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sketch book drawings skip to main skip to sidebar sketch book drawings where to buy my books in los angeles children s book world in culver city being a pig is nice absolutely beastly children skeleton cat oh nuts thursday february 26 2015 bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy posted by dankrall at 12 32 pm 24 comments wednesday january 21 2015 our conversation the other day posted by dankrall at 6 17 am 19 comments wednesday december 10 2014 my new book go buy it please so i have a new book coming out it s called sick simon and its about a little kid who has a cold and inadvertently spreads it to his family and dog and friends and everyone at school and mr warbles the class chinchilla and the bus driver and the monkeys at the zoo etc some germs see what he s doing and think hey he s our kind of guy we could do great things together and try to get simon to team up with them in infecting the world of course i wrote it after our child went to preschool and started bringing home those famous germs and we were all sick for months at a time for the majority of the year and it s still going on we re all sick again right now as a matter of fact the idea was if i could make a book that could shave off even one day of sickness from what the average household of a toddler or little kid endures by teaching them about germs and how they re spread it would be a huge service to humanity and that s what i m all about when i m not doing naked gnome drawings or drawing screen grabs from sons of anarchy and it totally worked even though we re all sick again right now it s been literally months since it last happened and i m pretty sure it s due to this book so there you have it according to me this book cures the common cold to try to get the word out i m having a couple of giveaways i ll be hosting on my facebook author s page and my twitter feed you have to go to one of those places and join or follow me to enter the first one has started and it s the top 10 reasons to buy sick simon giveaway anyone who shares or retweets one of the postings will be entered to win a free copy of the book and swag a germ prevention poster and logo tissue packet and an ink drawing of sick simon infecting someone so without further ado the top 10 reasons you should buy sick simon reason 10 it s got hieronymus bosch for kids i won t be posting the other 9 reasons or more giveaway info here so if you want to win please follow me on facebook or twitter thank you for your attention achoo posted by dankrall at 5 22 am 6 comments friday november 21 2014 this guy posted by dankrall at 1 41 pm 1 comment thursday november 06 2014 aisle seat near the bathroom pretty typical flight back from new york posted by dankrall at 12 59 pm 6 comments monday september 29 2014 i m super excited about the release of laika s boxtrolls and so happy it s doing so well here are some drawings i did for it very early on posted by dankrall at 9 51 am 8 comments tuesday august 05 2014 advice on getting into animation i had some trouble with my webmail account and lost a recent message from someone who emailed me asking for advice on working in the animation industry whoever it was i m sorry i didn t reply i try to always reply to people who email me to try to repay some of the help and kindness i got when i was starting out as i get that question a lot for that person and anyone else who has the same question i thought i d type up the same answer i always give advice on getting into the animation industry when i was young and starting out someone once told me you re not going to believe me it sounds too easy to be true but i swear to god this will work do good work and be nice to people that s it i didn t believe them i still remember the constant feeling of frustration and hopelessness as i couch surfed and worked minimum wage jobs and stayed up all night every night drawing trying to make a portfolio that would get me a job i remember not understanding why no one would hire me and feeling like the cards were stacked against me and that i deserved a job but for some strange inexplicable reason was not getting one then eventually after years of going through that cycle i finally got a job in hind sight 20 some odd years later i have to agree with them and have to pass on the same advice it is that easy well easy might not be exactly the right word it is a little deceptive the do good work part is easier said than done it didn t take but for a year or so of having worked for me to look back at my own work and see that it was no mystery why i did not get hired before i did the answer was i was not doing part a of the formula which is do good work i thought i was but i wasn t i ve found that most of the time myself included when you re young and starting out you can t see your own work the way it is you re too easy on yourself and you haven t started looking at your work with the critical eye that is necessary at the professional level you ve had a lifetime of being the best in your family or the best in your class or even the best in your college but then you get into the gigantic pool that is the whole wide world and you re now in the same labor pool as people who are famous and who you studied in college plus thousands of people you ve never heard of who are better than you will ever be it s a big world with shitloads of breathtakingly talented people in it and they re all available for the same jobs that you e applying for that s how they make a