MaZa House Of Ill repute

Abin Sur

2009-03-09T06:38:00.000-07:00

I did this Munny figure for another show in Pasadena this past weekend with my friend Craig Mackay. The theme for the show was "Lucky", hence the dead spaceman in the green suit! Abin Sur, for those of you unfamiliar with comic lore, was the first Green Lantern (silver age) to patrol the sector of space which Earth is part of. Before he dies , as a result of crash landing on earth, he hands over the fabled Green Lantern power ring to Hal Jordan, a U.S. test pilot, who then turns into earth’s emerald protector.

Munny!!

2009-02-11T20:17:00.000-08:00

I did this here Munny figure for a show at "The Noise Academy" show last weekend in Pasadena. My friend and fellow co-worker Craig Mackay, http://mackaydesign.blogspot.com/ did one as well, you can view it on his blog.

I did this "Heart Vader" Munny rather quickly, in only about eight hours. For my next stab at doing one of these things, i'll take a bit more time, i hope.

Disneyland Christmas

2008-12-24T09:53:00.000-08:00

I did this painting for Family.com's Community site's Christmas theme this year. I based the castle on a vintage Illustration of Sleeping Beauty's Castle. It was fun to work on, but boy was it rushed!!

Santa Sketch

2008-12-24T09:08:00.000-08:00

Here is the original sketch of the Santa Papercraft character showing some of his other arm possibilities.

Santa meets Whaleboy

2008-12-23T23:09:00.000-08:00

Here is a pick I took of the Old Saint Nick papercraft figure I made and my Whaleboy figure. You can get the Santa PDF here.http://familyfun.go.com/printables/season/printable/santa-claus-paper-craft/santa-claus-paper-craft.html?campaign=NLC-NL_Print&link=Section2Link3
Merry Christmas.

German Armor

2008-12-07T23:18:00.001-08:00

I'm a WWI-II nut and I often get some cool books filled with photos for reference, and a few toys. A few years ago I started collecting 1/6th scale military figures, mostly WWII, from companies like Dragon and Blue Box Toys from China. This new collecting addiction I blame on my friend Taesoo Kim.

http://www.taesookim.blogspot.com/

A new comer to the 1/6th scale market was America’s Sideshow collectables who currently do an awesome 1/6th scale Star Wars line, but I digress. Among one of Sideshow’s toy line in the past few years was their WWI collection, among one of their WWI figures was a cool German Trench Raider in body armor! I was so impressed by the cool lobster style breastplate and spiked mace that i had to get one! A couple years later I was fortunate to receive a DK Eyewitness book featuring that very same German Body armor from 1916!!

Head studies

2008-11-16T23:02:00.000-08:00

I did a few head studies a while back for a work project, these were the rejects. I kind of liked some of these, but oh well, it was not up to me what the final version was to look like.

Starkiller

2008-10-16T06:25:00.000-07:00

Here is a sketch (work in progress) of the Starkiller character from the early drafts of Star Wars. I thought i would take a crack at doing a poster style illustration.

Update, i corrected the huge arm.

talking heads

2008-10-16T06:55:00.000-07:00

Doodles!

Halloween doodle

2008-10-05T23:10:00.000-07:00

Did this a little while ago while dreaming up a Halloween story. I hope to one day get these guys made into a cool vinyl toy or something.

Death becomes her.

2006-02-17T19:04:00.000-08:00

I thought I would do a day of the dead illustration for last Halloween, and since"The Day of The Dead"had started in Mexico I thought it would be cool to base the illustration on an old Palmolive poster from Mexico. The other illustration, a woman standing on a set of stairs, was done as a test to see how I could composite a illustrator image into a photograph.

Flash

2007-01-22T22:12:00.000-08:00

I did these a while ago, I really liked the colors on these drawings. These illo appeared in my old comic con sketch book that I did back in 2004. I am looking to work on another book for next year, I want to mix it up and have a sketch book section followed by a comic book. Anyway I hope you like.

Work doodles

2008-09-07T11:33:00.000-07:00

I often times get a bit board in a meeting at work especially if said meeting has absolutely no point or reason for me being there, here are the results of a few such meetings.

Gizmos

2008-09-07T11:30:00.000-07:00

Here are some more sketch doodles, this time i was working at designing some goofy robot characters with googly eyes.

Some more doodles

2008-09-07T11:26:00.000-07:00

Here are a few sketches, doodles really that i do from time to time, mostly for exploring ideas.

Sorry for the long delay

2008-01-22T21:03:00.000-08:00

It’s been a long while since I last posted, been caught up at work with work. Here are a couple of doodles, more to come.

Consignment piece

2007-03-16T17:44:00.000-07:00

I did this Consignment piece for a co-worker of mine, she wanted me to draw her boyfriend dressed in a spiderman/venom costume. I have to say that i was happy with the end result, it's been a while since i had drawn a comic book character (well sort of).

