BGs From Boo Boo Runs Wild

Layouts by Eric Wiese, Vincent Waller and me.Painted by Richard Ziehler-Martin

Warm Shower Environment

If this had been painted in the 80s, it would have been a lot harder to read. Each major object (Rocks,Wall, Lockers, Furs, Benches) would have been painted harsh and clashing primary and secondary colors.Colors straight out of the Cartoon Color cel paint tubes. - like the paintings I posted a couple days ago.This BG uses more control to guide the eye and focus the viewer on what is important.It

Yogi Defends Boo Boo

I did this color in Painter 2 long ago. It was a bugger of a program to use, and it got worse with each new version. I'm not able to do this sort of thing with the later versions.

Smith's 7 Year Itch

Yep, he's got it. 7 years of dealing with irascible bears and finally he's gonna take some time off to woo his little lonely little wifie-pie.PART 1 - LOVE DENIED"How long have I denied myself the loving embrace of a civilized woman?"PART 2 - WIFIE PUSS WAITS NO MORE

Ranger's Retreat

This is a story of man living in idyllic hinterlands.the rundown

Scum Rules BG

This scheme was inspired by a Yogi Bear cartoon called "Stout Trout".I think I have the layouts and maybe storyboard for this sequence. Should I post 'em?

BGS: Layout, Color Key, Finished Painting

I wanted my Yogis to have some feeling of the original 195-1960 cartoons. I didn't want them to be like the 1970s, an 80s redos where the characters try to be be with the times. No cleaning up the environment or riding skateboards - and no pink purple and lime green airbrushed bgs. I got Ed Benedict to do some of the background layouts and design and he drew them in pretty much the style he drew

Marker Color Keys

I often do marker color keys of scenes to give my painters. I can't paint, so markers are easy for me to dash out.They tend to fade in color over the years though, and I had a heck of a time trying to get the colors to scan right. They also look different on every computer screen I checked, so who knows what colors you'll see.This one is from my Bjork video and the colors here look much less

Yogi's Ground Game

From 1997, an early tribute I did in honor of the UFC.When I first turned in this scene to CN, they wanted me to cut it because they thought Yogi and Ranger Smith were having "relations". I explained that, no, this was an MMA style of fighting popularized by first, Royce Gracie's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and then built upon by Mark "the Hammer" Coleman's "Ground and Pound" combination of wrestling