MOVING TO TUMBLR!!!

CHECK IT OUT!

 Hi everyone! Like so many others I'm making the switch to Tumblr. I've already posted a lot in the last couple of weeks to get that blog up to date. I don't have time to perfect it's template at the moment, but my plan for the summer is to combine it with a portfolio page and have links to my twitter, facebook fan page, and the future store from there. It will be a hub for all my work so if you have a Tumblr account go follow me there :D Thanks everyone and see you on Tumblr!

IT'S BEEN A CRAZY YEAR

 Hi everyone, I've been in the middle of directing an animated short these days, and it's meant a lot of running around and wearing multiple hats for me lately, but for those of you that haven't seen it yet I thought I'd share this piece of artwork with you. I made it for the Halloween show at Tr!ckster a while back. Enjoy!

KILLING MY LOBSTER: WINTER FOLLIES POSTER ART

SOME PRINTS FOR APE 2013

My first APE is just around the corner and I've decided to compliment some of my new art, by retouching and painting some of my old sketches/paintings. I hope you enjoy these four new prints!

BOOKS ARE ON THE WAY!!! MONSTERS AND MYTH, AND SELECTED SKETCHES BY YOURS TRULY

Both books are currently in the making and should be here before APE! I'm excited, this is the first thing I've ever made anything like this for sale! Check out the covers above!

WHY HELLO THERE!

I've been missing in action lately, but it's pretty much because my life has been a maelstrom of deadlines the last couple of months, andI haven't even reached the worst part of the storm yet. It's all stuff, but it means less time updating for the time being. Here's some of the art I've been working on just to give you a taste of what I've been up to.

KILLING MY LOBSTER: THE SHAKESPEARE BUG

The Shakespeare Bug is a new play by Killing My Lobster,  also known as the best comedy group in the Bay Area. If you like to laugh and have a good time, then you should go here to check it out and buy some tickets. If you don't like laughter and fun, maybe you can, I dunno . . . collect pocket . . . lint, annddd . . . make yourself a friend out of it? By the way, did I mention I did the art for their poster, and by that I mean I handed it off to a bunch of gnomes that live in the potted planters outside. I think they did a good job.

PROJECTS!

 I've been working on a lot of projects I haven't been able to post about yet, but I'll make sure I post them as soon as the opportunity comes about. For now I'll show you a few pages of my upcoming books of sketches which will be up for sale in around a month. Hope you like 'em.

FIXED STORY BOARDS

 This is a snippet of a Heist story I worked on for a class a few years ago. I broke these out again recently to find that they held up pretty well. The story originally started out as 24 beats and I had to fill in the blanks and problem solve how some of these scenarios were going to play out, such as 'how does a bandit get into an armored bank car'. I fixed a few things here and there, got a little feedback, and decided to share some of my story boarding work on this blog. I know it's not something I show as often, but it is a huge part of my artwork and something I love to do. I know I ended the snippet with a total tease, sorry about that . . . maybe I'll make up for it by cleaning up and posting a chunk of the dog fight scene from my rocketeer-esque story I worked on not too long ago . . . Enjoy!

FANART FRIDAY: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES PART 2, RAPHAEL

DRAWING AROUND BERKELEY

I've managed to squeeze in a few locational drawings lately. All of which were in Berkeley. One was clearly at the corner of College and Ashby(more specifically drawn out front at Cafe Roma) One is a drawing of Cha-am on Shattuck, and if you can guess where the third one is you get a golden star by your name. You'll have to take my word for it.

FROM SHEEP DEPRIVED TO SCI FI PETER PAN

New project in the works!

SPRING IS IN THE AIR AT TR!CKSTER

 It's official! My work will be up at Trickster as part of the "Spring is in the air" gallery show that starts this Saturday. They've only shown a little sneak peek of my art online, but those of you that know me get to see the full piece early. The reception is Saturday at 6pm. Hope to see you there!

NEW FIGURE STUDIES GOING UP IN THE PORTFOLIO

I'm still keeping a few of the old ones in because I was told they were particularly nice, but I also scanned a lot of new ones and tried to keep the figure studies down to one page. I did the same with the environmental studies page. Even though I have a lot more work I'd love to show in the studies area, I realized they might be a little excessive at the end of the portfolio. Besides, that's what my blog's for. I also want to mention that some of these will be appearing in a booklet of my sketch work that I'll put up for sale once I get a chance to compile it. I'm shooting for somewhere around the beginning of the summer, hopefully. So keep an eye out if you're interested!

2013 SELF PORTRAIT

I recently scrawled a little challenge self portrait of myself at SketchBomb SF. I liked it so much I decided to add some color in photoshop. Enjoy!

PORTFOLIO SEASON

I've finally had a chance this last weekend to start assembling art for my portfolio revision. Most of the deadlines will be early to late April, so it's time to start getting things finalized, printed, and ready to send out.

APE CREW

 I recently started a new Facebook group for A.P.E. (the Alternative Press Expo) in San Francisco. The event will run from October 12-13, but I'm starting the group now to get early information out to people planning to exhibit at San Francisco's last great comics and art convention. This will be my second attempt at selling my art and getting my work out there. So wish me luck, and also don't hesitate to join the group if you're planning on exhibiting. The group will have a lot of information, and act as an open forum for people to ask questions of veteran A.P.E. exhibitors to get helpful feedback.

ACTUAL OBSERVATIONS: BART DRAWING GONE WRONG, OR DID IT?

Ever have someone that clearly didn't care for your drawing them? I did, and I kept drawing anyway.

FAN ART FRIDAY: REVEREND HENRY KANE

I should set the record straight on this one from the get go. I don't actually 'like' this character, but I love his creepiness. I would go as far as to say he's the creepiest character in film. He honestly didn't even need to speak and I think I would have been sufficiently terrified by him. Enjoy . . . I guess . . .er sorry for the nightmares.

FIRST EVER CCA ANIMATION GALLERY SHOW

 I'm going to have a few of my rough designs up for the first gallery show that the animation department has ever put on at CCA. This gallery show is open to the public as well as students and it's tonight! The reception is at 5:30-7:30 and will be located at 5241 College Ave (across the street from the CCA campus) but it will be up all week if you can't check it out tonight.