DOGMEATSAUSAGE

October

2011-10-04T17:56:00.000-07:00

october is nice

Legend of Zelda

2011-09-12T23:09:00.001-07:00

LOVE those games! I want to see pixar do something like the legend of Zelda, i think my eyes would love that.

Last Space Demon

2011-08-18T11:05:00.000-07:00

tell me the story

Priestess

2011-08-17T17:34:00.001-07:00

bright gloom

2011-07-13T16:02:00.000-07:00

Big Game Vinyl

2011-06-13T15:01:00.001-07:00

This was done a few years ago,sculpte by the Amazing Monster5 it's time to save up and just make it. Hopefully some of you are interested in this type of thing? I will have a lot of updates as it gets closer to production.

My name was misspelled but I really appreciate the promo and it's a cool blog, working on some promotions with some other toy blogs. please share with any toy lovers.

http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2011/06/big-game-vinyl-prototype-by-paul-hamon.html

Some more coverage:

http://www.vinylpulse.com/2011/06/paul-harmon-big-game-proto.html

http://www.toybotstudios.com/2011/06/paul-harmons-big-game-vinyl-toy-preview.html

http://plasticandplush.com/2011/06/paul-harmons-big-game.html

Being

2011-05-22T23:51:00.001-07:00

scape sketch

2011-05-20T15:19:00.000-07:00

Flyer

2011-05-20T14:26:00.001-07:00

more sci-fi doodles

sci-fi is fun

Big Man

2011-05-15T21:52:00.000-07:00

I really want to do a sci-fi something.

This has something of the look and design I'm drawn to right now.

Nib Test

2011-05-15T20:23:00.000-07:00

I did this trying out several different inking nibs, I think this was cold pressed paper which work a lot better for scratchy nibs

Workshop work

2011-05-14T15:05:00.000-07:00

The big pages (bottom 7), are from an awesome Moleskine sketchbook, I got when Borders was closing up shop and had some very good clearance items. Trying to get back to figure drawing really want to get better. the bottom 7 are from dr sketchy's LA held at Titmouse. The top ones are from Draw Club

New Beasts

2011-05-14T13:37:00.000-07:00

new beasts for king of beasts

Sketchpage

2011-05-14T12:47:00.001-07:00

another sketchbook page

Neighbors

2011-05-14T11:54:00.000-07:00

SWOOP

2011-05-14T11:31:00.000-07:00

I REALLY want a masterpiece version of Swoop. C'mon Takara!! He is probably my favorite G1 toy excluding the combiners. The clear cockpit/pteranadon head is an awesome design element.

Savage

2011-05-07T09:51:00.000-07:00

Pouring

2011-05-07T09:35:00.000-07:00

Landscape sketch

2011-05-07T09:21:00.000-07:00

Yeti oekaki

2011-04-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

sketch from the dogmeatsausage oekaki page
head over there and try the drawing program its pretty fun

More Sketches

2011-04-14T16:42:00.000-07:00

New Sketches

2011-04-12T12:05:00.000-07:00

finally had a chance to hang out for Drink and Draw, it was also a birthday party for Dave Johnson. The newish Drink and Draw location is Casey's in Downtown Los Angeles...it's fun

Ninja Turtle

2011-04-12T12:03:00.001-07:00

have to draw a turtle every few months or so

Dogmeatsausage Oekaki

2011-04-12T11:03:00.000-07:00

So I've added a dogmeatsausage oekaki (doodle board) try it out, it's pretty fun

differences

2011-04-11T13:49:00.000-07:00

isn't there a great robot story in every artist? i love robots and sci-fi fantasy yet I feel like I don't really spend as much time as I should drawing that stuff. maybe it seems more involved. does anyone else feel that way about a beloved genre or subject?

oekaki

2011-04-08T22:34:00.000-07:00

Ronnie Del Carmen has some sort of cool oekaki thing on his blog, so I did these there.

