"Martian Saucer"

MODEL: This spacecraft was sketched in ballpoint pen&ink from memory (With Prisma pencil enhancements) at the dinner table during a job interview: The George Pal movie Martian War Machines, the Warner Digital Studios/Tim Burton designed "Mars Attacks!" flying saucers, and the H.G. Wells description of giant Martian Bullet meteoric transports.

SKETCH-A-DOODLE ZOOM-IN: This is a closeup of one of the Martian saucers from "Mars Attacks" and the George Pal Martian tripod war machines that I drew at an expensive restaurant dinner table during a meeting with "Sam & Maggie" Productions Executive Producer Paul Jeffrey Davids when I was interviewing for a conceptual artist / designer job.

WHAT IT TOOK TO GET THE JOB: I sketched elements of this drawing using five ball point pens (Three black, two blue), one non-photo blue Prisma pencil and one white Prisma pencil during a steak and lobster dinner in San Mateo, California in September 1993 while interviewing for the credited Concept Design artist's position with Paul Jeffrey Davids, the co-executive producer of the SHOWTIME/Viacom telefilm/motion picture "Roswell."

"Roswell" starred Kyle MacLauclan, Xander Berkeley, Kim Griest, Dwight Yokum, Peter MacNichol, and Martin Sheen. Paul hired me on the spot. I'm credited in the film. The Director was Jeremy Kagan who along with Eileen Kahn, were both Paul's co-executive producers.

I later, over-inked the entire drawing with traditional India inks applied by quill points along with my own personal blown ink for soil texture technique and applied more Prisma pencil work.

Months later, I found the Sam & Maggie Productions pay check to be certainly generous and the way the director and the entire cast and crew treated me on-set was exceptional. Actress Kim Griest, who played the character of Vy Marcell in the film, managed to rope me into baby-sitting her mixed breed little dog which resembled a Cairn Terrier.

The movie was aired on SHOWTIME on the July 4TH weekend in 1994, was shown theatrically throughout Europe, and was nominated for a Golden Globe. It was shot from a script written by Paul and his associates.