MAZEL TOV RYAN!

One of my New Years Resolutions is to try to blog more and blog currently.
This is the FIRST time I ever blogged about an event on the same day of doing the event.
This was a Super fun Bar Mitzvah with fun faces and great people!-5 straight hours of drawing & laughing and laughing and drawing!

Interesting requests, from bath tubs to flower children to running from plane to plane, and spontaneous laughter!
Thanks Michele & Ian, and Congrats Ryan! Mazel Tov!!

Tis the Season for giftins & commissions!!

Here are a couple favorites from this years Christmas' gift commissions.
Quite a contrast in theme/ style but the feedback from the clients was very similar in that they each loved their piece!
1st was a cutie toon of a boy in NY who really likes T Rex.

Client feedback:

Omg! We LOVE it! Thank you again so very much! Great job, as I knew it would be.  My husband is a pretty tough sell and he thinks it's awesome.  

You rock! Have a great holiday. 

Best,

Val

2nd one was a little off-center for Christmas time, but it definitely fits perfectly with the client & his instructions! Frank is a super fun guy with a seriously warped sense of humor!
He has a line of twisted tee-shirts called "Chalked" that I designed for him per his directives.
http://www.chalkedtees.com/
Her large forehead was special request-
" O and if you can do me one favor and make her head abnormally big that would be awesome. I always make fun of her dome and she doesn't believe me so if you draw it she'll go nuts, and I win haha! but besides that, the style, and how bad you mess us up is all you. I want it to be a surprise to me to lol."

Client feedback: HAHAHA!! Its Awsome! thanks man! shes gonna dig it! I hope you have a merry Christmas.
Hey Patrick my girlfriend loved the pic. Thanks again man! Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Here's a little fun Caricamation I did for our card this year.

Caricamation Christmas card-Hope you DIG it!

MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy Holidays from Harringtoons Caricamation!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ozazwlt5k

iSammy kids app is available NOW on app store!

I've been working on the artwork, character designs and animation for a few ipad apps now for quite some time and one of them is now completed and on the app store!! Anyone who is familiar with my work will notice this is a GIANT departure from my other styles and this was a very learning experience.
The art director definitely knew what he wanted  and I had to incorporate a lot of gradients and mask layers in flash to create the product he wanted. I spent as much time thinking as I did drawing on this-my 1st kids ipad app. Sooo much more to this than just drawing, I think of all the projects I've worked on, I learned the most from this one- and so much more to still learn.....

I'm looking forward to getting back to the more zany projects but I am also happy that I have yet another style to offer clients and look forward to working with James and Backatcha in the future!
It's a really cute story and I think little kids will love it-especially the voice recording function that changes the pitch of the kids voices (and of course the cool artwork and animation)..!
It'll make a great Christmas gift-Go get it!  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/isammy/id475017870?mt=8

Maybe some day that zombie app will be available too!