More Hurley Love

Lost

I finished my class with Stephen Silver, Here are my Lost designs that I did of Hurley, Charlie & Eko.

Sketchbook now on Sale

After my success at Comic-Con I was able to arrange with two comic book stores in the LA/ Burbank area to carry my sketchbook at $10 a book. If you live in the area you can go to House of Secrets 1930 W. Olive, Burbank CA (818) 562-1900 or Meltdown Comics 7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046 (323)851-7223. Support an up and coming animation artist.

Bee & Cheetara

Heres a few designs that I colored, but didn't have time to post.

Hurley

Comic-Con

I've been slaking with making posts lately with the preparations for Comic-Con and putting together a sketchbook. It was very well received! Now I’m following up on contacts and references. Here’s the cover. The drawing that I got the most comments on was the Hurley from LOST design. I think it helped that Hugo Rayes was at the Con walking around.

Pirates!

Just saw the new Pirates of the Carribean 2 movie, felt that and Cars were the best movies of the summer. Heres some Pirate drawings.

Executioner Beaver

Colored version

Charlie

I've been really busy lately with a class taught by Stephen Silver, main designer of Kim Possible, Danny Phantom and many others. Heres on of the things that Im working on animated versions of Charlie, Eko and Hurley on the TV show Lost.

Coloring in Photoshop

Im learning new tricks on coloring in Photoshop from a book on how to color for Comics.

Ninja, Viking and Micheal

A Ninja, another Viking and Michael, if you have been watching the show Lost lately you will know who he is and why he looks the way he does.

Creatures

Alien, Wilfred and Smirking guy

More drawings

An Astronaut, Mr Friendly from Lost and a squirel.

Over the Hedge Review

Last Monday night my family and I attended a free ASIFA screening of Over the Hedge. While not perfect I thought that it’s was really good. My favorite parts were some of the characters. I really love the Squirrel and his manically childlike way of doing things. I also really enjoyed the Opossum Dad and Daughter. The Dad was William Shatner and it was awesome seeing him go into the hammy Captain Kirk type acting through out (especially when he was faking his death). Avril Lavine was actually really good as the daughter, really good job at playing off of Shatner. The Gary Handling and Bruce Willis Turtle and Raccoon characters had some really funny things to do and say. Another favorite were the three porcupine kids. I didn’t seem to enjoy the Porcupine parents and the Skunk though.

The two characters that really bugged me though were the two main humans and not because of the characters them selves, but because they were ugly. DreamWorks has yet to produce good looking human (With exception to Princess Fiona in Sherk). Both of them really bugged me.

The story was really great except for the heavy handed anti-commercialism message. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind the message, it could have handled with a softer approach. A lot of heart was in the movie. My three year old loved the movie a lot and sat through the whole thing. Unfortunatly he was really scared by the bear and the two humans at the end. My wife commented that she didn’t like all of the nuts and potty humor. So be warned that this might not be for the really young if they get afraid of scary things or you don’t like potty humor.

Funny thing after we got home my wife and I watched the Apprentice and the prize for that week was to visit Dreamworks studios and meet Jeffery Katenberg and to do a voice recording. So the voice of the Barbeque guyis one of the Appretice contestants.

Thoughts? For these who have seen it please give you feelings.

Ben & Nathan

Pastel Drawing of my boys.

Two more dinosaurs & Rockman

triceratops

My three year old is really into Dinosaurs at the moment.

Revamped Website

I just finished revamping my portfolio website with new design. The first image is the original main page and the second image is the new and improved mainpage. Eventually I’m planning on putting in a feedback page along with other features so please let me know what you think.
www.paul-burrows.com

Mummy's Day

An early Mummy's Day drawing.

Character Inspiration

Yesterday I visited Disneyland with my family. We took our boys to see Playhouse Disney which includes Bear in the Big Blue House. This reminded me of my Disney college program and how much of a shock it was to see the characters with their heads off, a girl, in Mickey's costume or Cinderella taking a smoke break. Seeing Bear in the Big Blue House made me think of this image.

Action Characters

Viking,Samurai, Spiderman & Pirate