Lobster Johnson

After finishing up on Turok, the director Tad Stones was hoping(along with the rest of us) that we would get to do another Hellboy. Tad directed the 2 previous Hellboy direct-to-videos and I thought they looked great. So while we were waiting to here if Starz was going to go ahead with it, I had a little bit of time to try some Lobster Johnson designs.

Dole foods

Here are some designs of characters I did for Dole. Yes, the company that brings you the fruits and vegetables. I guess they wanted to create a group of superhero characters based on healthy foods. I have two of Brocolli, two of Banana and the villian, Sir Cancer.

Girl and Hawk

This is just me drawing some of the many things I love. I have always loved birds of prey and the art of falconry. And of course girls in lingerie, God bless Victoria's Secret.

Niko and Kika

These are some more designs I did for development at Warner Brothers. This show was going to be WB's answer to the extremely popular Dora the Explorer,only with chameleons. I thought it would make a really cute show.

Seamen Karaoke

These designs were for a show that I was helping to develop at Warner Brothers. It was going to be for a late night release (like adult swim) and was going to be an anime parody. Lot's of sexual innuendo and very funny. This is Keith Kaczorek's baby. I loved working with Keith. I have some more drawings but not in my computer. I will have to scan and then post them. I loved working on this show.

My book

This is the cover, title page and some illustrations from my book that I self-published. The book was originally a collaboration with Michel Gagne, he designed 50 of the rabbits and I designed 50. But I painted all of them. It took me years. Half way through painting the rabbits, Gagne said that he did not want to be involved in the project anymore. He said "It's your baby, you run with it". Needless to say, I was very hurt and disappointed when a few years later he decided to publish his drawings in a book without saying a word to me. It kind of took the steam out of this for a while but I decided to plow ahead and publish it. I had done too much work on it not to. The book is available on Amazon.com. The logo on the cover was rendered in ink then modeled in Maya.

Macy Gray show

Working for Warner Brothers was great. The development department was so kind to throw a bunch of work my way. I really love those people and appreciated all the work they gave me. This was another project that was under development that I was asked to do some designs for.

Batman

Here are some designs I did for the Batmam tv series. Working with Jeff Matsuda and Jose Lopez was awesome. Super nice people and super talented as well. Plus I love the Batman, how could I not enjoy it.

Top Cat Remake

I did these designs for a re-make of Top Cat that was in development at Warner Brothers. The designs were essentially the same except for wardrobe changes. The girl cat "Roxy" is new and Officer Dibble was changed completely.

Ugly Princess

These designs are for a project I was working on for Merv Griffin. It was a story he wrote that he wanted to turn into an animated feature and a book. It was great to meet the man. Too bad this fell through, it would have been fun.

Firehouse Tales

These designs are from another really fun show to work on. It was called Firehouse Tales and the main characters were vehicles and were 3D but they wanted me to do all the incidental characters in a very graphic and "designy" style. I had a blast with this stuff.

More Turok

I just wanted to post a few more designs from Turok. Some of the characters got very detailed and intricate like the Comanches.

Turok

Here are some designs I did for "Turok, Son of Stone". I had such a great time on this production. It was fun to design and it was one of the best crews I ever worked with and Starz Media was a great place to work. Nice and close to my house and life drawing every Tuesday thanks to Joe Wack.






Who wouldn't have a great time drawing dinosaurs and prehistoric beasts.

girl band

These are some designs I did through my friends studio (CAATS) for a client who wanted some ideas for an all-girl band. She didn't like them but I was proud of them.

Christmas cards

These are a series of six cards I did for Christmas this year. I did these in the style of a French(Belgian) comic book artist who I think is a genius. His name is Janry and he works with a guy named Tome on the Petit Spirou and Spirou comics published by Dupuis. I sent some to all of my friends and I would also like to send a complete set along with one of the originals to Janry and let him know how much I appreciate and enjoy his work, especially Petit Spirou. I inked the pieces with a brush pen and then colored them in Photoshop.

Getting started

Well, here's the start of my online blogging experience. This will be used mostly as an online portfolio, ideally for potential employers to view my work as well as a forum for constructive criticism. I might regret the criticism part but here we go.

I will probably start adding images tomorrow, I just wanted to see if I could get this up and running. It was pretty easy actually. It all seems pretty intimidating but I guess everything is at first. I guess it's necessary these days when employers are asking for online portfolios. It would have come in handy when applying for my last gig at Porchlight Animation Studios, instead of sending a ton of emails with only three attachments each. Now that my run at Porchlight has ended, I thought I better get off of my butt and get this thing started. Time to get something to eat after my interesting commute home in this unusual but welcomed LA rain storm. I love hearing the sound of the rain.