Previously mentioned here.
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Beach Oil Painting
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The Little Red Caboose
I’ve been listening to Henry Thomas’ Little Red Caboose song a lot lately. I keep thinking it would make for a really cute short film. I love trains and think it would just be a ton of fun to work on a project revolving around them in some way.
Here are a few pages pulled from my sketchbook.
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Dick and Don: The secret passage: Update
This is an updated pass of a previously posted story sequence. I expanded the scene to include an underground lake and a mysterious cult, oh my. Currently I’m in the process of exploring ideas for a larger project called Dick and Don and the Black lotus.
*grumbling* 
Hurry up! 
The Boss don’t like to be kept waiting. 
move it you bums. 
*grumbling* 
SFX *sliding metal* 
SFX *heavy metal latch* 
Ohhhh… 
A secret passage! 
OTS- engine starts 
!?! 
*cough cough* 
SFX *VROOOoooom!* 
SXF * truck drives off* 
!?!! 
Come on, 
we gotta follow them. 
They went into that news stand. 
SFX * brushing the dust off* 
Wait a second. 
uhm, that thing might be boobie trapped. 
uhm… 
you go first. 
see if you can open it. 
DON – ME? but, but…Hey Dick look at that! 
We’re in the news! 
It doesn’t look good. 
be brave. 
DON – ok i’ll try… grrr 
RRRrrrrr 
It must be locked from the inside. 
hmmmm?? 
hmmmmm…. 
!!! *gasp* !!! 
!!!!! 
SFX *coin jingle* 
Bingo! 
SFX *bling* 
We got ’em now. Come on lets go. 
SFX *click* 
SFX * cha-ching* 
SFX *squeaky metal* 
I’ll give you the honor of going first. 
* awkward long pause * 
uhm, ok i guess. 
DON-…i really need to learn to say no. 
huh? what was that? 
Don- nothing. 
It was a little tight but i made it. 
Its your turn. I’ll hold the 
DOOR. 
*BONG* 
Are you kidding. I could never pay good money for a paper that doesn’t have comics. 
ugh, the very idea. 
..no comics.. 
*struggling* 
Thats just ridiculous. 
SFX – slip and fall inside the news stand DICK- whoa! 
SFX *door slaps shut, followed by a long comedic crash on the other side of the wall.** 
SFX *flashlight click* 
OTS SFX *bats in distance* 
SFX *cautious footsteps* 
*gulp* 
Its kind of spooky down here. 
I wonder if there are bats? 
*gulp* 
what do you think? 
DON – yeah probably i guess. 
I wonder if they’re fruit bats or those blood sucking ones. 
The vampire ones are scary. 
*gulp* 
…yeah, I hope they’re the ones that like fruit. 
OTS- bat sounds and flapping. 
*Oooff* 
Hey, watch where your walking. 
Hey Don 
Look at that. 
it’s a 
Underground lake. 
no kidding. 
Wow how big do you think this place is? 
I don’t know. 
Well it doesn’t really matter anyways. come on. 
that’s a lot of water… 
hmm? 
SFX * descending stairs * 
Down here. 
Look! 
I found a boat. Come on. What are you waiting for? 
I’m beginning to have second thoughts about this whole thing. 
You know. Maybe its not the best idea. 
I mean this all seam a little over the top. 
DICK – SSHHHHhhhhhh! 
Quiet. 
Look over there. On the other side of the lake. 
There they are. 
*grumbling* 
SFX * Dick and Don’s voices echo softly across the lake * 
SFX * flashlight clicks on * 
you guys hear that? 
…I swear I… 
probably bats or something. 
lets go. 
SFX * bats in the distance* 
OTS – a weird chanting grows louder in the distance. 
The noise grows louder. 
DICK – Come on nows our chance. 
I don’t know. 
ok, ok. 
whoa! 
SFX *water echos* 
SFX * dock creaking* 
DICK- careful getting in. 
its a little… 
wobbly! 
!!! 
DICK- I gotcha 
*OOHF!* 
Grrrrrr! 
Get off me you numbskull. 
DON – I dropped my flashlight. 
too late now. Come on! 
you gotta a long way to paddle. 
ok ok 
geaz loius 
*grunting* 
SFX * water ripples* 
OTS – Distant chanting echoes across the lake. 
OTS- chanting / mumbled singing DICK – Do you hear that? 
This must be the gangs hang out. Be careful. 
Ok now I’m beginning to get a little creeped out. 
Go scout things out, will yeah. 
wait how come I always have to go first? 
