Egg Doodles

moleskin sketches

2012-01-12T13:12:00.000-08:00

started a new moleskine late last year.. trying to keep this for mostly ink drawings.
here are a from Brighton, UK and when I was over in Ireland for the holidays...

xmas card 2011

2011-12-20T07:12:00.000-08:00

been a while since i posted. rather lazy year.
here's my latest Christmas card to end the year of 2011. here's to hoping the next year will be better!

blacksheep

2011-08-15T02:57:00.000-07:00

ChronoTrigger Fanart

2011-07-18T14:38:00.000-07:00

My friends were recently doing some fan art of Chrono Trigger.. and I just so happen to be playing it on my ds.. so thought i'd do a little tribute.

Courting

2011-07-04T07:03:00.001-07:00

a couple of illustrations for my friend, Ky0n's magazine project. Not sure if it'll be in it or not...
the theme: Courting.

GOSH Charity Monster Book

2011-07-04T06:55:00.000-07:00

This was done for GOSH's (Great Ormond Street Hospital) Charity. They are putting together a monster book comprised of monsters the children came up with. I was lucky enough to be invited to do an illustration for this book project. My monster was Zerain-Miniteur.

Moose-Toad Guardian

2011-07-04T06:52:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since i updated. Mainly because I've been lazy.. but I have been drawing. this was a recurring theme, your guardian spirit, from the vancouver sketchgroup, but I updated mine since I last did this from a toad to a Moose-Toad.

Cloudscape - 21 Journeys

2011-02-15T00:06:00.000-08:00

Cloudscape - 21 Journeys, a comic book Anthology that i'm part of (above are my sample pages from my story, The Final Stretch), is doing a fundraiser to help raise funds for printing... if you are a comic book fanatic, or some one who loves to support independent publishing, or just feeling generous and are interested in helping us out a little, please check out the info here... http://www.indiegogo.com/21-journeys ...any amount of contribution helps... Thanks for reading!

love is in the air...

2011-02-14T10:47:00.000-08:00

Black Swan

2011-02-03T06:52:00.001-08:00

I watched Black Swan recently and felt compelled to do some new work based on the movie...

Christmas 2010

2010-12-23T05:28:00.000-08:00

in london... first batch of color sketches.

2010-12-13T17:52:00.000-08:00

London here I come!

2010-12-05T20:19:00.000-08:00

This will probably be my last update before i move to London! my new home for the next little while. Working, Traveling, Exploring. bidding farewell to my life in N. America! here are some sketches of friends and people at Kafka's Cafe on Main st.

sketchin' at coffee shops again!

2010-11-16T23:57:00.001-08:00

It's been a while since i've sketched with the vancouver sketchgroup peepz. so we went to Blenz for a little draw jam...

Hybrid

2010-11-14T20:31:00.001-08:00

I've been working on this new XBLA game that was recently announced: Hybrid. a concept piece for the game.

Drink Draw Thursday

2010-11-05T17:56:00.000-07:00

I was sketching at Kushi Bar last night in Seattle with some fellow artists I met at Anomaly last weekend. Thanks for the invite Scholes! It was mainly comprised of artists from Arenanet (Katy, James, Danny, Dave, Matt, and Kekai)... I think Tom and Tiffany freelances.. but i invited my friend, Dave, who's also a concept artist working at Gryptonite and he brought his friend Mike from Moonshot... so it was a good mix... otherwise i'd be the odd one out. here were the sketches from last night. I started a large moleskine as i had run out of the small ones... seemed like it took forever to fill a page... :P

my first book!...

2010-10-17T20:18:00.000-07:00

debuted @ Canzine West: Broken Pencil - a zine show for independently published books. thanks to Shiu for helping me out with printing and the business cards. The whole process took about 3-4 days. printing 1 day. stitch binding 1 day. cutting/cropping 1/2 day. and putting on the cover.. 1 day.

I planned on making it a hard cover.. but due to lack of experimentation and time constraints.. i decided to go with the soft - the paper i used were just shy of a few centimeters for the hardcover. the book defintely has a DIY-feel to it as the edges of the pages were hacked at with my razor blade. but thought it added to the charm. the book is a compilation of sketches from my NY sketchbook when i was visiting my sister after my UK trip.

