Starbuck Markers + pinup

Yesterday I had a cool surprise in my mail box. Charlene Chua had gotten me the 6d pen for my cintiq. The
6d pen records 6 degress of movement. Such as rotation and tilt. The nib is a lot like a pantone Marker. As a test I tried it out on my starbucks pencils.
Incredibly a lot of fun to use!!!!!!
So I thank Charlene for getting that for me.

And I had done some practice painting for Staceytron pinup style art.

starbuck sketching + lost speedpaint 5

Had time today to do some coffee and sketching with my friend Hilary
some random people. Got caught sketching someone. Awkward moment :P

Lost speedpaint 5. I didn't realize that I didn't upload this video.

Toshinho Collab

I've been wrapped up on a few projects. And finally had time to do some fun art.
Toshinho of  http://toshinho.deviantart.com/ had a colouring contest.
I love his illustrations. So for entire month I've been aching in wanting to colour this.

Speed paint 6

Been really swamped of late.
Didn't have a chance to post this speedpaint.
1hr practice run

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!

Spotlight: Streetbot (happy new year)

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!

Robot on the Street: Finished

Finally finished... just before the year ended.

Lighting was fun on this piece.

Well I think this might be my last art piece I post before the year ends....

So Happy New Year!

And thanks for making this year Great!

Robot on the street WIP 1

 Here's a small update of the image so far

Robot on the street

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.

favorite Holiday movies

It's the holiday season.....
here's a few of my favorite ones. (got any more to add? throw it down ... Home Alone has not aged well.. I'm afraid)

Christmas Carol 1951 ( by far the creepiest one).


Nightmare before Christmas


Die Hard


Elf


A Christmas Story

Shingo Shimzu

Bogged down with work... the rush before everyone is on holidays (everyone except me... arg....)
But anyways happy to announce

my friend  Shingo has released some sweet prints for sale.
check it out.

http://shingo_shimizu.inprnt.com/

Great prints for the holidays!

Choose your own adventure Comic. Awesome + some cool vids

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)

Jason Shiga @ APE 2009 from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.

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...




samurai champloo (the story/animation is awesome)

48X61 Kintaro Vs Otomo

Man I love this.

48x61 : Kintaro VS Otomo
Uploaded by Webotaku. - Arts and animation videos.

Just for a added bonus...
this has gotta be one of the weirdest coolest transforming robots I've seen
http://www.collectiondx.com/review/action_figure/torabolt
Yes it transforms......

Mecha Santa + Tutorial

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.

Mecha Santa from kidchuckle on Vimeo.

or if you prefer youtube (2 parts.. because youtube is lame and you can't go over 10 mins).

hope you've been good

I didn't want to do the usual type of holiday card
so I tried something different for the holiday season.
I squeezed this inbetween gigs.

Turbo: Short film

I saw this on Kotaku,
This short film is pretty kickass created by Jarrett Conaway.

A University of Southern California student film short Turbo, done with a 100,000 budget

TURBO from Jarrett Lee Conaway on Vimeo.

sleeplessly

Something a bit quick,
dedicating this to someone who needs more sleep!

One Eyed Yeti.

The One Eyed yeti... the idea came from Ryon Xavior http://www.htxbstudio.com/wordpress/ (go check him out.. you gotta check his sculpts.. some crazy stuff).

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.

good morning daddy

threw this together. I get antsy when waiting for feedback...
so I burn the extra energy by doing something productive.

Thought this one would be fun. A little kid seeing daddy off to work.

Dagonlily

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.

I dream of

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!

Boy this animator sure likes...

The animation for this short is amazing.. all done by one guy.

You'll notice from watching... the animator sure likes ... (you'll find out when you hit play)
自主制作アニメ - フミコの告白　Independent production anime

I found a translation

girl- " um um... please go out with me!"
boy- " sorry, I want to focus on baseball now"
girl-" Takashi is stupid!"

-(end of first conversation) Crazy animation

"Takashi !?"
" ILL MAKE MISO SOUP FOR YOU EVERYDAY!"
boy(takashi)-" sorry, I want to focus on baseball now"
END



one more vid from Production IG (studio)
Beautifully done.. like a moving painting.

Kick Ass

I can't wait to see this movie.
Kick-ass!

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.

Oh yeah also it was filmed in Toronto. Gooooo TO!

Kick-Ass

Trailer Park | MySpace Video

Iron Giant Project

Last minute entry for the Iron Giant Project

Recommended Comics and stuff

Picked up American Born Chinese by Gene Yang the other day. (link has many mini reviews)
Has a story that I can relate to when I was growing up.


There's also a daily comic by Derek Kim. Check it out here. Check out his illustrator journals.. I practically pee my pants reading his work.

I picked up creature box volume 2.

and Travis Charest sketchbook 2009 which you can also get at http://animationroadshow.blogspot.com