Celebration of life

It's been a long while since i last posted, work has just been all encompassing this past year with all sorts of changes and more on the way no doubt.
This month marked a special occasion for friend and fellow co-worker Craig Mackay as he and his wife had their third son, Benjamin. I was asked to make a personalized "welcome back/ congratulations" card to celebrate Craig's return to the office for everyone to sign, and here it is. I was inspired by Miyazaki's Ponyo when drawing little Ben.

Abin Sur

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!!

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

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

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

Santa meets Whaleboy

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

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

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.

talking heads

Doodles!

Starkiller

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.

Halloween doodle

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.

Work doodles

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

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

Some more doodles

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

Sorry for the long delay

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

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

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.


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Matinee at the Bijou is back!

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

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

Doodles

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.