Size relationship

Here's the size relationship between Goblin and man assuming the human is 6 feet or so.
This image is another rough drawing of Paragon Greystone thats baesd off an older post. I've revised the character a bit and will do more digital revisions. I'm doing the linear drawings of these 2 character in flash and then adding colour through photoshop to see how the characters look a finished pieces. I've been debating inking them traditionally but I think that may prove to make more lengthy process for colouring. Unless anyone out there knows a more efficient way? Please share!!!

Commander Ocrit

Here's a sketch I've done for a character I've been developing (along with many others!) for The Hands of Doom. I hope to have a character line up done sometime this year along with a logo and map to boot!

Enjoy!

Goblin Commander

Here is a concept I've created for the Hands of Doom. This fellow is a prestigious warrior and once a leader to the Goblin army of the North land.

Merry Christmas 2011

Every year I try to get one of these out in time for print, process and mail. It seems like a task when everything else in the mix like Christmas shopping and working around our daughters schedule limit the time. Despite all that it's a fun project to partake in and one I always feel satisfied doing annually. I think if I didn't I'd feel more guilty than not! Well enough of me griping, here's our annual family Christmas card featuring our new addition in the company of our two feathered friends, furry feline-son Le Roy and us of course. I hope you enjoy it!

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year!

the Paragon

Here's a sketch of the main character to my story that Ive been working on. It's my first pass on the character and I can already see a lot I'd like to improve on. Overall the concept is there and I'll be sure to post more of my development as I continue on.

Enjoy!

the Hands of Doom

Thanks to the Pitt pens and a nice moleskine A4 sketchbook I've been able to press my ideas out faster with more detail than previous sketch books. Here are some sketches for a personal project that's been brewing for a long time. I've found on my commute home or in between programs crashing at work my mind will wonder to this imaginary world I've been creating. The premise is centered around the return of 5 demonic gods in another world not unlike our own. So you can see the reason for the horrific imagery. I look forward to posting more development sketches as I progress. I hope to have a nice package of design work to start sketching out some book pages in the near future.

May the 4th

Here's my little contribution to celebrate May 4th. It was a last minute idea but I managed to squeeze it out tonight. Cheers!

Darth Sidious' Secret order 56 close up

I accidentally deleted this post when uploading the full illustration. Here's a close up on the work I did on Darth Sidious on his deathstar speeder.

Order 56

Here's an idea I've been wanting to illustrate for a while. Being a big Star Wars fan I've always wanted to draw my own rendition of Darth Sidious/Emperor. The idea came to me one day at work while on lunch and like many other ideas, I sketched it out as a thumbnail and tossed it into my personal concept morgue. I also wanted to get this done before May 4th as it's international Star Wars day as well as our first born's due date! So here's to Star Wars and to a new generation I'll be passing on a piece of nostalgia to. May the 4th be with you!

The Warlock

Here's another PITT pen sketch of an evil sorceror or Warlock.

Fire Drake Colour

Here's my first pass on the colour version of this illustration as vector art. I'm tempted to paint it in photoshop however, I have too many other ideas to flush out in the meantime. So here it is for now.

Robyn's 30th Birthday

My wife just turned the big 30 and we held a surprise party for her at one of her favorite restaurants, the Keg. Here's an image I made that was later printed as a card that everyone in attendance signed. You'll notice the cake is rittled with little icing icons that represent milestones and roles she's had through these past 30 years.

Goblin Sentry

Here's another piece from my sketchbook I've been meaning to post.

enjoy!

Sketchbook work

Here's a page of some recent dabbling from ideas for a story I'm calling "The Realm Of Fire". Can you guess what the circular structure is supposed to be?

Fire Drake Ink

Here's the linear work from flash. Next step, colour!

Fyre Draek Rough II

Here's a more resolved col erase pencil rough of the Fyre Draek. In retrospect I've decided that I may keep the screen left hand and human as they were in the initial pen sketch. I think it makes for a better pose and composition. I'm currently doing the linnear work in flash and once thats done I'll be rendering it in Photoshop.

Enjoy!

Fyre Draek Sketch I

Another rough sketch done with pen and ink. This one is of a Fire Drake I plan to tighten up and colour render in photoshop.

2011 Pitt pens

I've been pretty impressed so far with the results I can get using PITT artist pens. I've been enjoying sketch book work moreso than usual since it doesn't require me to be throwing down a bunch of lines to get the tones I want. I sketched this page over a day or so of dabbling. I've been flushing out a bunch of ideas for a story I have that seems to be filled with endless possibilities.

enjoy!

Christmas card 2010

With one new furry addition to our family this year it seems we'll be adding another member in the year to come. It will be our first born scheduled to arrive in May (May the 4th be with you actually!). We're both very excited and are anxiously awaiting this tiny person who's currently a float in my beautiful wife's belly. This years card was one I personally like over the previous years since it features so many of our companions at home, I had more time and also because it captures us best, I think. Although, I may have been too generous on the amount of hair I drew for myself....

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, New Year!

Evil Snowmen II

I think that if Evil snowmen gangsters existed they'd likely "off" one another with hot dog urine. Like this...

