Hi Everyone!  I'm very excited to be a part of the "All Together Now" Beatles Tribute Art Show at Gallery Nucleus (Benefitting Doctors Without Borders, opening July 7th, 2012)!  My lovely wife Dawn Au will also have a beautiful piece in the show (she'll be posting it here soon).  Here are some roughs and a color comp for the piece I'm submitting (the bottom two images represent where my final piece is headed).  I originally wanted to do a separate piece for each Beatle, but time constraints beat that idea out of me!  So in the end, I decided to do a piece showing the Beatles performing their last live concert--on top of the Apple Corp building in 1969.  I'll post my final painting closer to the show.

Influence Map

I've been wanting to put this thing together for a long time!  I think it was a really valuable exercise and it's really cool to be able to look at it and really see what makes me tick artistically.

Figure (Gesture/Story) Drawings

These are recent figure drawings from a class I took last year at The Animation Guild.  I'm finally getting around to scanning them and comping them together.  The class focused on using the model as a springboard for gestural, story-based drawings.  Special thanks to teacher Mark McDonnell for all the great drawing tips!

Morning Warm-up Sketch

I love Community!  I really hope it gets renewed from here until the end of time.  This was today's warm-up sketch.

Beatles for Sale

Here is a piece I recently did as a thank you to Tim Sale, for the beautiful piece he did for me, as well as all the influence he's had on my art over the years. I work digitally most of the time, so it was a great challenge stretching my legs using pen and ink.

Blog Highlight: Toby Shelton

Anyone who looking for inspiration should definitely check out Toby Shelton's Blog.

I'm learning so much from studying his amazing drawings and reading his informative posts. Every now and then you see artwork that just stokes that creative fire.

Hope to meet you one day Toby!

Cafe Sketches and Figure Drawings

I've been updating my portfolio with new figure drawings. The pirates are fairly old.

Monstahs!

A few monsters in time for Halloween.

Football

Watching football, drawing football. Two birds, one stone.

I WISH!!!!!

If it ever happens, I would kill to work on it!!

House

So Dawn and I are awaiting the close of Escrow on our first home, and just for fun (I know it's a bad idea) we decided to draw up an interior design of our future living room.



But we won't be able to afford half the things in that design for a little while, so I did a more realistic version based on the things we already have.

Sadness.

Dancing

An excuse to watch "Dancing with the Stars?" Maybe yes, maybe no.

Selina

Took a little time to draw for myself the other day. After Darwyn Cooke initially redesigned Selina Kyle, I was really bummed to see the more classical take on the Catwoman costume go; however, the new look has really grown on me over time.

DOGS!

These are unused character designs for a freelance project I'm working on. Haven't had much occasion to draw dogs in a while so it was a really fun exercise to study some and try to get comfortable with it.

O-Sensei and NOT RUSSELL from Up

Here is a character inspired by Aikido O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, and the other a character based on my chubby asian self. From a storyboard I'm doing about a potentially disastrous Aikido demonstration from my childhood.

Done in Storyboard Pro on a Cintiq.

Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica (and Batman).

Time for my annual post. Sigh. Done on cintiq, my new best friend. Battlestar Galactica's Bill Adama and the Batman respectively.

Batman Fight Studies

Bot of the Apolocalypse

So the newest line of Futurama toys from Toynami came out recently and they look great! Since I have a tiny bit of extra time on my hands these days, I decided to sacrifice a Mezco Hellboy figure and customize the Toynami Bender to resemble my very own HellBender! I know that there are those of you who have mentioned upon seeing this that "my fanboy geekiness knows no bounds..." to that I say, thank you.

Futurama Hellboy/BPRD FCBD

So I emailed Guy Davis, one of my favorite artists, a few months back about buying some of his artwork. When Guy saw this piece I did of the Futurama crew as Star Wars characters, he offered me some of his beautiful artwork in exchange for a similar piece featuring the Hellboy/BPRD crew. Well lucky for me, Guy liked the piece I did for him enough to show it to his editor Scott Allie at Dark Horse, who in turn contacted me about coloring the piece and printing it in the Free Comic Book Day issue of Hellboy! I was on cloud nine about being in a book with the likes of Mike Mignola, Guy Davis, John Arcudi, Duncan Fegredo and Joshua Dysart. Thanks to all of these gentlemen for letting me be apart of this great book!