Thanks WonderCon!

Thanks to everyone who dropped by to say hello. Had a great time meeting you in person.
I'm a bit too wrecked now after the drive back to do a 3D Illustration for today, but I'll try to get one up before the end of the week. I'll also give more of an update once I get myself back on track. I enjoyed the whole weekend, and you guys were the reason for it. For the moment, a quick sketch of someone with her comics and books in hand....

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WonderCon 09

Here's a handy map to my table D19. Anything brand spanking new? Well, for the first time since I started the 3D Illustrations, I'll be bringing a larger format print with me. Can't wait to show it to you. I usually do these at a smaller size due to a comfort level with your eyes. Slightly different way to look at this than usual. Should be fun. Now that I'm mobile, I'll be twittering away at the event. Check out the sidebar for the micro blogging, or if you're on twitter, follow me @thedalyblog.

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WonderCon in 3D

Well that snuck up really quickly. WonderCon coming up this coming weekend in San Francisco. Looking forward to bringing the 3D up north and showing you in person. Come by and say hello. I'd love to see you.
Here's the link to WonderCon. To see this image in 3D without the glasses, read the quick How To See My 3D Illustrations. Please DON'T cross your eyes to see these. It's much, MUCH more comfortable to stare through these images, and I've made them for that kind of viewing. See you Friday to Sunday!

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Girl Friday

Getting ready for WonderCon in San Francisco next weekend. First time to exhibit in the beautiful city, so make sure you say hello if you're going. I love meeting everyone that follows the blog. I'll be at table D19. Look for my avatar image on the sign and you'll find me, the baldy guy, signing books below it.
Have a cool weekend everyone.

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Meg

This is Meg. Hello Meg!

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3D Girl

Here's your regular Monday 3D Illustration. To see this image in 3D without the glasses, read the quick How To See My 3D Illustrations.

Amazing brushes by colorburned.com.

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What Will The Day Bring?

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Silly Wednesday

Happy mid-week everyone!

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3D Valentine

To see this image in 3D without the glasses, read the quick
How To See My 3D Illustrations. Have a wonderful week!
Send this to someone you care about.

Amazing brushes by colorburned.com.

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Rapunzel

Brush and ink again from the end of last year. Why keep it on the shelf when I can share it here. See you all Monday with a new 3D image. Have a good weekend.

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Girl

Getting ready for WonderCon at the end of the month. First stop on the tour. Can't wait to show you the 3D book. Hope to see you there.

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3D Superbowl

What? No Cheerleaders???!?? Oh well, here's one in 3D!
To see this image in 3D without the glasses, read the quick
How To See My 3D Illustrations. The longer you look at it, the more you'll get out of it.




And what else is new?.....Well, I'm planning the 3D book tour. First stop San Francisco at the end of Feb. And don't forget to check back every Monday for a brand new 3D Illustration.

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FRED

Fred has pointy bits and eats dreams.

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Painting Again

Started painting again!


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Dandelion Day - 3D Illustration

To see this image in 3D, read the quick How To See My 3D Illustrations. More info below.....

I've started to feature 3D Illustrations every Monday, so start each week off by seeing the illustrations float off the screen. The longer you look at it, the more you'll get out of it. Cool. Every Monday. Spread the word! :)

A new look to the blog too. If you use a reader, sign up for the RSS feed on the new left sidebar. Rockin'. I've got two sidebars! Twitter updates are also added to the left sidebar. Check back between posts or if you're on twitter, you can follow me HERE. This will be my most up to date info. As I gear up for the convention season, you'll get the inside scoop on the prep work.

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Burgundy

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Her Name Is Hope

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Sisters -3D Illustration

To see this image in 3D, read the quick How To See My 3D Illustrations.
I'm now posting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with a NEW 3D ILLUSTRATION EVERY MONDAY!!!!!

And The Daly Tree for today......go on, shake a branch...SHAKE IT!
Mike
Patrick
Bob

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Lucky Girl

If you've got a long weekend, hope you have a good one. I'll be prepping another 3D Illustration for it's new regular Monday slot. Check the link if you're new :)

Hope you like the new schedule!
Posts on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.

Also, more inspiration. Here's The Daly Tree for today. Grab a branch and shake.....
Alberto
David
Florian


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Scarf

And The Daly Tree for today......
Nathan
Samuel
Grace


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3D Illustration Update

Hello all, and hello to all my new Twitter followers!
If you're new here, please use the How To See My 3D Illustrations info. Hope you can see it! Please look beyond the image. It's much more comfortable than trying to cross your eyes :)
If you're new to it, you can check some earlier posts
here,
here, and
here.

Also, the Monday posts will be these special 3D images. Keep me bookmarked and check back at the beginning of each week.

