Lookin at dirty magazines

One of my favorite places to visit and spend what little free time I have since I moved to California is the ASIFA Animation Archive where there is never any shortage of interesting and inspiring artwork of all kinds. I try to get over there as much as possible to either volunteer or just to hang around and look at whatever new treasures Steve and others are kind enough to share.

Here's a few pages worth of study sketches done many motnhs back while formatting scans of some beautiful old Playboy cartoons. I think most of what's here was done while looking mostly at Sokol and maybe a little Dedini.







It always seems like when I am really starting to sink my teeth in and figure a few things out by doing studies like this that the time has flown by and I have to pack my things and head home.

I really wish I had more time to spend over at the archive to just sit, study, draw and try to learn as much as possible by studying the approach of such brilliant artists. Looking at this level of work makes me realize how little I learned in art school, and how much I still have to discover on my own.

I often wish I had access to a resource as great as the ASIFA Archive when I was younger and had much more freedom and free time to devote to the art of learning, instead of feeling like I'm frantically trying to make up for lost time and figure out things that I feel like I should already know at my age.

But I refuse to believe it's too late and will continue to keep working at getting there, even when the process is painful and slow at times.

Still more catching up to do... so expect more.