing cribbage with his family during Christmas and how he wished he had a board. Your humble narrator, still quite light of pocket, decided I'd make him a board. Here is the photographic proof of the results.

And finally what you all came here for, wasted paper. Fortunately, I liked a few and here they are.

Sam and Brook are getting married soon so I thumbed through a few of her bridal catalogs. I thought I would be kill for all the fabrics and body lines, but almost all the girls have the same "hand on the hips looking to the distance" thing going on. Oh well, whaddayado?

2008-12-20T20:12:00.000-08:00

So here's a few shots that I took today. It got up to a blistering 7 degrees today and another 8-10 inches is expected overnight. I friggin love this goofy little town. Enjoy...

and as a side note, I am in fact working on more artwork. I'll have you know that I completely ruined a very nice start to a painting just last night.

2008-12-08T16:53:00.000-08:00

This first pic might not look like much to most and several will wonder what the fuck it is and a handful may believe this to be some contemporary art installation. To the "what the fuck" demographic: this is a freshly poured concrete floor in what is quickly becoming an attainable goal of being my own place. It's one of the original buildings here on the ranch, circa early 20's, and we've gutted everything out to start a new. I'm pretty stoked due to the fact that I've been living in Kim and Brandon's office for going on 6 months now and I'm pretty sure that this will be the coolest fort I have ever been a part of.
The next is the beginning of a slightly intimidatingly large project I'm painting for Willowbrook Nursing Home. This is a 4' LET 'ER BUCK logo. It's the war cry and matting call for all here in Pendleton OR. http://pendletonroundup.com/
I'm also working on a 14 piece 24"x18" series of characters in motion. If any of you readers are familiar with my silly little doodles of people with long ass legs and arms, it's going to be those. I'm post more when I make em.

This last one is just a view of what I look out at when I'm drinking a cup of coffee in the morning. Enjoy...

2008-11-11T20:13:00.000-08:00

Well, it's that time again...12 Bars of Christmas! I know that i didn't post my t-shirt design from last year, but I had a very good reason; I drew it and had it on a shirt in about a day. I didn't much care for the art on it. But now, this one I'm pretty stoked on. Enjoy...

This is the one that's going on the shirt. Due to cost restrictions, I had to take the colors back to only 4.

Here's the full color version. Let me know what you guys think.

2008-11-10T19:25:00.001-08:00

Well I haven't been posting a damn thing, but thats just what I've been working on. I've gotten a few projects that a forcing me to ruin paper and when the sheets are completely fuct, I'll share em. In the mean time, some phone pics from the Double Rock Ranch. Enjoy...
Fire is fun. When it's a 20' bonfire in your backyard it's REALLYFUCKINFUN!

The sunsets down here a for friggin incredible. These are all from our valley down here in little ol' Pendleton.

2008-09-12T20:53:00.000-07:00

So heres what art work I've been working on down here at the farm. I haven't touched my friggin sketchbook, nor have I sullied a canvas with images no body wants to see. NO SIR! I have been fiddle fuckin around with an animation that I told be people I'd be done with before I left Seattle. That was almost three months ago...whadaydo? Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcjvP50yy2M&eurl=http://wasteofgoodpaper.blogspot.com/

2008-05-25T12:35:00.000-07:00

Here is a cheesy little panoramic set of photos I took on my last day down in Pendleton OR when I was down there earlier this month. Now those of you, i have no idea who you may be, will remember my last post about the beloved Double Rock Ranch. Maybe not, but no worries. My friends Kim and Brandon Benson own this ranch. Their crop... pheasants. Yeah, its a little odd, but its one of the best places to go to get the hell outta Seattle. Anyways, enjoy!

2008-05-03T16:30:00.000-07:00

Here is an image that I created for Dr. Nicole Sundene at http://kitchentablemedicine.com/. I forgot to mention that a good friend of mine, and now ex-coworker, Seth Williams also gave me a hand on this banner. You should check out his work at : http://www.sethart.org. Enjoy!

Reservoir Dogs

2008-04-11T20:18:00.001-07:00

So heres an attempt at getting back into doing some acting animations. I've been doing frigging talking loops and run cycles for so long now, I'm just stoked I remember how to set these types of keyframes. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaiuYtl15L0&eurl=http://wasteofgoodpaper.blogspot.com/

Animations!

2008-04-05T13:48:00.000-07:00

Below you will find a handful of animations that I've worked for Cory In the House DS. Soon, a new demo reel will be here to keep these guys company, but until then I'll be posting some private stuff I'm working on so keep coming back.

I soon as we had the design meeting about this guy, I took dibs on the animating. I had a lot of fun with this guy. He is the final boss in Cory In the House DS. I was told to go a little wild with him, really Warner Brothers him up. Enjoy

2008-04-05T13:39:00.000-07:00

Ahh, the Sneak Animations. These were one of my favorite sets of animations to do for Newt. I don't know why it was, but walking around the studio, trying to get the timing and then getting a bunch of other people to walk around me so I could see it was a hoot!

