My son Silas made an instructional video for baking Dan Tat, Hong Kong style egg tarts. I think he did a pretty good job. Enjoy.
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How to bake egg tarts
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He’s A Drawing Fiend
My son Silas is really getting into his drawings lately. I’m very proud of to see how passionate he is about art. He takes his work very seriously, almost too seriously.
The other day we were in the middle of a long drawing session when it dawned on me that he is a drawing fiend. I drew this little caricature of him. Oh man was he upset. I agreed the drawing was off insisting that the eye color was wrong. This only upset him more. I was trying to coax him into a caricature battle but I don’t think he gets it yet, got to get him to fire back. Can’t wait to see what happens when he starts drawing the family. I’m sure it will be glorious.
me:Â Hey that Pac-man cartoon is from when I was your age.
son: but how come its in color?
me: …:l
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Ceramic Chopper
My five year old son and I collaborated to make this lovely little ceramic Chopper C1-10P USB storage jar. He was taking a potter class at the local community center. chopper is his favorite character from Star Wars Rebels, the show i’m currently storyboarding on.
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The Grey Sketchbook: Part 3
The final third of the book. I would have had posted it sooner had I not misplaced the sketchbook. It went missing for a few days. After a good deal of stress and several fruitless searches I found it, of all places, in my drawing bag. Boy did I feel like a fool.
It was pouring at Silas’ football class. 
fielding the ball in my imagination. 
i’ve been Reading Peter Pan to my boys at night. 
I often get asked to draw Galaxy express stuff for my boys. Folded and drew the engineer. 
Pirates and their treasure as well as a random fellow in a suit and ear-muffs. 
Things that will kill you. violent bloody battles and toddlers. 
The Dark and sinister man. Captain James hook. 
a bucket full of fish and a few good hats to end the book.
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The James Brothers
More Train Drawings. In this little series Jesse James and his brother do their thing as they rob the Glendale Train. The little fellow in the upper left corner is my eldest son Silas.
The scan’s a little hard to read. The Engineer gasps, The James Borhters!! Hot Dog!! Why, You boys are famous! Can I get an autograph?!!
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Preschool chalkboard doodles
It was Silas’ first day of preschool today. It was a nightmare getting him out the door in the morning (classic) but once there he had a great time. The school has a large outdoor chalkboard so I spent some time drawing with the kids, taking animal requests.
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Messy Paintings with ArtRage
I employed my two-year old son Silas to helped out with this next ArtRage test. Today we were testing speed and the painting apps “mess factor”. Not trying to make anything too special our goal here was to see how well ArtRage could manage an untidy canvas. As it turns out it excels at quick dirty brush work and is a wonderfully expressionistic drawing tool!
The paint media brushes with their buttery depth and texture are a welcome relief to the flat world of Photoshop. Now I like Photoshop, I’ve painted in it for a good fourteen years but as a painting tool it is sterile. Although there have been countless updates over the years the drawing tools in Photoshop have never really improved much. I tried switching to Painter several times to fill this void but was never sold. Corel Painter makes nice messy paint stokes but on my iMac the rendering just couldn’t keep up and as a tool it felt frustratingly slow. My strokes would lag, especially when painting at a large-scale, and I found myself halving to rough paintings out in Photoshop before finishing them in painter. I also stumbled a lot with its interface, which was confusing to navigate at times. All this made for a pretty lame workflow and Painter with all of its 6D brush goodness was just never able to win me over.
This is not the case with ArtRage which can keep up with my quick strokes and took all of one minute to learn how to use. Case in point, my son Silas has played around on the ArtRage iPad app for the last two months and since the user interface between the two is all but identical he had no problem navigating the desktop app. Now he’s two so that translates as a very intuitive interface. Our one complaint is that changing brush sizes in ArtRage is a tad difficult. Both he and I struggled with this at first and the app could be greatly improved by simply moving the size controls from the corner of the screen to the brush settings tool pellet.
After a good hour or two of going crazy with our colors and brushwork Silas and I have concluded that the ArtRage passes the “mess test” with flying colors. There are always improvements to be made with these things and it would be nice to see a few more random functions like palm smears, gravity blending or water pooling which could effect brush stokes. For now though I’ll take ArtRage as it is as I am sure these sort of things will come.
A Few More Mess Tests
Here are a few extra mess tests that we made while putting ArtRage through the ringer.
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Yellow Sketchbook #7
I believe this is my seventh, solid cover-to-cover finished book. Of those I have shelved it has taken the longest to complete as I have been distracted by a lot of digital drawing (Darn you Wacom!). This work spans the last two years and has a lot of road trips and projects scattered though out its pages. There are some sizable time gaps in it which I am not so happy about but as a viewer it probably makes for interesting browsing as the artwork stays fresh and changes often.
It is also notable that this is the first book where someone else’s drawings have shared the page with mine. Try as I might it has been impossible to keep my toddler son Silas away from this book. His handy work is present towards the end pages.
more desert ideas 
drifting all over the map here. 
Silas scribbles in my book 
exploring shapes 
Silas makes his mark. He’s one. 
exploring ayia and her dress design 
inside wakefields house 
Costume design ideas for Wakefield 
Captain outfits 
sailing a reft 
the inside cover of the sketchbook is always random 
the true compass. Wakefield and Aiya set out to find paradise 
this page went a bit steam punk 
reverse engineering a 3d sculpt I was working on 
alien and the mountain bandit 
thumbnail art from boomerang and a boxing chicken 
Early Boomerang thumbs 
something stinks about these boards. I don’t like them. 
wakefields house on a cliff and motorcycles 
ideas for boomerangs ship. 
the pirate girl 
the house boat and its crew 
girl next to a very old large tree 
Un-finished house designs 
Califia queen of California, takes Wakefield prisoner 
the detective, car, and other random doodles 
art party sketch 
Behind the engine of an old steam locomotive 
I cant remember who this is or what it was for 
Waiting in the lobby at South Park 
this is the tattoo of an intelectual pirate. the skull and crossbone lightbulb. 
drawing on the bottom of the world 
doodling at the Eukelele gathering 
waiting for the train while in Paris 
Drawing from nature on the bottom of the world. This was an amazing trip. Need to go back with more time for art. 
Drawing on the sand bar again 
Early thoughts on a desert film 
zombie farm ideas 
sleeping Silas and dogs 
Wakefields house falling into the ocean 
a giant of a man 
Silas makes his mark again. This time in Hong Kong 
drawing in the car in Hong Kong 
everyone is a pig 
Crab expressions 
Hand anatomy 
random doodles 
exploring character 
hampsters and a cajun resturant 
warm up drawings 
more desert film ideas 
revisiting buzby 
flying abstractions 
from a Corney Cole Drawing session at CalArts 
from a Corney Cole Drawing session at CalArts 
more drawings from Corey Cole’s class 
floating things 
doodling sculptures at the louvre in Paris 
young Silas while sleeping 
Silas requested I draw some trains 
Boomerang thumbnails that bombed 
gloves and airplanes 
nazi cat and flying wings 
inventing boomerang girl and her flying motorcycle 
this is when Boomerang Girl first clicked in my brain. 
I can’t draw my son. These are way off. 
from my cabin window on the Minerva 
drawings from the ships bar
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Silas gets a game card
Just finished painting Silas’ memory game card. Here it is fresh out of Photoshop.