sampler?

Here's a tid-bit of a piece I am working on for the next SKETCHROSPECTIVE book we are working on. The theme is Cowboys Robots and....DINOSUARS....coming to stores near this HALLOWEEN! premiering at the Victoria Comic-con! Alot of great artist are contributing to this, so yeah.....support your local vancouver artist and buy the next copy of Sketchrospective!

the stragglers....

oh and heres a couple more. RYU and The Shredder...did you know UNCLE PHIL form Fresh Prince was the voice for Shredder!??! well i thought that was cool. hmmm...I think I gonna clear this blog soon and start up a new one fresh........

ink doodles

Here's some ink doodles I did while on my lunch, haven't posted in a while, so i thought I should post something.

Avengers Assemble!!

Happy Belated CANADA DAY! right on....anyways, yesterday I went out for a good ol' canada day foosball session in Yaletown, and went all over the place. then at the end of the night I realized I lost my pack pack with my sketchbook and pencils and markers!! I i just got a sweet brush pen I am finally trying out....really cool..pick one up. anyways, luckily, the good folks at SOHO billiards found it and I just got it back...Whew....anyways. I did this quicky sketch of THOR trying to play around with the Brush Pen, then I just kinda started doodling the avengers.....well, just Iron man and Cap for now. hopefully I can get the rest of the guys in there...oh well....just messing around. have a good weekend!

INDY!

Just a quick doodle to keep this blog current. Originally started out doodling dick tracy, then it turned into a indiana jones. Oh well...I wanna try to turn this one into a poster or something...if I only had the time. ....aaahhhh.

big

pirate. again.

Graça Amália

Hey-O! Just wanted to post a doodle I did on my lunch. Don't ask me where I got the name for this, I actually went to a Random name generator site and just hit randomize and "Graça Amália" is what popped up...so yeah I just went with it. Anyways...the colors were inspired from the new "Phoenix" album. Such a catchy cd....and wicked for summertime tunes. peesh out.

Teenage Zombie love

heyo, just wanted to show a little preview of a little book my friends and I are going to release really soon. The theme is "Zombies, Ninja's and Pirates". So I thought I should do a zombie piece, that involved teenage love..aaaaahhh. So yeah, can't wait for it to come out...So you can all BUY IT!! moooohahahahhaa

Disgruntled old man?

I guess I just like drawing old people, they just have alot of character. Done on some old wrapping paper with some crayons.

stocking lady rough

heyo- just a quick sketch of a vintage pin-up style girl. Something about that style that is really appealing,....Tamara is gonna kill me, "It's for ART" sorry honey......hahahhaa...anyways, looking to transfer this to water color paper somehow and try some watercolor color action

hav you sheen mah baesh-Ball?!?!

just got back from tofino, was a good time. gonna post a couple doodles i did in my sketch book from there....soon! It seems I only have like 5 maybe 7 mins each day to draw stuff for myself. anyways, weather is gonna turn nice here this up coming week...i am pumped!

old fella

just a quick sketch of an old pudgey guy I saw on the street, went back to work and tried to draw from memory. been a teensy bit busy for a while, had like 3-4 projects going at the same time.....anyways, I'll try to post more soon

the big hairy toe

Another interpretation of a ghost story. It has come to my attention that alot of the old ghost stories take place with an old woman in the woods. wierd. anyways, This one is about an old lady that goes out to pick out some veggies for dinner, but finds this Big Hairy Toe, and decides to make hairy toe soup. Unfortunately the owner of the big hairy toe comes over to get it back.

YaleTown Girl

Just trying out corel painter. Not used to it like Photoshop, but oh well.

Raw Head and Bloody Bones

Lately, I've been reading a bunch of short ghost stories to try to fall asleep. One in particular was a neat story called "Raw Head and Bloody Bones". It's about a witch and her razor back hog (named Raw Head), and eventually a hunter kills the razor back, and the witch casts a spell to bring her hog back to life and exact revenge on the hunter. So I thought it would be neat to do a little illustration for each story beat in this ghost story. anyways, I this is the first. More soon. hopefully.

Sketch dump

Just a bunch of quick sketches, alot of them were sketches of people in the food court at Metrotown. Glad to get out a couple times with Chan, Jarrett and Rags. then the rest of the sketches are just from me trying to get back to the basics with a good ol' charcoal and paper. i had to take photos of these since it would take a hell of a time to scan them with my dinky scanner. oh well. again, these were like seriously 2 min sketches.....soooo yeah.

oh yeah happy new year everybody!!

Johnny goes back to School!

Happy New Year Everybody! well it was a whirl wind christmas holiday, and was super busy as always seeing family and old freinds back in alberta. This year in particular was really cool. I got a surprise call from my former grade 7 teacher, Mr.Mastel, (who is now the principal), to come back to my junior high school, Sacred Heart, to talk as a special guest about animation. Initially I thought I was going to just talk to an art class, but i later found out that I was going to talk in front of the whole school! Yikes! I was really nervous at first, but eventually the kids got into it and all was well. After a short speech, we showed "Eyesore" my old and silly student film from Vancouver Film School, then a bit of Q&A. After that I got a chance to go from class-to-class to talk a bit about the animation industry and my experiences after Sacred Heart, and also to draw a really quick sketch for each class which was really fun! It was such a great time going back to my old school to and see all of my old teachers again, and to see how much Sacred Heart has evolved since I was there since they are putting a bit more emphasis on the arts. It's Great! I just want to say Thanks to Mr.Mastel and all the staff at Sacred Heart for having me back!

They say that in the army....

Hey All,
Just wanted to sing a song...

they say that in the army...
the drinks are mighty fine
you asked for apple cider
they give you turpintine
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I don't want to live the army life.....
Gee mom i want to go
back to Ontario
Gee Mom i want to hooooommmeee

That was i song i learned in grade 4 camp. Cool.
Whelp.. see you when i come back from frigid cold E-Town -35 below.. jeebus.
Anybody have a winter jacket i can borrow?

Merry Christmas!

Well It's that time of year again, becoming poor with crazy shopping madness, visiting the family in Edmonton, getting stuffed with meals and bringing on the new year and I'm turning 26 right away....wow... where has the time gone? Speaking of shopping madness, I can't believe a employee at Walmart actually got killed by trampling during a massive Walmart sale a few weeks back! Unbelievable! poor guy just started working and was just tryin to save up for Christmas.... and I also heard that two people shot each other at a Toy's R Us ovver a toy! What is the world coming to? Anyways, I hope people actually realize Christmas isn't about all the toys and stuff, so I thought I could spread a little Christmas cheer so I made a make shift Christmas card for every one, thats supposed to be Tamara and I on the sleigh....so yeah- I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!