2008-04-05T13:25:00.001-07:00

Heres one of Newt's Idles and what it looks like as he gets hurt.

2008-04-05T12:45:00.000-07:00

Heres an animation of Newt running . It shows the three stages of injured he can go through as a playable character in Cory In the House DS

2008-04-05T12:31:00.000-07:00

Here is one of several animations that i worked on for the Nintendo DS title, Cory In the House. This is Newt, one of the playable characters. He's sort of the Shaggy of the show. Surfer kid, plays the guitar, a little dim witted and easily my favorite character on the show.

Long Time No See

2008-03-20T14:16:00.000-07:00

Theres a certain amount of comfort in not having cable TV or the "Intra-Web" at home. You get things done, you get to play more and you can hone your supernatural abilities like flight or being able to "Freeze Frame" in mid air. Ok, those last two are bullshit, but you get the idea. Anyhow, heres a few things that have shown up around my apartment:

These are a couple of oil paintings that I've recently used to cover up perfectly nice white canvases. The nude w/skull was pretty fun cause I really didn't know what it was going to be when pigment first met the cotten. My goal was simply to paint a decent nude (not sure if I hit that bench mark, but thats hardly the point). Was she was introduced to the world, I knew it needed something more. Why a skull? Cause woman will fuckin kill you... nah! its nothing as deep as that. I just saw what looked to be an eye socket and then went from there.

The lower guy was fun cause I painted all but the final highlights with the image upside-down. I knew I could trick the paint to run if I promised them ultimate nirvana at the end of their journey. Fortunately, oil paint is more gullible than those who give their live savings to televangelist. It turned out pretty fun though.

So the top one is an illustration my Lead Illustrator, Russel did in pencil and I painted in Photoshop. Chucky there was drawn in pencil by my 3D Modeler Josh and again, I painted in Photoshop.

2007-06-10T22:52:00.001-07:00

So here's where the bulk of my drawing has taken place in these last few months; the sides of my notebook. Everybody in Handheld uses these old school quad grid composition notebooks. I thought some of you might get a kick outta seeing how my brain can sometimes wander. Most of the stick figures are thumbnails for animations I'm workin on. I'll usually slap down a few quick thumbs of keys that I want to hit and then stand at my desk and act em out. You shouldda seen it when my director and I were working out timing for dance steps. We've got some bomb ass moves. Enjoy...

2007-06-03T19:30:00.001-07:00

Beautiful weekend up here in Seattle and nothin better to do on a sunny day than go down to the Sculpture Park and look at funny people. This particular guy caught my attention. Huge Moto-X helmet, super tight black jean shorts, beat to shit Converse All-Stars and weighed in at a whopping 90 lbs tops. This is the time of year that even those that shouldn't, come out to see the sun.

2007-05-15T00:03:00.000-07:00

Good lord I haven't touched this friggin site in a long time. My bad. I got a real job! Its the whole Mon through Fri type a gig. Its a studio called Handheld Games. We make those Plug n' Play things, but what I'm mostly workin on is Nintendo DS titles. It pretty sweet. All I do, all day long is animate actual in game animations. I mean, what I did before was in game animation, but now there will be a NPC (non playable character) that looks at his shoe to see what he might have stepped in because of me! I'm also doing a lot of main character animation. I've been working on a whole bunch of dance steps for the last month and half. I didn't realize, till I wrote that sentence, that its been a over a month since I started this gig. Huh... Anyways, here's a quick sketch to clear out those old Pendleton pics. Coming soon will be the painting that I posted previous sketches of. I can't wait to get this friggin canvas outta my house. Note to self: Don't post after midnight. You ramble like an moron. Enjoy...

2007-01-27T10:57:00.000-08:00

This is the Double Rock Ranch in Pendleton Oregon. About a year or so ago, my friends Kim and Brandon Benson, moved down here. Its a pheasant ranch with a few heads of cattle, a goat, a green house, two dogs, a newborn angel named May Belle and 300+ acres of beautiful. It was truly an amazing way to come off of two months of 50+ hour weeks on Nancy Drew.I shot this from a cliff that overlooks the ranch. Enjoy...

2006-12-29T11:32:00.000-08:00

So I've been working kinda crazy hours now that we're in the latter part of the latest Nancy Drew production, which means that all of my big projects are placed on hold. Fortunatly, what I'm working on now requires me to test render 15 frame animations...a lot of them. That then means that I have 2-3 minutes to draw every 15-20 minutes or so. This is an example of what happens.

2006-12-20T16:36:00.000-08:00

My Tombo pen spit this out the other day. Fun lines and perspective play. I have a canvas that already has this weird wood texture on it and I think this'll look pretty good on. Enjoy...

