Boardgames with a personal twist...play your way!

Hey all...who lives in that pineapple under the sea? Okay, if you're not a Spongebob fan, that's okay, but this is a boardgame I created for a mom to give to her son who is in love with Mr. Squarepants.

Thought I'd throw it up as an example of what I could do if you should know any little tykes out there who'd enjoy a personalized game to pass the time. (I also did a custom spinner and game pieces.) All themes welcomed, and if I do say so myself I'm pretty creative and if you aren't completely sure what you want, but know of a few things the kid likes, I can put it together. Also, don't think games are only for the wee ones...want to put a fun personal twist to a bridal shower, baby shower, or any other event, hit me up! :)

Back off...those are MY Pop-Tarts!!

'Nuf said. my pop-tarts of choice? 'Smores, baby!! but i don't discriminate against anything with chocolate in it...and those raspberry ones count for a serving of fruit, right?? ;)

if u're a bit possessive of the tarts urself, u can hop over to my zazzle page to find this cartoon on some fun stuff...but either way, start ur morning off rite. actually they're pretty darn good any time of the day.

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.

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. :)

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

Some inspired art for Father's Day! :)

Well, tomorrow is Father's Day, so if you haven't sent your dear old Dad a card yet, you may want to send him this little diddy! Who doesn't appreciate a good poop joke?!?! ;) You can find this card over at Pigspigot...and be sure to send some love to Pops!

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!

Happy birthday to you...you look like a pinata and spew candy like one too!

This cartoon comes to you courtesy of my 'old man'...Dad that is! ;) It was Pop's birthday so I created him this little card, and if u like it u can send it urself too. I hope you are all doing well and avoiding being whacked by a bunch of candy crazed youngsters!

You know guys rule the house when...the toilet seat is perpetually left up

So this above cartoon is actually the first one in a series I'm going to do entitled, "10 Signs Guys Have Taken over the House," and if you have meandered over to my Fitness Stop Blog you've already seen it. But this one is for "The Toilet Seat is Perpetually Left Up!" and it has been turned into a Mother's Day card over at Pigspigot if you wanted to send one to dear Mom on her special day! ;)

I'll post up the second cartoon later, so you can check back here or if you really can't wait it is up on my other blog. :)

Proudly a Clydesdale!

well for all of u needing a little kick in the butt to get in shape maybe this will do it! hehe...i'm a running fanatic myself and ever since i broke my leg and have been relegated to the couch i've been certain that by the time i get back to pounding the pavement i will be of sumo proportions! this then got me thinking to what it would look like for me to be waddling down the road; still i didn't want to do a girl because that may hit a little too close to home...as they say i don't necessarily want to jinx myself with a prophetical cartoon! so instead i made this guy and you can tell that his heart for the sport and his dedication is just as large as his actual running shorts! so to all of the Clydesdale runners out there...quake the track with pride! You can actually see this as a Father's Day card if you want and i've also turned it into a few fun shirts, mugs, etc. to see on my Zazzle site.

Sleep with one eye open all ye litter bugs...Earth Day is a'coming!

So in case you have yet to hear about it Earth Day is in fact tomorrow and to pay homage to our good Mother Earth I've made two little cartoons that I hope you can get a chuckle from and perhaps even make you think twice about throwing that hamburger wrapper on the ground! ;) You can find this first one as a card u can send out to any dastardly litter bugs you know as a warning to clean up their acts!

Dream Big Little Timmy, But Sometimes Reality Bites

Just a little something i was working on in testing out my new colorizing program...i hope it doesn't dissuade you from still following your dreams! hehe