dana wulfekotte

updated reel

2011-08-24T13:09:00.001-07:00

updated the intro & music.

demo reel intro

2011-08-23T20:57:00.000-07:00

working on an intro for my demo reel while i have some down time.

some drawings for friends

2011-08-08T21:17:00.000-07:00

birthday cat for mike

my friend andrew and his cat napping

my friend seth punching me in the face

tan girl

2011-07-14T17:10:00.001-07:00

santos pt. 2

2011-04-16T13:51:00.001-07:00

santos

2011-04-12T12:18:00.001-07:00

bunnysitting this guy for a couple of weeks. here are some sketches of him with my new brush pen.

some older subway sketches

2011-03-13T16:35:00.000-07:00

shawna thrax: barbarian princess

2011-02-20T18:19:00.000-08:00

Mike came up with an idea for a superhero character called Shawna Thrax, Barbarian Princess. I just felt like screwing around with a possible design for her, may come up with more later.

ASIFA multiple sessions

2010-08-02T20:09:00.000-07:00

been busy with freelance & comic drawing, but i managed to make it to a few asifa summer sessions.

beach

2010-05-11T20:16:00.001-07:00

sketchbook

2010-04-21T12:39:00.001-07:00

pink green black

2010-04-19T20:27:00.000-07:00

viking!

2010-04-07T14:16:00.001-07:00

blue

2010-04-06T18:32:00.001-07:00

yellow

2010-04-06T17:02:00.001-07:00

ASIFA pt 3

2010-04-03T20:52:00.001-07:00

more ASIFA pt. 2

2010-03-21T20:16:00.000-07:00

more ASIFA

2010-03-21T19:57:00.001-07:00

phil and mike

2010-03-10T20:22:00.000-08:00

phil at his desk

2010-03-10T20:21:00.001-08:00

ted leo

2010-03-10T20:20:00.000-08:00

ASIFA pt. 2

2010-02-14T12:20:00.000-08:00

the rest of the ASIFA drawings from last thursday (mostly 3-5 min poses):

ASIFA life drawing: 1-5 min sketches

2010-02-13T14:20:00.000-08:00

finally managed to go to a life drawing session after skipping out the entire last semester.

these are from an older session that i never got around to scanning:

these are from the session last thursday (more to come tomorrow):

quick flash sketch

2010-02-06T21:34:00.000-08:00

I lied.

2010-01-13T12:23:00.000-08:00

My webcomic alter-ego Avery in a winter coat, which coincidentally looks a lot like mine in real life. I'm very creative.

ratigan the rat butler

2010-01-10T18:14:00.000-08:00

My friends recently found a rat in their new apartment, which had been feeding off of the copious amounts of trash left behind by the former tenants (including a sandwich they found underneath the sink). Always turning lemons into lemonade, my friend told me that he would name it Ratigan and train it to be their butler, "complete with rat-sized tuxedo." So I drew this up for them.

long time no update

2009-10-29T21:46:00.000-07:00

i've been way too busy lately. mainly working on boards and animation for an upcoming PBS web series. here's the trailer for it:

and here's the official website: http://www.pbskids.org/lunchlab. the episodes will begin to air on nov 16.

also been plugging away at the webcomic. aside from the weekly comics, i'm also working on a new site design so it looks slightly more professional and less like i crapped it out in a day. we have a ton of other ideas in mind, most of which will be slowly implemented over the course of the next year or so (merchandise, story arc ideas, more frequent updates, etc).

http://www.leadpaintcomics.com

and just for the sake of posting something new, here's the b&w of the halloween comic i'm working on right now (the finished color version will be up on halloween):

asian girl

2009-08-25T21:25:00.000-07:00

i noticed there are a lot of very trendy-looking asian girls in the city, especially around k-town. i'm not one of them. but this sketch was done with them in mind.

sasquatch designs

2009-08-14T11:02:00.000-07:00

weird sea creatures

2009-08-06T18:00:00.001-07:00

been a while since i last updated. the webcomic has been keeping me pretty busy, along with helping out on some freelance. but anyway, here are some quick sketches of sea creatures for a short i'm working on with some friends.

sully

2009-06-26T21:18:00.001-07:00

we puppy-sat today for a pug named sullivan. i wanted to take him home.

lead paint comics triumphant return to the internet

2009-06-15T19:22:00.000-07:00

just wanted to announce that mike and i finally uploaded our first new comic to our lead paint comics website (http://www.leadpaintcomics.com).

we've been working on this new batch of comics for about a year since we went on hiatus, so we're pretty excited to finally show what we've been doing. new comics will be up every monday, and we'll be slowly expanding/improving the site as we go.

while i'm not totally happy with the art yet, i think it looks a lot better than it did originally. it's pretty much a constant work in progress.

rough walk cycle

2009-06-14T12:34:00.001-07:00

quick painting

2009-06-08T19:48:00.001-07:00

i needed to add some color to the blog.

just a made up landscape, but i used some of my photos from new zealand as reference.

at the bronx zoo

2009-06-01T13:27:00.001-07:00

more subway drawings

2009-05-25T17:50:00.000-07:00

sorry if these are getting boring.

at long island city

2009-05-19T18:13:00.000-07:00

more from the sketchbook

2009-05-12T13:55:00.000-07:00

some sketches from last year. drawn on the subway and at the beach.

mother's day

2009-05-10T08:06:00.000-07:00

being unemployed means drawing pictures in lieu of buying presents.

