Weapon X

Wolverine: Brown suit. Even though this is in black and white..... I haven't followed a comicbook series in the last ten plus years, but the other day I was reminded of Chris Claremont and Paul Smith's run on the X-Men. That era was my introduction to the series and, for me, the definitive group and look. So I had to draw Wolverine in the brown suit and in keeping with the nostalgia, he had to be fighting some ninjas.

Widow

Natasha Romanova aka Black Widow. I thought it would be a good idea to spend a little more time and do some forced perspective with a background. It turned out not to be such a good idea considering how much time I spent nitpicking "is the hand was too small or the foot?", "are the windows too big?", "why isn't the gesture swooping as much as I want?", "ugh, I can't figure that shape out at this angle!" type of neuroses...

My buddy Jimmy Tran was kind enough to color this pic. Check it out!

Shadow Knight

While trying in vain to tidy up my messy condo, I stumbled accross a xerox of a sketch I started some six years ago when I was heavily into Everquest. I did the sketch after finally getting the Stone Etched War Sword from the Plane of Earth. It was a sword I remember seeing on my first week of playing that only one guy on our entire server had. I remember asking him about it and from that day, gaining that sword became a personal goal, benchmark, and gauge for when my Shadow Knight, Cyclonos had arrived. Such good memories.

I changed up the drawing a good bit, but at least it's semi done and I can put my Shadow Knight to rest :p

Tofu

Things have been pretty busy with work and life so I'm cheating and putting up an image I did about a year ago.

This was done for the last issue of a fan publication my friend Jen Chan coordinates called Tofu. Many years ago there were these anime fan gatherings of artists and budding artists who primarily met online. We would meet up occasionally at conventions like AX in Los Angeles and others around the world. At some point (well before I was ever involved) artists from some of the major cities decided it would be a good idea to have local get togethers to draw and have fun. It got so big they decided to make a yearly "jam" book to self publish and share at the annual conventions. Since then, members have grown up, gotten jobs, moved on etc. and these clubs have since disappeared. Jen decided to do one last publication for her Toronto chapter for old times sakes so I had to contribute.

The theme was of course tofu so I did a naked Ursula from Breath of Fire IV (because I was looking through the artbook and thought she looked awesome) with some floating tofu ...... I'm so creative I know. Looking at this now, I realized I made her ears WAY too short so if anyone has this book, sorry for the short ears :( Fixed tho on the blog, yeah!

Undead Warrior

I have finally gotten my MMO addiction semi under control after spending many many years playing. Here is a drawing of my retired undead warrior from World of Warcraft. This is mostly wishful thinking and items that I thought were cool looking. I wasn't actually good enough to get those shoulder pads but I drew them anyways. Stupid game....

Samus Aran

Has it really been a year? Yikes!!!

So yeah, the suit is a total cheat, there is no way she would fit in there haha. Thank the lord for photoshop, so much tweaking was done from the original pencils. One day I will try to color ...... once I get to drawing more than one piece a year ..... Baby steps :(

Kuk and Pig

I can't draw likeness' of people to save my life but I wanted to do a drawing of my super cute little nephew, Kai. He always carries around his little blanket which he refers to as "pig" and wants my sister to draw him pictures of trucks which he can't fully say yet so he says "kuk". I intended to make him look more curious, but somehow he ended up looking sad.

Touch

This was lying around in my sketchbook and done around the time I was reminiscing about highschool and all the "emo" (is that what the cool kids call it nowadays?) stuff I was into back then. As a reaction to the online, "Emo Authorities" that commented that my first image wasn't goth enough. I was going to do something extra sterotypical and sensative .... but I got lazy and never got past the figures.

Sitting

I am so fried from work but at least the deadline is OVER. My brain is still numb and recovering, I think i need a break from drawing. Thankfully i have a trip lined up to go visit my sister in Australia for two weeks wuwu! I can't wait to see my little nephew again, he's the cutest thing EVER!

Grey

A lot of sentimental things sparked this drawing. Nostalgia overtook me and a piece that doesn't reflect much of it came into being. The essences seem to be much grander than what came out saddly. Blaqk Audio, a conversation with a friend, a memory, Dream, Death, spring of 89, petticoats, a funeral, the Cure ..... mediocre conceptual execution on the drawing :(

I added black to his clothes since some people commented that this wasn't "gothy" enough.

Hooded Mantis

This is a design i did for ..... myself ..... of the character called ...... Hooded Mantis .....Guy. Once again i had no idea what i was going to draw. Semi inspired in a subconcious way by what i remember of a Masked Riders book my friend Ron, er Vim, lent me while I was doing some development work a year ago.

I also just want to say a quick "Hi!" to old friends who stopped by and left nice comments (and one punkish DC guy that use to be on 21 Jump Street). I am so slammed with work at the moment and closing in on the last few weeks of this dang project, i haven't had time to properly email you guys! It's really heartwarming seeing your names again!

Woman

When I was at the coffee shop this started out as a drawing of a girl with a gun, when I got home from work it became a pregnant woman.

Okay let me explain, at work there are two waify women that work in the digital post house in our complex. They are both pregnant and in early stages of pregnancy. While taking a smoke break outside, I see the blond woman on her cell phone. She wearing her normal clothes, bell bottom jeans and a tight top, not the loose wardrobe that most women I see wear during pregnancy. Something about that was so bold or proud to me. And the wierd artist side of me was so fixated on how her belly excentuated the curve of her back. She beamed, she looked so beautiful, and not in a sexual way. I had to draw it.

I didn't put nips (not the derogatory term for the japanese the other nips) on the drawing because i didnt want to be overtly sexual. So there it is, another drawing that sprung from randomness. and no nips! ... yeah im pretty proud of myself :p

SDCC 2007

Went to the Con in San Diego for two days and I was tired after the first 2 hours! The Doctor Strange screening seemed to be quite successful from what I could tell which makes me glad, I really do think its the best of the animated DTVs Marvel has put out so far. I hope it does well so Marvel and Lions Gate will let us do more! I also went to the Ironman movie panel, I cant wait for that to come out and i am praying its great! Ironman was the first comicbook I read so i have a lot of sentimental ties to that character. Still so tired....

Tree

Do you ever have one of those days when you start a drawing thinking its going to be one thing thing and it becomes something entirely different? Where sometime during the drawing process, you're not even sure why you are drawing it and you're asking yourself "What the hell am i drawing?! ....... " Well that never happens to me so enjoy!

Silver Surfer

Still not stretching boundaries much as I'd like but its more actiony at least! Silver Surfer has always been one of my favorite Marvel heros and even though I didn't see the movie, seeing the ads made me want to draw him.