Enjoy!

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Come on Spring!!!

A hint of spring today. come on, hurry up!!!!

The Daly Tree for today...... pick a branch.....
Brittney
Ciia
Mike



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A Carry Dog?

A regular sight in L.A. You hardly ever see these little dogs walking.

Early days for the three posts a week. It's going to keep me in gear. Also, the new feature from the last post of work that inspires me.

The Daly Tree for today.......pick a branch.
Javier
Ciia (image from a previous show)
Limbolo





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FRESH GREEN START

Hope you all had a good new year. Best wishes to you all. So, I've lots of things going on this year and I'll let you in on things as time goes on. Right now I'm planning the "Not Your Granny's 3D" tour! Hooray.

Now I'm not one to be yammering on with lots of text in this blog but please read on as you'll find out what to expect in the coming year.

I've just joined Facebook and Twitter, and added the panels on the sidebar so I'll be doing micro blogging from there. So even if I don't have a post up for a couple of days, you'll see what I'm up to. If you're on either of those sites come find me and say hello. I've got a lot of stuff to find out about this year, so I'll take you on that trip as well through those micro posts. Last year was a huge learning curve for me. Now I know so more about the publishing industry and I know that will come in very handy for future projects.

Also, this year I'm going to try to do three posts a week. After finishing my 3D Illusions book, a lot of time was spent on things other than drawing. So, time to put that right again and spend more time at the drawing board.

Also, I'm starting a new feature on this blog. I'm going to call the section "The Daly Tree". There are a couple of reasons for the name. One of them being that I wanted to create a section of things that I found inspiring. This past year was so inspirational for me because of the wealth of unbelievable work going on in the blogsphere. I'm not just talking about artwork, but a whole range of design posts which I hope will feed your quest for cool things. I wanted to give you something that you might not have discovered on your regular stops. I'll give out three links that I've come across which I think you might enjoy. The branches will be an individual post which could be anything. They could be older posts or brand spanking new posts. An eclectic "soup of somethings" you may have missed, hopefully to feed the mind and inspire creativity. It's up to you discover more from the people I branch off to.

So help the tree grow by clicking the branches (links) below. Hopefully they will be inspiring to you too. Feed the tree to help it grow....

THE DALY TREE for today........
Matt
Irisz
Patrick

ENJOY!!!!!!!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas everyone. This is one of Santa's helpers. Hope you've been good. Thanks for visiting this ol' blog through the year and if you took the time to leave a comment or two, well, you just make my day :)

This will probably be the last post of the year. What an interesting year art wise it was for me. Three of the highlights...... my 3D images and book changed everything for me and I met a ton of new people because of it. I had the honour of been asked to be part of The Totoro Forest Project, and I had a Gallery show. What a rockin' year. Thanks all for the support.
I just joined Facebook too, so if you're in there look me up.

I'll see you all after the holidays!


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BUTTERFLY TATTOO

Hey Everyone, glad you liked the last brushwork post. There'll be more of these to come. In the meantime, this happened.

My best friend wanted a tattoo for her birthday and asked me to design it. Fab!!!
I get the odd email asking about designing tattoos, but this was the first time it was going to be done, and it's huge, huge honor for me.

We booked in to get the tattoo, and on Saturday the tattoo was completed. Fascinating and very cool to see the whole process in action. Of course, the copyright and web site was just for this post. :)



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Brushwork

Hello all. Hmmmm, things look a little different around here. Thought it was time for a change. Bits and pieces will change to the template over the next while. Temp placeholders for the moment for title and sidebar stuff...

Doing some real artwork lately. I mean the physical type you can touch. You really can't beat using real material. So to all who drop by regularly, I'll be posting frequently pretty soon.

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Happy Friday

Happy Friday everyone. Thanks to all those who visited at APE. You make my day when I meet you and find out that you read my blog! Glad the heavy rain didn't stop you guys and girls on Saturday.

I was very happy to share my table with Corey Bass, a wonderful pastel artist with his own comic. I also had the pleasure of sitting next to Audra Ann Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga from NEMU-NEMU. What a great and cute all ages comic. Get their plushies while they last!

So thanks for the support. It's so good to share my 3D images with a new city in person.

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More APE!

This weekend, 1st and 2nd of Nov, drop by table 441a and say hello if you're going to APE. I'll be bringing both books,"Crush" and "Depth Charge, 3D Illusions", prints and the new holiday cards. See you there.

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APE

APE is up next at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco. This is the first time I'll be exhibiting at this event and I'm really looking forward to it. I'll be at table 441a, so drop on by and say hi if you're going. More info during the week....


