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Chuck Pyle's blog!

dept director (dean?) of the illustration department for Academy Art University.

http://chuckpyleart.blogspot.com/

Great teacher/mentor/director/person/moustache?

Him and many teachers at the academy is what makes the illustration dept kick-arse.

LUCY

SEPT 9th!!!!
12:15!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

edit to add: OOPS!

it's LUCY: The daughter of the devil, airing on cartoon network's ADULTSWIM @ 12:15 am on sunday'ish (monday morning technically), September 9th.

Tune in and check it out. I was responsible for most if not all the character designs and art direction for the BackGround Plates. ALSO check out Grant Alexander's and Justin Martin's handiwork (their efforts intto creating the environments for lucy to play in). Grant and Justin did a great job painting up the matte/bg plates for Lucy (They also had some handy work with Character designs: JUSTIN for his awesome MEAT LUCY and Grant for his disgusting SATAN TUMOR). They also did a wonderful job poking fun of me (YOU BASTARDS).

and to ANSWER CHRIS'S QUESTION: "IS this the pilot?" - this youtube commercial should say it all!

I MISSED COMIC-CON

AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

YOU lucky bastards that went! heck, even my boss went. But i heard it was sold out friday and he was there on wednesday, thursday, just going in everyday and paying the fee for the day pass. Couldn't get in on friday!

Ohhhhhh the books i would have saught out for. Ohhhhhh the toys i would have purchased! OHHHHH all the robot-sie transformery goodness i would have been in.

Congrats to those who went, congrats to those who brought their ports and got good reviews and not so good reviews (hey, it's all part of the process). Congrats to those who picked up MP-5 Masterpiece Megatron :)

MAYBE next year, maybe.

anyways, you know, still doing the same thing, sketching on the bus... workin' at the same place doing the same thing :) LOVING every moment of this crazy thing called work :)

anyways, doing some doodles, did some car doodles too. these were fun way to pass the time while waiting for the Harry Potter line to dwindle.

I MUST SAY - finished the book in 3 days. I've heard others doing it in 8 hours flat. JEEEEEBERS that's crazy! But now that THAT crazy thing is out of the way, i can return to my collective hobby of just doodling and dwadling and buying toys :)

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Bus sketches!!!





























Meg and I are getting married soon! She's set a date already... OCT 24th, city hall...

My parents scared her good, what with my brother's wedding topping at 550 people! So we'll be doing some wedding ring shopping on the weekends and she'll be looking for her simple summer dress for city hall.

Now on the lucy end, it looks like Lucy's got pushed back a bit to better promote the show. Airdate sometime in September... Sept 9th? Who knows, [adultswim] keeps me in the dark :D

If there's one thing to say about work, it's that I'm grateful that I have a wonderful, flexible team that can self manage things on their own and follows art direction (most of the time ;P ) - w/o them, the show would be nothing.

On the personal obsessed level: I want that new Leader Class Optimus prime now! ARrrgH! that new Transformers movie rocked!

me DailY doodles...

on 'de BUS or waiting...

I have not had any chance to do any photoshop paintings/sketches :( AYE YAH!

nO updates!

super buzy and just moved. cant even find the scanner to scan some bus sketches :o

only can post old stuff...

LuCy Airs August 5th, 11:45 PM on adult swim right after Robot Chicken!

some Watch Banners

Yes... i'm interested in watches :)

some banner work gratis to these guys.

Doodles

Some Sketches

I really like this portrait. Captured his likeness very fast, one minute flat :) I smell my pencil burning, YOWZAH!

The angry robot

Hello. This is an angry robot. He is mad at me. I do many mean things to him to make him mad... like call him names and laugh at him. I call him POO POO HEAD! Ka-ka-pee-pee-poo-poo SHIRE! He is an angry robot. He says "I WILL STOMP ON YOU! RAWR!"

But he cannot do that. It is because I am a nice person, but I am also a bomb. He cannot stomp on me or I will blow him up! It will be certain death for the angry robot.

Too bad I am tired. I cannot blow up an angry robot when I am tired. I am napping in my bed now.

Take that stupid angry robot!

LUCY DOODLES!

watch the show! see the series late this fall!

photoshop Quickie DoOdLe #303420

just doodling in photoshop :) sorry for delayed posts... have been quite busy.

The way I've been sketching lately

I normally like to sketch during my commute to work. That used to be pretty simple when it was a 45 min train ride... but now that I'm closer to work, my train ride is just 2-3 minutes... sometimes less. I also switched from the smooth riding Bay Area Rapid Transit trains to local underground city subways; things are a little bit shakier and a little bit more crowded. Drawing in the bigger sketchbooks becomes alot more noticeable - and believe me, I had my share of angry people catching me drawing them (thanks to my poor ninja drawing abilities).

To be able to draw in the more confined space of undercity subways, I decided to dump my larger (11x14 & 9x12)sketchbooks for a 3x5 inch moleskin plain paper. Drawing on the smaller book is a lot stealthier and I can quickly pull the little 190 page notebook out (w/ my stubby black verithin) at anytime & anywhere to do some quick sketching. Most will just think I'm taking notes, but little do they know that I've secretly stolen their soul and burned it into my little black book MUHAHAHAHA!

Most of the drawings turn out like dirt... sometimes having less than 5 seconds to draw. Not to mention that the train bounces and people constantly coming and going. And the lack of elbow room!!!

You'll notice below a mass of sketches. Most if not all are quickstudies on the train. Those with a seamingly good finish tend to be 3-5 minutes. A lot of the other quickstudies ranges from 1 - 30 seconds... some go unfinished, others might be drawn while intoxicated, and most get the "I'm the artist, I draw as I please!" mentality - lines going everywhere, artmarks, overstylizing :)

For an artist, as they say, Pencil Mileage is very important. I try to keep that up during my spare times. That's why I'm glad for the train rides, even though they are short - It's a nice brief workout before tackling the bigger drawings/paintings later during the day.

Unnatural History

Unnatural History art. I got obsessive compulsive and spent 3 waking days to illustrate the alleyway piece when it just really needed to be roughed :)

Now i goto bed! zZZZzzz

I want to be Sedated!

o/` Twenty Twenty Twenty-Four Hours agoooooo, I want to be sedated!

is the current song stuck in my head at work today. So anyways, the ever so lazy Albert finally updates his blog, yet again. Here's a fun design of many that i wish i could post.

I've been browsing the other member's blogs here and everyone else's art just amazes me! Puts me to shame really :) you guys are awesome. If anyone's reading this, please visit the other links in my blog and you'll see why these guys are pros if not great artists!

CK... for dog

Her name is Anne and she is SEXY.

a photo i took at work. Her name is Anne, and she visits often. Her hobbies include: lying about... drinking water... and more lying about :)

Get Well Soon Jonas!

one of my exec Producers for "Unnatural History" down in Hollywood got into a car accident. I illustrated this real quick at work and hopefully it gets to him. If not, I'm hoping you somehow managed to cross my blog on the hospital bed! or better yet, fully recovered at home :)

Get well soon!!! From Fluid and the gang.

doodle at the mall...

old old old old old OLD drawing.

something i've been meaning to paint up for a long time but haven't had the chance to. Found it sitting on the HD... gonna paint it! :D