Pop Tonic Arts

Fanexpo!

2009-08-18T21:05:00.002-07:00

Phew all done, and none too soon
I'll be making prints of this shortly for fanexpo
If you plan to be there... say Hi! I'm still waiting to find out where are table will be located. I'll post that shortly as soon as I know.
I'm sharing a table with Ted Kim, Charlene Chua, Sanford Kong, Hilary Leung, and Craig Adams.
Look for our table called "Render Fist"

Fanexpo!

2009-08-18T21:05:00.001-07:00

Pirate Vs Ninja dodgeball wii

2009-02-27T16:30:00.000-08:00

Well a few months back I had worked on the cover art of Pirate Vs Ninja Dodgeball.
It was fun project, the guys over at Blazing Lizard were a lot of fun to work with.
Well I know those guys are hard at work as the release date for them comes closer and closer. I just happened to google the internet to see if it was appearing out on the web and found it over at
www.southpeakgames.com

once the game is officaly released I'll post up a better pic.

Happy Valentines

2009-02-11T09:27:00.001-08:00

I'm swamped with work and I've been on this project since dec 21st.
Yesterday was my first real off since new years.

managed to get to some errands and whip this out in prep for vallentines

Happy New Year

2009-01-01T07:20:00.000-08:00

I hope everyone had some rock'n holiday cheer (who talks like that?)
I'm going to be blogging a bit slower. My hands will tied up the begining this year fighting EVIL. (contract work till end of feb early march).

but what I wanted to start by letting you know about the Legend of Ninja Cowboy GIVE AWAY!
Yes giveaway!

http://ecolibris.blogspot.com/2008/12/book-review-of-legend-of-ninja-cowboy.html

street fighter crazy

2008-12-15T08:42:00.001-08:00

I went Street Fighter Crazy. (I think it was partly due to insominia).
Chunli I wish I had spent a bit of time working on the pose more.
But the colour job wasn't too bad for the time it took.

Unfortunetly I did a few bit of editing to Chunli proportion wise after recording. Hands too big. Arm too long etc oh well...

Chunli Sketch: Kidchuckle.com
Uploaded by kidchuckle

SF2 Blanka Sketch: Kidchuckle.com
Uploaded by kidchuckle

Teen Wizard Sketch: Kidchuckle.com

2008-12-10T23:48:00.001-08:00

I took a break from the enviroment I was working on. So I decided to do another time lapse sketch.

Teen Wizard Sketch: Kidchuckle.com
Uploaded by kidchuckle

Slave Princess Leia

2008-12-05T15:27:00.001-08:00

I had a heck of a time trying to do the editing. But it was fun to do.
I was thinking of Leia in my two favorite scenes...
Pose from "help me Obi-Wan, you are our only hope"
and costume... well you know where :P

Slave Princess Leia: Kidchuckle.com
Uploaded by kidchuckle

Merry Xmas

2008-12-03T11:28:00.000-08:00

Prepping for the season with some Holiday Ecards.
My favorite thing during this season when I was a kid (oh who am I kidding.. still am).
Toys and the smell of gingerbread.

Wolverine Sketch

2008-11-28T08:29:00.000-08:00

Wolverine sketch.
Sorry I still haven't worked out the camera issues yet.
Still wonky

Hulk Sketch Doodle

2008-11-24T14:31:00.000-08:00

Just a bit of a quick video sketch.
this was more like a trial test.
It's jerky in motion (i guess I gotta mess around with it).

Grey Hulk Mr Fixit

Dexter Morgan

2008-11-20T09:17:00.001-08:00

Thought I would do some fan art.

One of my favorite shows to watch.

Liquid City:Charlene Chua

2008-11-19T08:24:00.000-08:00

I was very grateful to get a copy of Liquid City from my friend Charlene!( like 2 weeks ago, yes I'm a bit late blogging it now).
It's a amazing book. I went with Charlene and her husband Wayne to the "Speak easy comic event"
it was a fun time (I'm writing this way past the event).
I totally urge you to pick up this compilation. It has some amazing artists in there.