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ASIFA Student Animation Film Festival

This weekend the ASIFA Student Animation Film Festival will be local to LA and is co-sponsored by The Creative Talent Network spearheaded by Tina Price. I'll be a part of the mini-Book Look and signing, so I'll be bringing copies of my 3D Illusions book.
So come find me and I'll show you what it's all about. The book section will be up and running by 1pm. It's free to the public. Here's the blurb from CTN....

ASIFA STUDENT ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL

CTN is proud to be one of the sponsors for the first ASIFA Animation Educators Forum Annual Student Film Festival. Held at a different location each year with this years event being held in our own backyard on campus at Woodbury University in Burbank.

Free to the public this event coincides with the Woodbury University Founders Day that includes a variety of activities on campus beginning at 11am with free games and carnival attractions, musical entertainment and local food vendors. Everyone is invited so bring the whole family for an afternoon of fun!!

Some CTN specials are a screening of "An Animated American" directed by
James Baker and Joe Haidar with panel discussion to follow and top talent CTN members
will be on hand signing their sketchbooks.

BEN BALISTRERI - Dreamworks Character Designer
DONNACHADA DALY - Dreamworks Animator
GABRIELE PENNACCHIOLI - Dreamworks Animator
STEPHEN SILVER - Disney Character Designer
GLEN VILPPU - Master Life Drawing Instructor
DEAN YEAGLE - Independant Cartoonist
and more..... �

CTN is also hosting a wine and beverage reception from 5-6pm prior to the screening with a raffle to win one free pass to the upcoming
CTN Animation Expo to be held Nov 20-23, 2009 in Burbank.

Come and help us support the future storytellers of animation.

SEE YOU THERE!!

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Totoro Forest Project Book

WOW.

Let me say that again.

WOW.

If you can score a copy of the book, please try to do it soon as I know they are running out quickly. Check in on the Totoro Forest Project Blog for info on where it might be still available. I can't even begin to describe what a joy this book is.

I just received my comp copy (thanks for dropping it down Andrea) and seeing the reactions from my kids as we go through the book together is utterly priceless. Their world has just been expanded by an infinite degree thanks to all the participating artists.
Again, it was a complete honor to be a part of this cause.

Cheers Dice, Enrico, Ronnie, Yukino and the whole project team that organized the event.



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More Brush Pens On The Market

Here's a sheet just for fun while testing out the new Prismacolor Premier Brush Pens. It will be hard to drag me away from my trusty Pitt Brush Pens though. I love the Prismacolor pencils, so it's good to see them offering colored brush pens. They do have pretty thin barrels on them compared to the Pitt pens which might take a bit of getting used to. Either way, I'm more concerned with what comes out of the tip of them.

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3D Images

Hello all. Thanks so much for the book orders. For all those on an RSS feed, you can get to the paypal button on the sidebar of the blog. I really appreciate the support and the great reaction the book is getting.

I never put the above image up on my site, even though a few of you may have seen it on the web. So to put that right, there it is. Hooray! As usual, to see it in 3D, just follow my 3D Instructions.

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The Pre-Show

This was snapped right before my first internal show at work. Glad to say that lots of these are going home with some very happy people. Got to tell you, when someone sees the images float off the surface for the first time and that smile appears on their face....well, that just makes my day.


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DEPTH CHARGE, 3D ILLUSIONS

DEPTH CHARGE, 3D ILLUSIONS NOW AVAILABLE!!!
Hooray!
All pre-orders have shipped and are on their merry way. Oh, and they also contain a little extra something :)

So to celebrate the online release, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY, ending MIDNIGHT, SEPT 2nd 08, if you order from me ONLY with the paypal button on the side bar, not only will you get a drawing on the inside page, you will receive a random couple of my new DAYDREAMER CARDS with your shiny new purchase.....



Yup, give your eyes a breather and place 'em where you need to to get those eye muscles working for ya.

It's also available on Amazon.com (WITHOUT the special daydreamer offer) here.
For anyone who already has the book, don't hesitate to write an honest review on Amazon. Word of mouth is starting to grow and I'm really surprised how much of a social book it has turned out to be. The couple of shipments I made have already sold in pre-order. Not to worry. I've just sent a new shipment to them, so if it shows up as temporarily out of stock, it should only be a few days until they have it back in.

Enjoy the book my friends.

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More Previews

Well, the online release date for DEPTH CHARGE, 3D ILLUSIONS is right around the corner. Any orders made directly through my Scullery Press site or the link on the side bar, will get the bonus of an illustration on the first page of the book. Yay!!!

Where can I get it right now? Is it in any stores yet? Good question. I'm very pleased to have this book in the great House Of Secrets in Burbank and also in the very cool Lula Mae in Pasadena.
Stuart Ng Books, has copies available at his showroom of unbelievable books and also online. And for those in the Bay area, you can pick up a copy at the fab Comic Relief in Berkley.
More bookstores and boutiques are on the way so stay tuned. Hooray!!!

