ANIME CON 2007

Holy! what an experience! i went to the anime con at SFU campus today and it was for sure something new, first off i couldn't stop looking around at all the costumed people...some good and for the most part bad, lots of half naked people ( guys and girls) there must have been at least hundreds of people.

the photos above are just some of what i took of people, the top few are my co-workers from mercury( the one as rei) the other one in the black dress ( as a character from one-piece)

i met lots of friends who were into anime or were selling some. either way it was an interesting time but i'm not sure if i'd go again, i didn't buy anything except an artbook, the manga wasn't too cheap nor the anime so i didn't buy anything.

so that's my story! (p.s i loved that pocky girl!!)

i hate jay from titans, he's like cyclops or superman, all boyscout and no fun, so i thought about animating (by hand!) jay getting punched in the face.

I don't think i'll go with it and go in favour of something simple.

and yeah that other drawing is Akuma ( or Gokui??) from street figther. Oh yeah...i'm also hitting up the local anime con, so i'll post some pictures of funny looking people in bad costumes! (side note: don't forget the avatar looking character i drew as well!)

cheers~

the bottom drawing is suppose to be sagat from street figther, and the second drawing is an alex ross based superman drawing.

just doodling around with these ones

A&W work

some people draw in different places, many like fogg and suds or red robin...but me and my friend josh ( freakin' amazing artist btw) go to A&W near metrotown, its our local hangout and drawing place, we've been going there off and on again for years and have a few funny stories including a drunken fellow but that's for another day.

the top drawing was done there just on friday....i can't wait to go back and bust out something fun again...mmm greasy burgers...

summer girl 2

Hey-o

thanks alot for the comments on the recent post, i felt i should do another.

these are just some of what i've done over this hot hot weekend.

cheers~

wow almost 700??!

yeah that's right, i don't often keep track but i have just about 700 views on my blog! that's amazing! so i wanted to thank those who stopped by.

anyway this pics are recent, hope you like em

cheers~

weekover postin'

Wow, so i started a new pad with a different type of paper, as you can see its a bit darker and thicker then what i used before, i like it because i can really dig into the paper and not rip it up much.

these are recent, some like the jester i did at my friends house over the weekend( which was fun times i might add....he also added his clean up on my drawing of that jester) i tried to draw a picture of his dad but don't think i got the emotion down, i've been playing around with different styles such as a thick outline recently, also i've finally drawn some more girls!

enjoy!

so many angry faces...i should draw more happy characters, the girl drawing is quite rough, i did do a cleaned one but i liked the rough feel for this more.

old and new

Old and new stuff from my pad, sorry if you can't see some of them, the paper has been across all kinds so its not as stiff as it used to be.

some of these i put up on advice from my friend, and yeah i have alot of head shots, i'm working on improving my body shots and using different styles of clothing.

also for anyone interested you can watch some of season one of class of the titans on youtube.

the stuff i'm working on now should be out around aug. or so, its got some real cool scenes in it so far, so be on the look out!

smokin'

just playing around with a character, its pretty generic and not very good i think, i like the ink that i did on two of them with a thick outline and thinner inner details, but i don't think i captured his emotions and character well enough, although smoking seems to make people cooler...maybe?

the fung

ah fung, a man of many things...probably things i don't want to know, but he's a great guy to talk to about old movies and old stuff period ( he hates to think he's old, but really..he has grey hairs showing) all joking aside, he's the one who first called me salad guy, i've heard many different ways of misspelling my name and saying it, but somehow salad guy stuck.

needless to say this doodle is one of the many faces of dan

enjoy!

( i love ya dan! i'm just kidding about you being old!)

ever wondered how to become a mindless, soul-less, group following spiritless zombie?

the answer is here ladies and gentlemen

JOIN FACEBOOK! bum bum bum!

i've recently been bitten by one of those flesh-brain eating creatures...and needless to say...you become one of them...ever waiting for that new update on your wall, or comment on your photo and you feel that everyone you used to know and haven't spoken to in many a year should be a friend.

that my friends is facebook in all its glory

don't be surpised if your picture ends up in some distant country and "your" mug is holding something like diapers.

some recent pencil-ness, the top one that says for brockkers is for brock, i'll be adding his blog link to my links soon, people should take a look at his work, when i first met the guy he couldn't draw very well and every since that day he's been nose to the ground working hard to get better, and he's got the stuff to prove he's somewhere now, also his student film is just about done now,so i'll be looking forward to his final results!

new-er work

As some people might have noticed last wednesday brad goodchild( director for class of the titans) put up my fan-ish art for titans ( see post below) so i wanted to thank him, i'm still waiting for dave's version of himself, you can see nicole's on brad's blog, oddly enough she does look like theresa from titans.

anyway above is a rough herry i drew, doesn't really match the show's style at all ,oh well..fun times

the other picture is for a project i'm doing with someone from the states, its not really a huge thing but i wanted to do some work and get some practice, i won't say any details for now but it does have to do with snowboarding and mountain style ( i.e whistler-like place)

anyway that's all for now more to come!

cheers~

zombies and titans

My co-workers Nicole and David suggest the 3 of us do drawings of ourselves in COTT style! so the non-zombie drawing is the version that i did of myself, of course i'm not that buff ( i'd like to be) but overall i think i got my own feel down pretty good.

The zombie is also titan style, just something i haven't done much of

much needed postin'

Hey

its been a while since i posted something up, last post didn't count much since it was older work.
I've been busy getting better at animating in flash, so most of my free time after work goes to that, plus i've been looking for extra work besides mercury to get me doing something and hopefully bring in some extra coin.
Last week on friday was a good chance for me to have a bit of drawing fun with friends and co-workers from mercury, i'm not usually into drawing with other people much except close friends but in this case it was pretty fun, so i'm hoping to do it on a weekly friday basis.

anyway sorry for some of the poor scans, i spilled some coffee on my pad while i was drawing, so hence the brown stain on one of the scans, it made it all crinkled and junk. and i also ran out of unused paper and had to resort to re-drawing on top of crappy life drawings.

these are about 2 weeks old? i haven't drawn much last week.
cheers~

early work

So this time around i thought i'd show everyone some of the crap i used to do back in the good ole days, the top drawing i did with pencil and watercolor back when i was in grade 10 or so, its a character from a skateboard company, world industries.
the picture of the funny looking kid is me, see i was just as weird back then as i'am now, what can i say? i make a horrible picture, that was from '96 when i was in soccer with other ugly kids.
and lastly i drew and painted dragon ball z characters, come on people, everyone liked it back then, the mindless powering up for over 1o ep. and the horrible, horrible dub with cheesy voice acting, anyway hardest part of that painting was probably the skin and hair color, mainly because i remember running out mid-way, thank god for photoshop nowadays. that was when i was in gr.10 or 11, just before i moved to vancouver from calgary.

R.I.P calgary.....with your crappy weather, shitty hangouts, bad malls, red neck hicks, and terrible stampede.

recent doodles

work desk doodles...and more

So some of this stuff is from work, besides the first drawing the rest are from work, what is with cronus and his nipples? like wtf??!! you need a day and night color for someone's nipples??! are you kidding me? but that's my day at work...nipples and inking them, Oh don't forget that i had a really bright shirt on today, probably soaked up too much radioactive crap from my shitty computer monitor.

peace~

not much to show

just some girls, something i should draw more of since i'm not super comfortable with them.