Something we like: Interview

Hope everyone had a good Holiday Cheer. It's been a absolutely crazy time...  tiring, but thankfull everything is good!
"Something We Like" was kind enough to give me a interview/spotlight on their blog.
You can find it over here.

Oh yes and Happy New Year.

Get your cheeks to mars.

 

I did this commission piece a few months back.

Thought I would make amends and post it now.

Dr Sketchy with Keela Watts

I hadn't gone life drawing since last year. I went a with a few friends Jori and Charlene.
I thought I would take some of the drawings and do some quick shading for a warmup

C&G mag Portrait 1/4

This is the first portait for C&G monthly Mag 

This is the first portrait of four reviewers from the Mag. This is my friend Wayne Santos. His portrait is based off  the game Seaman for the dreamcast (a really crazy weird fun sim)

For kicks I thought it would be fun to try and animate Wayne in a aquarium/sea.

Bikini Doodle

My afternoon Ultimate Frisbee game got canceled,
so I was able to do a little bit of warm up drawing today

Oh yeah my threadless submission could usesome more votes (cough cough)



Oh and vote for this guy too!

Now something completely Different

This was commission for a little contest I did for DeviantArt. (catch my 55,555 view)

Winner http://marujoreinu.deviantart.com/ who asked me to create the comision on her friend's design

Character design by http://yato-biora.deviantart.com/

I also have a submission to threadless to my RANDA piece that needs votes!


My hard working  friend Hilary also needs some votes!

Raging Randa 2000: Threadless HELP!

Hey folks if you're reading this I could use a hand here on Threadless!
3 possible candy flavoured colours!

1) sign up on threadless and register.

2) go to this http://www.threadless.com/submission/306640/Raging_Randa_2000

2.5) checkmark "I'd buy as a tee and Print"

3) vote ( "5 being the highest!").

4) Pat yourself on the back for being the coolest person I know!

5) tell 2 or more people to do the same or post the news! I could use the help

6) wow you're still reading this? you really rock!

Silly Zombie Pumpkin Pants

Silly zombie pumpkin pants,

Silly zombie got bit by ants,

Silly zombie has got to dance

Silly zombie pumpkin pants.

If Zombie is not moving for you, well he's upset that you're not using Firefox or Chrome.

But he may dance you for you on youtube

Happy Halloween folks!

and just something a little extra

monstermana.com

I had done this a few months ago.  Monstermana.com. magic cards possessed with mana was the concept.
Monsters are fun!

Ontario yours to uncover: Interview

Keef was kind enough to spend time to do a interview with me.
He also happens to know my obession to old japanese super robots, and mecha godzilla.

He also has interviews with various other artists, entertainers models and etc..

I also noticed I wrote "also" a lot of times.


http://ontario-yours-to-uncover.blogspot.com/2010/10/interview-with-illustrator-vince-chui.html

Underoo

Well I had this done a while ago, I thought I would post it up.
The image of a monster running around in their underpants always made me laugh (you're probably wondering what monster runs around in their under pants... well Marvel's Fing Fang Foom does).
I went with a limited colour scheme, with a less is more approach

I tried a couple styles, but in the end I  thought the most fun was a blocky vinyl style.

kidchuckle in 2d artist mag

Been a little while since I've posted anything. Last month I was asked to write a article in 2d artist mag about sketching. Some stuff in the article is old, and some sketches never seen before (well unless you've flipped through my sketchbook or looked over my shoulder). I cover some of my process and go roughly how I take sketch to painting.

2dartist was kind enough to host my article and allow myself to share it. Feel free pass it along.

http://www.2dartistmag.com/artists/issue057_sep10/article01.pdf

I can tell you the full version of the mag is really cool too.. so go out and pickup that version tool. 

Sir Seth Thistlewaite is in Stores

Sir SethThistlewaite is now available in stores and online to buy.

I thought I would throw in some preproduction art that was done. These concepts won't be published in the book.

