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Chalkboard – Oddball Studios

Yoav Givati — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:26:48 +0000

Click images for full size.

Someday I'll get around to posting all the Chalkboards that keep coming in - Draw your own here. In the meantime I was going through some of the recent submissions and one stuck out, visit their site [www.oddball-studios.co.uk] it's freaking awesome! They've also got artwork and cartoons which you have to see. I asked Peter to tell me a bit about what they do and why. They also sent some artwork to put up and embedded below is "Flies on a Wall".

Oddball Studios was established by Sam and Peter Foster in May 2008. The ambition to bring things to life has always been something we like to do. We were heavily influenced by 90's cartoons such a Ren and Stimpy, Cow and chicken, Dexter's Lab etc. It seems cartoons these days have gone to a more "PC" side, whereas our cartoons tend to steer to the other direction.

Since our early workings like "Coffee cake" and "Frank Furter" our ambition has changed to create something with more thought, character building and some relation to people. Thus our latest creation "Flies on a Wall" was created, giving more personality into the individuality of the characters even though they are the same species of fly.

Our latest project has gone a step further "Wake up Larry" which is currently in development. We will release more information on the feature soon, along with concept art.

Flies on a Wall

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeDcZ7e14CU]

FightSkillz For iPhone and iPod Touch

Yoav Givati — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:08:09 +0000

The site's been optimized for viewing on your iPhone or iPod touch thanks to an incredible Wordpress plugin called WPtouch[http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/]. Just open Safari and go to www.fightskillz.com, If you add it to your Home page you'll get a cool ninja icon. Also look up! new favicon in regular browser too. Here are some screenshots, the last one is the Fightskillz.com iPhone Wallpaper which you can right click and use, modify, share, etc.

Plant

Yoav Givati — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:09:01 +0000

I drew this the other day while waiting for someone. Grabbed a photo of it with my phone since I wasn't keeping it.

ChalkBoard Artist Spotlight – Jaume Fulgueira

Yoav Givati — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:38:24 +0000

On Chalk It Out we have this drawing board. Visitors can submit their ChalkBoards, all of which we put here. Every now and then someone submits a ChalkBoard that really catches our eye, we put those in the Chalk It Out gallery as well and try to contact them so we can do an artist spotlight.

I emailed Jaume Fulgueira the other day after putting up his submission and he shared his story and some of his art.

I'm from Barcelona, Spain. I was born in 1980. I've been drawing people, monsters, robots, and other things since I was 3. I attended drawing and comic classes but with the years I'd rather spend my time with the computer or playing guitar than drawing. I studied Multimedia Engineering and Computer Technology in La Salle School in Barcelona, where I learned to use 3d Studio. Now currently I'm working as J2EE programmer. I never had the opportunity to use my artistic abilities at work, but I think perhaps it's better, since I prefer to keep them for my personal enjoyment.

A CG video made some years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrWJ7zHNG8M

Some comics (in Catalan language) made when i was around 16
http://jaume.fulgueira.googlepages.com/comic-cine-1.JPG
http://jaume.fulgueira.googlepages.com/comic-cine-2.jpg
http://jaume.fulgueira.googlepages.com/comic-cine-3.jpg
http://jaume.fulgueira.googlepages.com/estudiant.jpg

Some instrumental music pieces
www.myspace.com/jaumefulgueira

Sketch – Boardwalk

Yoav Givati — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:48:08 +0000

This is another old sketch, looking at the metadata I didn't realize how long ago it was, but it's from Dec 07. I went looking on Deviant Art for some inspiration and decided to try "duplicating" a photo by sight. In hindsight I probably could have spent more time on it. In hindsight I probably should have devoted more time over the last 400 days to drawing in general.

Here's the original, click on the image to go to it's DA page, or visit the photographer at http://ferice.deviantart.com/ and check out some of their other work.

My sketch is on the right... clearly, click on it for the hi-res version.

Twitter

Yoav Givati — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:25:32 +0000

I had to do a background thing for twitter. One thing lead to another and now I have a Ninja Square... I'm not entirely sure what it means, but looking at it I get the impression the rope is important. I should pay more attention when I screw around in illustrator so I don't confuse myself.. oh wells.

Sketch – Caffeine

Yoav Givati — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:47:34 +0000

Thought I'd upload a sketch I did a while ago, I was learning how to draw a dog.. this is the closest I got.

Once again…

Yoav Givati — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:34:09 +0000

I've just done something completely, utterly stupid.. but it's not the type of thing for the internet so I'm commemorating the event with an image and song(not mine).

Photo

Yoav Givati — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:49:26 +0000

This is a photo I took a couple years ago, click for a bigger image. When I post photos it'll be in an unknown order. If you're obsessive about strict chronological succession there's nothing you can do about it.

KATG Yard-Sign

Yoav Givati — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:44:08 +0000

Someone asked me for this.. if you feel like using it feel free to use and edit it like any other KATG promo material. I'd appreciate it if you didn't just link to it directly on my site; if you wanna use it save a copy and put it on your own site.

click to zoom -> right click -> save as