Rouges gallery

2007-01-12T08:31:00.000-08:00

These sea fairing bastards were created for a project at work this month; I had a great time drawing these pirates, but I think I had more fun with the short, chunky mouse.

M.

Matinee at the Bijou is back!

2006-12-20T08:34:00.000-08:00

One of my all time favorite PBS shows is coming back next year, Matinee at The Bijou! I remember watching serial classics like Buck Rodgers, Flash Gordon and classic cartoons like Fletcher's 1940's Superman back when it aired in the 1980’s! Bijou was like a time capsule from the 1930's-40's pack full of all sorts of goodies like Newsreels that highlighted what was going on in the world back then.
They aired some classic cartoons like Fletcher’s Gulliver’s Travels, Superman, and many more. I also remember seeing some Little Rascals shows as well as some odd ball stuff. I Strongly encourage you check it out.

http://matineebijou.blogspot.com/

More doodles

2006-09-22T22:25:00.000-07:00

More Doodles for you all to check out, just some random heads that were influenced by a few different artist.

Doodles

2006-09-17T21:50:00.000-07:00

I was recently updating my portfolio and what I lacked in it was some character artwork. Now I have always been into comics and character driven art, but for the last six years I have been doing environmental art, layout and backgrounds for Disney Mobile shorts, and Disney Online. I am working on some of my own comic type stories that I'll post as time goes by, but for now I thought I would post some doodles.

1/6 Scale

2006-08-23T09:30:00.000-07:00

Up until a few years ago i was primarily a collector of Star Wars action figures, i have been collecting off and on for over 10 years, mainly the small figures from all of the movies; that is until i worked with Taesoo Kim.
A few years back Taesoo and i were working on Mobile content for the mouse as in house contractors. One day Taesoo decided to bring in some of his prized collectibles; knowing that i was as big a WWII buff as he was he thought he would show me what he was collecting? I was amazed by the amount of detailing the figures he brought in had, every minute detail you can imagine was replicated in 1/6th scale. Now these are not your big brother's G-Joe's, these figures are what they call "Adult collectibles", not to be confused with erotic material. These figures run about $35-$50 on average, and can be as expensive as $250.00 a piece depending on the edition size.
Now i know there are those of you out there that can see no practicality in these figures, some would argue that it's a waste of money, to those of you who say this i say the name Walt Disney. Walt?!! Yes Walt, he was the ultimate collector of figurines, and model trains, his office at the Disney Studios in Burbank was adorned with collectibles from his various animated films as well as figurines from around the globe. Among other celebrated artist and creators who collect these trinkets of fancy are Ward Kimball, Frank and Ollie, Bruce Tim, and finally John Lasseter, who has his entire office dedicated to toys at Pixar.
I often wondered what makes people buy things like trains, model air planes, and toy soldiers, I think I narrowed it down to this, as artist we tend to see the world with eyes of imagination, we think and see the world differently from the average person. When we see the model train or airplane, or action figure our minds get kicked into overdrive. Some admire the design, some admire the color selection, others the craftsmanship of the piece, and still others are inspired to do stories, a drawing or painting. It’s amazing what a little inanimate object can do for an artist.
As for my collection of WWII figures I am writing and drawing a story based in the 1940’s and these guys really come in handy creating that world.

Sketches

2006-08-08T15:07:00.000-07:00

I am working on a short Halloween story this time with Mickey and his gang as it's cast.
To better clear my thoughts, and focus on the character animation I roughed out a simple storyboard earlier today. I love Sketchbook Pro!

101 Treasure

2006-07-28T13:47:00.000-07:00

While on my lunch break; a month and a half ago, i came across this very old looking mounted story board. The board had been placed in storage in our building from the main studio lot along with movie props and some office furniture. I was curious and decided to investigate the board more closely. Upon seeing in at a closer distance i immediately knew what was in front of me, an original, hand drawn storyboard from 101 Dalmatians! The board was probably done in the late 1950's and was an amazing thing to see and touche it up close.
I stood there thinking about Walt and a room full of guys (nine Old men) looking at this scene and working the magic. I imagined all the talent in the room at that one moment gazing at that which stood before me now, it was an unreal feeling.
Most of the board was intact and protected by a Plexiglas covering, except for a small bit at the bottom of the board, the drawings there had long been torn away.
I quickly realized that this artwork should be archived and restored for generations to learn from. I contacted a friend at the Animation Research library and told him of the find, he was very excited by my find, he informed me that this scene had never been documented anywhere!
About a week later after all of the red tape had been taken care of the board was on its way to the A.R.L. and a much needed restoration and documentation process.
The scene turned out to be the one where all the puppies are gathered around watching the hero dog on the T.V.

Mario

"Stitch" house by night

2006-07-28T13:15:00.000-07:00

Well i dug up the final rendering of the "Stitch" house, again it was a night time shot so playing with mood was a kick.