Dick Church's Fun Spot Place

Inspired to Bravery - Cartoon "Cool"-aboration

2009-06-08T09:10:00.000-07:00

This is a cartoon collaboration I did recently with a bloke from youtube called OurNationalSpace for his series called "Colors with Sound". He sent me the music track and I animated to it. It was a lot of fun to see where the music would lead and also to adhere to a pretty tight self-imposed deadline! See the video and original behind-the-scenes sketches i did below.

sneldor

2008-06-20T12:25:00.000-07:00

rushed daily blog requirement

2008-05-06T14:56:00.001-07:00

meaningless monkeys

2008-05-05T14:07:00.001-07:00

Jenkins and his dog

2008-05-02T15:29:00.001-07:00

a blog a day for may 1 - Choirboy

2008-05-01T12:27:00.001-07:00

that's right. a blog a day. every weekday, a new item of mspaint funnery. it's a blog a day for the month of may.

more doodlins

2008-04-23T11:59:00.001-07:00

good lord i'm tired

express yourself

2008-04-11T12:39:00.001-07:00

work doodle - a gollumy dude

2008-04-01T13:49:00.000-07:00

work doodles

2008-03-27T08:16:00.001-07:00

partyguin

2008-03-18T14:50:00.000-07:00

gently down the stream

2008-03-18T08:16:00.000-07:00

friends forever

2008-02-07T06:32:00.001-08:00

small town pig makes good

2008-01-24T15:06:00.001-08:00

random tired 5 minutes blog

2008-01-23T14:45:00.000-08:00

a doodle

2008-01-04T09:46:00.000-08:00

penguin vs robot

2008-01-03T09:28:00.000-08:00

rather monkeylike self portraits

2007-12-19T12:53:00.001-08:00

holiday haiku

2007-12-13T12:38:00.001-08:00

homemade motivational poster

2007-12-13T09:33:00.001-08:00

gus

2007-12-06T13:52:00.001-08:00

run amok

2007-12-03T14:02:00.000-08:00

public service announcements

2007-11-14T13:33:00.001-08:00

GIF crazy

2007-11-08T06:15:00.000-08:00

i just learned how to do animated gifs. it's pretty fun. you may have to click on the image to see the animation, it's mildly worth it i guess.

happy halloween

2007-10-31T06:29:00.001-07:00

walking potato man

2007-10-24T07:51:00.000-07:00

i can shoot so many beams

2007-10-23T09:33:00.000-07:00

first blog in a while

2007-10-19T13:11:00.001-07:00

another silly doodle about tommy

2007-10-03T10:13:00.001-07:00

elephant doodle

2007-10-03T09:56:00.001-07:00

Lil' Helper calmy subdues the Yeti

2007-09-27T09:40:00.000-07:00

Looks like he's at it again folks.

more fun with mr. what's-his-face

2007-09-26T06:10:00.000-07:00

here he appears again calmly gathering his thoughts as he drifts throughout the universe in an orb of pure energy he fashioned through sheer force of will, yet with little effort. little is still known about this fellow but i feel he may break big time soon and be my ticket out of this one-horse town.

what is he/she

2007-09-25T10:42:00.000-07:00

having a quite busy day at work and suddenly i doodled this but i don't know what it is. it appears to be flying but is it a dog? a bird? alien? the imaginary friend of a foreign dignitary? any ideas?

