January 2011
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Q Pop Grand Opening
This coming Saturday, January 29th from 7-11pm will be the Q-Pop grand opening. Check out the Q Pop blog for more info. Please come out and check out the shop and the work in the mini-gallery. There are so many amazing artists that will have pieces in the show. I’m honored to have a piece hanging, but man… there are some heavy hitters that will be along side of me. I’m helping...
December 2010
1 post
Twenty Ten
This year has been insane… on all fronts. It’s been a personal roller coaster of crazy life stuff. But I’m not going to bore you with all of the details. This might be my last post of the year, so I thought I’d hit this one up as a bit of a trifecta. … First off; I’ve been lucky enough to have been Lead Character designer for Adventure Time on Cartoon...
October 2010
1 post
APE 2010
I’ll be heading up to APE this weekend. Stop by my table and see me pretend to be totally cool with trying to sell my own art! Ill be at table #703 with the great LFW in the flesh. Ask him about Crocodile Dundee… I’m sure he’ll love that. We’re also right next to Andy Ristaino, he’ll have books, prints, shirts. He’ll be slinging some awesome. Luke will...
August 2010
1 post
Cat on my keyboard
hugs, p
July 2010
1 post
It's been too long....
I can’t believe so much time has past since my last post. I’ll get back on it, promise. I have a ton to talk about on here, but first things first. This weekend I’ll be at the San Diego Comic Convention. I’ll have a copies of my new mini comic with me. If you see me, I’ll happily give you / trade you one. I’m pretty proud of this one. Aaalllsssooooo, I...
February 2010
2 posts
enough
happy new february
I’ll get to some real posting soon. Here’s a midnight snack.
December 2009
1 post
i've got a headache and I hope i'm not getting...
October 2009
2 posts
3 Prong Attack
1st off… and this is unfortunately pretty late notice.. I’m going to have some pieces in a group show tomorrow night at the Buck Wild Gallery in Venice CA. The opening is from 7:30 to 11:00. Come on out if you can. The address is 12804 Venice Blvd. 2nd…. As a lot of you know, a pilot that I had the pleasure of doing some designs for is now up on youtube. It’s...
Holding me over
I don’t know about you guys, but I miss me some Sylvain Chomet. Last I heard, his new film, “The Illusionist”, is supposed to be released this year. I’m not sure it’s still on track for that. There are a few promo stills on the web that you can see if you do some digging. I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but never got to writing the blog post...
September 2009
1 post
thinking out loud
S’been a while.
August 2009
1 post
24 Hour Toons
I designed today’s banner for 24 Hour Toons. I’m going to try to contribute something…. but it may be more like a 3 hour toon. We’llll seeeeee…..
July 2009
5 posts
Bud Luckey turns 75!
I just learned on Cartoon Brew that it’s Bud Luckey’s birthday. Birthdays are cool, and I hope that he has a great one. But what I learned via that post was that Bud Luckey animated and co-wrote the Donny Budd shorts for Sesame Street! These were some of my favorites as a kid and I had pretty much completely forgotten about them. And it all makes sense now. I really enjoyed...
Back from Comic Con
Amanda and I are back from our whirlwind/totally under-planned trip to SDCC. I handed out just about all of my mini comics (50 of them!). I’m going to print up a second batch and send them out to whoever would like one. I’ll post when they are printed up. We had a good time and saw some old friends and made some new ones. Thanks to Natasha and her Arizona cartoonist crew for...
Comic Coooonnnn!!!
Looks like Mandy and I will be heading down for the con tomorrow. If you see me, ask me for a copy of my mini comic, “Comic Book Paaarty”. It’s hot of the xerox machine. If I have any left over I’ll try to make them available on the blog. Also…. Blogger comment moderation always does me wrong. I just accidentally deleted a bunch of newish comments. Thanks for...
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Lunchtime Black and White - Stream
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Lunchtime Black and White - Back
June 2009
2 posts
The Drawing Club
Here are some of my drawings from “The Drawing Club” last week. I have mixed emotions about drawing from life in this manner, but it could be just my stubbornness. I enjoy the concept of a more relaxed life drawing environment and it allows people to have more fun and experiment more. Buuuttttt… I seem to struggle with having fun at these drawing sessions. I need to relax a...
WATCH CHOWDER
New epsidoes of Chowder kick off tonight on CN at 8pm. Tune in… keep my friends employed… watch Chowder. oh and… credit for the illusion image needs to go to Akiyoshi KITAOKA found via the Optical Illusions and Pictures Blog.
May 2009
8 posts
woo!
***note** That’s my propulsion system; Amanda is just coming along for the ride.
Heal
I like “Plump” more, but I enjoyed the ride.
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Lunchtime Black and White - Cigol
I changed the last panel a few times before posting this. I’m not sure if this is successful or funny or anything.
Plump
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Lunchtime Black and White - Hat
Peanut butter and jelly and somewhat wild and cloudy brain sparking… I blame the jelly.
¡ESPECIAL! Afternoon Black and White ¡ESPECIAL!
Lunchtime Black and White - Progess De Mayo
GORDO!
