Sensei's New Students

A few of you might recognize my cuddly character, Panda Sensei:

Well, from the first few days that I created him, I've been trying to think of students for him. After all, 'sensei' is part of his name.

After a long time, I've finally come up with something. He's going to have a student for each sign of the zodiac. Woo!

You know; dragon, rooster, monkey, etc. Chinese New Year thing.

I'm year of the sheep.

I'm spinning around a half-plotline in my head. Sensei adopts 12 little kids, trains them to be martial arts masters, and they go on adventures.

I didn't say it was a good plotline...

Anyway, I sketched some designs away in pen. They're not great, and they'll definately be changed up as I go. Here's Dragon, Tiger, and Monkey (names will be decided later. Maybe just their animal in Chinese or Japanese):

Eh? Eh? Are they great are what?

I know they remind you of Kung Fu Panda. I can't help it. I'm not making it similar on purpose.

Bear with me!

It's 2009

Hoo, boy. I haven't blogged in a few months, have I? Sorry about that. Don't know what kept me from it, really. Just laziness, I guess.


Anyway, I'm pretty happy about something. I got a tablet for Christmas! Bamboo. I love it. I also got The Dark Knight on DVD, and the pairing of the two recently resulted in this: Fanart of Heath Ledger's joker. It's a shame he passed away. The Joker was just phenomenal. The magic trick with a pencil scene was probably my favorite.


I might start messing around with my layout here a little bit. Happy late New Year!

I'm Back

Man, it's been a while since I've posted anything on my blog. Sorry about that.

Not a whole lot to say, really. I'm doing well in school, Christmas is coming, and I'm pretty hungry right now.


In my Chemistry I class a few weeks ago, we got a weird assignment to make some stuffed moles. See, a mole is also a unit of measurement for things like atoms (6.022 x 10 to the 23rd power), and I guess that's where it came from. Fun assignment, though.


Anyway, there was a contest for the best mole. The winner got a $10 gift card to a fast food place. The teacher's physics students were supposed to vote on the best mole, and the 1st and 2nd place moles would get the prize. Well, here's my mole:

Iron Mole! I was so sure I was going to win. However, Iron Mole lost to a frilly pink mole and... Terrorist Mole. No lie.

I wasn't so upset about Terrorist Mole. That was actually funny and pretty creative, but... Pink?! Come on. Iron Man just does NOT lose to pink.

Anyway, I got third place, which was good enough. No harm done. No prolonged feelings of rage and jealousy.

Hey! My parents just brought me a McChicken sandwitch. That means it's time to go.

Bye!

Tennis Photos

Clever and creative title, right? I know.

Well, a few weeks ago, I had to take photos of our highschool boys' tennis match for Journalism I. It was pretty fun. I'd like to pick up photography as a hobby if nice cameras didn't cost so much. I may get that from my sister, who is a professional photographer. (Go see her website! http://www.jandraphotography.com) She's rediculously good.

Anyway, I just figured I'd post a few of my favorite photos that I took here on blogger. And here they are:
This isn't the best photo, but I thought it was sort of interesting that this guy had a motorcycle helmet with him at a highschool tennis game, so I took a few photos.

This is the coach. He has the most amazing skin color I've ever seen. I took some other photos of him, but I just chose this one.

I like this one a lot, but then I don't. I guess it just seems sort of corny, maybe? I don't know. I like the effect, I guess. Perdy fence.

This isn't really a great quality photo, but I love the expression I somehow managed to catch with that slow-as-molasses(sp?) camera I was using. It's kind of funny, too. Hope he doesn't know I'm posting it online. Heheh.

I just think this one is funny. I like the colors a lot, too, but it's mostly just funny.

Well, there you have it! Photos taken by yours truly. Hope you like. If not, oh well.

Aw, crap, I think I'm missing the Daily Show With John Stewart! After that is the Colbert Report. Scrubs may come on tonight, too. Three of my most favorite shows.

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Bye!

Been a while

Oh man. It's been, what, over a month since my last blog post? Whoopsie.

Well, I don't really have anything that interesting to say... I haven't drawn a whole lot lately, but what I have been doing has mostly been life drawing. Or, drawing from photos, I guess. Would you like to see some? Sure you would:

I love my fine-tip Sharpie.

Halloween is coming up soon! I need to actually get/make myself a costume this year, instead of waiting until the last minute and ending up not doing anything. My birthday is the 26th of October, so for my party, I think I'm gonna have a costume sort of thing. Presents and candy! Yay!

Umumumm... I guess that's really it. Hopefully I won't wait so long to post again. See you all later!

Name Change

Yes, I changed my name to Frederick VonHosenhiven.

Just kidding.

Inside joke.

Anyway, as you probably noticed, I changed my blog name from "Panda Sensei" to "Cartoonimation." I know it's a dorky name. Sorry.

So, I watched X-Men uno and dos (that's one and two) on FX last night. Reason I remember what channel it was on is because "X-Men" has an X in it just like "FX." It was one of those "DVD on TV" things where the really pretty chick and the average-looking guy make corny jokes to cheer you up as you viciously shout at the TV for interrupting your movie with commercial breaks at every other second and this run-on sentance is really great. The second one ended at, like, 11:30 p.m. I think I only stayed up that late so I could see Nightcrawler in the second movie. I was tired for church this morning but hey, it was worth it. Who doesn't love to hear a German accent? Come on. With the v's instead of the w's? Serious stuff, people. Serious stuff.

Slightly pointless post (as usual). Excuse the lack of a sketch or two. Have a good Memorial Day tomorrow! Go have a cookout or something. Eat some steak. Grill some shrimp on the barbie.

...Wait. It's Labor Day tomorrow. Just kidding.

See, I could go back and fix my mistake, but I like to be very conversational as I blog. And in coversation, you can't just go back in time and fix your little booboos as you speak. Nope. Can't reverse those "the arms on my hair are standing up" kinds of things. Sorry people.

But seriously, go grill some shrimp. And bring me some . I went and made myself hungry talking about food. All we got is Ramen Noodles.

Don't you just love my grammar? "All we got." You can just tell my family comes from Kentucky, can'tcha?

I was planning to end this post a long time ago. Bye-ee.

Epic Fail & Fluffy Tails

I hadn't drawn my character, Panda Sensei, for a while, so I decided to doodle him a bit in Study Hall. Though, I soon found out, I pretty much forgot how to draw him. Or maybe I never knew how to draw him in the first place. I don't know why, but he's so complicated. It's like I have to redesign him every time I draw him. The only thing I like about these doodles is that hand he has on his hip on the top left. Other than that... blah. Also, I've been kinda rolling a concept around in my head lately. I was watching Planes, Trains, & Automobiles with my parents the other night, and I love buddy comedies like that. I've been wanting to have some sort of concept to practice on lately and... Ah, well. Long story short, I decided I wanted to somehow make the little fable of Tortoise and the Hare into a buddy comedy sort of deal. Maybe with a comic, or a short story with illustrations or something. I don't know. But anyway, here are some concept drawings of the rabbit that I kind of like:

I probably like the one on the top left of the second picture the best. Why haven't I drawn the tortoise yet? Well... I have no clue how to draw a tortoise. So I'll have to go to the zoo or look for pictures online or something like that.

Anyway, I'll probably never go that far with the Tortoise and the Hare thing, but at least it's practice.