Sunday, March 28, 2010

"Abode" Project

Abode final
The final for a recent Illustration project. The idea is to do a sort of architectural vignette - so I went for the promise and reality of communism as my subject matter.
Here's one of the earlier roughs.
Architectural Vignette Rough

Friday, March 26, 2010

Alternate Past, Future, Present...

Big Crest
My friend Nemo Ramjet's been busy lately - drawing some very cool stuff. Here's a quick acrylic painting of one of his crazier (and more awesome) ideas - a giant, intelligent, australian flightless parrot. You can see that idea, and more, at his deviantart gallery.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Joe Shuster Nomination!

cover mock-up
Check it out - [link]
I've been nominated in the category of "Outstanding Canadian Cartoonist" alongside the likes of Michel Rabagliatti, Bryan Lee O'Malley, and Seth! What a huge honor!

Damn!

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Ingmar and Utgartha - Cover

Ingmar and Utgartha - Cover
The conclusion to my storybook project - easily my favourite project of the semester.
Here's the rough that immediately preceded the painting.
cover rough

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Painting!

Here's some stuff from my friday painting/media exploration class...
portraits 2
portraits 1Acrylic Ski Painting

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Ingmar and Utgartha

For my figure illustration class, one of the large assignments this semester has been illustrating a children's story. For my story, I went for David and Goliath, except setting it in a kind of mythical Bronze-age Northern Europe. Here's what I've got so far:

Scene 1: Utgartha Challenges the Livonians
Ingmar and Utgartha Scene 1

Scene 2: Ingmar refuses King Berig's Armor
Ingmar and Utgartha - Scene 2

Scene 3: Ingmar battles Utgartha
Ingmar & Utgartha - Scene 3

All in all, I've been having a lot of fun with this project. I'll be sad to see it go, honestly.
But next week - the cover!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Some more cool comic stuff

Here's a cover for a mini I'm going to have for the summer,
good business cover image

And some pencils and inks from within...

"good business" pencils and inks 1

"good business" pencils and inks 2

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Montage/Book Cover

Dead Lands final

A finished piece (for school) that was for a montage project. It's a comic cover!
(If you've read much late-seventies Conan, you may recognize that FONT-OF-STONE that I used.)

Here's two of the later-stage roughs for it.

dead lands rough 2

dead lands cover rough