Hope you all had a good week. Give your eyes an exercise and a rest from your usual monitor viewing by using the instructions HERE to see the illustration above in 3D without those 3D glasses.

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Totoro Forest Project Tickets

This project is something I am very proud to be a part of.
The Totoro Forest Project Tickets are Available Monday 8/11 10:00am Pacific Time!

Many of you have been wondering when and how you can buy tickets for the upcoming Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit Event to be held at Pixar on September 6th. Finally we are ready to start selling these online! The first pre-sale will start monday 8/11 at 10am. Here's the options available - Please note that all tickets include the stunning Art of Totoro Forest Book (worth $40)

Forest Friend - 100$ regular admission + book.
Forest Sponsor - 200$ includes admission + book + signed limited edition print
Forest Champion - $300 includes middle VIP live auction seating + book + signed limited edition print + gift certificate to Blowfish Sushi
Forest Hero - $500 includes front VIP live auction seating + book + an original drawing by one of the artists

Tickets will go on sale at this LINK exactly at 10AM Monday! We have a rather limited numbers of tickets so we suggest acting quickly if you want to be part of this event. Remember many of the donating artists will be in attendance, this will be a night to remember!! All the "Totoro inspired" art is up for preview at TotoroForestProject.org. All proceed will be donated to the Totoro Forest Foundation!!!

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Brand New Week

Ahh yes. A brand new week. Still recovering from last week. Thanks for the emails and well wishes. Here's another example from the book for you. Instructions HERE.

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Thank You Comic Con

What an amazing Comic con. Thank you all so much for your support and wishes. I really appreciate it especially if you came looking for me. I met so many artists at this convention that I have admired for years. It was a pleasure to meet you all.

The best part of working a table was helping everyone see the images. I had heard that about 95 percent of people had the ability to see stereo once the knew how. I had no idea how this would be received as it's kind of a stretch. That statistic turned out to be quite true. With a short explanation, a few puzzled faces that quickly turned into a smile when it clicked, was all it took. I got some amazing reactions from some. I wish I had it on camera.

Thanks also to Cartoon Brew for the mention.
A bunch of you found me because of that post. I'm going to catch my breath after the hectic week. In the meantime here's another 3D image for you. Instructions to see this are HERE .

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San Diego Here We Come

So the time has come. The big day. Wanna copy of "Depth Charge, 3D Illusions"? Head up to booth B8 at the exhibitor tables and I'll help you see the illusions float off the page.
I'll have some extra gear with me which I haven't told anyone about yet, so swing on by and you'll be one of the first to know. I'll post about it after the Comic Con has finished for all those that can't make it. What could it be?
See you there my friends.

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Totoro Forest Project

There has been a secret project going on for the last while called the TOTORO FOREST PROJECT which I an very happy to be part of and we are now allowed to share the info with you. This is an unbelievable collection of over 200 international artists joining together the help spread the word in an effort to preserve Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest. Hayao Miyazaki used this forest as an inspiration for "Totoro".

Above is my contribution to the project. How does this work? Well there will be an auction held at Pixar on the 6th of Sept 2008, and the best thing is that ALL of the proceeds will be donated to the Totoro Forest Foundation. Fantastic. There will also be a book produced collecting all the artwork involved in the project. Please help in saving this very special place.

This amazing project was spearheaded by Dice Tsutsumi, Enrico Casarosa, and Ronnie del Carmen. You'll be hearing a lot about this project over the next while. The artwork is spectacular and you can see it in the gallery section of the TOTORO FOREST PROJECT. It should be an incredible auction. Please help spread the word about this.

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Live Color, 3D Color Mixing

Thank you so much for the comments and the emails I got over the last few days. I can feel the moment it clicked for you and that makes me really happy. Thanks also to Drawn! for spreading the news. Glad to have you here if you headed over from this great site.

Well, I promised you in the last post that the 3D illustrations wouldn't be the only thing I've been doing with my work. Want to see some colors you've never seen before? So here's the kicker. You don't need color to be premixed for you. Your mind can do it, and it will look alive and vibrant as the left and right side of your brain piece it together.

If you missed the last post, a simple 3 STEPS will get you on the right track to see my images in 3D. More info after the pic.....



Who knew you could have so much fun with a copyright notice. 3D and color mixing. That will add some life to it.

The new book "Depth Charge, 3D Illusions" contains a bunch of color mixing 3D illustrations. This one is an easier one to get started on.
There are still some surprises in the book so drop by my table B8 at the San Diego Comic Con and I'll show you.

That's not all. The next post will have info on some of the goodies I'll be bringing with me.

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