Side project poster

I had a fun side project this weekend creating an Alice in Wonderland poster. Rather than go crazy with the psychedelic wonderland I made the illustration more like the classic Lewis Carroll illustrations from the original book. It was a lot of fun and made me want to play with more pen & ink stuff.

31 D.R.A.W.: Day5

Okay, so I've never been able to actually try unicorn meat but it looks deee-lish!

31 D.R.A.W.: Day4

Yes! I thought I was so clever because this is the name of a restaurant... until I checked with my chef. The restaurant is actually called the Fat Duck (and I really want to eat there someday!).

Anyway, ducks on fire still looks pretty sweet

31 D.R.A.W.: Day3

This originally started out as a gangsta but I decided to fudge my face onto it

31 D.R.A.W.: Day2

By far one of the coolest villain outfits! Shredder kicks ass

31 D.R.A.W.: Day1

Day 1: Car Chase.

New list!

I'm enjoying the daily drawing so much that I decided to make another challenge: the Thirty ONE day D.R.A.W. (Days Rendering Awesome Work). I made it intentionally more manly since the last list was more on the girly side. Feel free to join in and give it your best shot!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day thirty!

"Day 30: Make a congratulatory banner for completing this challenge"

Sa-weeet! I dunn did it! This was a lot of fun even though it seems as if the topic list was written by a girl (i.e. fav fairytale, a couple). I want to keep going with this so I'm developing a 31 Day Drawing Challenge. I'll post it up here soon!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty nine

I'm not so concerned with a PLACE I want to go, more concerned with how I want to get there

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty eight

Day 28:Anything you'd like

I'm double-tasking on this one again. This is also for another blog where I have to sketch something being smashed, destroyed, etc... I just watched zombieland so this was fresh on the mind

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty seven

Olivia is hilarious and has the biggest imagination of any little kid I've ever met! She loves hanging out with me and is interested in anything I do. I'm gonna miss this little rascal when I move :(

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty six

As a server in the food industry, this is definitely THE worst insult a customer can leave at the table. You're sick, I get that. But rather than keep your nasty booger-filled tissue of disease in your own pocket or even put it respectfully on your empty plate, you instead decide it best to just leave it on the table where I have to pick it up. YOU SUCK and I hope you never get over your cold!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty five

Day 25: scenery. This is the view from my incredibly slow restaurant that I work at. Notice the ridiculous amount of time I was able to spend on this while not making money

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty four

A couple? Okay, so this topic list was obviously written by a girl. I'm gonna have to make a guys topic list for the next 30 days. So, for my "couple" I doodled Jekyl and Hyde. I love this story of the experiment gone wrong, and the doctor's addiction to his own malediction.

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty three

Yes, I need money. Not in a greedy sense at all, but more in the sense that I might have my wages garnished soon kind of need.

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty two

I grew up in Northern California, and often times I miss the ocean. I started trying to learn how to surf when I was about 13. We used to go out on overcast days wearing 5mm wetsuits and even though it was miserable at times I miss all of it. I miss paddling to shore every half hour to thaw out my hands (the ocean temp was a steady 40 degrees!). I miss peeling off the wetsuit and having that sticky-salty feeling all over. I miss bumpin' 311 while hosing down my suit and waxing up my board.

I miss the ocean

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty one

I imagine that in the professional world all bosses have monocles and top-hats, and everyone speaks the Queen's English, em oi roight?

Seriously though, I want NEED a career job! I can animate, illustrate, postulate, whatever you want! Check out my online portfolio and email me: kahunasammy@gmail.com

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twenty

Probably the most obvious orange thing, and one of my sloppiest still-lifes

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day nineteen

something new: birthday presents! My sister got me a cool beenie and checker-plaid shirt for my birthday. I rarely buy new clothes unless I've worn multiple holes in the ones I have so this was really cool (and stylin')!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day eighteen

meh, just a doodle. I tried to emulate the rococo-floral design stuff

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day seventeen

Bonsai! I love miniatures and bonsai trees are awesome because the artform is meant to mimic the old beaten and weathered oaks in Japan but on a tiny scale. Some day I'll make my own bonsai. The coolest is that you can make them from any type of tree. I had a friend who made a lime tree bonsai that actually bore fruit!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day sixteen

inspiration: Music! Rhythm and melody help me create. Music helps me figure out timing in my storyboards, it helps guide the stroke of my pen, and it gives me new ideas i never thought existed! A world without music would be unlivable.

