G is for Guitar

Coloring Book page # G

This is modeled from a Guitar that Mayari and I bought in LA last year when we attended SIGGRAPH 2010.

This photo was taken at La Plaza park across the street from Union Station in Los Angeles CA. Mayari saw the guitars and had to have it. The guitars for sale all had cool hand painted designs on them.

Where? Here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=la+train+union+station&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

T is for Truck

The modern day workhorse,wagon,toy. For the coloring book series.

Thanks to DiggerFanJSB for posting the vid on youtube.

P is for Penguin

P is for penguin. Penguins are Iconic.

They have been around for millions of years. Imagine a 5-foot tall 36 million year old penguin. They are examples of elegant design and evolutionary efficiency.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/inkayacu-perus-giant-fossil-penguin-and-the-stories-its-feathers-tell/


Making this coloring book page led me to wondering why penguins are so mainstream in animation. They always seem to have a presence in entertainment. I started to think that it is because of their shape may be easier to animate. Their shape and contour is one step more complex than the basic flower sack animators use for practice. Their black and white contrast makes them easier to color. Google could not answer my question.

For example:

Penguins of Madagascar(My personal favorite in terms of style and character attitude)
Happy feet(CG Musical mo-cap of an outcast dancing penguin)
March of the Penguins(Documentary)
321 Penguins (CG space penguins on Qubo cable channel)
The Penguin (Batman Villain)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_%28comics%29
Surf's Up (CG surfing penguins)
Mr Popper's Penguins Starring Jim Carry
The Linux Icon is a Penguin
NHL Hockey team Mascot
There is a penguin meme
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/socially-awkward-penguin#.TcY9WbKTgbQ

Chilly Willy himself is a Penguin




Bugs bunny gets owned by the skating penguin by bringing him to Antarctica mistakenly in an effort to bring him home only to realize he is from Hoboken NJ.


Full Version(with a cameo of Humphrey Bogart)



Mary Poppins seems to get it right. She gets the penguins to serve her lunch.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin

Thanks to the you tube users who posted these
dotHackNETSLUM,AlexValve,mromro,heliomrdias,GrahamCracker22

Comic Con Boston 2011

Comicon Boston 2011 was great. I had half a day there Saturday to browse, collect, see some old friends and meet new ones.

Highlights of the day for me were seeing Matt Smith and Craig Rousseau fellow alumni from U Mass Dartmouth. They each had artist's booths where they sold their comics.

Matt writes the saga of Barbarian Lord, a cornucopia of raven food for your consciousness. Buy it because it will keep trolls from nesting under your tool shed.
http://www.barbarianlord.com/

Craig is a freelance artist for Marvel. He is an accomplished Illustrator with his own title to boot. He has a long list of mainstream comics he has worked on.
He also has a good blog with some sweet costume pix from the conference.
http://blog.perhapanauts.com/2011/05/boston-report-part-1.html
http://www.craigrousseau.com/

Non Alum I met include some cool people at Boston Comics Round table. I also met Ansis Purins whose comic cracks me up. Zombre is awesome,I purchased a print from Ansis. He also received a grant to work on his comic,congrats.
http://www.ansis.tv/

I found some cool toy creators at comicon. I wish I had a bunch of these little guys with their mix and match components.
http://callgrim.com/

I purchased a Tim Sale sketch book last minute and I am pleased with it. http://www.timsale1.com/

I also was able to watch Neil Adams give an interview.
http://www.nealadams.com/

L is for Lion and B is for Ball

L is for Lion.

B is for Ball.

Here are two more alphabet coloring pages for you kids out there. I have been using Mayari's toys for reference on a few of these drawings. The Lion toy I used for reference was posed with twinning on the legs. It creates a stiff power pose. Not a very animated pose. It would be tough to change weight from a position like this, making it a very static pose. Probably why it works for a child's toy. It wont tip over. I stuck with it and feel that it went in a romanticized direction of a lion. Reminding me of medieval tapestry. I am trying not to get too stuck to realism. I left behind the details in the mane to create my own. I think a little weight shift of the pose would help this as a 2d drawing. I need to do some life studies of lions. I don't always like the way I draw them.

The ball was tougher to draw than I planned. I erased and erased then redrew the entire thing a few times. It was far more of a draftsmanship exercise.

Mt Auburn Night Pages 0-6

Here is a recap of the Mt Auburn Night Graphic novel pages I have posted on this blog.

I converted pages 0 through 6 to be easily readable on an smart phone or tablet. I need to create a html page to center the image then I need to add a share button on the bottom of the page. Please share this comic with your friends if you like it. Test it on your tablet or smart phone.

http://joshua-hoaglund.com/MtAuburnNight/MtAuburnNight_P0-P6.jpg

Mt Auburn Night Page 6

Page 6 of my Graphic Novel Mt Auburn night.

I'm doing some experiments with this for the Ipod. I may post an Ipod/Tablet version of all these pages so the reader can catchup with the story all in one format.