New Naga....King of Beasts complete

2011-04-06T12:15:00.000-07:00

King of Beasts: New Naga

2011-04-06T08:39:00.000-07:00

been working on some modifications for Naga and the cast of king of Beasts cast. so here is a work in progress Naga sans, Kala and cape

BIG GAME : Honor

2011-04-05T23:20:00.000-07:00

Big Game Poster

Closeup

2011-02-23T07:43:00.000-08:00

Big Game Squad

2011-02-21T20:39:00.001-08:00

BIG GAME

2011-02-21T17:35:00.001-08:00

one day I will get to this guy's universe. I've been working on and off on this project for years, it's a strange Yakuza story, "Big Game" is an assassin of course.

Marvel vs Capcom 3 you are ugly.

2011-02-17T11:00:00.001-08:00

I came to like Street Fighter 4, though I was very disgusted at first. It, like MVC3 should look like those amazing Capcom artist's works come to life, that's not what wev'e gotten but SF4 does a much better job then MVC3. Some of the very detailed SF4 models actually are quite fantastic, akuma, gouken, balrog to name a few, and the overall look and feel came together beautifully. MVC3 almost looks unfinished the character models are terrible, some of the faces extremely ugly or at least off. Hulk when compared to the really cool sprite of the previous versions looks terrible, Galactus looks unfinished. RYU, the mascot of Capcom in game model is at the very least mediocre but when you look at his post match "portrait" comic panel he looks Hideous! That kind of says it all. This is the first time I've been so put off by a Capcom fighter it's a strange sad new day.

King of Beasts

2011-02-12T10:54:00.000-08:00

The first short story for King of Beasts which appeard in Flight vol 7.

A lot of concepts in this first installment, probably too many. When I rework this as a series there will be a lot of little changes, and hopefully refinement. Not sure about the color accuracy for these jpg....this was a lot of work

Egypt: People have the Power!

2011-02-11T08:59:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to the brave men women and especially the amazing youth of Egypt, that started a truly historic revolution.

Truly amazing.

Sketching Animation

2011-01-28T11:43:00.000-08:00

I sketched some scenes from Birdy Decode and Casshan Ova frame by frame in an awesome homebrew program for the ds, Animanitee. So the animation I did has the same amount of frames of the original animation at least as best as I can tell by advancing frame by frame. It's a really fun excersice, the shapes and drawings that animators to come up with to get the right feel for movement, power etc, is pretty amazing.

Bored with Realism

2011-01-23T11:43:00.000-08:00

Let's talk about Video Games

I posted this on Shacknews,then on 1up. they were talking about shooter fatigue. Almost every major game involves shooting as your primary interaction. I'm tired of shooting but I'm also tired of every AAA title simply trying to look realistic. Wouldn't it be amazing to see something like Mass effect with characters and environments that looked like your favorite comic artist/illustrator/ character designer?

An easy example of what I'm talking. Street fighter third strike looks amazing, it looks like those fantastic Capcom artist's style. I really wish Street Fighter 4 and Marvel vs Capcom 3 looked more like 3rd strike come to life in 3-D. I want to see those awesome desginer drawings lift right off the page into glorious 3D, that didn't happen, It would be fantastic if it did or even better there was a whole action adventure with stylized characters as appealing as capcom's artwork has always been. Now hoepfully you see why I am sad, and also why I still think Windwaker is one of the most visually impressive games. We don't have to make our games as stylized as that especially if we're talking about red dead, uncharted, mass effect and the like but to me all those games characters would have benefitted from some stylization. anyway here's what I wrote:

Anyhow listening to Ryan's comment about shooter fatigue, and maybe combat fatigue got me thinking about a lot that bugs me with games now. I'm a professional storyboard artist for tv animation, I do some personal comic work when I can and my perspective on games is really shaped by my tastes as an artist. I love animation, comics and film but for most of those mediums I'm primarily into classics and older stuff not what's happening now. So games have become in a way my replacement for a lot of those loves. Ok on to the point.