um i'm bored

2007-09-17T19:46:00.000-07:00

so many times this life
can be full of confusion
and also jerks
so when one encounters direction
that is clear reasonable and polite
it is a pleasure to agree though
then again the foreign objects is kind of vague though
then again it covers a lot of potentialities
so maybe i shouldnt have thrown
my trap jaw action figure in there though
it was missing many of the arm attachments

notebook doodles come to life

2007-09-14T09:24:00.001-07:00

just be yourself terry

2007-09-06T08:42:00.001-07:00

going up into your head
to assess the situation
and construct elaborate strategies
will likely escalate the condition
terry

identify, don't compare

2007-09-05T13:28:00.001-07:00

brain bugs

2007-09-04T12:43:00.001-07:00

careless notebook doodle brought to life with crayons

2007-08-29T14:25:00.001-07:00

careless notebook doodle brought to life with technology

2007-08-29T10:34:00.000-07:00

existential pac-crisis

2007-08-22T11:51:00.000-07:00

happy thoughts

2007-08-17T13:16:00.001-07:00

Two-blog Thursday

2007-08-16T08:20:00.001-07:00

two blog tuesday

2007-08-07T11:46:00.001-07:00

staredown

2007-08-06T14:34:00.000-07:00

uninspired mspaintblog about uninspred mspaintblog

2007-08-06T06:29:00.000-07:00

internally yours

2007-07-27T09:32:00.001-07:00

spelling relief

2007-07-26T08:22:00.000-07:00

a new hero emerges

2007-07-24T06:42:00.001-07:00

buddies

2007-07-20T14:15:00.000-07:00

wtf comix #2

2007-07-19T06:06:00.001-07:00

tired at work

2007-07-18T11:42:00.001-07:00

a fairly accurate self portrait

therapeutic early morning character design

2007-07-17T06:57:00.001-07:00

bedraggled, bedrongled, bedongled

2007-07-16T10:52:00.000-07:00

MAN VS CHICKEN

2007-07-13T06:53:00.000-07:00

daydream believer

2007-07-03T06:35:00.000-07:00

nostalgia

2007-07-02T14:31:00.001-07:00

wtf comix

2007-06-29T11:44:00.001-07:00

metaphor or absurdism - you decide

cabaret frog sings danny boy

2007-06-29T06:48:00.000-07:00

we are somewhere

2007-06-27T14:43:00.001-07:00

gleefully unawares

2007-06-26T13:17:00.000-07:00

some doodles for poodles

2007-06-20T16:04:00.001-07:00

enemies

2007-06-19T11:57:00.000-07:00

barnacle man

2007-06-19T06:02:00.000-07:00

3 blogs, one a guest

2007-06-18T11:50:00.000-07:00

3 blogs - titled "the pitfalls of barhopping," "karma," and "banana joe and the merengue sisters"

special guest blog - coming soon

2007-06-18T10:35:00.001-07:00

it's a guest blog by my friend gloffray. try your own hand at the special gues ms paint blog - it's more fun than raisin bran, i swear.

choose carefully the life you choose

2007-06-15T10:54:00.000-07:00

eraser missle

2007-06-14T12:07:00.000-07:00

today my friend and co-worker juff and i decided to try a new twist on the ms paint blog. we used an internet random word generator to pick a topic - i got "eraser" and he got "missle" so the topic became "eraser missle." and so and so and so this is what we came up with.

what has become of me?

2007-06-12T11:01:00.001-07:00

free political propaganda

2007-06-11T11:52:00.000-07:00

if there are any groups of people currently defending their beloved skatepark against greedy land developers who want to put up a shopping mall or designer pet store feel free to use this inspirational poster to put up all over town and start the revolution

nosce te ipsum

2007-06-08T05:48:00.001-07:00

improbable recurring nightmares come true

2007-06-07T09:10:00.001-07:00

lame but true story

2007-06-06T11:05:00.000-07:00

jim's secret

2007-06-04T15:13:00.000-07:00

apocalypse buzzard part 6

2007-06-04T06:14:00.001-07:00

end of the day song and a bear and a bird

2007-06-01T14:34:00.000-07:00

apocalypse buzzard part 5

2007-06-01T07:06:00.001-07:00

apocalypse buzzard part 4

2007-05-31T06:16:00.000-07:00

apocalypse buzzard part 3

2007-05-30T06:04:00.001-07:00

apocalypse buzzard part 2

2007-05-29T16:46:00.001-07:00

apocalypse buzzard

2007-05-29T14:25:00.000-07:00

cool guest blog and fishmouthmanthing

2007-05-25T09:41:00.001-07:00

my friend jeff used a new twist on mspaintblog and i made something too

the guardian, but not the one with kevin costner and kelso

2007-05-23T15:50:00.001-07:00

whatever gets you through the night

2007-05-23T12:25:00.001-07:00

human farm

2007-05-23T06:21:00.000-07:00

i couldnt decide which i liked better.

