Jason Heaton.

Ah, 2012!

2012-01-13T15:34:00.000-06:00

A new year full of new possibilities, experiences, and resolutions!

One of my resolutions is to be more disciplined. Like posting on this blog. I think sometimes my lack of discipline stems from a short attention span. But with a little dedication and really focusing on making this blog a priority, this might be one of the most successful years of posting this blog has ev

Where Did the Summer Go?

2011-10-04T10:14:00.000-05:00

(Insert obligatory apologies and exclamation concerning not having posted in awhile here)

Now that that's out of the way...

Here are some drawings!

Flying to Sarasota

2011-05-31T00:21:00.002-05:00

I've done my fair share of flying over the course of my life, especially over the past couple months. I like to travel, so I tend to do it as often as I can. A few weeks ago I visited Ringling to see a bunch of my friends graduate.

Before that trip, I had never had any problems flying. Show up an hour before the flight, hop on the plane, arrive at my destination. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

Unfortunately that didn't seem to be the case this time around. Going to Florida, my first flight got delayed. This ended up giving me only a few minutes to get to my next flight. They moved my seat to the very front of the plane, so I could start running as soon as we landed. As we approached the airport, I start psyching myself up to move as quickly as possible. I had been having really bad shin splints lately in both my legs, so I knew I wouldn't be able to run as fast as I usually could.

I started booking it as soon as we hit the gate.

I barely made it.

My legs were killing me, but it was worth it. I had a great time, and figured my travels back home would be much less dramatic. However that was not the case...

I Helped Make Something, and Now Its Available for You to Watch!!!

2011-05-25T19:42:00.003-05:00

That's right folks, you heard me right!

I am currently working for Moonbot Studios and our first short film (that I actually helped make!), "The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore," is now available!! To download it, CLICK HERE!!

Aaaaaalso, this weekend (Friday, May 27th - Monday, May 30th), the "Morris" short will be screening nationwide at Starbucks' via their in-store WiFi. Just visit this address (starbucks.yahoo.com) while at Starbucks to view it! The only Starbucks stores that won't have WiFi are licensee stores (stores owned by Target, Barnes & Noble, Airports, etc.)

While I'm shamelessly plugging away, you can also visit our studios website at: http://moonbotstudios.com/

And for a sneak peak of our film you can watch our trailer here: http://www.morrislessmore.com/

Thanks to everyone for their support, and I really hope you get to check it out!

Lunch Neighbors

2011-05-14T17:28:00.002-05:00

Busy! Busy!

2011-05-04T18:21:00.000-05:00

Things have been pretty busy around here lately. Between work, a hefty amount of random traveling, and life in general, there hasn't been a whole lot of down time. At work we've been developing the story for our next project, which means a lot of story meetings and not as much drawing (or at least not as much as when you are sitting at your computer boarding all day). Although I haven't been drawing as much as I'd like lately (though who really draws as much as they'd like?), here's a few recent sketchbook pages.

A New Batch of Drawings!

2011-03-29T11:57:00.000-05:00

Here's some sketchbook stuff from the past week!

This was a random page of stuff.

This beautiful young LADY was married...

...to this handsome young man. The complete set came with their mullet-headed son, but alas, I didn't get to draw him.

Ketchbooksay Rawingsday

2011-03-11T11:16:00.001-06:00

One of the reasons I restarted my blog was so that it would motivate me to do original work outside of the work that I get paid to do. So far it just seems to have generated a lot of sketchbook drawings...Oh well. Enjoy! :)

I just realized there isn't a single drawing from Barnes and Noble in this post! How worldly of me!

The Opposite of Shreveport

2011-02-28T16:24:00.000-06:00

Contrary to this drawing...the weather has actually been the exact opposite of this for the past few weeks. It's been great! :)

Evening Cool Down

2011-02-07T20:21:00.002-06:00

Morning Warm Up

2011-02-07T13:58:00.001-06:00

My fellow bloggers...

2011-02-04T01:40:00.000-06:00

Earlier tonight, I added some links on the side to some other blogs belonging to my friends, co-workers, and some people that inspire me. I know that its taboo for me to tell you to go look at someone else's blog, especially since you probably just got here and you're one of the only 2 people that visit (that's right, I just made the "nobody looks at my blog" joke), but you should really go check them out. I've been blessed with some very talented people in my life, and I hope you enjoy looking at their stuff as much as I do.

I only spent a couple minutes adding blogs to those lists, so if I missed you, just let me know and I'll throw you on there. I'll slowly be adding more links as well as I think of them...or discover them.

And just to give you something to look at...I found this weird centaur, redneck-ish looking dude on my computer from about 4 years ago. Sorry its so small, its the best I could find. Enjoy...I guess?

More Sketchbook Excerpts

2011-01-29T23:19:00.000-06:00

This lady looked like a who from Dr. Seuss. My friend said I shouldn't tell her that. I always kind of thought looking like a who was a compliment. Maybe I'm wrong.

I imagine that everyone on this page is obnoxiously reading over this man's shoulder. Except for the guy in the top left. He's just amused by the whole thing. Reading man is doing his best to ignore them.

Morris Lessmore World Premiere!

2011-01-25T11:52:00.000-06:00

I am more than happy to announce that our (Moonbot Studios) first film (The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore) will be premiering at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (woo-hoo!) in just a matter of weeks!

You can check out the schedule at the SBIFF website. We are in the "animation 2" qualifying category. Everyone that worked on this project did an amazing job, and I think that it really shows. But don't take my word for it, go see it yourself!

Some Sketchy Stuff

2011-01-20T14:28:00.002-06:00

I've been slowly going through Mark Kennedy's blog, Temple of the Seven Golden Camels, and in March/April of 2007 he posted some really good stuff on sketchbooks. I would definitely recommend checking it out (honestly, the entire blog is full of awesome stuff). There are links to those specific posts down at the bottom.

One part that I thought was really cool from what he says is this little paragraph:

"Any real sketchbook is full of misfires, false starts and stumbles, with a few successes sprinkled here and there. If you were capable of doing a perfect drawing every time, you wouldn't need to carry a sketchbook! But the quickest way to learn how to do perfect drawings is to do a lot of crappy ones first...and learn from them. "

There have definitely been times where I have been hesitant to whip out my sketchbook because I didn't think the end product would be up to par. But that's silly. That's like saying that I want to learn how to play the guitar, but I'm not good enough to practice yet.

So yeah...with all that being said, here's some random stuff from my sketchbook:

This guy was really cool looking. I don't think I ever quite captured him, but I sure tried!

I draw way too many floating heads. MORE FULL BODY GESTURES!!

New Year's Resolution # 672: I will not let fear nor pride get in the way of sketching!

Carrying a Sketchbook, Part 1

Carrying a Sketchbook, Part 2

Sketchbooks, Part 3

Sketchbooks, Part 4

New Year! New Blog!

2011-01-11T13:47:00.001-06:00

Welcome friends, family, foes, and strangers!

I have decided that in conjunction with this new year it was time for a new blog! Well, actually it's the same blog, per se, I just deleted everything and started over. If you're really interested in seeing any of my old stuff, I just copied it over to this amazingly original and inspired blog: Jason's Old Blog. It's less a blog, really, and more of just a storage space for my old stuff since I don't like to throw things away.

I'm not quite sure what I want this blog to be yet, evidenced by my indecisive blog name. But I realized that I could spend forever trying to figure that out and never actually get to posting anything. So I'm just going to let it grow on its own, and not try to force anything...and if I don't like it, I'll just kill it and have it stuffed liked the last one, put over my mantel, and start over.

Here's to a new year, full of learning and growing!

-Jason!