I completely agree with shooter fatigue, and I think it's really ties into my problem, Realistic visual fatigue. It bugs me that these machines are so powerful, can create fully realized worlds but every major story driven AAA title only wants to look as realistic as possible and also usually includes the same kind of shooting combat. For lack of better examples it seems strange that we don't have an awesome game that does something along the line of a Nightmare Before Christmas, or maybe even a slightly more realistic Incredibles or something like the world and characters of AKIRA, fully realized and brought to life in a gameworld. I'm tired of the creepy mannequins and simply running down corridors and shooting. I'm finally playing Mass Effect since it's come to ps3 and there's some awesome stuff but I REALLY hope there's another type action to do besides the nonstop monotonous shooting. That's what really kept me from getting into Bioshock, the redundant combat/shooting was too much. I think that's one of the great strengths of SHadow of the Colussus, the combats and encounters feel detailed and complex enough so you truly get a better sense of immersion. I know a lot of people hate "boss" fights but I think they are there because games haven't quite found the way to get in really close and let your character struggle with another character and actually give you control and have your character interact with environments or whatever the case maybe. The boss fight seems to try and give you that. I think I've gotten off subject but it would be great if enemy encounters could get to a point where they are almost as complex as a Street Fighter match, but still seemlessly fits into the games environment. I know most of what I'm talking about is still combat related but I think it's the characters interactive shortcomings that really help turn everything into a shooter. How awesome would a new Ducktales game be if your character could go anywhere in Duckburg, travel the world and really interact with characters and environments and in a complex and sophisticated way. sorry that was way too long

Various Sketches

2011-01-10T15:21:00.000-08:00

top are pretty much the only location sketches I did on a recent trip to Italy. Those were done in a really cool small town called Asolo.

Then below that a few cool Japanese characters. Fuji Maru, a character that I mostly know from the cool advertising figures, statues made based on the very old anime based on a manga. Next to him was a very stange looking enemy from one of the early episodes of gatchaman. a really freaky looking character, really cool design. then below them some little creaturey dude I made up.

Harvest II Textless Title Page

2011-01-03T10:17:00.000-08:00

From the upcoming Titmouse Mook vol 2.

Textless title page for the second installment to Harvest

King of Beasts notebook

2011-01-03T09:52:00.000-08:00

to carry around and jot down any new story ideas characters etc

King of Beasts New Medusa

2010-12-30T16:05:00.000-08:00

Slowly chipping away at characters/ story concepts/ for the King of Beasts graphic Novel

these are some medusa drawings

street details

2010-12-30T12:03:00.000-08:00

Street Sketches

2010-12-30T11:50:00.000-08:00

street sketches from photos

Remembering and the Robertson Man

2010-12-30T10:54:00.000-08:00

Once I tried remembering faces people and small details that I would go and sketch once I arrived at work, this was the only time I did it but it was very fun I liked the results. The prominent figure is a very lithe dancing man usually in tights/ leotard who grooves right near the American Apparel on Robertson in west LA and looks very much the part of an American Apparel enthusiast. He is there daily pretty much rain or shine and is very tan. This particular day there was a woman on the street corner that looked quite disgusted by his antics.

Little Perspective

2010-12-30T10:44:00.000-08:00

I suck at perspective, so I've been doodling small studies of the street, freeways, the scale of fg objects etc. these were done while riding shotgun

Harvest II

2010-12-28T12:02:00.000-08:00

This has been done for months now , my second installment to my Harvest story for the first Titmouse mook. This will be in the second mook whenever that goes to print. It's a pretty fun story to do , not sure exactly where it will go and how things will play out but I think that's interesting.