spacetime blues song blues song blues song

2007-05-21T15:14:00.001-07:00

failed blog complete with frustration lines

2007-05-21T11:20:00.001-07:00

the greatest gift

2007-05-18T06:06:00.001-07:00

finally fangy

2007-05-17T06:03:00.000-07:00

fangy is this guy who pops up in my notebook every now and again who never before has gotten the spotlight and it's about time. he's kind of inspirational because he keeps a good attitude despite his cumbersome giant fang.

identity crisis

2007-05-15T06:46:00.001-07:00

curses, foiled again

2007-05-09T06:46:00.001-07:00

special guest blog & childhood comics

2007-05-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

today it's a special guest blog from marky, my first comic partner. it's a simple portrait of trusty bob, mark's main character. i always admired mark's drawing style because though it was not refined it had a certain skwonky quality. when in elementary school we teamed up to make a series of comics featuring trusty bob & big bad butch, who began as adversaries but then became friends after realizing the futility of their war which culminated with the state of florida being blown into the ocean after a particularly spectacular final battle. though they had now become pacifists, they were pursued by the government's anti-bob/butch team. along the way several secondary characters joined the story including Awesome Animal, Mr. Mean, Deformed Dave, Cabbage Patch, and a mysterious accident-prone bicycle-riding piano teacher.
The first incarnations often featured one of the main characters being bombarded by any number of increasingly-abstract weapons, which i've tried to recreate below mark's trusty bob portrait.

hang ten with roger froger

2007-05-07T12:35:00.001-07:00

on our amphibious nature as humans

2007-05-04T07:30:00.001-07:00

guest blog and MAGICAL TEMPLE OF TOILET PAPER

2007-05-03T06:33:00.000-07:00

Today it's a double treat - a guest blog and photo essay. Good gravy that's a sweet deal for a Thursday.

First it's a guest blog "Monetization" by my buddy gEff. He's a copywriter so usually he's forced to use words like "monetize" in a completely non-ironic way so this was a good opportunity to re-purpose "monetize" in a completely mspaintblogway.

Below the mspaintblog are some photos I took with my cellphone last night in a public restroom. I walked in and someone had arranged roll after roll of toilet paper in a super OCD, nearly religious, ceremonial manner. I could almost feel the spirits of the souls that would be wiped crackling in the room like a rarified electric field of intense energy or something.

poopaphorical

2007-05-02T11:58:00.000-07:00

what is your interpretation of my pretentious metaphorical crapblog? IN 300 WORDS OR SYMBOLS OR LESS PLEASE.

mixed messages

2007-05-01T06:50:00.001-07:00

special guest blog - fear

2007-05-01T06:49:00.000-07:00

once again my pal goffray from creepy gentlemen (check out our music at myspace.com/creepygentlemen) has caught mspaintblog fever. i like this piece - it's like one of those inspirational posters where it's a picture of a whale breaking the surface of the water then at the bottom it says in all caps "DETERMINESPERATION" except better. i had suggested that an mspaint blog of this caliber could warrant an ms paint blog of its own but my friend said he was content to special guest star in mine periodically which is cool with me because i'll take any help i can get to quell the ravenous hunger for mspaintblogs of my meager mspaintblogaudience.

always do your part for earth day

2007-04-30T11:51:00.000-07:00

consideration

2007-04-27T06:35:00.000-07:00