Five years to the day that I started working on “Family Guy” was a Sunday that I spent drawing gifts for the people whom I felt had a hand in putting me on the show. From my co-worker Mick Cassidy, who put in a good word for me when I applied for the job, to my “phone buddy,” Brei Brantley, whom I would often speak to before being connected to… Read More »“Family Guy” 5 year anniversary drawings
Birthday drawings for my friend Kristen and my co-worker Doug, featuring Sailor Jupiter from “Sailor Moon” and Lois Griffin as Yukari Hayasaka from “Paradise Kiss.” Drawn and colored on 4″ X 6″ post-its with blue Prismacolor Col-Erase pencil, sepia Faber-Castell Pitt artist brush pen, and Prismacolor warm grey markers. I posted the drawings to their Facebook pages by snapping photos of them with my iPhone, and applying filters with the… Read More »Birthday drawings
Internet’s out at the apartment. Crap. Put a “Family Guy” spin on one of my favorite panels from the first volume of “Paradise Kiss”, with Peter Griffin as Hiroyuki Tokumori and Lois Griffin as Yukari Hayasaka. It’s a scene where Tokumori admits to Yukari that he loves studying, and in this particular panel, he jokes that manga artists would depict him as a stereotypical Japanese schoolboy nerd with spirals on… Read More »FG/ParaKiss panel
The Winter Charity Art Show of 2010 was the same as the previous year’s with no theme. I was on a “Paradise Kiss” kick at the time, and I thought it would be cool to see Lois as Yukari Hayasaka. So I grabbed an image of the major characters off the net, and put a “Family Guy” spin to it on a 5-inch square piece of animation paper. What a… Read More »“Family Guy” meets “Paradise Kiss”