I haven't decided to put this up for sale on the web yet.. as i have yet to setup some sort of online payment thing AND i probably dont have enough copies made yet to be selling them on the web... but if you are interested shoot an email my way.

Limited Edition Scribblenauts DSi's @ PAX

2010-08-26T17:47:00.001-07:00

If you're attending PAX this year... do checkout the Scribblenauts Booth for these limited DSi's i've painted up! There are 10 DSi's that can be won for the button/pin contest that's gonna take place at the booth. so def stop by if you're there!

figure drawing Aug 2010

2010-08-12T20:22:00.000-07:00

thanks Dave for lettin' me dropin on the Griptonite Art Dojo! Model: Laura

Coffee Painting...

2010-08-04T00:05:00.000-07:00

postcards i made for some friends back home while in London...

in the UK!

2010-06-01T14:41:00.001-07:00

my first post since arriving in the UK. weather-wise... I'd say it's kind of like Vancouver, so nothing out of the ordinary. didn't take that many pictures but here are a couple I liked more than others... I did however meet the guy that runs the London sketchgroup by coincidence at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Lee was drawing one of the many statues there at the museum.. I asked him if he's heard of the Sketchcrawl.. and he said "yes, I organized it"... I was like AWESOME! by any chance, have you heard of a local Sketchgroup?" and then he said " yes. I run that every other week." I couldn't have been more happy b/c i was looking for a sketchgroup online but apparently there was another one in London before Lee, but was disbanded? or the guy that ran it left the UK.. so i was pretty much planning on sketching it out alone. anyway. I have been sketching at the local coffee shops.. haven't had time to scan or take pics of them yet.. but will probably have an update later on with just sketches from the sketchbook.

Cheerio!

sketchbook dump

2010-05-24T09:53:00.000-07:00

probably my last update until i arrive in UK. hopefully i can be motivated enough to be updating the blog while I'm there. happy summer!!!

back to Sketchgroup

2010-05-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

it's been a while since my last post. been pretty busy tying up loose ends before i head on my drawing expedition of the UK&NY. Really hope the flights have resumed from what's going on in Iceland in a week from now ><. Seems like everyone's going somewhere this summer so it'd be interesting to see everyone's sketchbooks when we return!

Our Town Cafe

2010-03-26T19:02:00.001-07:00

some sketches done at the OUR TOWN CAFE on kingsway & broadway

Samurais... bodysuits.. and a bike

2010-03-18T13:23:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook Dump

2010-03-18T12:55:00.000-07:00

some sketches from a few sketchbooks ago..

Fan Art dump

2010-03-18T12:40:00.001-07:00

life drawing dump Jan-Mar

2010-03-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

haven't posted lifedrawing in a while.. so here's a quick dump of recent lifedrawing sketches..
I've been drawing mostly in my moleskines now... so the sketches are alot smaller than what they used to be. and experimenting with various renderings... might go back to newsprint after I've depleted my current moleskines stash.

Edy self portrait

2010-03-17T14:01:00.001-07:00

it's rare for me to draw myself... so i thought this warranted a post on its own haha. so that's me in my hoodie and my speech bubble/egg/testicle thing I've been using a lot of lately in my sketches.

sketchbook stuff

2010-03-17T13:48:00.000-07:00

some sketchbook stuff from earlier this year...been trying to develop a personal style, if you will, over the course of several sketchbooks now... and am sort of seeing a direction i wouldn't mind exploring more of... the girl on the moped was part of a sketchgroup theme "Intense chick on moped". i liked how she turned out so did a couple of more angles of her.might paint that on canvas when i get a chance.. I've also been doing alot of bodysuits lately.. not really evangelion but definitely inspired by it..

ECCC sketches

2010-03-17T13:35:00.001-07:00

some sketches i did while at the booth at Emerald City Comic Con...

Nintendo Power cover Apr 2010

2010-03-16T15:52:00.000-07:00

Here's a cover i did for the Nintendo Power April 2010 issue. Apparently this is the first time Nintendo Power's let anyone change their mast head... so it was a SUPER HUGE deal that they were open on that and letting us modify it in a Scribblenauts style!

PAX '09 Hatena Flipnotes

2010-03-16T13:57:00.000-07:00

Here are my Flipnotes I did at the Nintendo Flipnote booth last year at PAX. it's finally up on the Hatena website. As you can see.. i'm not the best animator... but it was really fun putting these together. i think they were about 1 hour each.

you can check out Flipnote Hatena for the whole roster of artists' animations from the booth.

