Huntington's Chorea

Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been swamped with the full-time job.


This illustration took me weeks to produce because it strikes such a personal chord and I found I couldn't stare at it for long periods while working. One side of my family had a history of Huntington's Disease, which sadly is a neuro-degenerative disorder with no cure. However, I discovered my company donated about $130,000 to Huntington's research, so I was quite touched to hear this.

Some history: With Huntington's Chorea, the body begins to lose control of the nervous system first. 'Chorea' is based off a word for a type of dance in Greek. It refers to abnormal, involuntary movements, so patients can't control their limbs or muscles. It's common for someone with Huntington's to lose the ability to eat solid foods, or drink a glass of water, and be unable to speak, amongst many other things.

Star Wars Barbeque

I was recently contacted for the use of my Star Wars Sith BBQ illustration. I'll be honest, aside from Josh Frost's book that it's used in, I never thought in a million years that this illustration would see the light of day to be used for anything else. But I've been proven wrong. Sergej Grigojrev emailed me with the request of using the illustration for none other than his Star Wars Barbeque in the festival named "Let There Be Night." All six films will be screened with him and his friends cooking up some delicious foods. How fitting is that!

He quickly sent over the final poster and it came out thus so:



Super awesome, I'm glad to be a part of it!

Graphic design © Sergej Grigojrev

WIP - Girls on Film

Just some in-progress stuff. I've got a gallery show coming up in July that I'm spending some time on. I apologize for the lack of updates!

Fearless - Colored

Granted Illustration Friday! has moved onto a new topic, I got 'Fearless' done nonetheless!


Enjoy!

Fearless - WIP

Saw this week's Illustration Friday! topic was 'Fearless' and is it strange that this was the first thing that popped into my head?

This is obviously in progress (I only saw the topic yesterday... a bit of a late start!). The finished product will be posted here later this week. And if anyone asks, I've said this before: during the zombie invasion, my weapon of choice will always be a sword. Can't run out of bullets that way!

Childhood

Where did it go?


This was actually inspired by a conversation I had with some co-workers last Friday on how "youth is wasted on the young." Two individuals who have far more experience in life than myself felt they would have lived their lives differently if only they had the knowledge they have now. Saved more money, made less foolish decisions, and so on.

Makes me wonder, all the choices I made in childhood and how I've shaped myself into who I am today: will it end up coming back to bite me?

- After creating the initial sketch 'n inks for this, Randy asked if I was inspired by Andrew Wyeth's very famous painting since we were just talking about him earlier that day. It definitely came out unconsciously!

Over-Confident

I've been thinking a lot about how people will generally choose beauty over practicality.

Just a personal piece on feeling a bit too confident and falling great, great distances... into failure.

Directory

I decided to try out the Directory of Illustration this year. This is my ad page I've put together in my very slight spare moments of time. Think it does the trick? Lets hope so!

Comic Stuffs

No new artwork in awhile?! I'm rapidly realizing how draining having a full-time job is once again. Sorry for not posting more often! I'll probably put together a bunch of the work I've been doing at the full-time thing; I've created artwork and animations used in a game on Facebook titled, Treasure Isle. With over 7 million users, it's pretty exciting knowing my work is being seen. ...Wish we could have updated the look of the avatar though.


Anyhoo. Here's the cover to my neglected (this week anyhow) comic, Plastelyzed for issue #2 that I'll have to pencil and color sometime. Once I summon up the energy to create more work, it'll be done, I swear. Looking after my health and my sanity comes first though!

You've Out-lived your Use

Really. When all is said and done, at the end of the day, what else can Mega Man do after defeating all the master robots? It's not like he can go home and clean the house/laboratory... that's Roll's job. It's actually quite a sad thing, when a machine outlives it's usefulness. To be replaced by something newer, grander... .......harder, better, faster, stronger.

I wanted to edit Mega Man's costume a lot because it's just so darn simple in the 8-bit version. But it seems to become ridiculous in the later versions, as if Capcom was compensating for this fact. I tweaked his knees and maybe his shoulders and that was about it. Enjoy!