The Rewind Boys

Here's a pic I've been working on for a while that's for Paul Stachniak and his online radio show called the Rewind. It features the four hosts in a pose some fans of the movie Anchor Man might recognize. From the left we have Ryan, Paul, Steve and Nathan. This was a fun project but always challenging when you don't know some of the people being caricatured. Knowing someones personality changes a drawing as many can attest to. Thank goodness for facebook, without it getting the likeness would be based on the bias of 2 photos. Feel free to check out the site and also the podcasts available on iTunes at the link below.

http://www.theoffline.com/

Zombie

Here's a Zombie I've been working on for Art Jumble's topic of the week..it also doubles as a nice profile pic too.

Flying demon

Just trying to get some ideas going for a Halloween post. Here's one pen sketch so far.

Wedding gift #2

Here's a picture we had framed for a wedding gift for our good friends Brad & Erin's . It depicts a very cool landmark in downtown Toronto that timeless and always a easy on the eyes. The picture took a good length of time to draw and required a lot of strokes to get any kind of mid tone. Next time I'll have to use a wash to save my wrist from strain and speed up the process.

Milk My Unicorn

After two rejections we finally won on the 3rd try with the magic of a unicorn replacing our former star "Simianne" the chimp. Here's my final rendered Unicorn for newly released, playable and fully available iPhone game Milk My Unicorn. Only $1 at the app store. Brought to you by the wonderful people at Splashworks.com.

Enjoy!

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/milk-my-unicorn/id363150243?mt=8

the Bradchelor

Here's an illustrated graphic I created for a friends weekend Bachelor party to Cleveland this past weekend. We had a blast and I must say Progressive stadium has the best hot dogs and mustard I've ever had. Cleveland has a very nice clean downtown area, I look forward to going back and hopefully can do the rock n roll marathon in May 2011.

The Wheel at Rum Jetty

Here is a pen illustration I did for two friends that just got married in July. The image is based off a photo I took in Jamaica of a wheel once used for a sugar mill that resides in garden. It took a while to finish but I'm pleased with it and look forward to the next pen drawing ahead.

Milk My Monkey

After perhaps a year's work or more of development at http://www.splashworks.com/ we have completed and released Milk My Monkey for the iPhone. I've decided to post a few of the many images for Milk My Monkey that I had the pleasure to work on. Despite the app being rejected on it's first pass I think it may resurface with some censorship.

Our goal with these characters was to capture a similar feel to the artwork by Spumco (Ren & Stimpy) and I really hope that comes across. It's definitely a deviation from my personal style and comfort zone but it had most certainly provided a good challenge.

Enjoy!

http://www.milkmymonkey.com/

Space pals

Here's a picture I've had brewing in my mind for months but little time to tend to it. I plan on painting this in photoshop and give a more rendered look. For now here's the flat colour drawing.

Killarney Provincial Park

I haven't posted much lately with the arrival of an early summer and the various events that seem to come along with it. It's not from lack of desire but rather an abundance of distraction! I wish I had more time to post lately but I'll take what I can get of this good weather while it's here! Anyhow, here's a quick pen sketch from Killarney Provincial Park. It's a drawing depicting a small portion of the island we camped on.

Iron Man

Here's my rendition for this week Art Jumble topic.

Cheers!

Thor

Here's my post for this weeks Art Jumble topic of Thor.

The Ghost of Sparta

Here's an illustration I felt compelled to do after playing through the God of war Collection for the PS3. Not only were the games a great deal of fun but the story, artwork and effort that went into these games is incredible. I found myself fascinated by the Greek mythological world they presented. As absurd as it was at times it fit the bizarre stories I remembered reading in grade school about the Gods of ancient greece. These dieties of old were nasty spiteful beings with the same desires as men despite their great powers. I find it really intriguing that ancient mythology like this still holds up so well today. I can rant and rave for a while about the GoW series but I'll leave it at this.

As for the illustration I'm actually painting it in photoshop and aiming for a nice rendered look. Here's an updated painted version...still need to fix a few things...almost done!

I'd personally play through the series again if and when the time to do so comes around.

Canadian Idol: Suzuki Tiki

Here's an illstration I've been itching to do for a while. This is my preliminary sketch which I hope to take into flash then photoshop and get a nice rendered look to it.

Cheers!

Season's Greetings!

Here is this years Christmas card I'll be mailing out as soon as it's ready for pick up from the printer. I had big plans for this one but had to rush it since the next two weeks will mean very little drawing time. But mostly it's because we need to mail these guys out in time for Christmas!

Enjoy!

Kelp haired Survivor

Here's my take on this weeks Mermaids. I decided to create a mermaid that may have had to endure the real hardships of living in the ocean. Not the typical Mermaid that just sunbathes on rocks with shell bikini tops while sailors hollar out.

Half way through completing this I came up with the idea of doing an Abegail Sapien instead....oh well next time if we do seacreatures or sea peoples.

Cheers!

AJ Ninja

Here's my latest post for AJ weekly topic of ninjas. I thought I'd have fun with it and do something different. So, I made this wooden ninja demon.

Pandora (Emo)

Here's my post for AJ topic of Emo girls.

Snarfdeath

Here's a post for AJ for last weeks Thunder cats topic. I personally never cared for Snarf much so here's my take on the topic.

Bioshock Colour

Here's an update I'm still in the process of colouring but thought I'd post what I've done so far as well as the flat colour version I created in flash.