I got a copy of each from Oxford from the mail today. As I flipped through the work books... I could hear my marker scream at me from the corner of my desk...
"You must marker in mustaches and funny hats" some habits never die.
Oh and also funny enough, my friend Eric Kim had done the cover for both books!
I've been trying to do some excercises in the morning before starting work.
Speed painting isn't what I'm used to. My preference has always been line first. So I'm trying to get more used to thinking and working more on the fly within a time constraint.
Well over at Design a Character on DA.
This week challenge was re-imagine Goku in a different style. (steps were supposed to be completed during the week... but I ended up finishing most of it last nite. A little bit pumped from watching Canada take the gold for hockey !)
I took it step by step, from roughs, line, line + colour(comic) to more painterly.
The more I colour I seem to find the line very distracting. I didn't intend in doing a painterly style.. but it seems to work better.
I was really excited when Ander suggested about doing a collab based on his alias "crayonaut" based on crayons + sentai/power ranger + robot.
So here's the line work that I did. I've been always been blown away by his art, so I'm looking forward to see what he does with the line work!
(make sure you check his sites!)
Well I joined up on Design a Character DAC group on deviant art.
I decided to participate on their weekly challenge.
Here's what I did for the 3rd weekly challenge (using their template)
Inbetween work its nice when you can dabble on a few things.. just to change it up.
Robin Mitchell had posted some sweet line work, which you can find here.
After telling him how much I loved his line work, I had found out he had no plans in colour it.
But then said I could take a stab at it.
I really really wanted to do 2 pieces for Valentines. One kind of fun and retro and one baby cute and retro.
Unfortunately I'm runng out of time... and work is getting kind of hairy.
I rather not rush this piece.
Actually the main Baby is something I dug up from my sketchbook circa 2003. Totally forgot about it until someone had pointed it out to me.
At the time "floating babies from space" was the concept given to me from a friend of a friend (Pat a very tallented designer.. I can't remember his last name.. this so long ago).
But anyways... thought I dig it up and try to polish it up and redesign it some. I hope to finish painting at some point.
Kap design Studio featured one of my pieces for "inspiration friday's"
along with some fantastic other concept, scifi illustrators.
Really honoured to be grouped with those illustrators
Please check out the site and see the other fantastic works!
Well I thought I'd spend sometime trying out some different types of lighting variations on wonderwoman.
My favorite is the last one... the lighting is non traditional for a portrait.. but very striking
While waiting on feed back I thought it would be good to do a colour study. You can tell I changed the proportions and stuff a little bit (started to notice what things were off and bugging me so I adjusted it).
I would like to try to do another version of this same piece but under different lighting conditions (might be fun... to be continued at some point)
see the previous post if you want to see the picture I referenced
Just need to get away from work and doodle..
so it thought come back and look through those fanexpo pics and figure I'd pick Tattoo Wonderwoman as my subject.
Had a lot of fun... with this.. maybe at somepoint I'll come back to this.
I loved her Wonderwoman tattoo on her arm!
I have a account Deviantart.com and I woke up to answered a few messages and while having coffee I started to realize.. boy there's a lot of messages here.
I got a spotlight on Deviant art!
Wow what a great way to start the year.
But I wanted to say thanks to Family and friends for all the support... and everyone else who frequents my page!
Hope you had a great 09.. and hoping you have a awesome 2010!
had sometime to doodle a bit inbetween work....
been crazy work week the last while and I havn't updated (which feels like ages).
but I think may try to settle down and enjoy a little bit of rest and fun.
But here's what I got for now.
I caught this video well getting my fix of www.lowbright.com Derek Kim's web/comic.
The idea behind idea behind this comic, it's brilliant! I love how the comic is presented visually and physically. There's lines that lead to tab (cut into the book!) to reveal where your adventure leads too!!..
Idea behind the comic (writer/artist Jason Shiga). I had seen him at TCAF.. while getting Derek Kim's autograph... and I regret not spending the time talking to the other artists that day (cutting the trip short running back for mother's day)
Well Here's a Video of Jason Shiga explaing his comic.. coming in 2010. (can't wait to get it)
My friend David Cho had posted this Video on his Facebook page... totally in awe of it.. and my friend Brian Wilson... sent it to me today.. remind me I'm such a idiot for not posting this earlier....
and a little more.... (this is better then bullet time!) the kid is awesome in this... he totally gets into it and pulls off some serious kamen rider moves!
I just realized Nujabes feat are the same guys who did the samurai champloo soundtrack...
Man I've had this video sitting around for a bit. But I've been asked a few times to get a commentary done for the time lapse video. I had a few hickups with the audio. But I think I've gotten something now (going to take a while before I get better at this.
I threw the art on a 3d Box I did in 3d studio max.. quickly. I tried to keep it in style to those gundamn kits. I love building those things (although I hate painting models).
Oh and all the videos are in HD quality. so double click it if you want to see it with more clairty.
Unfortunately... I kind of put it off.. but Xavior was sooo patient. And it was in the back of my mind. I didn't want to give him JUST a one eyed yeti.. Tried of thinking of something I could throw on him to make the yeti seem different.