I also have my favorite page from Charlene hanging up on my wall.
GO GET IT NOW!!!! Well the book... not the page that Charlene gave me (that page is MINE)

Heart and Stroke Foundation PEI

2008-11-05T09:45:00.001-08:00

the commercial I worked on for PEI Heart and Stroke foundation.
I worked with the great helloalchemy.com
to produce the commercial.

I worked on the style guide with art direction genius Jeremy Dimmock.
I also worked on the storyboards for this project.. as well as some texturing.

You can watch the commercial here

The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear

2008-11-04T08:14:00.001-08:00

I just wanted to take to time to announce my good friend Hilary Leung is launching a book. Titled "The Legend of Cowboy Ninja Bear"
Written by David Bruins and illustrated by Hilary Leung.

It's a beautiful book. And it's very exciting to see it from start to finish. I can't tell you how much quality oozes from this book. I maybe Biased... but you MUST check it out!!!! Oh and it's not just a bunch of pretty pictures.. its got a solid solid story to boot! Who says you need kids to get one of these!!!!

check out the book here
http://www.ninjacowboybear.com/book.htm

play the game here
http://www.ninjacowboybear.com/play.php

oh and come to the launch PARTY!!!!!

Magnetic Senshi Droid 3 Battle Damaged

2008-10-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

I thought I would post up a battle damaged version.

A little more comic booky

2008-10-25T17:14:00.001-07:00

Did something different for a change.
More comic booky looking art, based off a friend's character.

Magnetic Senshi Droid 3

2008-10-23T09:22:00.000-07:00

I've had this robot sketch sitting for years now. I've always really been fond of the design. So I thought I would ressurect it and give it the polish that I always wanted to give it.

Happy Halloween

2008-10-15T14:06:00.001-07:00

In preparation for Halloween, my favorite time of year. I thought I would squeeze out some promo art for the festivities.

Here's the original version. And below is a alternate version (my friend Chalrene Chua, suggested that I create a retro style version of the same piece)

Zoo trip

2008-10-13T21:08:00.000-07:00

I was able to sneak out to the Zoo last saturday with Charlene Chua http://www.charlenechua.com/ , Wayne Santos http://blog.waynesantos.com/
and Christina Ung http://www.christinaung.com/

Fun day of laughing and drawing and geeking out.

here's some of the drawings and inked versions.

Happy Thanksgiving: The Day of the Turkey.

2008-10-13T10:44:00.000-07:00

Well it's Thanksgiving here up in Canada. With halloween around the corner... I was thinking a bit about what could happen with some of that Turkey leftovers..... ZOMBIE TURKEYS!!!!!!!

90's Grunge Zombie

2008-10-06T21:10:00.001-07:00

I had a few minutes to myself yesterday morning.. thought I would squeeze this drawing out.
Been a bit too busy to finish that kong drawing. I'm hoping to get that as soon as I have moment to myself

Grunge Zombie.
Grunge still lives on!!!!!

Charlene Chua Halloween Art Contest

2008-10-06T11:41:00.000-07:00

My friend Charlene Chua is holding up a halloween art contest.
She's giving away some very limited prints, and signed art.
you need to check it out!

here's one of the pieces she will be giving out

for more info check out the info here->

http://sygnin.deviantart.com/journal/20851496/

King Kong Vs TREX

2008-09-05T21:29:00.000-07:00

well I thought I'd do some doodling since I had some time off from work.
I thought I would draw out my favorite scene from King Kong.
King Kong vs TREX.

this is no where finished.. but these are just work in progress sketches right now.
I'll probably come back to this and refine it some more.

Jimmy Ohnishi, Don't laugh

2008-08-27T22:03:00.000-07:00

One of my all time favorite youtube clips.
Jimmy Ohnishi...

