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.

Voltron: Franchesco

Franchesco asked me to do a collab with him. Not just any collab. It's some Voltron Fanart. there's some secret stuff Franchesco was saying about it... not sure what it is. But I'll be sure to pop the news up when I hear about it.

This is one of the pieces I coloured of his awesome line work. A lot of fun.
I'll post the second down the road.

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!)