That is a very good question. 
and well, uhm… 
well you know… 
your crazy and adventurous! 
adventurous! 
I’m just smart but you… you…your brave 
courageous and bold! 
Ugh, ok fine ill go first. 
Its just easier. 
SFX *gongs are rung in the background* 
ok, come on. 
OTS- *murmured excitement from the cult* 
Oh my stars! Who are these people? 
Hey there it is. 
On that alter thingy. 
we gotta get a closer. come on. 
over here. 
OTS – chanting stops. 
*hushed quiet* 
SFX- footsteps echo in the quiet hall. 
SFX * small metal latch is lifted* 
SFX * the shell box is opened* 
SFX * magnetic vibration* 
!!!! *gasp* !!!! 
at last… 
After all these years… 
Its finally mine. 
*creepy maniacal laughter* My brothers and sister after years of toil and suffering victory is ours!!! 
Behold the power of the Black Lotus!! ! CULT – loud chanting / singing 
… 
*Gulp*
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Little Black Moleskine Sketchbook
This was my first time keeping a small sketchbook. I usually prefer a more traditional 8×10 inch book. It’s all mixed media, pencil, ink, watercolor etc. and took about four months of very sporadic doodling to complete.
I bought this little fellow because Moleskine advertised it as a storyboard notebook. Lesson learned, always remember to read the description when buying something and don’t judge a book by its cover. I bought this thinking it was going to be an awesome storyboard “sketchbook”. Aparently notebook and sketchbook are not the same thing. Good to know. Still purchasing snafus aside, I don’t know what they were thinking. For some un-thought-out reason the books layout isn’t consistent. On some pages the frames are a half-page spread and on others it’s an eighth. The odds of running out of frames half way into a scene are very high. Why on earth would you want to switch sizes in the middle of a project? This is like printing a journal that changes line spacing from 12-point to 5-point at random intervals. My biggest complaint though is that the book was printed using a 1.33 aspect ratio. 1.33 is all but dead so if you have to pick any aspect ratio for a storyboard book at least go with the modern standard of 1.85.
Long story short, do to technical difficulties I gave up on any boarding ambitions i had at the cash register and just turned this little fellow into a handy pocket doodle book. In that regard it was much more functional. Let me know what you think.
front and back cover 
inside back cover 
overly cute happy ending 
Hurray! The baby kittens are saved! 
After much difficulty the engineer stops the train 
Slamming on the brakes 
Oh no what that on the tracks?! 
At the beach 
Easter Sunday 
Toot toooot! 
Faces at the Ritz 
Ritz-Carlton chandelier 
A black tie afair 
Videographer and waiter, Black tie doodles at the the Ritz-Carlton 
Dinner time doodles with the wife and kids 
random heads 
Hand with heads and random villain 
Wishing I could draw half as well as Manu 
Cheese and cracker doodle time 
RRRrr, every sketchbook needs a good pirate says I 
childhood memories 
The twins 
Castles made of sand 
filling up his bucket 
My son Silas playing in the sand at Wu kwui Sha beach 
caught red handed 
looks kind of like thriller 
fusion chamber 
memories of a mad scientist 
New years doodles at Corey Jackson’s pad 
SF drawing 
a serious looking feline 
topology 
creature 
The flying cat thingy 
made up dino yawn 
Dead men tell no tails 
No time for a heavy heart 
no hope 
plotting their fate 
caged orphans on their way to a prison camp 
sentry with prisoner 
inside front cover
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Instagram photo page added
Just added an Instagram photo page to the site.
-update
Took it down because instagram started getting all weird with adds and videos.
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Stowaways Painting
Having missed their intended destination of Hawaii Dick and Don find themselves en route to Hong Kong. Several weeks into the trip Dick is at the end of his rope while Don makes the most of the unexpected down time singing a little tune.
♪ ♫
I’m going east
way across the sea
to a distant shore
where she waits for meIn ‘ol Hong Kong
Pearl of the Sea
safe in your arms
I long to beNow I’ve travelled far
and i’ve travelled wide
I’ve roamed the ocean
on a wayward tideand so to Hong Kong
pearl of the sea
where love and adventure
they wait for megood ‘ol Hong Kong
Pearl of the sea
land of adventure
and mystery
♪ ♫
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The Wrong Luggage Painting
There is a lot of back story to this painting but I’ll spare the details and just say its form a the Hong Kong comedy project I am working on at the moment.
Just updated the sites favicon to this swell little animated self-portrait.
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On the MTR
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Girl with White Hair