Click the picture to see the full size!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day fifteen

Okay, so today is my birthday and also one of the hardest challenges: family picture. I don't want to screw this one up so i'm spending time on getting it done right and using this as a place-holder for now... sorry

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day fourteen

Of course, my favorite fairytale involves a curly-headed goof who gets mistaken for a hero. Danny Kaye is hilarious! The scene that this drawing is referring to is here

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day thirteen

I'm kinda double-dipping on this one. My friend also has a drawing challenge blog and the theme this week is dinosaurs, so I made a little dino comic!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day twelve

Sauté! After years of eggo waffles and fast food being the thumbnail parts of my diet, I decided one day to sauté some veggies with my eggs. Only, I’d never really done that, so being the nerd that I am I youtubed it. A couple "how to" videos later and I felt like Neo from the Matrix “I know kung fu!”. I ran upstairs and sauteed the shit out of some veggies and made one of the best omelettes imaginable (see for yourself)!

I don’t know why but that simple technique got me all excited about this whole cooking thing. Since then it’s been like an infectious new hobby. I’ve made crepes, stuffed mushrooms, enchilada casserole! Hoo-dilly I never knew how easy it all really was!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day eleven

When I was 13 my parents got a camcorder. I remember one night at the dinner table I decided to do an experiment. I set up the camera on a tripod aimed at my bowl of soup and every time I took a bite, I would go over to the camera and hit record-stop as fast as I could. Pretty quickly I saw that I could make a stop-motion with the bowl of soup and eventually I was moving around plates, napkins, and placemats to make a little dancing ensemble of dinnerware.

I consider this my "turning point" in life because I realized that I could make my own claymations. I had always been fascinated by cartoons and animation but I had always thought it required expensive tools to do. But here I was, clicking the buttons on a run-of-the-mill camcorder and making my own animated movies!

That summer I created a whole collection of claymations, sometimes making wrestlers with my little brother, other times making a simple run cycle for a character. One time I even made my own movie parody: "Indiana Caudill and the Soccer Ball of Doom!" where in a climactic scene my brother gets chased by a riding lawn mower! This point in my life turned me from a simple fan of cartoons into an imaginative creator!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day ten, Fav Candy

Favorite candy: Sour Patch Kids!

Any time I go to the movies I have to get these! I actually rarely eat them unless I'm in a dark movie theater, it adds suspense not knowing which flavor you're getting.

I also love the commercials and wanted to create a slightly more morbid version. A drive-by shooting one would be cool too...

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day nine, Fav TV Show

Favorite TV Show: Chowder!

I absolutely love this show! A chubby rabbit-hamster kid is the apprentice to a big-nosed chef who makes the coolest imaginary food ever! Thrice cream, flop-tarts, grubble-gum, so much cool food.

The look of this show was fascinating as well. From the cool watercolored backgrounds to the static wallpaper texture style on the characters, Chowder had a unique style all its own. Not to mention they'd flip to stop-motion animation or puppets every once in a while which was a whole 'nuther dose of awesome! Unfortunately Cartoon Network pulled the plug on the new season but I blame the voice actor kid for all of it. Why'd you have to go and hit puberty?!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day Eight, Fav Animated Character

Favorite Animated Character: Rigby! (from Regular Show)

“A buncha baby ducks, send ‘em to the moon. Soda machine that doesn’t work, send ‘em to the moon”

