Pencil Sketch

Sketches from the Zoo 2

From the Morning

From the Morning

Some Cool Books I Found Today

I stumbled across an estate sale today. 

 

It has an absolutely knock out 2 page diagram of the moon.

With a "modern space map".

There was also a medical pamphlet that had really cool drawings:

 

Seemed apt.

Who Wants To Have Nightmares?

If you do, just check out "Teddy Bear Picnic" from 2008.

Studio T Shirt

Baby Elephant Layout for "The Circus"

This is what I do.

Carousel Sketch

More Baby Elephant Drawings

I'm doing the baby elephant sequence next for my cartoon.  

Remember: just because I look like I'm 12 it doesn't make my drawings any less significant

You can buy original drawings and paintings here (including the Tank and Silly art

Etsy Shop

and if you order a book through my blog, mention it in the Paypal notes and I will sign the book

www.tankandsilly.com

Smash!

"The Circus" Update... Fresh Animation

What's going on?  Here's some new work I've done on "The Circus"
Tank Visits the Circus Clip 2 from Elana Pritchard on Vimeo.

and here are some of the inbetweens you don't really get to see...

 

If you like this cartoon I'm working on, please take a minute to like it on youtube.

Also, the book I illustrated should be fresh off the press next week, but you can pre-order it here:

 tankandsilly.com

Outdoor Indore

Haha, I have a cheapo Felix collection I bought at the drugstore and it's titled "Outdoor Indoor"

Nice Try

tell the truth

Another Older Don't Let This Happen To You

This strip is entitled "Quantum Reality At the Good Nite Inn" and it is about physics- specifically the double slit experiment that proves that light can be either a wave or particle, but changes depending on whether it's being observed or not. 

When you fire photons of light one at a time through two slits you get the pattern you'd expect on the wall behind the slits: two lines.  This is when light is acting like a particle.  But when you merely look at it while it's happening you get the blurry line mash in the picture hanging on the wall of the sleazy motel room: an interference pattern. This is when light is acting like a wave.  This is why when the guy turns around there is no one there and when he's not looking there is.  The outcome is changing depending on whether or not it is being observed. 

No one got it.

But wait there's more.  This experiment works with electrons as well, and physicists think that this little pattern of bars means something even wilder: that the electrons can be in more places than one at the same time.  Huh?  You mean an object can be in one place, or more than one place at once depending on whether or not I observe it?  Yup.  All those times you are complaining that your life sucks you could be instead moving electrons with the power of your mind.  And do you know what I think?  I think that if people had a better grasp on this concept we could develop a means of long distance communications without machines.  But that's all science fiction right now

Oh, and why is it set in a sleazy hotel?  Because I was hanging out a lot in a hotel bar at the time.  Not anymore though.

It's My Birthday

Here is a really old Don't Let This Happen To You, one of the first.

 Only a naughty boy would act that way to his friends.   I bet they didn't come back to play at his house.