Shin revisited

2010-03-08T00:40:00.000-08:00

did a quick repaint of this set for the Exploded view Launch, and had them displayed as prints.

O Canada : a sea of red & white

2010-03-08T00:16:00.000-08:00

belated Olypmic update - some pictures i took of the craziness that was Robson Square right after the gold medal Hockey game.

first update of 2010....

2010-03-07T23:47:00.000-08:00

Long overdue update... The olympics was pretty crazy here in Vancouver. That gold medal Hockey game was super intense. heart stopped for a few seconds towards the end, but am relieved team Canada pulled through! have several projects currently underway... I've been sketchin' alot in my sketchbook and have been lazy to scan my stuff.. but will post some of them here soon.

In light of Scribblenauts 2's announcement this week... here's look at a painting i'm currently working on for fun...planning to hang it in my office once i'm done. not much of an update, but it's a start. need to get back into it.

A side note: Cloudscape has launched the Exploded View anthology on Saturday (yesterday) at the Ayden Gallery in Tinseltown. Great turnout. And will followup with a booth at the Emerald City Con next weekend!

Vancouver Sketchgroup, which I frequent, will also have a booth at ECC! and will feature a compilation sketchbook of the members of VSG. You can also meet some of us there!

Be sure to drop by Cloudscape & the Vancouver SketchGroup booths if you're gonna be at the con!

Happy Holidays 2009

2009-12-23T12:52:00.000-08:00

Happy Holidays.

SFIV custom arcade stick

2009-12-17T18:09:00.000-08:00

the finished product!

scribblenauts christmas

2009-12-07T18:03:00.001-08:00

A promotional image i did for Warner Bros for scribblenauts that just got released on the web today so I'm extending an early Happy Holiday wishes to everyone!

Sketchcrawl #25

2009-11-22T00:26:00.000-08:00

The 25th World Wide Sketchcrawl 5th Anniversary! took place on Granville Island. Started off at the Netloft... moved to the Public Market... and ended at Emily Carr University. It was raining the whole time, so we stayed indoors, but it was really nice drawing at the public market. There were musicians, musicians, children, grocers, vendors, tourists, students, and artists busying about the lunch hour. some even danced to the music, which was interesting to watch. Not the best weather to be doing a crawl but we made the best of it. looking forward to the next one.

Cloudscape Comic Character...Shin

2009-11-15T02:11:00.000-08:00

I'm a contributing artist to a local comicbook anthology Cloudscape and am basing my story on this char... not really sure what to name him/it yet... tentatively callin' him Shin.

Street Fighter stick art

2009-11-08T00:30:00.000-08:00

A piece commissioned by a coworker for his arcade stick: Robkuma.
can't wait to see how it looks on the actual thing.

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter

2009-10-20T01:29:00.000-07:00

Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter is finally out! at least in Australia for now... but unlike the first Drawn to Life.. this one features an Opening and Ending Sequence! (OPENING: Story written by Jeremiah, Animations by Paul, music by David J Franco, and Storyboards/Backgrounds by me)... (ENDING: not shown in the clip but done by the talented Braid Artist, David Hellman).

linked is the first 10 mins of the game including the OPENING sequence, which starts at 1:36.
(tiny cartridge).

sketchbook dump

2009-10-11T02:00:00.000-07:00

I did some sketches today at the Sketchgroup... a mish mash of different styles, or as Jimmy would call it "stylistically schizophrenic". I just felt like drawing whatever came to mind. The theme was Prosthesis... so i did one based on that.. but the rest just didn't really fall into any specific 'theme'. I was sort of in this Final Fantasy mode after going to "Music of Final Fantasy: Distant World on thurs... that's why there is a Terra fanart there.. which I thought looked half decent. might take that one further later or do more of the other characters. The music was performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.. although not as 'punchy' and as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra that performed it in 20020220... it still managed to give me goosebumps towards the end when they played the FFVI music. Wish they had more of these shows.

The drawing of Joji's headphones I thought was kinda cool... did that while I was at 221. Apparently there was yet another flooding incident that took place. It's unfortunate because the drywall-ceiling was put up not too long ago. Not even completely spackled, primed or painted. I think parts of it will have come down, otherwise mold might start to buildup. Sigh...

