VOTE RICHARD FALLIS!

Here is our "newest" video from Fish Taco Productions.  It was shot quite awhile go, but I just finished editing and put it up on Youtube.  

And here's the outtakes.

Go Team Venture!

So I have been watching a lot of The Venture Bros. lately and decided to draw the brothers themselves, Dean and Hank.  I used a screenshot from the show as reference but tinkered with their clothes (they were originally in astronaut costumes).  Also, I did NOT do the background.  That's just the show's logo which I found online, but it seemed to work well for the drawing.  

MY NEW SITE!

So, my good friend Brad has created a site that has a bunch of my drawings and videos all in one, organized place.  It's pretty neat and has some cool "bells and whistles" (make sure your volume is NOT on full blast or Scott Joplin may burst your ear drums).  The site is found at:

www.robgartland.com

Pretty easy to remember, eh?  Anyway, the site is pretty self-explanatory in terms of finding everything.  So check it out!  As I do more drawings and videos, Brad should be able to keep it updated so you can check in periodically and see if there is anything new!  I will still continue to post here on the blog.  

"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."

So I had a lot "constructive criticism" on my drawing of Indy, so I tinkered with it to make it a bit better. It's not perfect (I think he looks old now...), but it's a bit better and hopefully he looks less like an Amish Muppet. Again, I'm not going for photorealistic here.

Update: Wow. I just did a side by side comparison and the first drawing looks pretty absurd. I'm still not happy with the second one, but it's A LOT better. It's hard finding a balance between cartoony and actually making it look like what you're trying to draw.

"I don't know. I'm making this up as I go."

Obviously it needs some color, but here's some Indy.

Back to leader board...MOE!

I have been (slowly) trying to work on a "family portrait" for The Gartland Spectacle, as per Matt Johnson's request from what seems like years ago. It's hard getting people I know to actually LOOK like people I know when I draw them, but I took a stab at a quick sketch of Moe the other night and think it came out pretty well. It's a rough sketch since she would only sit still for about a minute, but hopefully I will get around to coloring it (and drawing her some arms, legs, and a torso) in the near future.

The Lame Week

Hello, everyone (i.e. Moe, Matt, and little Charlie)! Just wanted to give a quick shout out to my friend Matt Coffey's website. It's at www.thelameweek.com. Matt is a good friend who has played roles in several of our movies, most recently as "The Runner" in the Yellow Datsun music video. The site is basically Matt's ramblings about his (fictitious?) life set to the tone of his own drawings. The site itself was set up by ANOTHER friend (I know, right?), Bradley J Carlson, who is in the process of setting one up for me. Enjoy your morning Coffey over at The Lame Week!

Yellow Datsun Music Video

This is a movie we worked on awhile back, but I just now uploaded it to Youtube. I am still having a hard time with uploading it in high quality so it ends up looking pretty scratchy and, well, low quality. But for now, it will have to do.

It's a music video we did for Neva Dinova's song "Yellow Datsun". More or less, it was our excuse to try out a few different camera techniques that we hadn't toyed with yet. It's not groundbreaking, but I think it came out pretty well. Matt Coffey stars as the runner, David Powell plays the old man and young man. I play the homeless guy, the evil monster, and Alf. Enjoy!

Not one of mine...

Below is a great music video. I don't know who sings it, but it's in Spanish...or Esperanto. Anyway, the main point is that it's a video of people getting punched in the face, bellies getting slapped, and bottles getting broken over people's heads...IN SLOW MOTION! I know. I know. Pretty great. Even if you don't want to watch the whole thing, at least make it to the 1:05 mark.



Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. I should have some new "art" up soon.

Monday...

Here's my first post in a while. My friend Brad Carlson is putting together a website for me and I've been doing some art work for the backgrounds. This is probably going to be the home page. It'll have buttons to the left for navigation and I still need to do the site's title and put it above the characters. So it's still a work in progress and I'm toying with different colors and such, but you get the main idea.