It's a fun book for kids 6-8

This was the final design of Sir Seth

And here's the various different styles and  looks that were tried for preproduction for Sir Seth and his friends

Oh and one last thing. my good friend Hilary Leung is launching his second kids book
"Ninja Cowboy Bear Presents the Way of the Ninja"
 a sequal to "The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear"

starbuck sketches II

I've been archiving more sketchbook work inbetween work.
More patrons from starbucks
Pencil and sketchbook + photoshop markers.

Interview with Ziggy Nixon

Interview with Ziggy Nixon

Ziggy Nixon  as he's known by, was nice enough to spend sometime to do a interview with me. He has some fairly tough questions, the man does his home work.

He's aslo sick so drop by write some comments. Also wish him good health and well wishes.



Interview can be found here,

If you're wondering why it says Donkey Wonky do as the title... well you'll have to read the interview to find out.(Ziggy sure knows how to pick a title haaha)

Zoo Trip

I've been going through some sketchbook stuff and scanning it for my for my archives.
These are some sketches that I had done at the zoo, a lot of fun. (I took the pencils and toned it in photoshop. Digi markers!).
I think this was back in April that I went with  Hilary Leung, Haun Tran, Charlene Chua, Kay Huang and Jori Baldwin.

And yes there were Lions and Tigers and Bears (but didn't get a chance this round to draw them... Oh my).

Twisted Metal

Ok this a long story here. C&G magazine contacted me to do some cover work for their magazine for the new Twisted Metal game, because Sony at the time didn't have the time to provide any assets. So I had to base all the artwork from the previous version of Twisted Metal(because I was given very little reference that sony provided, basicaly a brochure with some tiny pics of the arena to work from). It was cool I was really happy with the piece, and C&G was cool with it. And I herd that Jaffe gave it a approval as well.
But somewhere along the lines Sony suddenly was able to come up the resources and decide to do everything internal (got the face palm). I've seen before with big publishers, where things get muttled down the line . But what can you do.

I'm saddened that it wasn't used, but I was surprised they used a simular layout as the one I did. But at the end of the day I have a cool piece that I really had fun and doing a type of grindhouse style  to a very cool game!

And now able to post it (and I guess you can compare it to the other cover down the road)

elpa46 Plastik-Kettle Smiles, Hearts and Stars

 Plastic Kettle relased a 4  track  album.

To find more info head over to their blog


they've made their music available on the net plus wallpapers that I had done for their album


download here

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I did this Illustration for Lucid Media magazine.
This was a interview with the author Seth Grahame-Smith.
It was fun to try to get a represntation of the author into fiction of the book.
The expression from the photo I was given by the editor worked really well with zombies.

My colours ended being old and victorian. My friend Charlene suggested to push it further by adding canvas and a frame(big credit goes to her!). It made us laugh... I think it was just the right element to make it work.

my dad

Did a little bit of practice painting.
 Used my dear old Paw, as my guinea pig. (ha, I showed it to him, and he said... too many wrinkles)

Toronto Roller Derby

Done for Lucidia Media magazine, June Edition.
It was a really fun article to illustrate for. I got to throw in some pulpy style art and feel from the 60's.
Before working on this piece I went to check out some videos, and boy is it ever a tough sport.

I thought I post up some of the stages I did for painting it. (it's a animated APNG, not all browsers can see this. unfortunately Internet explorer, and Safari can't see this animate. Try firefox or chrome.)


I recently opened a Zazzle store and I have this image for print (as well as others, you can see previews on the side panel.
Zazzle store

Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Soothsayer's Shoes

Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Soothsayer's Shoes.

I just noticed that the book I worked on, Sir Seth Thistlethwaite and the Soothsayer's Shoes, started to see the book on amazon.

The book was written by Richard Thake, and Cover and interior art by me.

 
preorder book from amazon

Evolution of Gamers

Some spot Illustrations I did for Evolution of gamers article for Cgmonthly.
I was doing these in style of Retro comic ads (70's and 80's).
Back when Game ads and comics went hand in hand.