Life Drawing dump...

2009-09-28T01:10:00.000-07:00

Scribblenauts X Final Fantasy VI

2009-09-26T10:53:00.000-07:00

This final fantasy VI set is probably my favorite set of the bunch cuz it's one of my favorites games of all time. This game inspired me ALOT and had everything to do with me getting into concept art for videogames in the first place.
Drawing this set brought back alot of memories, haha :) might even consider playing the game again!

english bay

2009-09-22T23:11:00.000-07:00

was bit bored from working from home today and decided to do some sketching outdoors since the weather was so nice. Went to English bay for about 1hr to an 1.5hrs and did a couple of sketches. Colored in photoshop.

Darkstalkers Tribute: The Succubus Queen

2009-09-22T00:03:00.000-07:00

My submission to the Darkstalkers Tribute by Udon.

Sketchcrawl #24

2009-09-21T00:20:00.001-07:00

WorldWide Sketchcrawl #24!!! It's my 2nd crawl. We started out at Waterfront Station, moved to Gastown, then to the new Convention center. We ate lunch at the Foodcourt... and then ended by waterfalls outside the foodcourt. Crawlers that showed up: Jan, Sandy, Dylan, Leo, Jonathan, and Jimmy.

Scribblenauts Nintendo World Store Launch

2009-09-13T19:26:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to share some photos from the Scribblenauts Launch at the Nintendo World Store in New York that took place today at the Rockefeller Center. INSANE turnout. Thanks to everyone that made it out there today. I'm guessing there had to be no less than 150 people that showed up in the 3 hours that we were there. Finally got to meet some of the Neogaf fans in the flesh! It was my first time being part of a launch for anything... so it's extra special that it's a launch for our game! and it's definitely a memorable one! hope there will be more of these to look forward to!!! I LOVE New York City!

Scribblenauts

2009-09-09T22:54:00.000-07:00

Here's an alternative Scribblenauts cover that I made but never got used.. decided to post this since it was use as the 5thcell twitter bg... enjoy!

Scribblenauts Nintendo Power Italy Illustration

2009-08-16T02:57:00.000-07:00

a Scribblenauts cover illustration i did for Nintendo Power Italy.. I guess its safe to post since i found some links to it on the web... "Offworld" ....."Tiny Cartridge"

Still Life: Cantis (FLCL)

2009-07-28T01:47:00.000-07:00

approx 10hrs. thanks Jimi for bringing the Canti's.

brushes & booze

2009-07-19T11:39:00.000-07:00

more quick oil studies

2009-07-13T21:28:00.000-07:00

1.5hr each

Oil studies 1.5-2hrs

2009-07-10T16:43:00.000-07:00

Did some oil studies over the last couple of days.

Street Fighter IV x Scribblenauts

2009-07-10T12:34:00.000-07:00

DONE!
PS: fixed Gen & Cammy and added Seth.
I originally didn't add seth cuz it threw the composition off.. hehe. I've included him separately now.

Street Fighter Alpha x Scribblenauts

2009-07-09T03:02:00.000-07:00

yet another tribute to Street Fighter..
only SFIV left...

FFVII x Scribblenauts

2009-07-08T16:58:00.001-07:00

Street Fighter III X Scribblenauts

2009-07-07T02:09:00.003-07:00

another fan art tribute

Street Fighter X Scribblenauts

2009-07-04T15:57:00.001-07:00

My little tribute to street fighter

My 221a studio setup

2009-06-27T13:59:00.001-07:00

so here's what my painting/screen printing studio looks like... not much of a paint studio because I share the painting wall with Jonathan which is on the other side of the cubicle (left of camera). Originally my station was suppose to be more of a silkscreening setup but I haven't had time to work on any prints as of yet... hopefully soon. here's a break down:

1. Desk
2. My mundane series prints
3. My silk screen exposing station/work table
4. Silkscreen Inks/cleaners and canvas frames
5. Jonathan's painting station
6. Jonathan's skateboard
7. My box of brushes and misc junk
8. My backpack and oil/acrylics paint toolbox
9. Brian and Michelle's Industrial design cubicle
10. awesome studio brick wall.

still life painting

2009-06-27T13:46:00.000-07:00

My attempt at still life before I start my series of paintings. This was about 9-10 hours. the WIP shot in the upper image is about 6hrs in. It's been a while since i worked with oils and I'm totally lovin' it. ditching my acylics for now :)

scribblenauts

2009-06-13T00:12:00.000-07:00

technically not official art but more like fanpost-inspired art ... for the latest game i've been working on: Scribblenauts.
this piece was made based off an AWESOME post by some guy who played a test version of the game...

