Haunted House - speed paint

New speedpaint video for the upcoming Halloween season! This illustration is for a client's new album, and wanted it themed for the spooky holiday.

Total time was probably around 6-8 hours - hard to tell as I took breaks to make meals/snack and check social media haha

Final illo -

Jon Snow & Ghost

Finished Jon Snow and Ghost for Fanart Friday :)  timelapse shots below. 

Dat Andrew Loomis Informal Subdivision. Lots of lines, lots of frustration trying to come up with something in the composition. But it works! 

Speed-Drawing Video - Mario World 8-4 Illustration

Commission/request from my brother was to create a Super Mario Bros. illustration from the original NES game. That pivotal moment when you face against Bowser and you're about to cut the bridge away from underneath him. 

As part of my Patreon, I vowed to create one video-recording each month of a piece I work on. Only I'm an idiot and recorded in thee worst possible settings and quality - so apologies for how small and poor this is. Next time will be better! 

Practice Editorial Illustration

I'm attempting to break into more editorial illustration. To do that, it's best for an illustrator to show Art Directors that they can do those things. Soooo I'm going to start making samples that would correlate to particular articles that didn't have an accompanying illustration.

First up:
In recent years, San Francisco's expensive (astronomically un-affordable) real estate has been getting scooped up by Chinese millionaires, while more locals are forced out of the city.

Accompanying article - http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/How-and-why-buyers-from-China-are-snatching-up-5924991.php

Bridge To Terebithia

New personal illustration for one of my favorite childhood books, Bridge To Terebithia. I actually never saw the Disney film made a few years ago, but maybe one day will get around to it.

Thumbnails!

Upcoming project stuffs. 

Fanart Friday - Mad Max Fury Road

FINALLY got to see Mad Max: Fury Road! Quickie fanart sketch because it was such a fun film.

WIP - Stained Glass 'n Lion

More sketches and designs for an almost finished project!

WIP - Illustration Project

Been hard at work coloring in some secret illustration project stuffs. 

Moar secret sketchies

Potential new project I could work on - conceptin some new things.

Secret sketches - WIP

Collection of some quick sketch shots of what I've been working on these past couple weeks. Still a bit secret/can't announce anything yet, but it's been fun to say the least!

Social Attack

New personal illustration I've been chipping away at, finally finished.

I’ve noticed in the last few years, no one is really allowed to have opinions anymore. If you do, for some reason, have a slightly varied opinion, then the rest of the world (whose voices are louder than ever from social media) seem to cry out in vast numbers to squash you down. If someone has a different opinion, the other side of the argument is no longer heard. The person will block/ignore and no actual debate occurs anymore. Or worse, people no longer stand by what they believe in, and cave, catering to the vast majority.

OR, if someone is offended by someone else’s opinion, they need to let the world know they’re offended. I understand that no matter what, someone, somewhere, is going to be offended. It’s just so much… LOUDER now - but the world can’t cater to everything.

TL;DR - Social media attacks are now common and suck the life out of interesting debates.

WIP - sketches

Work in progress stuffs for a lil project.

More practice

More Practice

MORE. PRACTICE.

hnnNHNNNHHHHNNGHH.

2015 Self-Portrait

New year, new self-portrait. I'm starting Month 8 of Topical Steroid Withdrawal and it's currently affecting my face for the most part. So this is generally what I feel like, and wish I could cover myself up with anything to make myself feel more… pretty/confident/less awful/comfortable/peaceful/anything but what I currently feel right now. Vanity has to get thrown out the window during this beast of a condition. Again, here’s hoping for a speedy healing time from here on out.

Perverted Rain

My skin from Topical Steroid Withdrawal has been sucking the life out of me (I'm about to enter month 8 of this horrible process). However, my skin finally let up for the last 2 days (barely) but I was able to draw on my own time for the first time in awhile. It was raining a lot in San Francisco so have some uh... perverted rain.

Sketch Dailies: Mr Freeze

My absolute favorite Batman villain of all time.

bengal influenced doodle

My fiance picked up Vol 1 of bengal's Luminae comic (http://www.magnetic-press.com/luminae/)

I am loving all the colors and line work in there. Gorgeous motion in the hair and faces.

Super influenced right now, really, really had to make a doodle.