Friendly Doodles

I think over 10 years ago, I did a sketch for a friend of a character he made up, I then sent the sketch to him via snail-mail and he recently informed me he's held on to it ever since. That really touched me! I decided to give his character a bit of a re-vamp (I have an extremely vague idea of what the original sketch looks like as I was what, 15 years old?), and tried to do some action poses. I-am-super-rusty.

Fairy Eater

New Legend of Zelda piece to commemorate the 25th year anniversary this year! FINALLY got it done before the year's end too!

The first few Legend of Zelda games didn't have the whole spiritual 'fairy flies around Link, sparkle sparkle' animations. I used to wonder what the heck he did with those fairies to restore his health since he'd touch them and they'd just... disappear. (Legend of Neil depicts Link-Neil having sex with the fairies, but I didn't agree as it wasn't an instantaneous disappearance). But this is what my innocent-child-mind thought:

"Full Health Restore"
13" x 19"

This will be featured in Gallery1988's Video Game Show - invite below:

Do it, Samus!

New Metroid piece for the Geekart.net show called "8-Bit Champions" which will be in Paris, France:

September 15th
LA FLAQ GALLERY
36 rue Quincampoix
75005 Paris

Metroid holds a bit of a special place for me. I distinctly remember sitting in my basement as a kid, and watching my older brother play it (majority of original NES games are memories of watching him play it before I actually got my hands on experiencing the game for myself). Right after he'd just beaten the last level, Metroid reveals in the ending that --(ZOMG SPOILER?!?) Samus is actually a female under all that androgynous space-suit looking armor. That really got me, mainly because all of the games I'd been playing up until that point always starred a male character (Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Mega Man etc.). And this female heroine was extremely awesome!

I tweaked Samus's armor some because it was looking a bit outdated (according to the original NES covers and manual booklets that came with the game).

Stay

My submission for last Friday's IllustrationFriday! topic - stay ...That is too late because they've moved onto a new topic. Darn. Oh well. Here it is and maybe I'll create/update more work more frequently:

Rut!

I've been in a real rut lately for personal illustrations. I want to blame the full-time job on sucking the life out of me these past few weeks. Whenever I get into these moods, I really should head over to Illustration Friday! and take a peek at their great topics.

Here's some filler - old quickie-sketches from work.

Technology meets Fantasy:


Discovery:
Awkward Moment:

Vengeance:
And the good 'old Zombie Apocalypse:


Hopefully more updates sooner!

Poison Ivy

One of my favorite Batman villains of all time is Poison Ivy; especially from the 90s Batman: The Animated Series cartoon. This was a request from a friend, "Just draw Batman." So... this is what I came up with.


Wowee, two posts in one week, this is INSANE.

Warriors, Come Out To Play-ay!

The Warriors. A cult film from the late 1970s.

ALSO an illustration I've created for the Crazy 4 Cult 5 Show that will be in Gallery1988 in July!

WIP - Poison Ivy

Commission for a friend - about 50% done on this one. Figured I'd show a work-in-progress shot in an attempt to post more often!

Choices in Video Games

I did some illustrations for GamesTM Magazine in the UK. These focused on the choices a player can make for video game characters. Whether your character have good or bad morals upon your decisions, the places you go, etc. They were extremely fun! Here's how they'll appear in the spreads for this month's issue:


'Til next time!

Gallery Show: Prints 2.0 Analog<>Digital

If you live in the San Francisco, CA area, or might be visiting soon, you can view my Black Swan illustration at the Meridian Gallery! The opening reception is May 13th.

More information is here.