I had played all the big titles at E3. Private showings of God of War III, Heavy Rain, Alan Wake. But at 4:00 on Thursday, I was wandering around the show floor, wondering what else I had to see. I saw a small little booth for "Scribblenauts!" in the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment section. I mean, who goes to that booth? But I remember hearing about it on GAF, and so I decided to check it out.

Best game of E3? Without a fucking doubt. Anyone who says otherwise did not play Scribblenauts. Best game of all time? Jesus Christ, I don't know, maybe. It's a game that challenges your IMAGINATION. No other game has ever done that.

So listen to this story. I was in the early levels; I didn't quite have an idea of how ridiculously in-depth the database was. I was summoning things like ladders, glasses of water, rayguns, what have you. But I reached a level with zombie robots, and the zombie robots kept killing me. Rayguns didn't work, a torch didn't work, a pickaxe didn't work. In my frustration, I wrote in "Time Machine". And one popped up. What the fuck? A smile dawned on my face. I hopped in, and the option was given to me to either travel to the past or the future. I chose past. When I hopped out, there were fucking dinosaurs walking around. I clicked one, and realized I could RIDE THEM. So I hopped on a fucking DINOSAUR, traveled back to the present, and stomped the shit out of robot zombies. Did you just read that sentence? Did you really? I FUCKING TRAVELED THROUGH TIME AND JUMPED ON A DINOSAUR AND USED IT TO KILL MOTHERFUCKING ROBOT ZOMBIES. This game is unbelievable. Impossible. There's nothing you can't do.

Holy fucking shit.

tattoo

2009-04-24T23:25:00.000-07:00

yes that is my drawing that's been tattoo'd to my coworker's arm! Jeff and I both worked on Scribblenauts and Lock's Quest. He wanted a tattoo that melds the 2 games in one... so he requested Lock from Lock's quest drawn in Scribblenauts style :)

Dr. Sketchy's prequel

2009-04-18T03:54:00.001-07:00

Dr. Sketchy's - Just before the show.

April 12 Dr. Sketchy's Vancouver

2009-04-18T03:40:00.000-07:00

here are some sketches from Dr. Sketchy's Vancouver. Great theme but couldn't draw fast enough! better luck next time i guess..

caricatures

2009-04-06T01:15:00.001-07:00

Some caricatures i did of friends. Painted these in Painter10.

ECU figure drawing

2009-03-18T01:51:00.001-07:00

I was at ECU figure drawing session on Monday for the first time in years.
last time I went I think I was in 2nd year taking a drawing class and went there for practice...
the thing I didn't like about the session was the drawing table... it was too high for the seats! so I was standing the whole time.
but the model was great. might give it a shot again next week.

Mar14 Sketchgroup stuff

2009-03-15T09:28:00.000-07:00

some drawings from this week's sketchgroup.

Mar 1 Figure drawing

2009-03-02T02:25:00.000-08:00

I tried to switch it up a bit for this week's figure drawing - ditched the conte and busted out my watercolors. 5-15 mins sketches.

the Alchemist

2009-02-19T22:55:00.000-08:00

The theme for this week was Alchemist. I actually pictured him more of an explosives expert than alchemist so i thought i'd mix it up a bit.

221a Feb08 life drawing

2009-02-08T23:17:00.000-08:00

I've been doing alot of figure drawing lately to better my anatomic rendering skills. I usually try to go once a week.. but ever since 221a started hosting figure drawing sessions, I started going to that too. I think it's really helping me out alot. here's what came out of today's session.

Pistol Baron

2009-02-08T03:23:00.000-08:00

another themed weekly illustration - Pistol Baron. (Not so much pistol but more shotgun, probably b/c of too much L4D).

Basic Inquiry Feb 7

2009-02-08T03:17:00.001-08:00

blademaster

2009-02-02T03:02:00.000-08:00

A couple of friends and I started a new blog for this weekly-themed illustration to push ourselves to design and draw. this week was "blade master".

