Animation production, drawing comics, studying life and figure drawing, sketching, storyboarding,designing characters and developing new ideas, reading, hobbies include listening to music, traveling, photography, playing music (learning bass guitar) , watching animation and movies, collecting artbooks, deejaying (trying to perfect my "crab" technique!), collecting mixtapes, meeting other artists, musicans, poets and complaining about how there's not enough hours in the day to do it all.
CREATOR/ARTIST of CANNON BUSTERS: Action/Adventure HIP HOP FANTASY!!!
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CANNON BUSTERS: GRAPHIC NOVEL COMIN SOON!!! 2006
http://www.cannonbusters.com
THE BOONDDOCKS Animated Series SEASON 2 MONDAYS 11:30PM on ADULT SWIM!
ART DIRECTOR for BEANIE SIGEL'S "THE PLAYPEN"
TMNT: ANIMATED
NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS: THE ART OF LESEAN THOMAS VOL.1!! AVAILABLE AT LESEANTHOMAS.COM!
Over 400 pages of back-to-back illustration stupidness by ya boy!
DRINK AND DRAW, VOL. 1 HC
art DAVE JOHNSON, JEFF JOHNSON, JOSH MIDDLETON, DAN PANOSIAN & LESEAN THOMAS
cover DAN PANOSIAN
The DRINK AND DRAW SOCIAL CLUB, VOL. 1 contains the scribblings and scratchings of a large group of artists done strictly at pubs and taverns across the country. The pints and pencil shavings make for some ³good times² as they do their best to ³keep it real²! Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/drinkanddraw - What started out as just DAVE JOHNSON, DAN PANOSIAN and JEFF JOHNSON has spread to over 1600 members with splinter groups popping up everywhere. Just recently they were filmed as part of the upcoming MySpace film documentary.
Music
Hip Hop, Jazz, Rythm and Blues,Soul and Funk some Classical, B Marley, some Rock, electronica, folk..... pretty much anything i can draw, "____ ," or relax to. :)
Movies
The Education of Sonny Carson! City of God, The Wall, A Clock Work Orange, Amores Perros, Amalie, Kids, A Very Long Engagement, Closer, The Messenger, The Color Purple, Momento, The Last Dragon, 3 The Hard Way, Do The Right Thing, School Daze, Creep Show,Deep Throat, Debbie Does Dallas Pt2, Big Trouble in Little China, The Goonies, Yojimbo, The Hidden Fortress, Sanjuro, The fifth element, Little Shop of Horror, Gladiator, State Property, Superman 2, Mo Better Blues, Malcom X, Friday the 13th, 5 Deadly Venoms, The Game of Death (last half hour), City of Lost Children, Rock and Rule, Legend, The Crow, A History of Violence,Million Dollar baby, Training Day, Cleopatra Jones, Coffee, Bad Taste, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, something wicked this way Comes, The Secret of Nihm, The Dark Crystal, The Matrix 1,2 & 3, Kill Bill 1&2,The Warriors, 25th Hour, He Got Game, School daze, She's Gotta have it, Devil in a Blue Dress, NO Retreat, No Surrender, Return of The Dragon, Fist of Legend, Kung-Fu Zombie, RawHead Rex, La Femme Nikita, Ronin, Romoe and Juliet, Hero, The professional, When Harry Met Sally, Love Jones, Menace to Society, Dont be a Menace, While Drinking Your Gin and Juice in tha Hood, Boys in tha Hood, Black belt Jones, Black Samurai, Dolomite, The Mack, Pimps up Hoes Down, Hood 2 Hood,Kid with the Golden Arms, Fist of the White Lotus,Chinese Connection, Shop Girl, Indescet Proposal, Fatal Attraction, The breakfast Club, Wierd Science, Ferris Beuler's Day Off, Once Bitten, Better Off Dead, Basic Instinct, St. Elmo's Fire, Young Guns, Badasss, Krush Groove, Beat Street,
Wild Style, Blood Sport, Lion heart, Ong Bak, An American Werewolf in London, A Nightmare on Elm Street 1-6, Titanic, Bad Boys, Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Broken Flowers, The Blues Brothers, Caddy Shack, Ghost Busters 1&2, Alien 1-4, 2001: A Space Odessy, too many to list...
Television
THE BOONDOCKS SEASON 2!!!!
