London Calling

So I've finally gotten back to working on these, here is one for London! WHICH, I can t believe its already been a year since we were there! Crazy how fast this year has gone. I may continue to play around with this one, but we ll see.

Halo 401K

Here are some concepts I recently did for Smiley Guys Halo 401K :)

Steve Jobs: Resurrection

So here is another Mondo Media short I was lucky enough to be apart of here at Smiley Guy. I did the character concepts and then the animators went to town with another amazing job bring them to life!! 

Moonrise Kingdom

So I finally saw Moonrise Kingdom this weekend, it was fun. I might add more to this later but this is what I have finished currently.

Crash Course in Awesome

So I felt like doing a poster and wanted try out a new style while in the process. I limited myself to a few colors and tried to just use hard angles. I learned a lot from this and am looking forward to doing the next one!

Sooo about the poster, this is 2 of my friends Bry and Ricky's podcast Crash Course in Awesome, and well, it's pretty awesome ;) each week they pick a topic and give you a quick crash course in it! It's a great listen as they cover a variety of topics from movies, to scifi, to cryptozoology, to survival guides! EVERYTHING!  If ya can, take a listen!  They're on iTunes or you can find them here Crash Course in Awesome

Cottage Crew 2012

Well summer has come to an end and fall is right around the corner. I like fall though not to hot and not to cold, just right :) So this is another gang group shot of some inside jokes that have taken place over the years at the family cottage. I tried out a different style on this one and different approach to the background as well. I had fun doing this so I hope the people in this enjoy it and get a laugh :) I wasn't sure which treatment I liked better, the old vintage photo or just the regular finish?

Places

So here are a few backgrounds I did for my very special lady friend's birthday this week. They're of a few places we've been the last couple of years. I plan on doing more, but this is all I could get done in the week. The originals are 11X17 and I got them printed off to hang around our place. My inspiration for these pieces were 2 of my favorite artist Tadahiro Uesugi and Kevin Dart. I'm really trying to understand their methods and use of colors, lines and textures. What to leave in and out for the eye to determine what its seeing. Anyway I had a lot of fun doing these and can't wait to do more.

Enjoy

Wilfred

This is the very first drawing from my very new Cintiq! I finally splurged and got one this weekend and well, I LOVE IT! No Paper was harmed in the making of this drawing, which I can t say the same for in everyone of my last posts. Anyway this is Wilfred, from the show Wilfred..

Searching for a logo

I' ve never really been good/understood  logo design so it's been extremely hard to come up with something. I've been using like a watermark with my name on my current art, but am really striving for something more iconic. Something simple, something that represents me and my art.

This is my first attempt at a logo for myself. I liked it at first but once I shrunk it down it was extremely hard to read and didn't really stand out.

Youth Troop Tommy

So here's a show I designed for  Mondo Media's Pilot project called Youth Troop Tommy, I had a lot of fun working on it and the animators at Smiley Guy Studios did an amazing job bringing this designs to life!  I'd love to do more for this so hopefully there will be more episodes at some point?

Nessy

I am the Doctor

mini Minotaur

Home

I did this for my parents, who celebrated their anniversary this  week, 32 years and counting :) CONGRATS to them!

Satyr

The Mothman

 

One Man Wolf Pack

Little Feet

Here's a quick character I did today for a friend, Im calling it Little Feet....

PTBO 5

I did this a while ago as a concept for a music video I wanted to do about my summer in Peterborough Ontario. I interned at a studio there and just had a blast that summer. Anyway these fine folks were my roommates and this was the taken from a photo we took a couple years after graduation...

"Watch out for these guys"

I had a lot of fun doing these, I just wanted to stay simple so tried to use a circle for pretty much every head. I had originally played around with different head shapes but felt it wasn t staying true to staying simple. 

Looking forward to Summer!

  

Toronto

Welcome to my new blog, this is for me to just post whatever I have on the go...I'm currently doing a series of landmarks of toronto, so heres the first one!