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Monday, December 15, 2008

street fighter crazy

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...






Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Teen Wizard Sketch: Kidchuckle.com

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

Friday, December 5, 2008

Slave Princess Leia

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




Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Merry Xmas

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.



Friday, November 28, 2008

Wolverine Sketch

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






Monday, November 24, 2008

Hulk Sketch Doodle

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



Thursday, November 20, 2008

Dexter Morgan

Thought I would do some fan art.

One of my favorite shows to watch.




Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Liquid City:Charlene Chua

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)


Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Heart and Stroke Foundation PEI

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





Tuesday, November 4, 2008

The Legend of Ninja Cowboy Bear

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!!!!!





Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Magnetic Senshi Droid 3 Battle Damaged

I thought I would post up a battle damaged version.

Saturday, October 25, 2008

A little more comic booky

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

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Magnetic Senshi Droid 3

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.




Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Happy Halloween

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)


Monday, October 13, 2008

Zoo trip

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.

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!!!!!!!

Monday, October 6, 2008

90's Grunge Zombie

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

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/

Friday, September 5, 2008

King Kong Vs TREX

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.






Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Jimmy Ohnishi, Don't laugh

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



Marvel Love

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.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

hey monkey you wanna bannana

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

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Street Fighter Tribute Udon, Onell Design

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







Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Coloured monster

Just did a colour pass to the monster

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

monster update

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.

Monday, July 7, 2008

creature design

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

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

some new art

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.






Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Hypothetical Ad work!




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:) 

Saturday, April 5, 2008

The Wire: Lead Temple

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

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.