I recently decided to move away from making customized My Little Pony toys for a little while to instead focus on learning digital and graphic arts. To help jump start this endeavor, I enrolled myself in two classes for the months of April thru June. Perhaps My Little Pony Friendship is Magic truly inspired me even in the [...]
If you saw this previous post about the customized toy I created for Studio B Animation/DHX Media Animation Director Jayson Thiessen, then you might be pleased to know that for the past three months I’ve been creating a whole army of customized pony toys. These have been mostly for sale, and a few were also created [...]
I’ve recently been trying to learn how to make quality vector art. My goal is to become a professional illustrator and animator, and vector art has become extremely popular in both genres. Before I dive into complicated pieces, I decided to start off simple so I could get a handle on the tools and curves. [...]
I had the pleasure of meeting Jayson Thiessen at Animation on Display here in San Francisco. He is the director of the amazing series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, airing on The Hub and an unexpected smash hit with fans of all ages. So when he mentioned in his first panel that he was [...]
I really have no idea where I get my crazy ideas from sometimes. But needless to say, here’s another one! I decided to create a kooky series of portraits that incorporate fish in unusual and unexpected placement someplace within the composition. Its a fish free-for-all and the only restriction that I’m placing on myself is that the [...]
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One of the disadvantages to renting an apartment is that some landlords don’t allow tenants to repaint or paper the walls. In our apartment, the walls are a vast sea of off-white. Minimalists in nature, we don’t have countless framed photos or other gratuitous items hanging on the walls for either sentimental or aesthetic purposes. Our wall emblems are [...]
August was a hard month for us and I wasn’t able to produce or post any art. But with the start of September, things are returning to normal and I’m playing catch-up. I have new art work, both line drawings and crayon pieces. Be sure to check out my full galleries here, here, and here! [...]
A co-worker of mine asked me to draw his amazing wedding portrait and to document the crayon process. I was more than happy to do that for him, and in just two and a half non-consecutive days, I was able to knock out this 8.5″ x 11″ crayon piece. I rarely use red or pink [...]
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