Halloweenies

Happy Halloween!

Published

Ignore the watermark. I don't have the file on this computer with out my name written across his forehead.

Back in 2007 when I first started playing with digital painting, I did a caricature of my favorite late night host, Conan O' Brien. Last year I was fortunate enough to be asked for the rights to use the image in Marlo Thomas's new book "Growing Up Laughing." I was more than happy and agreed to let her use it. It is an honor and privilege!

Blast from the Past

Going old school here. These are caricatures I did back at Legoland, California in 2008/2009. Our thing was that we would draw you doing just about anything, but usually I tried to steer my customers towards the direction of a Star Wars character, zombies and my favorite super heroes.

I do miss drawing live caricatures. There's something about interacting with a client in person and when you do a good job, and the customer loves their drawing, it's a really good feeling!

Rubber (Stitched) Duckies

A couple months ago I was fortunate enough to draw and design a series of rubber ducks at work. I first created a "template" to keep the size and angles of each design the same and then began drawing up ideas for the individual ducks. This was fun to brain storm with my creative directors and I'm really glad this project was a team effort. To me, it's always nice to have a second or third person look at my art before I take it to a finish. They spot things that you sometimes miss (proportion issue, an object looks like something that you didn't intend it too, etc.) There were 20 ducks in the series with my favorite being the punk duck.

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Sketchbook Caricatures

This first drawing makes me happy. :)
It's a caricature of my friends Dan, Natalie and Marko. I had a really good time seeing them and my friends in San Diego last month. I draw my friends sometimes for the sake of a memory exercise and it also puts me in a good mood. I liked how the stylization turned out so I decided to put it to the test on some celebrities. The next drawing is a caricature of the band Green Day. If I would do this again, I'd work on the likeness and expression a bit more. Otherwise I had fun playing with the shapes and simplifying.

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Zombie Pinup

I've been having a lot of fun with Adobe Illustrator, lately. This is the colored version to the pencil sketch I posted last month.

Enjoy!

T-Shirts

As an artist, it's good to keep your feet on the ground and know that there's always room for improvement. Today was a good reminder of that.

What a lovely day for a slice of humble pie :)

Fun and creative T-shirt designs over at Threadless.com !

Skullcake

Deadly and Delicious!

Hot Couture Cat Designs

Art Nouveau Butterly Woman

Wow! That's about all I say right now... that and my friends are super talented. Seriously, I start surfing their blogs or listen to artist interviews online and I get super inspired!

This is a drawing from a couple months ago I did for as an embroidery design. One of my favorite artists, Alphonse Mucha, was the main inspiration for this piece. I'll start sharing more of my roughs and finishes from work. It's my hope that I'll contribute some more inspiration to others just like so many other artists all ready do.
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Zombie Pinup

This is rough drawing I did at work for a zombie pinup design. We didn't use this for the final design but I'll still finish it in Adobe Illustrator and make a t-shirt design out of it. There's still a few things to add to it and I'll change the eyes too.

Well, it's three weeks and counting for the big San Diego Comic Convention! It's a great place for inspiration, meeting new people and getting feedback on your art. But most of all, I'm really looking forward to seeing my friends from Legoland and Studio 2nd Street again!

Happy 4th, everyone!

Steampunk Embroidery