Dan Tickle Blog

Gooolldfinga!

2012-01-20T20:48:00.000-08:00

GOLDFINGER! The ole' bird on the head disguise, works every time.

Ice, ice baby.

2012-01-17T14:09:00.001-08:00

Snow Queen castle.

A little Snow Queen sketch.

Two Brothers & The Snow Queen.

2012-01-07T21:18:00.000-08:00

I'm working on my own version of "The Snow Queen", its an ice castle, seeee!

Two brothers from my own on going personal project, see more of it on my portfolio page.

Space, the work in progress.

2012-01-03T11:22:00.001-08:00

I haven't made a habit for posting work in progress, but here is an exception. Its a spaceship! There will be more action going on when its done.

Also, first post for a new year. May this year be productive and fulfilling.

I can't get up!

2011-12-25T00:53:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas 2011.
A Christmas Story is clearly the best Christmas movie, of all time.

Tickle Manor.

2011-12-15T23:30:00.000-08:00

Tickle Manor, home to the Knights of the Round Tickle.

The Magic Kingdom.

2011-12-08T20:40:00.000-08:00

Disneyland hangover.

Tank Overhaul.

2011-11-27T22:11:00.001-08:00

Here is another "speed painting" I did, trying to practice some quicker photoshop techniques and find a way of doing it that suits me. Not the coolest tank ever but I recommend everyone watch Tank Overhaul on Netflix.

DWTS.

2011-11-16T22:59:00.000-08:00

I'm two blog posts and one scandal away from qualifying for Dancing with the stars. Too bad I only know one dance move, though all my life I've just wanted to dance....

Intergalactic Planetary.

2011-10-23T18:57:00.001-07:00

Sketched in Photoshop.
Be sure to look at my portfolio, I've recently updated!

Nerd Alert.

2011-10-13T00:42:00.000-07:00

Nerd alert: fan art
I've watched Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World too many times. Quick PS sketch.

Environment sketching

2011-10-05T13:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some environmental sketches and two "speed" paintings based on, my imagination.

Radio

2011-09-20T20:22:00.000-07:00

Something from the ole' Senior Project that didn't make the cut.

BANG!

2011-09-03T14:36:00.000-07:00

This guy had a machine-gun, and let me hold it.

Jerome Froggy Frog.

2011-08-31T16:19:00.000-07:00

I graduated.

Background assignments that were fun.

Those guys.

2011-08-31T16:11:00.000-07:00

The dudes that ruin hats for everyone else.

The best movie, ever!

Everybody's bloggin' now come on a bloggin' safari with me.

Ah Crap.

2011-07-02T22:52:00.000-07:00

Facebooks.

2011-06-29T21:11:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook dumping. Out in public no one is safe from my pen.

BFG

2011-05-26T22:55:00.000-07:00

A departure from my normal way of doing things, gettin' versatile. I'm graduating this term.

And now for something completely different...

2011-04-22T23:21:00.000-07:00

Second to last term is now over and I'm in the home stretch. Here is a smoke spewing robot sketch to celebrate Earth Day, my favorite holiday.

Bah & Arrgghh & Ohhh

2011-03-22T18:20:00.000-07:00

Busy term, but I still find time to occasionally sit in the local mall drawing people stuffing their faces.

Secret of the Incas

2011-01-11T20:29:00.000-08:00

Secret of the Inca's redesign I did in Visual Storytelling Fall '10. For those not familiar with the movie it starred Charlton Heston as a proto-Indiana Jones, and Raiders of the Lost Ark definitely borrowed some of its art direction from this movie. You can now watch it on Netflix instant play. I see things I want to change now on this, but for blogging purposes its done!

Justin Bieber pics!

2010-12-21T21:41:00.000-08:00

Low lights from a recently filled sketchbook. The best part of academic classes is all the opportunity they provide for filling sketchbooks. All resemblances to people I know or have known is completely intentional.

Justin Bieber pictures!

I put Justin Bieber in this post twice in hopes that when people google 'Justin Bieber' they get this post as a result and are completely tricked in to looking at my blog.

Getting panned,

2010-11-08T00:02:00.000-08:00

Hook/Peter Pan redesign, alright. This term is hard(er).

The Queens greatest hits.

2010-10-03T01:09:00.000-07:00

From the "I did this?" file. Don't remember this assignment at all.

From the last workshop I went to last term.

Fall 2010 is looking promising, yeaahhh.

Thunderstorms and neon signs.

2010-09-12T18:20:00.000-07:00

Photos? Whhaaaaatt. These started as a class project for Light and Color, but it wound up being entertaining. These are just four from three rolls of film I shot with my jerry-rigged Pentax K1000 turned pinhole camera.

Visited Santa Barbara this last week. Made my first visit to the Santa Barbara Zoo in over two years. A nice little zoo for those not familiar with it, better than the LA zoo even if smaller. Take yourself up there for some lunch and animal drawing, you just might enjoy it.

The Outside.

2010-09-06T21:45:00.000-07:00

Because I never used to do anything "pretty".