SoOooooooo....... the little back story I made for this guy... He eats children.. but also hides among them by dressing up as them. *** Gasp *** that's why the Yeti is so hard to find.
boy insomnia keeps me pretty productive these days.... but I thought it might be fun to draw a character in cosplay... The design is my own... But I figure if I say its cosplay.. it gives me some fun to mash stuff together.
Well I would be dreaming of.... but I have a serious case of insominia tonite. So what I'm doing.. drawing of course. I had all these little doodles of robots. so I thought I might make into something. I sometimes do these little cute bots as a exercise for shapes.
Deviant art is also having a contest about dreams.. funny enough.... oh man I wish I could sleep!
If you havn't herd about the comic.. it's about a young teen who decides to become a super hero (in real world rules.. no powers no skills... The only thing he has that makes him stand out from anyone else, is that he has a metal plate in his head from a accident. Funny thing is I knew a kid like that in grade school. He used to take money people by betting who would pass out first from banging their head against the wall.
The comic series is still in production. I believe the last of the issue comes out dec. It's funny how the comic isn't even finished and it's already been turned into a movie.
A little something retroish for halloween. I really love those old school posters. I finished this weeks ago.. but held off on posting this. The lighting was fun to try out.
I had this idea of mashing up a few costumes together.. that I couldn't get out of my head till I scribbled it down. kind of a best of the "bargain bin of costumes"
2 Game of Death (yes I know its from Kill Bill too.. but in Kill Bill did it in homage to Bruce Lee's game of death. I'll be really upset if you've never herd of it!
Yellow Chucks are from
(thats where the foot print comes from! If there's someone out there that can make a shirt with a yellow stripes on the side and a Giant foot on the front.. I would be sold on getting that!)
It's almost Halloween. Probably my favorite theme to draw. As a warm up... I thought I would do a exercise in lighting. Do something that's simple (rather then full on paint). But then it kind turned into something I could animate. Mind you I would never call myself a animator. I tried it.. and I have no sense of timing. But I took a shot and here's what I got.
Well the news of Ubisoft coming to Toronto is old news right now. But it's interesting topic that I've had with friends in and out of the gaming industry.
On the news it seems very focused on Ubisoft alone. but I'm more interested what will happen because of Ubisoft's move here. Will more larger gaming companies come to Toronto? I just hope with Ubisoft coming into the picture, it will give that Fire Toronto needs to have a more healthy Gaming Development Industry. (more companies to start here, and business opportunities etc).
Well anyways the article below explains it way better then I could sum it up.
Just today, I've been warmly welcomed to a collective called Sketch Motel. Sketch Motel isn't a art rep, but a very cool group of illustrators. I feel very lucky to be part of collective of such tallented people.
Atom Eve from INvincible. (one of the best comics out there... another favorite of mine Walking Dead and Y the lastman).
Franchesco last month talked to me about doing a collab(to colour his fantastic line work) All I can tell you I was felt so honoured and freaked out about it (well I love Franchesco's art.. so I was nervous as heck).
But last month I was swamped with work and wasn't able to touch it until yesterday.
Just a little back story. I first layed eyes on Franchesco's art on She-Dragon special by Image comics. I think this might have been in 06 or 05. After buying the comic, I jumped on my computer to find out who this guy was cause I wanted to see more of this fantastic work! I found nothing... until 09, I had found him on DA.
After finding him and more of his work... I also found out how cool he is after sending a couple of message and notes.
But I'd like to Thank Franchesco for asking me to colour his work... It was a thrill!
Don't forget, if you want to watch the video in HIGH DEF (just double click the video)
sept has gone by quickly. I havn't updated in such long while on my own art. Been bogged down with a few projects. I developed some weird callous on my wrist and thumb.. its kind of gross. I was going to take a picture of it... but I rather not gross out anyone.
Anyways, I had a done a few a illustration for Dungeon and Dragons a few months back. I had forgotten to post them.
It's funny after being away from a painting for so long. I had other ideas of how I would do it differently.
I'm not much of a cel phone person. Yeah I have one... yeah I call people.. yeah I use it for work.
For me the Iphone is just a nice toy... yeah kind of neat stuff on there.
There was nothing that shouted to me.. I NEED THIS.
One of my friends Syd works at Alias and worked on this app. I didn't have a Iphone so I kind of ignored following up on it.... but after seeing this video.. . HOLY CRAP
I mean I usually have a sketchbook on me.. but you know for those days where you just itching to draw but don't have a pen or no napkin to doodle on.......
The game I want, but have no time to play! as previously mentioned.. I have very little freetime.. and if I have it I try to excerise (I sit long hrs, and if I don't move around I feel like crap).
Out this week is Scribblenauts coming out on the DS. LOOKS SO AWESOME!!!!!
And this is a little something for fascination i have with mechanics and robots. (i'm kind of curious why the narrator switches from a british accent to a north american accent) I really like how each of the end fingers can be adapted and angled accordingly to be used like a thumb (it's a lefty and a righty all in one!
this one has some really dynamic motion (thought this was really impressive)
Sigh so many games Coming out and... yet I have 6 games unopened, New loco roco (I still have the second untouched.) is c oming and Disgaea 2! (first game untouched... all waiting to play) for psp. and Scribblenauts... coming and Little Big Planet for psp.
sigh I wish I had time to play. But at least this video hit the spot.
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