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......