Baraka Stills/Sketches

2010-11-16T09:04:00.000-08:00

I'm working on coloring a book right now and wanted to warm up and really expand into some more interesting lighting time of day/ atmosphere

I paused scenes from Baraka on bluray and painted on my cintiq

each took about 10-15 minutes

something close

2010-11-05T15:40:00.001-07:00

flyers

2010-11-05T13:28:00.000-07:00

saved at the various stages didn't really take the pic too far, just wanted get the idea out

city woman

2010-09-24T11:45:00.001-07:00

i had this image in my head awhile ago but didn't take it much further then this

Titmouse MOOK

2010-09-03T10:56:00.000-07:00

there's a signing next week

and here's an interview with me and the other mook contributors :

aint it cool interview

also if you order the mook and use coupon code AICN get free shipping. deal is good for two weeks.

order here

titmouse

I'm really looking forward to continuing my Harvest story, I can see the story branching out and getting into some interesting things. I don't know exactly where it will go and I like it when stories seem to forge their own path. I'm also really digging the format of the book and hope to add some really experimental content next few times around

The Great Jorge Zaffino

2010-09-01T15:50:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite artists. The closer I look, the more of his work I see,the more impressive his work becomes. His art had a sense of power that very few artists have achieved. He and a few of the Italian comic masters have really made me pick up the nib again. Pick up IDW's awesome reprint of Winterworld to see Zaffino in his pure black and white glory. I was really fortunate to get these wonderful original recently, the images are from my own scans of the actual art.

I wish I had time to do a longer more thoughtful write up, but Zaffino was like no other and is an influence and inspiration to some of the best comic artists out there. His work is definitely best viewed in the raw black and white form.

short hair

2010-07-26T11:41:00.001-07:00

Naga...King of the Beasts

2010-07-01T14:55:00.000-07:00

a rough illustration

to illustrate the basic concept of the world of King of Beasts

Naga, pictured standing on the giant head is a hunter, she wants to kill the King of (the legendary)Beasts. The big head, pictured below Naga is one of those potential legendary beasts. They are worth a lot of money.

This image is NOT from the actual short story that will be in Flight 7. It was done later.

King of Beasts

2010-07-01T08:32:00.001-07:00

another preview page from my short story

KIng of Beasts / Flight Vol 7

2010-06-26T09:23:00.000-07:00

So my "short" story (38 pages), "King of Beasts" will be in Flight vol 7

The story follows Naga a bounty hunter, who wants to kill the King of Beasts.

I hope you guys check it out

Harvest Preview

2010-05-26T10:34:00.000-07:00

various shots from my short Harvest also from an upcoming anthology

preview

2010-05-25T22:25:00.000-07:00

art snippet from a short done for the upcoming volume of flight

it's a story i had a lot of fun doing and will look to expand to original graphic novels whenever my schedule allows

muscle suit

2010-05-25T17:22:00.000-07:00

i've been very busy with storyboards

i tried drawing a robot and they always become super organic/alien things so that's what has happened here

marvel vs capcom 3

2010-04-20T11:06:00.000-07:00

well the announcement was nice and i'm still pretty excited to see what they'll do but i'm definitely not seeing the amazing capcom take on the look of the marvel universe, i wanted the high-def marvel vs. version of third strike basically. Capcom is going a different direction, so in mourning i had to did a phoney-baloney capcom drawing.

Dingo 2 3 4

2010-03-01T09:51:00.001-08:00

alternate covers for BOOM's dingo 2,3,4 from top to bottom

dingo 1

2010-02-27T10:17:00.000-08:00

I did an alternate cover for a pretty cool new series from Boom, Dingo.

DINGO 1

2010-02-27T10:11:00.000-08:00

I did an alternate cover for a pretty cool new series from Boom, Dingo.

