Santa Likes the Real Stuff

Don't piss off the Big Guy and wind up on the naughty list...put out the good cookies!!

Frosty the Snowman Pays a Visit

don't fret over a melted Frosty...thanks to today's technology that old 'magic hat' it soooooo outdated!

Macaroni and Cheese Heat Things Up

Mmmmmmmmmm, cheesy!! :) Sorry for the blog neglect, i've been working on a few different things (and you can look forward to a few holiday themed comics coming up soon!) but i had this funny idea of cheese and noodles gettin' together to make some mac'n cheese love and voila! so hopefully if nothing else you get a tee-hee and perhaps a hankering for a bright orange bowl full of noodleness...who says orange #5 isn't part of a daily nutritional need?

And you can also check this design out over at my Zazzle store to get it in shirt, mug, card, (even doggie clothes), etc. form.

Draco's Gettin' Toasty in the Mornin'

well, i am loooong over-due for a post here! sorry, i've been busy with one thing or another, but i had this image of a dragon making toast floating in my head for a bit so when i got some time i thought i'd throw out a sketch and see what came out. i really am not one to usually draw dragons all that much, but i figured that between tormenting damsels in distress and guarding troves of treasure even a fire breathing beast has to start his day off right...so why not jam and toast?

She's Olive Oyl the Enraged Housewife...Toot Toot

Looks like Popeye's not the only one popping the top on that can o' spinach. Who knew the dangers of performance enhancement extended to some magic greens?

Yodel Me a Thank You!

who could resist a fat swiss on a yak singing your praises? if you have someone who deserves a big THANK YOU then you can send them this card that i put together. :P

The Art of Running

Here is one of the pieces that is part of the running series I have been working on in collaboration with Bill Leung; yes we got real crazy with the name and coined it Chock/Leung ART. ;) Being that we are both track fans and such it's been fun and also neat in mixing the medias. Bill has taken his background photos and worked with them in photoshop and I have created the people or characters...it's been cool picking and pairing the duos. We've also done quite a few outside of the running theme and I'll be posting them up from time to time. Hope you like this one for now. :)

Congrats to all those Moms-to-be!

It sorta seems like it is the season for babies...i guess that summer luving is in the air?? i have heard in the past there were studies about an increase in pregnancies around the summer months...but whether that is true or not i cannot say but it sure seems to me that plenty of people i know are expecting! to celebrate all those moms-to-be here is a little congratulatory card with a message to match! hopefully u only pass this one along (and the congrats) to someone who IS actually preggers! ;)

The Energy Drink for the Hef of Pooches

Okay...so there is a story behind this cartoon and I have not just lost my brain completely and am not by any means now peddling a sex drive type energy drink for pooches! No, I have thankfully retained more sanity, and dignity, than that! So the story goes that a good friend of mine was given AMPLE amounts of this crazy concoction of an energy drink choicely named 'Sex Drive Energy Drink' by a coworker. Said coworker had embarked upon a business venture of his own and had hoped to make millions (as he most surely would, right?!?!) selling this stuff as it took the market by storm. As one might expect this new drink was not the best selling force this young man hoped it would be and as fate would have it he was then left with cases upon cases of the junk that he couldn't sell and was thus now giving it away to anyone and everyone he could talk into taking some. Never one to pass up a freebie (no matter how absurd it was) my friend helped out his coworker by taking a few (okay much more than a few!) cases of this crap home. Now my friend also has an awesome dog, Pre, and amidst the usual cracks on why my friend was keeping slews of this crazy energy drink in his house as I'm sure you can imagine, I thought it may be funny to think just what this adorable pooch may do should he gain access to the amazing power of this energy drink. And so this cartoon was born and here it is. The moral my friends is that if you want to make a quick mill...don't bank on doing it by selling to an already inundated market of energy drinks and ED remedies...and certainly don't try to appeal to both! ;)

Running cartoons and mixed media designs

Well, if you have yet to discover i am a big running geek. :) I did this little cartoon for a friend of mine; it is actually his photograph i used in the background and i added in the runners and the little quip at the end. I've been dabbling around with my friend Bill in some fun new art pieces with mixed media. I've been using his photos for the backgrounds and inserting some of my art/characters into the foregrounds/backgrounds. You can see lots more of what we are collaborating on at my website in the oH No aRt section. It's been fun experimenting so be on the look out for more! :P

Sample of pencil art piece in progress

Sorry for long silence on my end; but here is what i was working on today. i did the person with pencils then scanned her in and did a quick background on the computer. she is actually going to be one part in a larger piece that is in progress; but i was pleased how she turned out and wanted to put up on her own.

on a different note i've also been tweaking my website: http://caitchock.com/
i threw in some new pictures and got rid of a few. i'm still having trouble on the web tech end; i want the home page to be a 2x2 grid layout but for whatever reason even if i make the images smaller they won't line up! after too much frustration and a headache i gave up but will revisit it again when i no longer want to chuck the computer at the wall. :P also, not sure if i've posted a link to my Zazzle store where i've been putting some of my designs on shirts and such: http://www.zazzle.com/caitchock* but feel free to check it out and drop me a line if u have any feedback, comments, or pictures you've seen around and have a special request for.

alright, until later!

Burlesque Show in Pencils

Here's the pencil drawing I've been working on yesterday and today; I've been on a bit of a pencil kick I suppose. I really like doing cartoon type designs with the pens and markers but sometimes I have fun trying my had at something a little more realistic. I get a bit more stressed out when I do these, so I like to mix it up with the cartoons where I'm not so uptight about getting everything 'just right.' I don't know about other artists but I get going and then reach a certain point in the piece where I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out and then get afraid that I'm going to mess it all up! For this one I am pleased with the face, that's always the hardest part, but I need to still work on better shading/blending...ugh. And upon further inspection I'm not all that jazzed about the eyes; they don't quite pop...but oh well. It is what it is...and one more thing I would like to add, "I hate blasted theater curtains!" Those were annoying with all the wrinkles and such...hehe. Well, back to work for me. :)