This was originally put together for Threadless contest for Marvel Characters. I chose Black Widow (pretty obvious). While it didn’t win anything, I removed everything that made it the Marvel character. And viola!
Deliberately left slightly sketchy, this piece was done entirely digitally with a combination of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Enjoy!
A fun, cartoonish image of a swordswoman after a battle. Great fun playing with the colours on this one. The line work was all done traditionally with a tiny bit of digital cleanup. All the colour was quickly put in place in Photoshop. Wile a little rough in places, I think this one turned out pretty good. She might show up in some later works…
It was really annoying typing out this article. Autocorrect kept trying to change “swordswoman” to “swordsman”!
Enjoy!
A rare piece of frank from yours truly.
This bad boy is Venger, from the cult 80s cartoon classic Dungeons and Dragons. I was never allowed to play as a kid, but I remember the cartoon being fun, and thinking that Venger, the main bad guy, was pretty cool looking.
Lines drawn traditionally with colour done digitally in Photoshop.
Enjoy!
So, in an effort to give me some more drawing practice and earn a little extra cash, I’ve decided to open up some commission slots!
I’ve attached some examples of what I’m after for now. They fall under 4 main categories: Social Media Avatars, Black and White Sketches, Black and White with one Extra Colour, Digital Painting, and Robots. I have Robots as separate category, as they can get extra finicky and I think that deserves a special price point. All hand drawn pieces will be 8 x 10. Social Media Avatars should have a pretty tight turnaround and will be done fairly loosely – they are generally only seen small and will not have a lot of detail in them. Digital Paintings will take the longest. Notice all the example are waist up or portraits? That’s all I am doing for now.
Please note the prices DO NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING FOR PHYSICAL PIECES. I will add to the price once we’ve agreed to subject matter and I know where to send the piece.
I also reserve the right to refuse service if I deem the requested subject matter offensive. Sexy pinups are okay, but not nudity. I will also not tolerate anything demeaning to woman or minorities, or anything overly violent or crude.
With the exception of Social Media Avatars, digital flies with be watermarked with my info (name and website).
Paypal only for now. Email me by clicking on this link for more information.
Serious inquiries only please.
This past summer, I took part in Winnipeg’s annual Anime convention Ai-Kon. I manage to snag a table by winning 2nd place in their mascot contest. While things didn’t quite work out as expected, I did manage to put together some pretty great pieces. And they are all ORIGINAL DESIGNS. Though many of them play off existing manga/anime tropes and character design.
You can get prints here, or download some wallpapers for your smartphone here.
This year, I found myself once again out in the wilderness on Art Drop Day. And once again, I made use of our families’ geocache to drop something off that a would-be traveller would one day find.
This year I had a bunch of extra art prints available so I thought what better way to get rid of a few of them?
So off to our geocache we went! I also wanted to drop off a few more treasures as last year a certain someone got carried away with wanting to bring home “Pirate Treasure”. The cache was getting a bit empty!
The cache was getting a bit empty. We originally put in polished stones. These are some new ones!
Here I am with my son Aiden, who is playing with a sticker found in the cache and has his hoody on backwards *SIGH*
A pretty accurate map of where to find our geocache. Courtesy of my 4 year old son. I think his mother helped with some of the words.
Want to know more about Art Drop Day? Look no further than here.
While going thru some old images on my computer’s hard-drive, I found a bunch of images I did for a drawing challenge I did for myself. I tried to do one good personal image a month for as long as I could. I managed it more or less for four years. These should be most of them. They have all been posted on the blog at one time or another. All were done using various programs (a few of them were traditional media work as well).
Click on the image for a larger version. Enjoy!
This summer, I found myself in desperate need of new business cards.
I wanted something a little different, and to showcase my illustration skills. I went with Moo.com as they offered some different sizes and printing options that I thought would fit the bill.
I went with a square size to better show of a sample illustration on one side, and would accommodate my growing list of social media platforms. With Moo.com’s “Printfinity” option I could do a different illustration for the back of each card. Was a cool branding exercise. Even though it did generate a LOT of files! There are 43 different backs. Each one needed to be specially cropped and sized to fit the square frame.
World Art Drop Day is fast approaching. Last year, I had 2 little ones running around and was limited to what I could do for it. It also totally slipped my mind that I never even had a chance to blog about it! No time like the present to fix that!
Last year, I was out of town. But I wanted to participate in World Art Drop Day, so I put together several sketch cards to drop in our geocache.
Two sketch cards done with whatever cabin craft materials I could find.
Into the geocache you go!
They were quick and easy to do (and as far as I know are still there) and it looks like I will be in much the same position this year. The good news is, I have quite a bit of stuff lying around from my foray into Anime Conventions to drop into a geocache or two. So follow me on Instagram and Twitter to find some clues as to where to find them should you happen to be in the Whiteshell on September 5th.
Sorry about the lousy photo. Some things I’ll be hiding on September 5th, 2017.
Doodles, doodles, and more doodles. A whole collection of doodles and sketches I have done over the past year. Some of these were just random doodles with no real purpose, others were exercises or warm ups for other drawings, and others I might have some future plans for. Very nearly all were pencil sketches first and were inked later with a brush pen. Mostly a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and a few other various disposables from Kurateke and Tombow. Enjoy!
Eye Opening Design 