Walked around the Ventura pier and did these two today, it was slightly overcast. Watercolor on top, sharpies on the bottom.

Head up, shoulders back.

2010-08-30T22:42:00.000-07:00

My view of the bowel.

Some crap I doodled today, markers on letraset marker pad because I'll never use it otherwise.

same damn things...

2010-08-27T16:37:00.000-07:00

Summer time and livin' is borrring. Bored is kind of a curse
word. There isn't really many good reasons to ever be bored, but I'm giving myself an exception this break from Heck in the summer of shit.

Red Velvet.

2010-08-25T21:47:00.000-07:00

Street Sketching. Not exciting but good practice. The top one I did today while I ate after getting a haircut. The bottom ones are from creative perspective. Done mostly at The Lakes and Civics Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, my former home away from home. CLICK TO ENLARGE!

The futures uncertain and the end is always near.

2010-08-20T23:24:00.000-07:00

Mike Mignola style, cause its cool.

Zombie, zombay!!

2010-08-20T21:07:00.000-07:00

Another birthday gift. Zombie family, duh. Inspired by a zombie family seen at Comicon.

All pain no gain.

2010-08-13T22:58:00.000-07:00

Animals are cool. Sun burns are bad.

Don't have to keep playing the lone gunslinger.

2010-07-31T01:38:00.000-07:00

A birthday gift for a friend. Also paying homage to Ashley Wood's style. About 12x24" oil on masonite.

Til summer comes around.

2010-07-20T11:54:00.000-07:00

Every mile a memory.

2010-07-08T23:23:00.000-07:00

Needed to get out, did these two today in Ventura.

An older one I did quite a while ago now... About 3x4" in size.

Viper of Drawing

2010-07-03T22:47:00.000-07:00

I've been doing a lot of figure drawing this term and it looks like I'll have even more free time so maybe I'll get good this summer. Who cares.

The Biggest Loser

2010-06-03T22:47:00.000-07:00

First shot at the Picture This grand prize. Didn't win. Gouache and prismacolors.

Glad the term begins tomorrow...

2010-05-16T18:48:00.000-07:00

The Hare and his arch-nemesis Barbarian Bastard. More water color break sketching.

Take a hike

2010-05-12T22:07:00.000-07:00

Watercolor character doodles from the beginning
of break. Term 5.5 almost here.

Yippee-Kay-Yay Mother$%&#^*

2010-05-03T22:15:00.000-07:00

The good, the bad, and the cowboy with tiny feet. Gouache and prismacolor on canson paper to be different.

Also you may now become my follower and do exactly as I instruct you. Just like Charles Manson's followers; minus the insanity, murder, weird cult stuff or swastikas on the head.

The Langford double will HOLD!

2010-04-21T22:11:00.000-07:00

A redesign of the movie The Prestige in to an animated film. I moved the story in to the 1930's. I was going for a mixture of old Warner Bro's animations and the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons in style. This project was demanding but fun. For Richard Keyes Color and Story class.... and no it wasn't for the Fall.

50% less plastic

2010-04-17T23:07:00.001-07:00

Week 14 post! Some quick animals from last break which feels like forever ago. I can't wait to get back out and just draw again. My brain is already on break.

Remembering Norm Schureman

2010-03-22T00:56:00.000-07:00

Norm was a really cool guy and someone I could really relate to. We shared similar interests and I really enjoyed the trips we took in his dynamic sketching class, especially the Nethercut where he got us in the private collection tour then our class got a special tour in the restoration area which blew my gear-head mind. Also Planes of Fame, it was great being able to talk to him about the aircraft; something I don't often get to talk about with someone so knowledgeable. Not to mention he helped me improve my drawing.

Goodbye Norm, my life is certainly better for having had the pleasure to be one of your students.

Pressure

2010-03-12T16:33:00.000-08:00

Week 9, the work is mounting.

Where are the BRAKES!?!

2010-03-01T18:25:00.000-08:00

I'm taking drawing for Illustration this term, aka; drawing with a pen. I enjoy this class but I have a hard time slowing down. 100 mph is the speed I draw.

Come on feel the noise... I mean paper.

2010-01-12T23:05:00.000-08:00

Drawing from the last day of Inventive Drawing.

...and another one.

I visited San Luis Obispo this weekend, and Morro Bay. I've been doing a lot of drawing from observation this break and its been a lot of fun. Especially fun at cool locations like Morro Bay with a rad looking power plant just to my right, I have a third eye now.

New Year...

2010-01-05T22:01:00.000-08:00

...but this is old now, its from 2009. You know, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, before there was the iphone... OK, not that old.

These were some Dynamic Sketching redesigns.

Trazar Dinámico!

2009-12-20T20:53:00.000-08:00

Here are some dynamic sketching pages. I was not satisfied with my final book, I wanted to make a magazine featuring my sketches but it proved not feasible (ie; not well planned by me in time to turn it in) so I had to coil bind it. I really enjoyed the field trips with this class, most the places I had never been or not been for quite some time, definitely a worthwhile class.

DYNAMIC!