Basic Inquiry Jan 28, 2009

2009-02-02T02:49:00.000-08:00

Figure drawing @ 221a Jan 25, 2009

2009-02-02T02:33:00.000-08:00

Vancouver SketchGroup

2009-01-24T23:28:00.000-08:00

Some big changes are happening to the Vancouver sketchgroup- good things: Tyler's going to California to pursue his concept art education... Morena is headed to Toronto for her new job... and congrats to Sunny who's getting married! You'll all be missed!

here's my little experimentation in photoshop with this week's sketch.

figure drawing at 221a

2009-01-23T04:16:00.000-08:00

Gallery 221 recently started hosting figure drawing as one of their regular ongoing programs in Chinatown. These were some gestures from the session.

Jan21 figure drawing

2009-01-23T03:53:00.001-08:00

Daruman t-shirts...by me!

2009-01-16T00:09:00.000-08:00

So I decided to take a screen-printing workshop at Blim. They're a local custom t-shirt store that runs these little t-shirt workshops. I attended one tonight and it was AWESOME. I think they're the ONLY store that run workshops and have open studio for anyone who wants to drop in and just print a couple of t-shirts and go. Highly recommended for people who don't want to spend money getting all the equipment themselves but just want to create a cool tshirt here and there for friends and family.

My shirts turned out far better than I expected. Many many thanks to Yuriko, the workshop leader, for running the workshop. It was very well conducted and I'd definitely drop by and work on some more in the future. Edy's sweatshop here I come!!! Meanwhile, here's what I printed in tonight's workshop...

Steampunk Money Cat

2009-01-12T00:38:00.000-08:00

I initially planned on entering the cgtalk challenge but didn't have time to finish, which is a shame because the theme was soooo good. I'm gonna try and finish these outside the challenge and might do a couple of more drawings based on this theme until I get sick of it.

For these 2 sketches...

My concept for the steampunk myth was the money cat. (thanks Jonathan for suggesting this awesome idea).
I wanted to create this really rundown industrial village/town that worships this money cat monument. Wanted to try two different looks. One with more of a Tekkon look and the other more dark/Industrial smelter look.

Happy Holidays

2008-12-24T23:49:00.001-08:00

a little Holiday e-card I made to send to friends and family...

Dec 6-7 sketches

2008-12-07T23:20:00.000-08:00

At Waves coffee again this weekend... arrived late. so only got 1 page.
but got some other sketches done from the photos I took of the Vancouver DTE. I'm hoping to get some of these painted on canvas. so these would serve as a study.

I recently moved into Gallery 221A, an artist collective also known as NOART, formed by Emily Carr students. It's a great place located in the Vancouver Chinatown area where food, transit, and other resources are within close proximity. I'm wanting to paint more so hopefully having a studio space would give me some motivation to start.

and I dropped by Basic Inquiry for a quick drawing session...

here's this weekends batch of updates.

Back to Waves

2008-11-29T18:18:00.000-08:00

We're back at Waves Coffee this week... and despite the depressing weather, word of a Vancouver Sketchgroup book has be floated around the table today which kinda lightened up the mood. Woohoo! We've just been brainstorming on how to go forth with this little project since it's going to be a collaborative effort. I'm really looking forward to this. Anyway, today's sketches at Waves.

Café Deux Soleils Sketch

2008-11-23T01:04:00.000-08:00

We decided to change from Artigiano's to Commercial Drive's Cafe Deux Soleils for this week's sketchgroup because of the pricey Vancouver downtown parking meters... Lighting inside was horrible... but it had a great atmosphere and lots of interesting people to draw. anyway, here are this week's sketches.

SFIV Inside cover art contest....

2008-11-18T18:02:00.000-08:00

So here's my Street Fighter IV contest entry for the inside cover art...
dunno if it'll make it... but keeping my fingers crossed...

Basic Inquiry revisited

2008-11-17T00:01:00.000-08:00

I was back in town once again... it's been like 6 months since I did any figure drawing... so thought I'd drop by Basic Inquiry for a quick gesture session.

Cafe Artigiano sketches

2008-11-15T23:07:00.000-08:00

Attended sketchgroup at Caffe Artigianno's this week. Seems like the paneling thing has become a recurring theme in my cafe sketches... so I decided to experiment a bit with them. Thank you Sunny, for letting me try your brushes. The india ink pen was awesome. Here are this week's sketches.