Lunchtime Black and White - ...in progress
April 2009
8 posts
Freshman
There’s a “Schoolgirl” thread over at The Drawing Board full of super sexy drawings. Here’s my contribution. I haven’t been able to get to a “lunch time black and white” this week. But I’m aiming to do one tomorrow. It’s been really fun and I don’t want to neglect it. cya! UP
Adventure Time - Press Ideas
Here are some the drawings I did as rough ideas for Adventure Time Promo/Press art. This was a really fun challenge and I wish I had the time to do even more. You can see these and some more with some rough color by Nick Jennings here on the Frederator Blog.
Lunchtime Black and White - Magic
Had some leftover broccoli with pasta, I believe it’s a Munson family favorite. And be sure to check out Amanda’s Lunchtime B&W “Magic”.
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Lunchtime Black and White - Cool Out.
… welll this one sucks… haha.. I had a seed of an idea when I started, and then it totally went out the window so to speak. Nothing really happens.. which was sort of the idea, after the original plan escaped me… But nothing happening is sort of a bad plan. We’ll call this one a visual experiment.. a half baked lunchtime experiment. But I’m definitely having fun...
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Lunchtime Black and White - Tree
Accidentally swapped salsalito turkey sandwich, and vanilla yogurt. *** UPDATE *** my girl decided to get in on the action… here ..and she blew me out of the water!
Lunchtime Black and White - Mornings
It’s official. I’m calling it “Lunchtime Black and White”. Whenever I eat lunch at my desk I’ll be posting something…. and saving money. Woo!
OBSERVATION
Some massive inspiration form Amanda, Tom, and TED. I want to play more games like this. I had a blast.
the sights of Burbank Media Center
Natasha, Tom, and I saw this tasty April fools treat as we were heading out to lunch. At first I felt bad for her, but in hindsight, I think she may have pulled off one of the most memorable April fools “pranks” ever. And I’m happy that I wasn’t alone in witnessing it.
February 2009
2 posts
New Year New
So the cat is out of the bag. I’m no longer working on Chowder. I had a great time working on it and learned a whole lot. I’m really proud of the show and am honored that I was able to contribute to it for the last couple of years. But it was time for me to move on. I’ve just started full-time on Adventure Time as character designer, and I couldn’t be more excited. I...
Big Art Weekend For My Big Art Friends
First off… Tonight is the opening for my friend Will’s show at the Hibbleton Gallery in Fullerton. If you like “awesome”, I think you should go. See more of Will’s work on his websites. You won’t be disappointed. -Silhouette Masterpiece Theater website and shop -Lone Wolf Black Sheep … and! Gallery Nucleus will be hosting a panel with some of the...
January 2009
1 post
Snotty
December 2008
2 posts
Blogger Lunch Assignment
I had lunch with some fellow animation bloggers. We had a good time and we left with the assignment of drawing ourselves as unicorns. —- Not my idea—- But you can thank them when you cough up vomit onto your keyboard.. I know I will :) All joking aside, I had a really good time. It was nice to meet some people that I’ve known only via the web. This internet thing really is...
Wet Walls
My roof leaked.
October 2008
1 post
UNDERFIST!
Hey everyone! I just wanted to let everyone know that Maxwell Atom’s latest project, “Underfist”, will be airing on Cartoon Network tomorrow. I had the pleasure of working with Maxwell early on in the process in doing some rough designs and some little updates to some of the characters from Billy and Mandy. And even cooler than that, one of my animation heroes and great...
September 2008
1 post
Parrrtteeeyyy!
Here’s a little something I whipped up for Amanda’s and my engagement party. Oh, and we didn’t win the Emmy. Our friends on Camp Lazlo won in our catagory. Congratulations guys! gotta get back to work, Phil
July 2008
4 posts
WE GOT NOMINATED FOR AN EMMY!!!
Chowder is nominated for a Primetime Emmy!! The particular episode is called Burple Nurples. It was written and boarded by Bill Reiss, under the all seeing eye of Carl Greenblatt. It was easily one of my favorite episodes to design. So I couldn’t be more excited. Download it HERE from iTunes. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll spend $1.99. Wish us luck! -Phil
Look at what I got....
Totally awesome. You’re welcome. -Phil … seriously though, it’s the greatest piece of technology I’ve ever owned. In second place is the Wii (which, coincidentally, would also make a great illustration).
Vote for "Peanut Butter and Graduation"
My good friend Greg Condon has a short up on Reel 13 right now. It’s called “Peanut Butter and Graduation”. The short with the highest votes will be broadcast on PBS this weekend. Go watch the films…. and vote for Greg! Voting ends at 5pm eastern time. *UPDATE* Voting has ending. Thanks to everyone who voted! thanks! Phil
Worm Nose
This was inspired by the work of Jon Vermilyea. He just updated his website. Go check it. And the lady on the left feels a lot like one of my favorite characters from Rebecca Sugar’s “Pug Davis” comic. cya, up
June 2008
2 posts
BOOM!
It’s official… I’m the luckiest guy in the world. -p
Charlatan Ball out tomorrow!
Andy Suriano’s new comic comes out tomorrow, June 11th. Go out to your local comic shop and buy 3! And if you enjoy the first issue, I think you’re in for a treat because it gets even better. Oh… and Hawaii was a blast. I’ve got some great and exciting news but it deserves a post of it’s own. cya soon, phil
May 2008
2 posts
HAWAAIIIIII !!!!!
The Bachelorette