Ghibli TMNT

2010-02-23T16:42:00.001-08:00

I finally went to the ghibli museum, for the first time not too long ago and saw an amazing short about sumo wrestling mice. the cute little blue mice had red waistbands and something about their look totally reminded me of tmnt

I'm working on a lot more comic stuff lately, not tmnt original creator owned stuff. It may be awhile before I can show anything but I'll try and post stuff asap. I'm also thinking of ways to promote the new books. Maybe doing some digital posters that folks will download pass around or wallpapers maybe giving away some original art....i don't know

Harvest

2010-02-23T09:36:00.000-08:00

Samples from a new short for a cool as of yet unannounced project.

first and last days on a planet

2010-01-19T21:56:00.000-08:00

piece for six word tales and the top piece was for a deviant art , darksiders contest to depict the last days

snapshot 8

2009-11-23T09:38:00.000-08:00

i'm having some color conversion issues saving these painter documents as anything but riff files .

snapshot 7

2009-11-19T13:37:00.000-08:00

gonna do these with painter from now on.

converting the file from riff to tiff really did something to the colors and values, i tried to adjust it as best as i could but something got lost

snapshot 6

2009-11-18T17:46:00.001-08:00

Snapshot 5

2009-11-17T10:58:00.000-08:00

sailing

TMNT page process 2

2009-11-17T09:35:00.001-08:00

snapshot 4

2009-11-16T12:11:00.001-08:00

TMNTpage process

2009-11-16T11:24:00.000-08:00

snapshot 3

2009-11-13T18:18:00.001-08:00

snapshot 2

2009-11-13T11:54:00.000-08:00

snapshots

2009-11-12T11:16:00.001-08:00

i've been seeing a lot of oekaki lately and still don't quite get all that it entails but it seems similar to the colors! program that let me paint on my ds. i want to try the oekaki sometimes but they all involve signing up. anyhow i thought i'd try and do little snapshot doodles everday to warm up for work, the best oekaki I have seen seem to have that feel of loose snapshots, this one is not very loose though

six word tales

2009-11-11T12:20:00.000-08:00

i'll be doing some spot illustrations for my pal Stiles White and his cool conceptual blog

LEO

2009-10-26T15:17:00.000-07:00

I'm hoping that nick does some cool things with the beloved turtles

sketches

2009-08-31T16:47:00.000-07:00

life scribbles

2009-08-31T16:39:00.000-07:00

workshop models now once a month at drink and draw, it was crowded and i was a bit far away but it's fun to draw from life

DIETIES

2009-08-17T09:42:00.000-07:00

man it's been awhile.

been really busy and the stuff I have been working on, one being a new book I can't really share yet much too early.

some friends have set up a cool blog design a diety

here's my contribution so far

the All

"the all" : he is so huge he can only be partially captured and with great effort to do just that. The image was taken with what is currently the most powerful telescope in existence, shielded by the darkest and largest sunglass lens ever created in order to block out the incredible light emitted from the eyes, which when opened fully have been known to completely fry several galaxies. Within the tendrils of The All, many a

star has lost its way.

Boney Thought

2009-05-29T10:11:00.000-07:00

this was a longer drink and draw sketch , there should be some red marker in there which was bleed thru from the other pages, i accidently scanned my other sketches which had color in black and white so i'll put them up later

went to new york city for the first time over memorial day weekend that was a lot of fun Sushi of Gari was probably my most favorite meal, lombardi's pizza was pretty damn tasty ,pretty let down with cafe habana...gotta go back for more in depth food trip soho was a great area. Oh and thanks to my girlfriend I was able to see a Mazzuchelli exhibit with a lot of Batman Year one original art as well as Daredevil and Rubber blankets stuff, that was inspiring to see those pretty year one pages....ah they were so pretty.

Colors

2009-05-14T09:08:00.000-07:00

so I've finally got some free time meaning i'm not trying to finish a comic or extra storyboards. But that free time won't last long as I've been wanting to get some new orginial graphic novels underway for awhile, the first being an adventure story. So as I try and find my full color voice I've done a few more finished color pieces. Right now as much as I love to ink and the line when I color I seem to want to obliterate all lines and work with value and lighting, but completely in color. It definitely depends on the type of story but right now i'm not sure exactly How I can get all the inks and colors to synchronize, maybe I will incorporate special black and white title pages or moments within the story that are inked? And the rest linework with full color doing most of the heavy lifting. We'll see. Here's a hulk spidey and the owlen man from Mora.

drink and draw sketches 5/7/09

2009-05-08T09:12:00.000-07:00

Tales of TMNT 59

2009-05-03T11:40:00.000-07:00

much of my absence is attributable to trying to get this book done which had a very tight deadline mainly because I squandered the lead time I had on the previous book, but I have yet to miss a deadline, though it totally kills most all my nights and weekends.

this book is available for pre-order in the april diamond "Previews" catalog and is out in june can't believe that's next month!!

