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First came the hip, then followed the nerd. My subconscience seeks balance in everything :)

It's Just Your Imagination!

Ta-Da!!

Just over a month ago I mentioned that I was working on a book project and it's high time that I reveal it! It's called It's Just Your Imagination and is a book about monsters for children aged 3-5. I wrote and illustrated it and it's going to be printed next week :D

Initally there will be a limited print run of 100 copies and then depending on demand might see further printings. I'm going to see about potentially being able to have them available for purchase online, but they have to be printed first!

The image above is the front of the wrap around cover which will hopefully make you curious about where that monster's tounge ends up! There are 11 full page illustrations but for now this is the only taste you get!

I'll post more images from the book in a few weeks :)

Busy Busy Busy

It's been an interesting few months since my last post. I've been teaching motion capture for video games at Seneca college, working a full-time non-art job (which I'm no longer doing!) and working on a book project! On top of all of that, I'm working towards getting into some freelance illustraion work along with priming for a new 3D demo reel! This should be a busy summer with any luck!

I'm not quite ready to reveal anything about the book just yet, but it's very close to completion at this point. I'll post up artwork from it once it's done.

Other than that, I hope you like this quick punk piece I did this morning. Actually, I did the line work last night and coloured it this morning. Let me know what you think! The weird screaming guy was done a while ago for no real reason. Just think of what would happen if a spider laid eggs in your head! Eww!

Sketching while I work

Here's a sampling of pages from a notepad that I've been sketching on over the past few weeks at work. It was a seasonal gig before I started a teaching job in January, and I was basically answering customer service calls for people who had defective or damaged toys. Exciting stuff. Even though it isn't an art related job at least I wasn't breaking my back like I was a few months ago.

The good thing about this job (compared to previous jobs) is that I was able to draw during and inbetween calls, which helped me to retain my sanity when very angry people called. I hope you get a kick out of these sketches :D

P.S. One of these pages is not like the other...I was drawing on this great paper that my girlfriend got from work that is just lovely for drawing on. I use it all the time when I'm at home in front of my computer (which hasn't been very often lately).

Inspiration

I'm going to try and not flood this blog with as much yappity yap. I'm trying to become more concise, or maybe precise, with what I say when I type.

Anyway, I've been really inspired by my friends over at the League of Creation blog and recently by some videos on youtube by Bobby Chui. I really miss talking with him while subway sketching. I might start going to them again as a way of gaining even more inspiration. Plus, I haven't really done much in the way of life drawing for a while.

Here's an asian guy I painted. Hope you enjoy it :D

P.S. For those of you who have been here before, I felt that the look of the blog needed some updating, hence the wider template and new logo :D

Sketches

Haven't posted for a while, thought I'd throw up some sketches. I hope you enjoy them :)

More League of Creation stuff...

Ilmegrath -- Eldest Magium of the Nagrathey Clan

This is my final submission for the inaugrial challenge over at the League of Creation blog. I mentioned a 'Shaman leader' in one of my posts over there and someone chimed in that they wanted to see what he looks like. I wouldn't mind exploring the shaman character more as it's actually pretty fun and interesting. Also, I think I could make it even better by checking out some reference, as this version was just straight out of my noggin'. I'd like to know what people think of him so far! The black and white version went up on the League blog, and the other one was just for kicks.

Be on the lookout for more work soon!

P.S. The red patterned background and paper were not my doing. I nabbed them from a tutorial at PSHERO just 'cause I was too lazy to make my own paper/background. Visit PSHERO!