Books
The Invisible Man, Two Nations, City of Quartz, The Globalization Gap, Producing Animation, Afrocentricity,
Heroes
Maralinda Thomas (MA-DUKES R.I.P.) WALT DISNEYTEX AVERYDON BLUTH9 OLD MEN
KATSUHIRO OTOMO BRUCE SMITH KAZUTO NAKAZAWA
KOJI MORIMOTO
TAKESHI KOIKE
JUSTIN BUA
About me: South Bronx NYC native LESEAN THOMAS has worked in the animation industry for over 10 years on successful animated shows. He is Supervising Character Designer and Co-Director on Adult Swim's THE BOONDOCKS ANIMATED SERIES, which was nominated for an “NAACP Image Award” for Outstanding Comedy Series and the only animated production to win the honorary “Peabody Award” produced storyboard work on the smash hit animated series BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE, a sequel to Cartoon Network's award-winning series, BEN 10, Warner Bros upcoming GREEN LANTERN animated feature for release on dvd this summer. LeSean is producing a comprehensive, contemporary character art book, MIDNIGHT MARAUDER: THE ART OF LESEAN THOMAS VOL.2 for release in SEPTEMBER 2008. In years past, LeSean has worked as assistant animator and key storyboard artist for such shows as THE LIZZY MCGUIRE SHOW and KIM POSSIBLE on The Disney Channel, and THE BATMAN on Kid's WB! His Artwork achieved crossover appeal on the internet when he served as Lead Character Designer and Key Animator on Showtime's pioneering web series WHIRLGIRL. LeSean created, wrote, executive produced and directed another animated web series called BATTLESEED for the Sci Fi Channel Online, which was screened to much fanfare at the New York Anime Film Festival in 2000. He produced a BattleSeed original animated trailer which aired in thatres as a promotional trailer for the Sci Fi Channel in front of blockbusters X-Men, What Lies beneath and The Nutty Professor 2. LeSean also provided opening artwork for the action adventure movie UltraViolet. Beyond animation, LeSean is a highly regarded comicbook artist, with work on such titles as ARKANIUM, and TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. He's currently producing a Hip Hop action fantasy graphic novel called CANNON BUSTERS which is scheduled for completion in 2009. At Present, LeSean is working as a Supervising Character Designer and Story Artist at Warner Bros Animation Studios in Burbank, Ca on an animated feature for release on dvd in early 2010 and a storyboard artist on Warner Bros BATMAN:THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD animated series. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
For a FULL Gallery of his artworks, please visit his website and art blog. Also his deviantart page
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BE SURE TO PURCHASE MIDNIGHT MARAUDER: ART OF LESEAN THOMAS VOL.2!!!!
its pitiful but yeah man i cant wait for cannonbusters! i need a philly da kid action figure in my life! BTW I picked up Blokheadz off amazon, i was watching the cartoon and my friend leaned over my shoulder and told me how dope the graphic novel is, I was sold, caught it off of amazon in a heartbeat.
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PEACE...I hope all is 10/10 with you! I just wanted to remind you about my latest release "The Plague" which also features Beretta 9 of Killarmy (Wu-Tang), Pitch Black of G.O.D., Tonedeff and more. I hope you take the chance to check it out and if you like what you hear you can cop it at www.cdbaby.com/cd/biglo3. Thanks for your time, 1one, Big Lo
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CANNON BUSTERS: GRAPHIC NOVEL COMIN SOON!!! 2006
http://www.cannonbusters.com
THE BOONDDOCKS Animated Series SEASON 2 MONDAYS 11:30PM on ADULT SWIM!
ART DIRECTOR for BEANIE SIGEL'S "THE PLAYPEN"
TMNT: ANIMATED
NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS: THE ART OF LESEAN THOMAS VOL.1!! AVAILABLE AT LESEANTHOMAS.COM!
Over 400 pages of back-to-back illustration stupidness by ya boy!
DRINK AND DRAW, VOL. 1 HC
art DAVE JOHNSON, JEFF JOHNSON, JOSH MIDDLETON, DAN PANOSIAN & LESEAN THOMAS
cover DAN PANOSIAN
The DRINK AND DRAW SOCIAL CLUB, VOL. 1 contains the scribblings and scratchings of a large group of artists done strictly at pubs and taverns across the country. The pints and pencil shavings make for some ³good times² as they do their best to ³keep it real²! Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/drinkanddraw - What started out as just DAVE JOHNSON, DAN PANOSIAN and JEFF JOHNSON has spread to over 1600 members with splinter groups popping up everywhere. Just recently they were filmed as part of the upcoming MySpace film documentary.
WALT DISNEY
TEX AVERY
DON BLUTH
9 OLD MEN
KATSUHIRO OTOMO
BRUCE SMITH 
KAZUTO NAKAZAWA
KOJI MORIMOTO
TAKESHI KOIKE
JUSTIN BUA
KARA WALKER
BTW I picked up Blokheadz off amazon, i was watching the cartoon and my friend leaned over my shoulder and told me how dope the graphic novel is, I was sold, caught it off of amazon in a heartbeat.