Sketchgroup @ Studio 221A

2008-11-01T21:17:00.000-07:00

Interesting Sketchgroup this week... Normally we'd have the sketchgroup at a coffee house, but this week, it was decided that we head to Studio 221A for the sketchgroup. Thanks to Jonathan for accommodating us. The interior setting was a nice change of pace from the regular coffee house setting. The studio was filled with things to draw. I could spend a whole day just sketching in there. anyway, here are this week's sketches.

Sketches @ Blendz Coffee

2008-10-26T22:16:00.001-07:00

still had some momentum from yesterday's sketchcrawl so decided to meet up with a couple of friends to do more sketching at Blendz coffee on Granville and Broadway. This is actually a pretty good location for drawing since it's right next to the busstop and there are people coming and going, and waiting for the buses etc. but of course i didn't draw ANY people this time.. next time around. here were the sketches done today...

Sketchcrawl Vancouver

2008-10-26T02:44:00.000-07:00

Joined the 20th Annual International Sketchcrawl in the cold and windy Vancouver. Location was on Granville Island. First time joining. Compared to the other sketchcrawls around the world, I guess our turnout was not as impressive. I think we had about 15 people? But it was great drawing on the island and got to meet a lot of talented new people around town. If the weather was a bit warmer and the sun was out a bit earlier i think our group could have stayed together a bit longer before splitting off into groups. Here are the sketches from the crawl.

Nike Air Flight

2008-10-19T18:58:00.000-07:00

Another sketchbook paint session. This time of my Nike Air flights! about 1-1.5 hr study.

Still Life studies

2008-10-15T02:15:00.000-07:00

Been trying to do some traditional painting lately.. so did some still life studies in my sketchbook... Thanks to Jonathan for letting me use his studio space for these and setting up.
The Gekkeikan Sake bottle was really intimidating to paint.

Egg Doodles

2008-09-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

Something totally random... was thinking of making a banner... but might not use this after all...

Lock's Quest and Ibuki at PAX...

2008-09-02T18:45:00.000-07:00

The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) was this weekend and 5th Cell was showcasing Lock's Quest at the THQ booth, the game we finished not too long ago due for release on September 8th. Here's a shot of the setup.

What's cool about our setup is that you can bring your Nintendo DS there and download a playable demo of Lock's Quest to take home... and many did! lots of great feedback for the game so hopefully that would translate into sales. woohoo! "Bring your DS Down Load Demo Here".

Other highlights included being able to see alot of awesome playable demos, especially Starcraft 2! Left 4 Dead was cool too, got to play it at Valve a week ago. Also got to play WiiMusic and see WarioLand which looked amazing.

Dan Paladin, the artist for Castle Crashers, was a super nice guy. He signed ALL of my Castle Crashers figurines, which i'm very grateful for. I'm Gllad I picked them up because now they are all out of stock!

PAX was the second convention-type thing i've been to since the San Diego Comic Con. It was a bit smaller than what I had expected it to be after going to the San Diego Comic Con, but from what I hear, it's growing every year because E3 closed its doors to the gaming public and went strictly industry exclusive, so gamers who were looking for an opportunity to demo the new up and coming games came to PAX! It was a great turnout and look forward to next year!

On another note, I did see the Street fighter Tribute issue at the Udon Comics' Booth and took a snapshot of my contribution to this wonderful book! it's on Page 284! I was trying to find it at the Capcom booth during the San Diego Comic Con and gave up because it was waaay too crowded and people were in a hurry to buy stuff, so I didn't want to hold up the line. Pax was more laid back and I was able to just stand there and flip through every page of the book. Kinda wish I had my copy now! Here's the snap of my Ibuki from Street fighter III...

collab.

2008-08-25T21:48:00.000-07:00

It was a pleasure working on this collaborative piece with Jimmy Ly. It started out as a rough sketch by Jimmy and we passed it back and forth a couple times before finally calling it done.

sketches

2008-08-10T19:42:00.000-07:00

some starbucks sketches... of random ppl.

Sleep

2008-08-05T11:07:00.001-07:00

random quick sketch i did before sleeping... haven't done any work for myself lately, and had the urge to draw something... anything....