Comic Con and E3 - 2010

People watching from E3 and Comic Con - 2010

WHALEBOY 3D!!!

Is it a whale? Is it a boy? No, it's Whaleboy, stupid! That's right, boys and girls...Everybody's favorite boy-in-a-whale-costume-with-a-sucker fish-attached-to-his-head is now available in stunning 3-D!!! I made this CG model in what little spare time I had for my buddy Patrick Morgan to show at this year's Comic Con - unfortunately there were technical difficulties and we couldnt get a smooth quicktime of the rendered animating turnaround in time for the masses to behold. Here are some screen grabs I got - I just hope I did the Whaleboy fans proud.

Update: Here is a shot of the Whaleboy I modeled, fully posed and blown up for Patrick's booth at this year's Comic Con. I was pretty stoked to see that!

Gallery Girls 5-17-10

Theme was Super Girl and Wonder Woman - the models started in one outfit, and slowly stripped off layers to reveal their super hero outfits underneath. That was pretty cool.

Random people watching

Life Drawing with the Gallery Girls 5-10-10

Theme was Egyptian

Life Drawing with the Gallery Girls 5-3-10

Theme was pin-up girls

Drawing Jam: Rachel Dashae

Did this for the September Drawing Jam of model Rachel Dashae. Did this really to take a creative break from some mundane work I've been doing lately. Didn't have much time to work on this, but I was pretty happy with how it came out. Now back to work.

Dale Gas

I was recently commisioned by my brother and his softball team to come up with their team logo. Their team is called Dale Gas - the literal translation is "give it gas" but is a more acurately translated into the slag "step on it". Naturally I thought of some of the classic hot rod guys like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth for inspiration, and though the car design is about 90% borrowed form Mr. Roth, the gnarly one-eyed baseball-headed bat-totin' monster is 100% me.

Drawing Jam: Hayden Panettiere

This was done for the December Drawing Jam over at The Drawing Board (I know it's almost April, so sue me). I would like to revisit this piece and maybe do a digital inking, as brush pens are still kinda new to me....and her hands need work, I know.

Cafe Sketches

Some cafe sketches from the past couple of weeks

Memery Sketch part Deux

Went out with Patrick again yesterday to the Fox Hills Mall for some more lunchtime sketching fun. Spotted this older lady with a crazy hair-do walking rather slowly with a walking cane gettin a cup o' joe...she was a perfect subject for our memory sketch. Here is my take.

Since I have to get back to working right after my lunch break, what I like to do to get as much of the details fresh in my memory down on paper is try to get some quick roughs done, then take those home and do a finished piece on my own time. Here are some of my roughs for her.

Memory Sketch excersise

My friend Patrick Morgan and I went out to sketch some people on our lunch break, and though the pickins were pretty slim, we spotted this lady that was begging to be drawn...so we decided to take a mental snap shot of her and use her as our memory sketch subject.

Life Drawing 'Cowboy'

Some life drawings I did last night, the model dressed up as a cowboy and got into character with some great poses. I had fun with these.

More meeting fun

The Joker

Here's a sketch I did of Heath Ledger's Joker. What a phenomenal performance he gave, truly inspiring...I had a Joker-esue grin on my face every second he was on the screen. It will be interesting to see anybody try to top his performance.




















Here's the pencils

Meeting Sketch dump

Heres a huge dump of sketches done during meetings at work...Im pretty sure this is what meetings are for, though I could be worng.

Drawing Jam: Miranda Kerr

I did this for drawingboard.org 's March Drawing Jam. The model is Miranda Kerr of Victoria's Secret.

Classic Dames

Here's a few 'dames' I did from photo ref...they were actresses fro
m the black & white Hollywood days, though I couldn't tell you who they are. Every once in a while a group of us at work get togther and draw from these old Hollywood pics...you just dont see faces like these anymore, truly classics.

Holiday Card

Well, it's December and you know what that means...SANTA CLAUSE'S BIRTHDAY IS COMMING!!! Good ol' St. Nick, the Patron Saint of falling into debt. Well, this is the first X-mas card I've ever designed, I actually did it for a contest my company was holding...and though I didn't win, I had a lot of fun doing it. The style is definately inspired by a bunch of illustrators I've been looking at for inspiration lately, though I tried not to make it a complete rip-off.

Jury Doodie was funnn!!! Well, not really...but I tried to make the most of my time sitting around waiting.