Black Sun shines on The Undead!

2009-04-10T11:01:00.000-07:00

lady of the black sun

and an undead warrior

drink and draw sketches boy did i poop at fast i was exhausted so i only stayed a bit

Hulk Study Drink and Draw

2009-04-03T09:44:00.000-07:00

trying some rendering techniques on this hulk sketch

and a drink and draw sketch , the only good drawing i did for the special dave johnson birthday edition of drink and draw

Tales of TMNT 56 now or soon

2009-03-17T08:50:00.001-07:00

not sure if its this weds or next

here are the pages mirage previewed

check out the issue if you see it out there in the wild

TMNT commission

2009-03-16T13:03:00.000-07:00

I have been working on this commission little by little over a couple months because of my crazy schedule but finally finished.

tales of tmnt 56 comes out soon

there's a few reviews here and here

also tales 59 will be available for pre-order in a week or so, so if your interested in picking it up please think about pre-ordering since very few comic shops will actually order tmnt books unless someone specifically does so. barnes and noble had pre-orders for 56 so I assume they will do the same for 59 so you could pre-order online

drink and draw sketches

2009-03-14T18:26:00.001-07:00

fox in colors

2009-03-05T22:33:00.001-08:00

did this a little while ago and just don't really have time to do much more with it but experimenting with different color techniques i'd like to do more coloring that shows the "strokes" of the color like paint

Bloody Night

2009-02-28T16:22:00.000-08:00

TMNT Pinup

2009-02-27T07:07:00.000-08:00

actually it's a commission I'm finally getting around to inking the Gentleman that commissioned this piece has been very patient as my schedule has been rather insane lately.

bloody

2009-02-26T18:34:00.001-08:00

needed to draw a werewolf its been too long

lady fighter

2009-02-26T16:59:00.000-08:00

i started drawing this and it just went nowhere so i stopped

FOX

2009-02-20T12:20:00.000-08:00

haven't done much non work related drawing
something like her has been running around my head lately

DRink and Draw round 2

2009-02-13T12:56:00.001-08:00

pieces I did at the most recent drink and draw

Micachu and the Shapes: punky dark avant-grime pop

2009-02-13T11:09:00.000-08:00

Micachu aka Mica Levi is a pretty brilliant little youngster from the uk
just doing some awesome music, noisy dark grime like stuff by way of punkish like elements including the short energetic songs.
check out her debut album She /her band is called Micachu and the Shapes, they just released "jewellery" i really love turn me well , curly teeth, golden ,phone do some gogling you can find full songs streaming to listen to then check out how she remixes sometimes mediocre songs and makes them great, check out the "vuitton blues" then listen to the micachu remix
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=38999757

check out we she did with this we have band single, again might be interesting to check out the original before you hear micachu's dark reinterpretation
http://hypem.com/track/737400/We+Have+Band-Oh!+(Micachu+Remix)

TMNT STUFF

2009-01-28T09:00:00.000-08:00

tales of tmnt 56 and tales of tmnt 59 have kept me VERY busy there's a complete walthrough from rough to color comp on the cover for tales 59 and a sneak peek at some of 56 which will be out in a couple months

My First Animation

2009-01-24T01:17:00.000-08:00

I had so much fun doing this for the titmouse studio 5 sec animation day. I REALLY love animation , and seeing the drawings come to life. I used pencil homebrew, then timed it in flash and my multi-disciplined talented buddy Keith Yan http://www.flickr.com/photos/shadowedlab/ put the sound together