Dude, he stole a magical synthesizer from a wizard, what’s cooler than that?! JG Quintel (the artist) is my modern-day hero. I’ve been showing “2 in the AM-PM” to my friends for years now (youtube it if you haven’t seen it) and I literally wet my pants when I saw that he was making his own show! Rigby is the coolest. He brings it!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day seven, Fav Movie

Favorite Movie: Sword in the Stone

One of the coolest movies I saw growing up! Who wouldn’t want to hang out with a wizard who turns you into cool animals on the daily?! You can definitely see the animation work of Ollie Johnston in this one. He has the magical touch of creating realistic exaggeration. Every frame in this movie is a piece of art. Everything in this movie was awesome from the style to the music ("higgitus-biggitus-spiggitus-spum") to the effortless weight and movement in the animation of these hilarious characters.

I paused a few of my favorite scenes and sketched them out. Hope I didn't do it too much injustice.

In and out, up and down
That's what makes the world go 'round...
Don't just wait and trust in fate
And say, that's how it's meant to be
It's up to you how far you go
If you don't try you'll never know
And so my lad as I've explained
Nothing ventured, nothing gained

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day six, Fav Book

Favorite book: the Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

This is a scene in the beginning of the book where “the foreigner” tells his new friends that he is the devil incarnate! The novel takes place in 1930’s communist Russia, where they are all atheists so they don’t believe in God or the devil, yet he shows up and reeks havoc. Oh, and there’s also a black cat who’s a chess addict and vodka snob. This book is awesome.

“he was dressed in an expensive gray suit and wore foreign made shoes of the same color. A gray bowler was cocked rakishly over his brow. Slightly crooked mouth. Smooth-shaven. Dark brown hair. Right eye a soulless black, left – for some reason, green. Black eyebrows, but one was higher than the other. His teeth were all capped, the right in platinum and the left in gold.”

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day five, Best Friend(s)

So, I cheated a little on this one. I made multiple sketches trying to figure out who my best friends were. Juan looks a little asian, Sean looks slightly lazy-eyed, and Tim I couldn't remember how his hairline looked so I put a hat on him, which is what he usually wears anyway. But they're my best friends

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day four, Fav Place

The rooftop at my friend Sean's house is the perfect place to let the mind wander. We usually scramble up there in some difficult way where we're not even sure how to get down. There's something about the uncrowded horizon, the loss of ground, and the fact that people rarely look up that makes me feel open and free to just sit and think. I've come up with some awesome shirt designs while wasting my time up there!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day three, Fav Food

Bacony bacon! how I love thee! The slogan was coined by my head chef. He's been asking me to make a shirt with that quote for a while now. Sorry vegetarian friends but the B12 vitamins in this stuff rocks!

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day two, Fav Animal

I love turtles. Gigantic eyes set behind a birdy-like beak, and always so slow like they just woke up. I made a paper-mation cartoon about a turtle once when I was at the Art institute. It was a collaborative project where each person created a character before developing a story. Needless to say the story was random at best. The turtle lived inside a tree and was throwing a party for a robot and a super-hero friend. He ends up fighting an alien who crash-lands his ship into the turtle's house. I lost the original footage but I still have the original puppet somewhere.

30 Day Drawing Challenge:Day one, Yourself

I caught wind of this drawing challenge a few months ago when I saw one of my cyber-idols Jeaux Janovsky doing it for his blog. One of my major resolutions this year is to get back to illustrating, so I figure this would be a good kickstart. I'm not gonna futz with any photoshopping or pencil-first drawing, just going raw with the pen & ink and I guess I'll suffer the consequences.

If you want to try it yourself, here's the original topic list from freddog's blog. At first I thought they were a little bland for topics but they are good ones to help me visualize positively (another resolution)

The Crow and the Pickle

Almost sounds sort of like an Aesop Fable title right? Crow Pickle is a way for most people to pronounce my last name. Caw like a crow, dill like a pickle. Caudill like Caw-dill, get it? Anywho, one of the generic-y new year resolution blogs I saw said you should "increase your web presence" so here I am world! Sammy Crow-pickle in the flesh!