R2 Valentine by Laura and C3P0 Valentine (work in progress) by Me

Laura made me an awesome Valentine this year!

On the back it says "You R2 good to me"
This is a picture of it hanging at my work station

She put much love and care into the R2 and it turned out beautifully I absolutely love it. I want to get it framed.

I felt really bad that I hadn't got around to finishing my Valentine for her (which I will finish and post later, always later).

In response I made this while I was at work.
I want to add some texture and change some parts into hearts and make it feel more Valentinesi.

Viking (WIP)

Got my pens out and started playing around again, This time some a Viking, though I have plenty of Zombies on the horizon they are just so fun and easy to draw. 

Also I know his bracer is probably more Skyrim then Old Norse, but it was just in my head and by the time I noticed it was wrong it was in ink.

This one was pretty fun, I plan on coloring him in Photoshop so expect to see more of this one soon.

Cup Cake Skulls: Hostess of Death and Inks

I wanted to participate in Arts Benicia's Small Works art show this year and I had planned to submit 4 pieces though do to my own poor time management (and usually putting too much on my plate) I was only able to get one done on time.

Hostess of Death.

When I started working on this project I knew I wanted to do something with skulls. I started doing some Dia De Los Muertos kind of sketches, but I couldn't get them to look the way I wanted and I asked Laura what I should do. She said I should so something like the Gloom Cupcake painting that I did for her last year. I thought that was a good idea, but I wanted to incorporated a better skull into the piece. So I drew a cupcake with a skull on it. It kinda looked like a Jeremy Fish, piece who has an awesome graphic style, so I went ahead and designed 4 different Cup Cake Skulls.

Now I just have to wait to see if my piece is excepted. Though I have an in with one of the judges, so I am optimistic.

I have the other 3 started, they are already inked I just need to paint them. I plan on painting them this Sunday, After I get my homework done and get ahead on CT

Deadly Frosting

This was the first one that I drew that made me want to create the other ones.

The Gourmet in the End

I guess this is my gourmet one seeing as it has the cinnamon stick in them.

Sprinkles of the Dead

SPRINKLES! That is the only thing that this one is missing, when I did the original sketch for this one I did a little burst with the word SPRINKLES which was one of my favorite parts though I feel like it would break from the style of all the other ones.

Now I just need to find some frames that these pieces will fit into.

Drunk Stab Part 1

This is from when I was just doodling all night because I couldn't sleep or my computer had a virus. I don't really remember. Though I started drawing things in a kind of new style, really pushing the cartoony look. I came up with the guy running around with a knife and an open bottle of booze and it looks like his night isn't quite over yet.

I think next I will be working on the girl on the right, I have been want to do something with a sun burnt girl with really bad tan lines, I think it will look fun and sexy.
First I work with the default pen tool with the white fill and the black out line so that I can capture what the sketch looks like. I started blocking out shading on the jacket and on the boots.
The idea was to get rid of most of the outlines and just let the blocks of color make the image. I'm really happy with with where it is at. What I want to add is a little more shading, some little details like buttons and adding a background. This was really fun and I'm excited to work on it some more.

Salvaged Concept BG

Concept art for the short film Salvaged that I am working on with my friend Ted.

This is about half way done and took me about 45 minutes. Working on this made me want to start drawing some canyons with the stepped rock formations. It was a good exercise and gets me thinking more about concept and about the look and feel of the environment, even when I do things that I consider to be failures it helps me. I always forget you learn more from failure then success.
I have already started adding details and it is looking better, though I would share it at a mid point. Expect to see a more polished version some time next week.

Big and Little in the Desert

Working on an animated short about exploring robots on a desolate planet with my friend Ted. No working title yet.

Concept art.

Single Cell Ero's House Concept Art

I have started to work on doing more backgrounds, even though I find characters more fun. I have sketched out about five different locations in the Single Cell universe and here is the first one that I worked on. This is a work in progress there will be more posts to follow concerning this piece in the future.









Here is the sketch of Ero's house. in the sketch you can see where I plan to place Ero and his father.










Here is the work in progress of Ero's House. I still need to add some kipple of the people who live in the houses as well as Ero, his Dad, and a couple of random village members. In the background you can see the spiritual pavilion where the religious ceremonies are held and where the shaman lives.