Itstartedin82 is Tim Coon's weekly updated personal weblog that is used to document his current freelance work, sketch book, and other forms art that he is currently working on. If you would like to contact Tim for a commission you may email him at tcoon@itstartedin82.com or go to his website itstartedin82.com and fill out the contact form on the website.

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Diamond Street Tattoo Starting the color

So I have started coloring. I have been taking my time just slowly adding more and more layers.
I still have a few more things to add. The banner at the bottom that says "Street" and some highlights.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Chuck Liddell UFC official retirement

My favorite Fighter Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell retired today. He is now the new UFC executive vice president of business development. He has helped a lot with the growth of MMA and he will be missed. At 41-years-old he retires with a 21-8 record and had four consecutive title defenses at Light Heavy Weight.


For more info check out MMAFighting.com

TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY!

Contest is over.
I was contacted by csnstores.com asking if I would like to review a product or have a giveaway on my blog. So I am going to do a give away as a little thank you for everyone who reads my blog or who pretends to read it and just looks at the pictures. Don't worry I am not offended that is how I read.


One lucky person will win $15.00 electronic gift code good to any of their sites. Where you can get anything you can think of. Need some ideas? We just got a new tv in our house and have been looking at tv stands. I would have to go to 5 or 6 stores just to see 20 different stands. Type tv stands in on their site you get 2419 Results.
Someone cuts you off on your way home from work. Put'em in the wall in your dreams later that night with this sweet race car bed.
Maybe your like me and enjoy getting new tools I know I want a new impact driver. Hint Hint!
Hey your on my blog I know you want some art supplies they carry sketch pads, pens, and more.
I spent a good 15-20 minutes searching for stuff on their site and everything I looked for they had. So you can use the $15 and buy something small or use it to get $15 dollars off of something big.

Here is how you can enter the drawing

Four ways to enter the give away and each thing counts as a separate entry. Please leave your email address with each entry! The giveaway will end 1/7/11 at 9 a.m. (Pacific time!) and the winner will be chosen at random. I will then notify the winner by email and they will have two days to respond before the next winner is chosen.

1. Leave a comment telling me your favorite cartoon.

2. Follow my blog (click follow to the right of the blog). If you are already a follower, give yourself an extra entry by posting that in a comment.

3. Subscribe to this blog (see top left hand corner of blog). If you already subscribe, give yourself an extra entry by posting that in a comment.

4. Tell other about the giveaway via Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, or your blog and leave a link to your post in your comment.


Remember to leave your email address with each entry so I can let you know if you won.

Some folks don't want to leave their email so I will post the the name of the winner and they will have a week to contact me.


Good luck!

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Decipher layers

I have been trying to draw my own text, fonts, or lettering whatever you would like to call it. The hard part about that is getting everything to line up and be the correct size. Then I changed the layout a little bit so that moves stuff around. Here is a screen capture of my layout process. Grids, lines, and a mess that my mind can somehow decipher.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Diamond Street Tattoo Outline

Diamond Street Tattoo

I am making a business card here is my rough sketch. Thats why nothing really lines up and there is random letters at the bottom. Drawn with a black Bic pen. 
Sketched during lunch eating some chicken adobo from the White Rabbit Food Truck.
I am also listening to some RVIVR thanks Antho.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Thursday, December 16, 2010

VIKING!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Fast Five

So I love action movies and cars. So in 2001 they made one of my favorite movies of all time. The Fast and the Furious. Well April 29 2011 they are coming out with the Fast Five! (Here is a link to the trailer.) If the name of the movie didn't give it away this will be the fifth The Fast and the Furious movie. My two favorite thing about these movies is the cars and all the awesome quotes they give you. "I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free." or "Bullshit asshole, no one likes the tuna here!" Now the Dwayne Johnson AKA the ROCK is in it. This movie will be great. Here is my first of a few sketches.
I need to practice more on my portraits. Definitely need to loosen up and draw with my arm not my wrist.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

UFC 124 Sketch

A quick sketch of George "Rush" St. Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck. Still needs a lot of work. This is a 15 minute ruff. I might try to use the pen brush and then water color it.


Sink into the Pacific "M"

M is for Miles...

The Letter "M"

I stood on the roof of a venue last night...Click to read more..

13/26

Monday, December 13, 2010

Friday, December 10, 2010

Park

Gold Mastering at work all day sucks. Since it is so nice out I went to the park to draw. No one was at the park today. So that was nice too. Now I am back at work, and its time to Gold Master some more. Friday afternoon count down begins.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Southern Belle Bakery - Truck Design

I did a ruff layout for a food truck. I got the template from here.

BBQ w/ Johnny

Here is a sketch from when Johnny and I were grilling up some tasty food while Johnny was jamming to some Slightly Stoopid. In our little neighborhood we have a thing we call Sunday Funday. Everyone comes over and we BBQ, drink a few beers, and play a little cornhole (follow the link if you don't know what cornhole is) . Since it's football season now so we watch football inside, because it is a little to cold to sit outside.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Kill Yourself @ Work 1 and 2

This is an old animation from February 2010 Nick and I created during down time. (Old post KYAW ) Well more down time is about to start I think so time to start a new short.

Kill yourself @ work from Tim Coon on Vimeo.



Kill yourself @ work 2 from Tim Coon on Vimeo.

Nick vs Zombie!!!!

Here is another sketch from my sketch book.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Sketch book Scans




So I have almost filled up another sketch book WOOHOO! Which is fun cause then I get to go buy another one $$. I also realized my website needs more finished art work. So I am going to take a few sketches clean them up and color them so I can add them to my site. Here are the first few I am going to start with.











Monday, December 6, 2010

Miles Robot

My family was in town this weekend. Saturday night I spent doodling with my cousins Miles and Mia and my niece Dani. Mia and Dani like to color and Miles loves to draw. He drew aliens, pirates, ninjas, robots, and more. Here is a picture of Miles and the robot he drew me. He even signed and titled it Miles Silly Robot.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Mock Website

So I was asked to mock up a website real quick this took about an hour or so. Building websites is one of my least favorite things to do. Designing them is fun but, making them work not so much. This is for that bakery project again so sorry for the copyright stuff.