living too so the first thing you need to do is put your work next to the very best working in the industry and see how it stacks up you don t need to be better than those people you never will be unless you re one of them but you would t be reading this if you were i wasn t if you re one of those people you re like a drawing mozart and you figured shit out when you were a teenager and are now well beyond where i ll ever be i m writing this for more normal people you just need to be in the same ball park like there can t be any shitty hands in your drawings or weird broken construction your drawings have to work and function and not look like student work if you haven t achieved that level of craft you will never get hired in the animation industry there are just too many people who have the knack for it or have put in the work required or whatever but that is the bare minimum requirement i ve found that again myself included people are always looking for shortcuts to get around the bare minimum requirement if i had an expensive portfolio to put my drawings in or a better looking business card or if i connect with enough people on linkedin i ll get hired whatever it is anything to avoid the 10 000 hours of drawing it takes to do the work required there is no shortcut so that s what you need to do to get hired in the animation industry do good work one side note to doing good work is if at all possible be unique and interesting even if you achieve the level of drawing you need to do the work it can sometimes be easy to get lost in the absolute ocean of amazingly talented devoted people who have also achieved it in that case it can really help to be unique i think the reason i ve stayed employed all these years and keep getting hired is that i bring to project something that no one else can my own sense of humor and my take on the world i think sometimes the animation world can become a little self referential and incestuous where people only draw from things that are already in the realm of animation old disney movies anime ripoffs etc it pretty much always seems to me that animation projects are desperately in need of outside influences to make them interesting so travel around read weird books embrace whatever strange things you find interesting and try to use them to inspire your animation work when i started out not knowing this probably added years on my path to doing good work i spent a long time in the beginning drawing what i thought other people wanted to see and what i thought would get me hired sexy girls motorcycles cute characters none of which i gave a shit about but it was just stuff i had seen people draw and what i thought was expected of someone working in animation i spent years doing this and all of it was bad it wasn t until i started drawing things i felt passionate about filthy gnomes medieval beasts funny things i saw in the world that i started really doing what i considered to be ok work to stay hired you just need to be nice to people that doesn t really require any explanation just treat people the way you want to be treated the one situation i ve seen nice people become un nice is when they re in charge for the first time they get their first show or their first movie or whatever and they think that i ve finally made it this is my big chance and they take everything way too seriously and start riding the people around them because they think those people are fucking up there chance or they re just not used to the pressure of multitasking a thousand things at once and they get flustered and take it out on the people around them if you find yourself in that situation watch out for those pitfalls there is no big chance if you re going to become rich and famous in this industry as some people do it will happen whether you are nice or mean it will happen based on your ideas and your take on the world and your devotion not on your ability to crack the whip and it won t happen at once based on your first show or movie or whatever it will happen slowly over the course of your career so just settle down and be nice to people everyone around you wants to do their work well and make their bosses happy and they re more able to do that if they re treated nicely and appreciated i think of animation like a jazz band where you go around the circle and every gets a moment to solo sometimes you are the boss and it s your turn to solo and other times it s someones else s turn and your job is to back them up so that s it do good work and be nice to people one more piece of advice i might add to that would be that after you re work is where it needs to be join the community start a blog or instagram or pinterest or whatever the kids are doing these days put art in the group shows go to the openings meet people it s a small community of people who do this and if your work is good it will be recognized and you will find yourself working faster than you can believe possible and if you don t your work probably isn t there yet keep at it and don t get discouraged just try to be honest with yourself about your work and figure out why it s not there yet what s holding you back and jump in and fix it it s hard hard work but it s worth it posted by dankrall at 11 10 am 75 comments older posts home subscribe to comments atom about me dankrall los angeles ca united states view my complete profile subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments followers total pageviews blog archive 2015 2 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