100th post!

wow, its been 100 posts since i first started this blog way back in oct.05 i mostly started one because one of my teachers from school had one, and even since that day i started there's been some good posts and some bad ones, but live and learn.

anyway the second drawing at the top is probably what i'll look like after a few months after working on class of the titans season 2, if you want to see some of what's gonna happen in that show, check out brad's corner ( in my links section) he's the director of the show over at studio B and seems like a cool guy, He's been mentioned a few times on john nervarez' blog as well.

anyone a fan of that show? i hate their hair.

peace~

part one

some stuff i did recently, i'll upload the rest soon.

3 doods

quick cloud

Some more practice with a more wet/soft brush feel to it, i did this one pretty quick to the sol and kaneda i did before, and for those who might not know this is "old school" cloud from final fantasy VII.

more to come!

please sir...can i have some more?

This kid would probably beaten that old man for food, screw asking for more, and then hopefully steal his wallet.

i'll post my progess on this one as i go.

The first two drawings are of a character i've been working with for so long, its been nearly 3 years that i've been developing this character in my mind for a story i hope to do someday, although the character hasn't changed much in hair style, the face seems to change, i wanted to bring a sort of old world knowledge mixed with the strain and hardships of life on this character, hopefully the drawing conveys what i'm thinking.

The buck toothed guy is going to be part of a drawing series i also have in mind, England VS france! i'm going to do more of both the english and french sides with cartoony madness.

enjoy~

how i work....?

I thought i migh give a little insight into how i sometimes make my character designs ( by no means am i trying to be cocky or anything, its not like i'm a pro or something) for example the 2 faces on the side are probably the most common way i start to draw any character, for some reason i like to have a face in mind when drawing any character, above you can see 3 mini knight type characters, the one on the top left was the first one i did, i then did the guy in blue and cleaned and fixed to make it into the brown one.

i wasn't happy with the loose drawing in blue so i tighted as best i could to have a fairly happy result.

hopefully this might give some people an idea of how i tend to work, its probably not the best method or anything and sometimes i won't have a character i like, but then its time to DRAW DRAW DRAW!

cheers~

Finshed Kaneda

So here is my finshed photoshop painting of kaneda from akira, i tried to get the colors are close to the movie as possible.

anyway just to note for anyone who checks on me, i will be out of town for a week or so, i'll try and do some drawing while i'm gone and then post em when i get back.

anyway catch ya all next week!

ciao~

spawn madness!

Spawn! always loved the art that comes from the comic book, sorry for the terrible PS used to put this together, but i did it quickly to show a friend.

anyway enjoy~

Kaneda from AKIRA

One of my fav anime movies of all time, i can't begin to explain how great this movie is, although the story in the manga version is the bomb the movie had some of the best animation i've seen.

I used to like anime quite a bit a few years ago, but mostly due to all the recent anime sucking...well i just lost interest, i liked the stuff from the mid 90's better, i found it had way more styles of humour and more styles in general, i mean i like some new stuff such as naruto, one-piece and full metal alchemist but one of those come around every so often.

anyway kaneda isn't done, i'm still working on it in Photoshop, i'll post the finshed version when i'm done!

enjoy~

the girl was drawn on cardboard then inked and colored with col-erase.

collection work

recent doodles expressions and body for same character

pad works

TMNT..and rants

Wow, i simply can't believe how low hollywood will go to make a movie, i mean can't all those over payed writers and directors make a semi-decent movie without having to resort to taking an older movie and re-hashing it to make a newer shitty version of it, case in point : batman, superman, ninja turtles....how long untill we see a new robocop movie? its not even that, i mean sure because of this new TMNT movie lots of people got a chance to work on it, by no means am i ranting on them, if i had the chance to work on this i probably would to, i'm just pissed at the big suits in the broad rooms making this crap, thinking how easily they'll score some fat cat bucks, its become more of how much money they can make over story and characters.

I don't look forward to this movie, i liked the ones from the 90's because i feel those had character, sure its dudes in suits but its better then some shitty CGI versions, not only that i'm sure they'll try and make it dark and gritty like all the movies nowadays, again case in point: miami vice, i liked the TV show, sure it had dudes in colorful clothing and was more on the comic side, but really how many more good/bad cops looking to bust drug dealers in a big city movie do we need to see? and before some hot shot sends me an email saying " but dan..you never even saw TMNT yet.... don't bash it before you do" yeah right....that's just the clever marketing behind this movie, i mean if they really wanted the hype and market, they should have done it right when the cartoon series came out a few years ago.

