Return of Evil Easter Bunny: Happy Easter

Here's this years rendition of the Evil Easter Bunny (click here to see last years).
He makes a return from last year.

Played around with the lighting and shadow for this one this year.
I threw in a shadow from a tree on the left side.. just to fall right on the kids and bellow the bunny (using it as a sort of a graphic design element)
Wanted to use that shadow/contrast to bring your eyes back to the kids and not just the bunny alone. I left a crack of light to highlight the eyes of the children, and the easter egg held in hand.

Return of Evil Easter Bunny

Been a bit crazy last little while.
I've been working on this on and off. Last year I had done the Evil Easter Bunny... and it was well recieved.
So I thought it would be nice to have him make another appearance this year.

study + speed paint 2, 3 and 4

Last little while been doing a lot of practice painting.
Speed paints I'm finding is helping to get into a comfort zone easier.. but also a bit of frustration (not enough time!!!!).
But I'm also enjoying the challenge.

Oxford Family and Friends book 5 and 6

Some work I did for Oxford University Press is now in Publication.
I drew close to 97 b/w + grey scale drawings for "Oxford Family and Friends 5"
and another 97 b/w + grey scale for "Oxford Family and Friends 6"

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!

Some sample work.

Speed Paint 1

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.

So I had worked on this piece 1.5hr.

space babies

I've been working on this on and off.
I tried to give it a little bit of retro 80's comic feel in the space background with swirls of colours.

Goku Dragonball DAC Challenge

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.

Crayonaut: line work

A while back when I had just finished my Power Ranger Valentine, I found out my very talented friend Ander ( http://www.crayonaut.com and http://zaratus.deviantart.com/ ) was also big on Sentai/ Power Ranger stuff.

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!)

DAC Character week 4

Another Design a Character weekly challenge. I'm really enjoying the  challenges.

DAC Character week 3

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)

Robin Mitchell Collaboration

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.

So here's my take on colours for Robin's artwork

and make sure you vist his website http://www.robinmitchell.ca/
                                          his deviantart site http://robinmitchell.deviantart.com/

happy valentines

 I modified the last post to give it a little bit of valentines feel to it.

A little bit of animation.





















Just another quick post for some pixel art.
I thought I would give it a shot

why are you laughing at me

Was out the other day grabbing a few things.
Kids + winter clothes make me laugh

I wanted to get this sketch out. It still makes me laugh

poor kid.. I don't think she knew why I was lauhing.

Space Baby Valentines

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.

Heart vs Break: Happy Valentines

I had this finished a little while back but I hadn't much time to post it up

But this is my homage to Sentai, Henshin japanese style (power rangers, kamen rider)

 My goal for this piece was to play around with lighting. and how some objects are transparent and how they glow when backlit.

Hope you have a  Happy Valentines 

(feel like forever since I've posted anything :P )

here's a WIP I manage to save progress shots and make a animated gif

Featured on Kap design studio

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!

thanks to Chris Kapzynski for featuring me.

Heart vs Break: line work

something I'm working on for Valentines.
It's a homage to 70's sentai and henshin (power ranger type shows). But it's Valentine themed.

Here's the current line work.
I'm working on this on and off  jobs. I'm juggling. But the next update will hopefully be near valentines.

Lighting:Tattoo Wonderwoman

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

Fanexpo Tattoo Wonderwoman coloured

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

Fanexpo Tattoo Wonderwoman

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!