12 BARS OF CHRISTMAS

2006-12-15T18:34:00.000-08:00

Sorry theres no new image, but, on the off chance that somebody reads this blog, the 12 Bars of Christmas is tomorrow December 16. We start at The 4 B's @ 6:30 (4300 Leary Way NW Seattle, WA 98107). I just got my T-shirt today and their friggin killer! Hope to see you there. Enjoy...

2006-12-11T14:47:00.000-08:00

So I moved recently and in doing so I found this little 8” x 8” canvas that I had painted over and over. It was thick with acrylic paint, but it had that nice smooth feel that layers and layers of acrylic will do. That’s, by far, my sharpies favorite surface and this is what it drew. I must say that I really had very little to do with this drawing, my sharpie just kept moving while I watched the Seahawks. Enjoy…GO HAWKS!!

2006-12-06T18:16:00.000-08:00

I WON! My submission for the 12 Bars of Christmas won. This is what’s going to be on the back. Notice the nice big and black Thoreen Animation logo that pulls the eye right to it? Yeah, I think it kicks ass too. I guess there’s going to be around 100 or so people doing this masochistic marathon so it'll be pretty sweet to have my image and logo running around the streets of Seattle in a golly drunken mob. Look for us.

2006-12-02T09:11:00.000-08:00

I made this in honor of my old neighbor. Well, that and a tombo pen plus a wacom tablet is just good 'ol timey fun. Enjoy...

2006-11-28T16:10:00.000-08:00

Heres my entry for "The 12 Bars of Christmas" Its an event that my roomates cousin, Fubar, puts on. We start in Ballard/Fremont area and try to make it all the way through to Northgate. The reason the bar names are upside-down is so you can read where we're going next while you're wearing the shirt. If your in the area, look for the merry band of druken idiots (hopefully) sporting these fine shirts.

2006-11-09T18:02:00.000-08:00

Just a doodle with my Tombo pen last night and some real quick Photoshop work. Enjoy...

2006-11-09T17:59:00.000-08:00

Another study for a painting in progress. I friggin love useing this Wacom Tablet. Enjoy...

2006-11-08T00:05:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since my last post...well it has. Enjoy

2006-09-15T01:13:00.000-07:00

I just can't seem to leave this image alone. Well, I really do like this latest rendition. Enjoy...

2006-09-03T02:55:00.000-07:00

Bellingham is a very odd town. On a very odd night in that very odd town, several very odd things happend. One of which, was whatching an indian getting his ass kicked with his buddy. This is the image that stuck with me...and a piss poor Photoshop. Enjoy..

2006-07-28T23:03:00.000-07:00

So I noticed that my post got over run with these kinda stupid "progress posts". Sorry bout that. (side note((Its funny how I write these things like somebody is actually reading them)) Heres the cliff notes of the Budy Picture progress. I'm going to set this one aside right now and let it sit for a while. What can I say, I'm stuck.

2006-07-24T22:58:00.000-07:00

Heres an image of a painting that I did about two years ago. It was my firsts attempt in oils.

2006-07-07T16:09:00.000-07:00

OK, so this site kinda got overran with shitty animations. Well, now I'm out of work and trying to create art again. The camera kinda fuggled the images, but you get the idea. Enjoy...

2006-04-11T10:40:00.000-07:00

Life drawings. I went to life drawing this last weekend and I always remembered that it was in these classes that I excelled. Well, it has been about two years since, and man, I can't seem to fuckin draw anymore. Anyways, here are a few that I actually did like and one I liked so much, I had to see it in color. Enjoy...

2006-03-01T10:05:00.000-08:00

Long time no post. I had a feeling, when I started this blog, that I would be the spark that I needed to ingnite a powder keg of creativity. In reality, a spark doesn't last very long. So maybe this blog isn't so much as a spark as it is that cell phone bill you tack up next to your door so it will remind you to pay it, but still gets put off until they send you the next letter. Well, heres partial payment. Enjoy.

2006-02-14T10:07:00.000-08:00

One old, one new, one with PH coloring and the other straight out of the sketch book. Granted, there are only two drawings here, but all that stuff applies.

2006-02-08T10:07:00.000-08:00

It seems like this guy keeps popping up in various forms when I'm sketching without thinking, so I gave him some color. Enjoy

2006-02-03T10:29:00.000-08:00

This was a sketch that I did out of a great book called "Bodies in Motion" All of the models are shot in various positions of movement, which for me as an animator, is a lot of fun to have stills that capture motion. I'm not sure how well the Photoshoping came out, but thats what this blog is for. You be the judge.

2006-02-02T10:13:00.000-08:00

Couple of blue pencil and graphite drawings

Cool stuff coming soon!

2006-01-31T17:37:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that it took me so long to set up a daily drawing blog. Well, I've finally done it and I promise to have some eye candy on it soon.