Now a few other quick rants on some recent and not so recent films:

DREAM GIRLS: for the love of god, i hate jennifer hudson, she's not talented, she's not pretty, she can sing well....BIG DEAL, don't talk about her, don't give her awards, in fact i'm fairly certain after this hype she'll just fade away.

SAW III: yawn...i liked the first two more

BECAUSE I SAID SO: OMFG...are you kidding me? who is this marketed to? baby boomers? young hip hop kids? i can't find any logical reasoning to make this piece of shit, sure i think mandy moore is cute, but that's not enough to save this boring and cliched film.

JET LI'S FEARLESS: i thought this was a cool film untill it got to the part where jet li's character goes and lives in the country side, i liked the fights, i liked the moves, but the whole i must kill for honor or revenge is so over done, chuck norris did it, bruce lee did it, arnold did it, just leave it alone.

GHOST RIDER: holy crap! just when you thought super hero films would be good, and they were looking good thanks to spider-man/x-men/FF4 movies...then comes ghost rider, who CASTED this movie? i mean are you kidding me?? nicholas cage? please...and no offence but ghost rider isn't the most popular or cool hero around...if it was iron man however....

That's all the rants i have that i can think of at the moment, again i'll write this because some moron wouldn't clearly understand my words and think i'm just a bitter turd, this is my opinion, i haven't seen all of these films, nor do i intend to, i don't want to support hollywood and make them think that their doing a good job, in fact people going to movies is at an all time low, and i wonder why, maybe its because its time for these marketing people and suits to wake up and realize that it can't be about the money, things just need to change.

recent drawings

Hey hey all, what's the haps? i know i haven't updated in like a good month, mostly due to eye surgery as well, thanks to that i no longer wear glasses! its pretty sweet.

enjoy the art, the girl is based off micheal turner type style.

ciao

quickes

I might as well post all i can while i'm still logged in, the car is very inspiried by another blogger that i saw, if your wondering how i colored it, its purely colored in flash MX, helpful tool when your in a rush to color, the BG shot is something from a while ago that i thought was cool.
cheers~

mas faces!!

Ok so i know i haven't posted in god knows when, but here is a quick mass upload of doodles i have done in the last two months or so, of course this is a small amount of the actual drawings that i do, but never the less hope you enjoy, maybe over this christmas break i'll post so more and more body shots as well, sorry for the delay if anyone bothers to check on me, and happy holidays!

cheers~

design 'n' doodle

i haven't posted in so long, so here is some stuff from a drawing pad

thumbnails

So these are just some thumbnails i was doing real quick recently, i had intended to use them for a flash animation, but i gave up on that idea and these drawings remain.

On a different side note i'd like to personally say good job to both my good friend Mac Ko( you can view his blog at my links section) and my other friend Greg Roth who are both VFS grads and now currently work for Bardel downtown, All i can say is...its about time Mac!! just kidding, I'm happy for both of them, as well they work along side my classmate and friend justin smith( you can also see justin's blog in my links) and steph sim who also work at bardel.

So now all i can say is...I want to get in!!

have a good time guys and see you soon ( i hope)

cheers

I RETURN!

hey hey,

so i guess i'm back..for now? we'll see so far nothing really new or different has happened, i still work for roland music so its good for the paycheques at least.

anyway that doesn't mean all this time i've been not drawing! this is a fairly recent doodle from the last two weeks or so.

enjoy and more to come!

blogger break

i really do hate whatever the hell has happened to blogger, i can't even seem to upload and properly post my art anymore, so untill i can figure what i need to do to fix it i guess i'm going to take a "blogger break" and not post for a while.

in the mean time, i wanted to introduce one of my older teachers from film school to the blogger world, and even though not many people might check my blog this guy is well worth it, his name is gideon flitt and is already quite famous for his fine art so i'm pretty sure that's nothing new, but to those from the film school who happened to miss him, you can see his works at www.theflitt.com i was lucky enough to have him teach my class life drawing, color theory and some others, he's probably one if not the most talented people i have ever met in my short life, just to name a few things he did over his life are and not limited to: hairdresser, fashion designer, art history buff, masterful oil painter, masterful life drawer, history teacher, and many others that could probably fill a page, but don't take my word for it check out his site and maybe even drop him a line.
happy lookings and i'll try and be back to blogger as soon as i can
cheers~