Ben replied, "Straight up now tell me..."

What do you mean "It's not Tuesday"?!

Well I've been super busy.  Busy painting.  Painting murals, painting rooms, and painting myself.  Luckily, I've heard that paint fumes are extremely healthy for you.  So I guess I have that going for me.

On to the show!  A few years back my cousin and her husband were celebrating their 10 year wedding anniversary.  I wanted to do something special, so I snuck (I refuse to believe that's not a word) into their home, set up a green screen, and recorded their kids dancing and singing to Paula Abdul's "Straight Up Now Tell Me".  We got all of the nieces and nephews in on it.  It made for a fun evening, even thought none of them could remember and of the words to the song.

Also, I was able to splice in some of the background elements from the original video and added some post effects to try and match the film stock.

I had a great making this and thought you might enjoy it.  Scroll down to see some "making of" pics.

-Ben
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All the kids with my brother, Nick.

Does whatever a spider can

Spider-Man is who I draw when I can't/don't want to think of anything else to draw. 

-Tim

Doodle

Yeah, I have no idea where this one came from either.

 Photoshop 30 min sketch

I've done a logo or two...

...and here is one of them.

All vector, all Cleveland Urban Iditarod, took a break for 2013 hopefully will come back 2014.  Good times for a good cause!

Tim's Figure Drawing (again)

Ballpoint pen on 9"x12" paper, 40 minutes (sober)

It's been a pretty busy week, so, here's some figure drawing from Dr. Sketchy (Cleveland)!

Ballpoint pen on 9"x12" paper, 10-15 minutes (one beer)

Ballpoint pen on 9"x12" paper, 15 minutes (...kinda drunk)

Sultry gun slingin

Afternoon. Welcome back to my continued exploration of my boyhood crushes. (Hey...consider yourself lucky. At least you can look away or head to another site. This stuff's in my brain.)

At the tippy top of the heap is this ravishing young lady. Once I saw Raquel in Fantastic Voyage...and the hormone altering One Million Years B.C....I was in love. She has remained, at least in my eyes, one if the truly beautiful women in cinema. Hannie Caulder, is probably one if my favorite films of hers. A fantastic revenge western..starring Robert Culp, Jack Elam, Ernest Borgnine, Christopher Lee....and of course Raquel. This was a quick pencil sketch...same size as yesterday's. 5x8...see ya next week.

Schoolboy crushes...

Greetings and salutations. No....this is not Tim Switalski. Reverend Jim here....Tim had a last minute emergency...something about tracking down a cosmic cube...battling his evil stepbrother and defending the bridge to Valhalla. Sheesh some guys will do anything to keep from posting. 

So I volunteered to post for today and tomorrow. Lucky you.

So I've been thinking lately of all the women in comics or cinema, that I've had boyhood crushes on. (Must be an elderly thing)..So for the next few weeks I'll be using that to polish up on drawing the female figure.

I'd like to start with the lovely Pam Grier. I grew up in the late 60's and 70's. A great time in cinema. Grindhouse flicks were in full swing. It was a different time with different mind sets. There were not a lot of committees and parents groups enforcing age restrictions in most movie houses. So it was pretty easy for a teen to get in to an "R" rated flick. Sure...there were a lot...A LOT... Of badly made movies. But there were also a ton of great ones. Pam...was one of my first actress crushes... She was beautiful but could kick some serious ass. Films like Coffy, my first, welded her curvaceous form and bitchin attitude into my pre-pubescent noggin for eternity. This was a quick pen and ink sketch on 5x8 sketch paper. Enjoy...and see yuse tomorrow.

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