Marvel Love

2008-08-27T19:47:00.000-07:00

Been busy with some Ad work... I managed to wrap up this evening and decided to finish off this doodle I had been messing with before.
Mr Fix it Hulk and the Thing.

hey monkey you wanna bannana

2008-08-19T21:00:00.000-07:00

I wanted to get some monkey drawing done...
heres a few facial studies

Street Fighter Tribute Udon, Onell Design

2008-07-26T20:26:00.003-07:00

Some art I did for the street fighter tribute book and Onell design.

Coloured monster

2008-07-09T15:48:00.000-07:00

Just did a colour pass to the monster

monster update

2008-07-08T23:42:00.001-07:00

Thought I would paint this up...
Just wanted to concentrate on value and form.
Next stop I'd like to concentrate on patterns/texture and colour.

creature design

2008-07-07T00:05:00.000-07:00

Just working on some creature designs..
some sketches.. I'd like to paint these full later on.

some new art

2008-07-01T23:36:00.000-07:00

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted. I've been bogged down with work. I'm promising myself to try to update more again. I've been kind of hording art work the last while ... some projects I may just wait for the proper moment to post.
But here's a few for now.

Hypothetical Ad work!

2008-06-25T18:27:00.000-07:00

Here are some samples I did recently on car ads. I came up with the copy myself and worked up and illustration for some of these popular cars. I have more in the works. It's an excuse just to sit back and enjoy rendering. No need to come up with a new design out of thin air! Yes, so I'll just try to do Motorwork's design justice:)

The Wire: Lead Temple

2008-04-05T23:36:00.000-07:00

FYI I just started a new blog with a few friends. The blog is for fun. Drawing our favorite tv shows, movies and net celebs...
you can find the blog here
http://leadtemple.blogspot.com/
but here's another sketch

"Where's Walace at? Where the boy Straight?"

Man I watched the first season of the Wire.. what a awesome series.
D'angelo and Wallace... easily my 2 favorite characters.
For this drawing I didn't exagerate this one as much as my last sketch.
But I had fun drawing D'angelo

Afro Ninja

2008-04-05T04:13:00.001-07:00

First time I saw the afro ninja video I died laughing so hard. I showed it to my buddy Ted... and we died laughing. We go back to work... and then we would snicker some more (we were watching it again at our desks). I can't count how many times I've watched this and I never get tired of laughing from it.

So Afro Ninja, if you're reading this. This is dedicated to you.

Afro Ninja

The Full Uncut Version.

street fighter tribute Udon.

2008-04-03T22:59:00.000-07:00

I was notified today, that my entry for the Udon Street Fighter Tribute book was accepted. I'm pretty excited, and honoured. I'm looking forward to see the other entrees. I was also very happy to hear that my good friend Ted Kim of has also had been accepted!

although I can't post the final art piece (Udon requested all accepted entrees to not post final work).
so I thought I post one of the studies I did for Blanka's face (really rough)

Tshirts!

2008-03-27T09:19:00.000-07:00

I have shirts for sale
you can check them out here
http://www.bountee.com/members/design/viewdesigner.jsp?id=171891

Stalling, please standby.

2008-03-20T17:20:00.003-07:00

Sorry I've been a little busy of late.
I just got a cintiq been using it a little bit for work. Slowly getting used to it.
As soon as I have time I'll be writing a review and maybe record some doodles.

but until then...

posting old work

2008-03-03T10:13:00.001-08:00

still swamped.
But I thought I'd take some time to post some old stuff from another job.
Here's some character design stuff I did for a devil.

avoiding burnout

2008-02-19T20:24:00.001-08:00

Been working a lot these days.. and I think I was under a prolonged burnout working on two jobs. I have another day or two before it gets crazy again.
But I found this interesting article about freelancing.

http://www.tomrichmond.com/blog/?p=1793

Patapon DEMO

2008-02-17T13:39:00.001-08:00

During Valentines a demo of Patapon for the psp was released. What was I doing... up to my neck in work.. No chocolates, no romantic evening, just work work work.
But I managed to have a moment of rest. And took a evening off.
Usually I hate rhythm games. I have no beat.. its just the person I am. But I love the visuals. Fantastic. It's as alluring as Loco Roco was for me.

