Film 6 Thoughts on Suicide Squad The big talk out of San Diego Comic Con (you know, the other little convention going on while I was attending ConnectiCon) was about the Suicide Squad film. Suicide Squad is one of DC's weirder comic franchises. Amanda Waller runs various secret superhero/supervillain projects for the government.
Event The Great American Comic Book Musical Wondering why I was so nostalgic and passionate about teaching the young people yesterday? Simple explanation. I debuted a panel called The Great American Comic Book Musical at ConnectiCon last Sunday and many young people came to see it. The panel was at 9AM and the crowd was far larger
Art Children, The Arts, and The Real Value of Educational Theater I mention it every so often around here. In my other life, I work in educational theater year round. I love it. I love being able to give young people the experience of interacting with the arts outside of the traditional classroom. What I haven't mentioned here is
Announcements Updates and Sundry Radio silence is ending soon. Last week, I was auditioning for a concert production of Parade. I got cast. I have rehearsals 2-3 nights a week until the show goes off in August. I'm excited. This week, I've been auditioning children for camp productions of Beauty
Film Horror Thursday: Fear(s) of the Dark I reviewed Fear(s) of the Dark for my Horror Thursday Column at Man, I Love Films. It was the first of many, many animated horror films I'll be watching over the next month to prep for my Animated Horror from Around the World panel at ConnectiCon. So,
Event The Great American Comic Book Musical @ ConnectiCon 2 of my panel pitches were selected for ConnectiCon 2015 in Hartford, CT from July 9-12. I already discussed the animated horror panel, so let's discuss the exact opposite. The Great American Comic Book Musical is an all ages panel about the comics adapted into musicals and musicals
Art Welp! The Dragon? Okay, so I let the process guide me a bit too much this time around. I made a very pretty pastel pink background in watercolor and then started doodling in pastel pencils. I wanted to make a cloud monster, but the white pastel pencil didn't show. Then I
Announcements Animated Horror from Around the World @ ConnectiCon I am very excited to announce that my brand new panel, Animated Horror from Around the World, will be debuting at ConnectiCon next month. This is an idea I've been developing for years and it's finally going to happen. Here's the full description: While
Art Death Metal Death Metal is one of the boss fights in Crypt of the NecroDancer, the rougelike rhythm/turn-based strategy game I'm obsessed with. He fights to the fastest song in the game, spawning enemies to battle for him every few steps once his bat shield flies off. His scythe
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Meditation Gave my new Faber Castell water-soluble graphite pencils a try. I like how easily they blend with water, but need to experiment with them on actual watercolor paper. I'm wondering how much of the line-art I can get to stay or if I need to couple them with
Art 365 Sketch 2015: The All Seeing Eye It's Eye-ception. It's a floating eye within an eye with an eye within an eye. No, I don't understand where I come up with this stuff. Kind of cute though, right? 365 Sketch 2015: The All Seeing Eye watercolor pencil, watercolor, and marker
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Invasion I wanted to draw a robot today. Mission accomplished? I did intend to use more color, but then I sketched in detail with a really vibrant blue and didn't want to wreck it. 365 Sketch 2015: Invasion watercolor pencil
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Red Chest Mimic More Crypt of the Necrodancer art. Today, we're exploring the wonderful world of mimics. The chest mimics look like regular treasure chests in the game, only they're bouncing along to the beat. If you move next to them they start gnashing their teeth and chasing you
Art 365 Sketch 2015: 3 Heads Are Better Than 1 Another day, another monster. This 3-headed cutie popped into my head after a long day of subbing and I can't explain why. All I was doing was working on a treatment for a play that has nothing to do with tentacled monstrosities. Watercolor pencil and nightmare fuel.
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Happy Blue Zombie I felt like doing a watercolor sketch of a happy zombie. It's kind of cute? In a deranged, oozing, broke-neck way, of course. Watercolor pencil.
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Oldboy Now that's more like it. I rewatched Oldboy for the first time in probably 10 years last night. Still amazing. I knew I had to put my spin on the octopus scene. watercolor pencil.
Event Fourth Annual Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge – Sketchy Details' List FINAL LISTIt's that time of the year again. Our friends over at Cinefessions are hosting their Fourth Annual Cinefessions Summer Screams Challenge. This is now a summer institution at Sketchy Details, as I've competed every year this contest has existed. You can join me, too, by
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Arrietty I'm really going to push to get this site up and running again this week. I've been drawing a lot, but not stuff I can share here. Proposal sketches for sets, props, costumes, and marketing stuff for theater groups. You can see the stuff I can
Announcements Updates and Such Sorry for the absence again. I'm busy. My schedule never slowed down like it usually does after months of work on a musical and now I'm at the school just as much test proctoring as I was for ADing and Music Directing. I also have a
Art AniMAY2015: Re-Kan: First Impressions I am going to be truthful. I have barely watched an episode of Re-Kan. I'm busy. I went straight from a very challenging stage musical into moderator duties for AP testing and I'm basically the walking dead right now. What I can say is I'
Art AniMAY 2015: The Rolling Girls (2015) Welcome to AniMAY at Sketchy Details, our annual celebration of all things Japanese animation. Up first is a brand new series I've fallen for fast and hard: The Rolling Girls. 10 years after the Great War destroyed Tokyo, the remnants of the city are broken up into the
Announcements Nightmare Fuel I'm alive. I'm at the tail end of a very long tech period on The Drowsy Chaperone and have been doing crazy things like assembly-lining monkey masks for dancers. This is why I didn't sleep last night. Not that I was still making them.
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Day 111: Plusle & Minun Oh, THERE are the characters my friend asked me to draw yesterday. My bad. Charcoal.
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Day 110: Mas y Menos A friend asked me to draw Mas y Menos. They actually meant Plus and Minus, the Pokemon, but I took them at their word. Sorry bout it. Charcoal.
Art 365 Sketch 2015: Day 109: Skitty I'll switch out of Pokemon mode soon. They're just comparatively easy things to sketch when I'm less than two weeks out for production. Graphite crayon
