Neil Gaiman doing a reading at San Jose, about a week and a half ago. The way I drew him, he kinda looks more like Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop — but that’s what his hair was doing. All over the place.

The writing at the bottom is part of something he said regarding Good Omens: “When we wrote it, we were just two guys no one had ever heard of. We had no idea it would go on to sell millions of copies. Or that it would be translated into fourteen other languages. Or that young ladies all over the world would be writing pornography involving the main characters.“

Drawings from a recent project in BFA, after a story called “Creek” by Barry Yougrau. Initially drawn in the style of Edward Gorey, though I think there’s a lot of Lyonel Feininger influence in there too.

Today’s post is an experiment of sorts. About a month ago, I posted this page of watercolor sketches, painted from photographs by Albert Arthur Allen. Just for fun, I wondered what those drawings might look like animated.

The result is this two-second “sketchbook animation.” It’s not an acting test or a funny gag or a film with a beginning, middle, and end. It’s just something I felt like animating. It’s like something I’d draw in my sketchbook, except animated.

Click to play the movie (3.56 MB)

A veritable potluck of sketches. Here’s what found residence in my sketchbook in the last weeks of October.

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