I had herd the visuals was from a french artists named Rolito (as soon as I find his personal website I'll post it here). But if you own a psp I say get it!!!! its coming out end of this month.

Rolito's website can be found here
Rolito Land

Get Loco Roco too if you don't own that.
Sigh... back to work.

Happy Valentines

2008-02-09T23:41:00.001-08:00

finally finished this as a wallpaper.
not exactly new art. But I'm really swamped... honest.
Happy Valentines

Sketches from my Moleskine

2008-02-05T12:01:00.000-08:00

Here are a series of sketches scanned from my moleskin book. I did these while I was traveling through asia a month ago. I would start these with little or absolutely no intention at all except to illustrate whatever came to be presented in my imagination. If I saw a robot, I would draw it. If I saw my little pony, yeah I would draw that too. In a dimly lit room, I would close my eyes and wait until I could see a visual in all the darkness. The first image that appeared, I would then draw and record it. Then I would move to the next frame. Each frame was created without attachment to the previous or in anticipation of the next. What occured here was a sequence that created itself, or cocreated with me. This is a great exercise in letting go, and just going with the flow. You may be pleasantly surprised as I was. Try it!

Papercraft concept

2008-01-23T08:54:00.000-08:00

Paper craft
During the past while I had a little time here and there thinking about how much fun papercraft would be. So i had a few concepts that I sketched out of what it might look like. I was finally able to make a little of time to fully flesh out the look I wanted.

- next I'll have to work out the actual paper folding itself.

still stalling

2008-01-21T18:03:00.000-08:00

No artwork to post(just damn busy!)

sweet I have 3 moji's in the mojiwar!

celebrate with me by saying
AHA!

stalling

2008-01-15T12:36:00.000-08:00

sorry I'm stalling.
no new art for a little while.

but some silly news. I managed to get into my first week of moji war.

http://www.mojizu.com/war/war_main.aspx

Cozmo

2008-01-07T12:51:00.000-08:00

Oh just a few minor tweaks
after

before

some more stuff

2008-01-06T19:44:00.000-08:00

Another work in Progress for Valentines.
you can also see it on Moji! I'll have a wallpaper version at somepoint soon.
Why so early? Well the xmas card was really a last minute thing. I pulled that out of my ASS so to speak...
So I figure I should start at least a bit early this time.

Work in progress. For a Pitch for the LA Galaxy (soccer)
COZMO the Alien. (I herd he's no longer being used as a mascot?? I have no idea)
Shrug, just to let you know.. I'm not a soccer fan. And yes I know David Beckham is on this team.. what do I say about it? Whoooppppp deee do dah.
But I will say I'm having fun with this pic.

Happy Holidays.

2007-12-22T08:17:00.001-08:00

Happy holidays folks.

For those hard to crack nuts....

buttons

2007-12-21T19:08:00.000-08:00

My good friend Hilary Leung ( of http://1000strangers.com/, and http://www.s4le.com/ ) was very kind to let me borrow his button maker.
It's such a cool machine... so I spent some time making buttons.
here's a pic of what I made.

Mantis

2007-12-18T09:38:00.000-08:00

phew all done..
it's almost xmas... I'm going to rush to do a xmas card if I can. so check back soon.

WIP

2007-12-16T11:14:00.001-08:00

Me, Sanford and Jung are going to try to post art work on this page as much as we can.
here's me posting something WIP.

Here's what I've worked on so far.

I havn't been able to finish much it off lately due to work.

Pop Tonic Arts Preview page

2007-11-20T08:57:00.000-08:00

Hello Folks,

I'm proud to announce that Sanford Kong, Jung Yoon, and I have put together a compilation of artwork bound into a book. It's been a true labour of love. But this book is not just from us, but the many people who inspire us, and push us to look further then ourselves. On that note I'd like to present to you a short preview of our book. I hope you enjoy what you see.

Sincerely

Vince Chui, Jung Yoon, and Sanford Kong.

You can purchase the book at lulu.com
click here

Book Photos (quick snaps)