5 min poses

2009-05-09T14:24:00.001-07:00

more naked people

2009-05-05T11:47:00.001-07:00

4 minute poses

ASIFA figure drawings

2009-05-02T18:10:00.000-07:00

1 minute gestures:

2 min:

3 min:

will post 4-5 min drawings later

cookie monster

2009-04-14T11:19:00.000-07:00

this is a panel of one of the comics i'm currently working on. a lot of the detail is lost in the comic itself so i thought i'd pull it out as its own drawing.

this doesn't make a lot of sense out of context. or maybe it makes.. about the same amount of sense.

lead paint v2: coming soon

2009-04-01T20:57:00.000-07:00

mike and i are slowly getting closer to relaunching our webcomic, which was supposed to happen back in december, but whatever.

we've been taking our time to work out a lot of the kinks, so it'll hopefully be a big improvement over what we were doing originally. and by that, i mean there will be more swearing.

one last modok

2009-03-27T07:06:00.000-07:00

eskimodok. or inuit-dok for the politically correct.

rough squirrel animation

2009-03-19T18:46:00.000-07:00

click here to see it larger.

i'm going to be collaborating with some current and former coworkers on a squirrel vs. robot comic so i've been into drawing squirrels the past few days. might clean it up later. might not. who knows.

more modok

2009-03-19T07:01:00.000-07:00

i drew another modok instead of working last night. i guess it still counts as doing something productive, right?

modok

2009-03-17T06:58:00.000-07:00

done for my friends' modok blog. not big into comics so i never heard of modok prior to this, but i guess there's not much to know aside from that he kills things.

check out more here: march modok madness

people

2009-03-16T11:14:00.000-07:00

more girls in their underwear

2009-03-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

painter sketch

2009-03-09T16:50:00.000-07:00

the view from my seat at work.

birds

2009-02-19T20:49:00.001-08:00

i'm digging up older work because i haven't had time to do anything new. maybe i'll clean these up more if i feel like it.

tom tom

2009-02-13T14:53:00.000-08:00

found this looking through my computer at work. it's tom church, and he has a stress beard.

lead paint

2009-02-04T17:52:00.000-08:00

some more comic-related work. expressions for the 2 main characters as well as the turnaround for colin. we may do some animated shorts along with the comics, but that probably won't be for a while. we should probably start updating on a regular basis again first.

animation reel 2009

2009-01-28T07:04:00.000-08:00

click here for reel breakdown.

last of my new zealand sketches

2009-01-25T18:28:00.000-08:00

people on the ferry from picton to wellington
on the coastal train from kaikoura to picton

a tree from my window at the hostel in queenstown

quick sketch

2009-01-21T18:43:00.001-08:00

experimenting with color. and with drawing girls in their underwear.

lead paint

2009-01-18T15:11:00.001-08:00

mike and i have been slowly working on getting our webcomic up and running again. we're pretty much overhauling everything (scripts, art, site design) so it's taking longer than we expected. but hopefully it'll pay off.

this is the turnaround for avery, one of the main characters. i posted a previous version on here a while back, but i wasn't very happy with it. also started on colin, i'll probably be posting that up later this week or next.

you can visit our currently sad and slightly busted website here (the archives are still up):
http://www.leadpaintcomics.com

new zealand sketches pt. 2

2009-01-12T07:15:00.001-08:00

these are also in lyttelton. i walked a really long way to get here and i wasn't really sure where i was going.

new zealand sketches pt. 1

2009-01-07T09:09:00.000-08:00

in lyttelton, outside of christchurch. i think the building at the top of the hill was the gondola.

the lounge at the hostel in christchurch.
people at the hostel

some animation

2009-01-02T15:55:00.000-08:00

more sketches

2008-12-20T15:48:00.000-08:00

waiting for my next flight at LAX.

sketchbook

2008-12-19T15:55:00.000-08:00

i'll post more sketches tomorrow from my new zealand trip.

doodle

2008-09-21T10:28:00.001-07:00

a quick sketch in painter before i start my day.. at 130 in the afternoon.

que malo, once again i must sugar my own churro.

2008-09-11T20:38:00.001-07:00

mike and i have taken a small hiatus from updating our webcomic to focus on improving the scripts and design along with our now badly-mangled website. these are the new designs for the two main characters, colin and avery, along with some rough expressions.

http://www.leadpaintcomics.com - our archives are still up and we'll be posting updates on our progress throughout our break. we should be up and running again before the end of the year.

concept bg

2008-09-06T15:53:00.000-07:00

i've been told i'm lazy when it comes to drawings backgrounds, so here's one. it's also concept art for an animation i have in mind. not sure if i'll actually do it or not.

at work

2008-08-27T18:28:00.000-07:00

that's about right.

older sketches

2008-08-26T21:21:00.000-07:00

some older stuff from my sketchbook. the first two are sketches from a trip to the zoo last year, the third is the view from my window at my last apartment. i drew that at 5 am when i couldn't go back to sleep. insomnia is a wonderful thing.

figure drawings

2008-08-20T17:56:00.000-07:00

some figure drawings from the ASIFA sessions. 1-5 min gestures, i think.

first post

2008-08-12T19:31:00.001-07:00

i'm starting a blog for about the 2190234th time. hopefully i'll actually update it. but i make no promises.