Happy Thanksgiving!

Best Dad Ever...

A rough blue line, a quick inking and a few squirts of color and you have my depiction of something awful I saw today while walking in downtown Burbank. On our way to Starbucks after a sandwich lunch, the TUFF Puppy guys and I saw this saggy, baggy, dopey-looking dad holding his few-month-old baby like a football or a heavy sack of potatoes. The poor, little tyke had no neck support and his fair skin was fully exposed to the blazing midday sun. It was darn-near child abuse. We couldn't believe our eyes and we all wanted to give that dad a slug in the gut! What a slacker! I was so ticked off, I had to do this sketch.

"Fairly Odd Blog" Interview!

Frederator VP Eric Homan recently interviewed me for the "Fairly Odd Blog." Please check it out at the link below. Thanks!

http://frederatorblogs.com/odd/

Buff Dude!

I've been so busy designing some HUGE shows for OddParents lately that I haven't had much extra time to do my own stuff...until this morning when I drew this buff dude pumping iron. Arrrrrgh! Grrrrrr!

OddParents Rough Designs

These are a few rough designs from the recent Fairly OddParents episode "Freaks 'n' Greeks." Clockwise: Baby Poof, Dionysis, Zeus, Poseidon and Medusa.

Sketchbook Page

Here's a page of recent doodles from my sketchbook.

Punk Teenager

I drew this in my sketchbook on top of a previous rough sketch of another character. The head is really extreme and exaggerated, but you can never get too wacky when you're drawing cartoons.

Big Dog

Mermaid and Seahorse

When I painted this in Photoshop, I wanted to focus only on keeping the shapes and color design very simple, and not necessarily rendering the piece to death, which is what usually happens. I tried using simple gradations and shapes of value to visually separate all the elements. I just keep squinting at the piece to make sure it's clear and legible.

Jump Rope

Here's something I recently painted in Photoshop.

Mario Bros. vs. Goomba

I've had it on my mind to do a piece dedicated to the Super Mario Bros. -- two pop culture characters who were very much a part of my childhood. Maybe it's because I've had the Mario theme stuck in my head for the past two weeks...or the past 20 years. Once again, cut paper on illustration board with some colored pencil.

Bandito!

I did this piece over the Memorial Day weekend. Cut paper on illustration board with some colored pencil.

Haircut

Blue pencil on paper, inked digitally.

Eliminator

The ever-so-awesome prop designer Matt Whitlock came up with the Eliminator design, but I still had to draw the robotic character in plenty of special poses, such as this one, for the "Wishology" movie.

MikeDougherty.net version 2.0

I just finished overhauling and upgrading my website, MikeDougherty.net. I hope you'll take a minute to check it out. Thanks!

Leprechaun

I drew a leprechaun on paper, then painted it in Photoshop. I had a lot of fun doing this one.

"Thunder" Family

The Turbo Thunder family from "Wishology".

Curly

My favorite "stooge".

Baker

I relied on my first grade art skills and used my scissors and glue stick to assemble this character out of different colors of construction paper. I had fun doing this one. This is one of the few non-digital pieces I've done recently.

Mr. Spock

The new "Star Trek" movie inspired me to watch the classic series on Hulu and do a digital painting of Mr. Spock. Live long and prosper.

Crocodile

A crocodile businessman...with an alligator briefcase.

Robot Blue

Randomness.

Timmy Turner in Thunder Suit

In "Wishology", Turbo Thunder transfers his powers to Timmy Turner, and voila...Timmy in the Thunder suit.

Rock Creature

Though I provided 2D designs for the rock creature that appeared in "Wishology", he ended up, to my surprise, being modeled and animated in glorious CG. Those CG guys did an awesome job on the movie!

Michael Caine

A caricature I did of Michael Caine using a watercolor brush in Painter.

'50s kid

I drew this 1950s kid in Sketchbook, then painted it in Photoshop using my favorite Pixar brush.

Banker

I did this drawing late last night with a Bic pen on legal pad.

Sea Captain

A salty, old sea captain with his seagulls.