What Now?!

In case y'all didn't know, I was starting most of my days since December 2011 scribbling character drawings.

WHAT NOW?! TUMBLR

While the warm-ups have been a blast, I'll be taking a break from them to concentrate on another project.

Here'a a round-up of the drawings:






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Noel Gallagher's new music video "Dream On" premieres today, directed by Mike Bruce and featuring the bad-ass Zoe Bell (Death Proof, Kill Bill, Double Dare). I drew storyboards for it.

1. Sharon Van Etten: One Day (Acoustic)
2. The Magnetic Fields: Too Drunk To Dream
3. Helen Money: In Tune
4. HEALTH: Death+
5. Little Dragon: Shuffle A Dream
6. Jimmy Cliff: Guns of Brixton
7. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: Long Shadow
8. The Big Sleep: Ace
9. Anna Calvi: Blackout
10. Tennis: Deep In the Woods
11. Beirut: The Rip Tide
12. The Jive Bombers: Bad Boy
13. Khánh Ly & Trịnh Công Sơn: Bien Nho
14. Leonard Cohen: One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

You can download the mix as a zip file [76 MB, 14 mp3s] at either: Mediafire [or] Fileserve

I used to post monthly mixes here from December 2007-2009. I'm digging up the old habit today to commemorate the end of a tumultuous year. 2011 was yet another difficult one for most people I know. Without going into details, this year brought me to extreme highs, lows, and [in the past few months] highs again. This mix is just a small chunk of music that helped me get through the saddest hours. I hope you can find a song or two here that'll bring you an iota of the joy they've brought me.

For the past couple of months, I worked on a full-length motion comic for Amazon Studios called The Alchemist Agenda. The movie can be streamed/downloaded here.

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Although it was initially conceived as a "test movie", it eventually took a life of it's own thanks to the herculean efforts of The Hive, a production house of super-talented editors, producers, and artists. I had the immense pleasure of working with Art Director Matt Hill, animator Nick Kunin, and artists Eric Koda, Alain Norte, and Darron Price. I'm proud of everyone's efforts and hope this "test movie" eventually becomes the giant Hollywood action blockbuster it deserves to be!

More info on the project can be found at writer/director Marty Weiss' blog, The Road To Alchemy.

A relatively obscure character from the original Eastman & Laird TMNT #13.

… And that's it for TMNT week! This was a lot of fun to do and I plan on posting drawings Monday-Friday at my new tumblr…

http://arambulo.tumblr.com/

I'll still be posting drawings here… but I really dig having all these character drawings in one place, so feel free to bookmark my new tumblr for future character scribblin's.

The eternally bad-ass Oroku Saki.

My favorite bat-wielding vigilante, Casey Jones.

April, as she first appeared in TMNT #2, but rocking the 80's cartoon haircut.

My collection of minicomics, drawn between 2005-2011, is finally available to order print-on-demand at Comixpress! It's 182 pages of tomfoolery for $12.

ALSO: I'll be posting ninja turtle-themed drawing all week. I drew a week of X-Men Ladies earlier this year with the intention of tackling different themes per week, but… Life got in the way of that. Will see if I can maintain a semi-regular drawing schedule from here on out…

So without further ado, here's the first drawing of the week: DONATELLO [my personal favorite ninja turtle!]