2009-12-08T10:23:00.000-08:00

Dynamic Sketching was a fun class this term. Just going places and drawing pretty much everything. Word of warning: Do not schedule another class right after this one, its really a pain in the ass.

Much to learn, you still have....

2009-12-06T22:14:00.000-08:00

This term is nearing completion and I'm finishing up my final projects. Al...most... there...

The Force is with me and I'm ready for 5th term.

ZAP

2009-11-16T14:13:00.000-08:00

Here is a ray gun master piece.

No time for Love!

2009-09-11T20:35:00.000-07:00

Break is over, 4th term begins. Something from my sketchbook. I had a fun, but uncreative break and did not produce amazing work on the magnitude I envisioned. Darn.

The Hare

2009-08-17T12:25:00.000-07:00

Danger abounds, only one hero can save us. THE HARE!

This is my character from my digital illustration final, expect this to be all the rage amongst K-12 kids this school year.

Outlaw Minotaurs, before its too late...

2009-07-24T23:04:00.000-07:00

Haven't updated in a while, so here is my logo I did in digital illustration as part of a business card project. You can see it in my banner above.

Domo Arigato

2009-06-16T20:40:00.000-07:00

Another digital illustration project. The colors really look bad on here now that I look at it. The concept behind this one is just too deep and complicated for me to even verbalize....

Semper Fi

2009-06-04T21:12:00.000-07:00

Latest digital illustration. My least successful to date but I like it. Really toned down from my original concept to not offend anyone.

Vladimir Putin number 1 Fan Club.

2009-05-28T23:44:00.000-07:00

Ole' Vladimir Pooty Poot, everyones favorite ex-KGB agent. For digital illustration.

BAM!

2009-05-23T11:39:00.000-07:00

My first 3rd term project on interest. A self portrait based entirely on reality. Yes, I do fight robots.

Mighty logo rocks the fat ass.

2009-05-15T18:42:00.000-07:00

A very famous photographer came to me and said, "you're the best in the business, and I need a logo, stat". Naturally I had to take on this task, after many grueling hours this was the result.

Actually this is a logo I did for my friend Dave Levine and his up and coming photography business, and that episode described above takes place 10 years in the future between us.

Alien kino

2009-05-12T21:22:00.000-07:00

The aliens are real man, didn't you see Fire in the Sky?

Third term has just begun, why not post a throwback from first term!? This was my digital design poster project. Just started digital illustration today, I can tell right now I'll produce some work much better then this in there.

Yo-ho, Yo-ho.

2009-05-05T20:22:00.000-07:00

The next term is almost here, and it wont come soon enough! Remember long ago, pre-swine attack the big news was Somali pirates. I haven't forgotten you piratical Africans!

Head Hunter

2009-04-29T20:41:00.000-07:00

One-hundred heads from Jeff Smith's one-hundred heads project term 1. A good project it made me explore a lot of styles. I didn't paint enough of them due to novice painter status and the sheer amount of time I was already dedicating to this.

making belgian waffles, out of real Belgians.

2009-04-26T21:22:00.000-07:00

Share in my break boredom!

He never got a gun, I ran out of space. He did get a sick 'stache though.

More Sketchbook, the bottom one is the Incredibles at War, fighting Nazi's and protecting democracy.

An old painting of a '50-something ford F-100. I like hot rods. Acrylic on plywood.

A tighter painting from comp. and painting. Probably the best one I did, never 100% finished despite being a 2 week pose. Oil 14"x18".

The Big One.

2009-04-25T14:21:00.001-07:00

A melody of term 2 work, and one that is not. If you're looking at this; well done. You've found the one hidden gem of the internet.

This paintings about a year old, acrylic on wood.

Illustration project from David Luce's comp. and painting. He said it was a really good stereotype of a terrorist, minus the muppet-like hand.

Another Illustration project form comp. and painting. Never really felt it was 100% finished, but I'm certainly done with it now.

Last painting from comp. and painting. Was sad that class was ending, felt I was beginning to get a grasp on oils and my painting skills were improving. Oils 14"x18".

Oh yes, the Design 2 abstraction project. A fun thing to do. I did the velociraptor in full nerd mode, watched a little Jurassic Park to get in the right mindset. Welded sheet metal.

Gotta get it up.

2009-04-25T13:23:00.000-07:00

More sketchbook stuff. No one on the planet has views this blog as of me posting anything from here down. I expect it to explode in popularity soon and to be everyones homepage.

Never can have too much Batman, unless George Clooney is in it.

Is this working right?

2009-04-25T13:11:00.000-07:00

Second attempt at posting, I'm having image issues.

Fresh out of the new sketchbook. You can never draw too many guns or girls.

Blog lift-off

2009-04-24T23:47:00.000-07:00

I've have officially joined the modern age and now I am blogging my progress at Art Center. I'm just getting used to the whole idea of the interweb so this might take me a while.

Acrylic/Oil 14"x18"

Above is a painting I did for David Luce's Comp. and Painting class. I'll have more to post soon, this is the only one I photographed as of right now.