The Venetian Demon (Tattoo design)

Here's the rough put together I did on photoshop of the tattoo thats going on my friend's back. The Space I have to work with is 21inch high by 17 inchest wide at the shoulders and 11inch at the waist. So yeah, that's pretty effin' big. I love it! It's inspired me to work on my Last Supper piece I did back in grade 12, that I never completely finished. My very own Da Vinci Demon series.

Tattoo fix up

Buddy of mine has paid me to add some detail to a tattoo of his, which has no sparked several of my friends to get me to draw the designs for their tattoos. I've always been interested in tattooing, and I don't know what it is but whenever I tell someone I'm an artist they always ask me if I either tattoo or can design them one. So, I'm going to put together and portfolio of a bunch of different stuff and see if I can maybe apprentice somewheres.

Last years...in preparation for this year.

Yeah I know Halloween hasn't even past yet, but you got to start early. This was my Christmas Card for friends and family last year. I'm going to be doing another one this year, just not sure who's going to be helping Santa out yet.

Stealth Elementz - STEALTH Mix Tape Cd Cover

Commission work I did for a friend of mine who emcee's, Stealth Elementz. He's from Hamilton, like myself, and is proud of it so he got me to his cover and use some Hamilton imagery; Copps Coliseum and Ivor Wynne Stadium as backgrounds. Make sure to check out some of his tracks at http://www.myspace.com/stealthelementz and for anyone in the Hamilton area, I'll be posting later on as to where you can find this Mix Tape once it's released.

Dead Fix roughs

This past summer I had started a lot of little projects that I have yet to finish and they will have to wait. I've started now to focus on just one project, that being my cousin and I's zombie surviving tale "Dead Fix". Here are the first four pages from the intro.

Please, critiques are encouraged, anything to make it better.

R.E.A.L Kids Magazine

So, I've been waiting to put these up for about a month now. Just got the magazine in today, and it looks great from what I've been told. I havn't seen it yet. But yeah, so here's the pages I did for R.E.A.L Kids Magazine Canada.

P-p-p-p-POKEMON!

Havn't posted in awhile, but now I gots me some free time. I've been playing Pokemon for Gameboy lately, Ruby version to be exact. And, as I was playing one night I kept getting attacked by wild Zubats...which I'm sure if you've played the game, you understand how annoying that can get. So, I sent out my Tropius and told him to use STOMP. Than I envisioned it in my head how it would actually squish the Zubat into pancake batter.


There you go, Tropius about the STOMP Zubat. Critical hit. It was super effective.

Dead Fix variant cover One

The first of three variant covers I plan on making for Dead Fix...yes I know this was at first titled Zombie Kill Of The Week, but now its a cover. Deal with it, I have. Anyways, I'm really pumped up about this piece, my best inking I've done so far I think.

FAN EXPO in TWO WEEKS!

So I got my ticket for the Saturday of the FanExpo this year. I'm over the whole not being at the table for the whole weekend now, but it still sucks. Hopefully I'll have the courage to show my portfolio around to some people, editors and artists...besides my former teachers.

I'm really excited to see John Romita Jr. and of course, Stan "the Man" Lee.  I want to get Lee's autograph but who knows how long of a wait thats going to be. Oh well, we'll see how it goes!

Rest In Peace Dorothy Margaret Barrett Twilhaar

Dorothy Margaret Barrett Twilhaar was the mother of an uncle of mine who is a very close friend of my family, basically he is my family. Dorothy past away just this past week and she will be missed deeply by everyone who knew her.

PRIMUS SUCKS!

I went and saw my favourite band of all time last night for the third time, Primus. This little collage of photos I put together were taken from Wild Lupin's website, great photography I suggest you google the name. But I printed that out and began working on a Primus poster that I shall be posting soon...once I'm finished.

Zombies On A Plane/Dead Fix page 1 rough

So, I said in yesterdays post that I was going to work on Hollyworld today, but instead worked on a couple other things unrelated. But this, this shit right here! I am very stoked about.

You see initially my cousin Carljo and I had several different ideas for Dead Fix. Where it should start was where we disagreed mostly, I kept pressing for Hamilton be the starting point, and Carljo thought it should be in Toronto. Wasn't a big problem to over come but it was just one of many small little problems with finding exactly how we wanted to tell this zombie survival story.

As some friends may know, I started a story a few months back called Zombies on A Plane. 5 Page short story about me being on a plane and escaping a zombie attack, with an open ending to it. I originally got the idea from trying to crack a joke for class for my "Million Dollar Idea" (I suggest you go visit Meaghan Cartars blog site...I'll get a link up later, she actually has a small cartoon blog of this incident).

So, I don't wind up working on ZOAP because of a tight schedule with school, and Dead Fix is put on hold due to not having the proper story for it. When suddenly, I have time one day. And I realize that I'd like to continue with ZOAP because its just such a fun five page story I know I can add to it to be even better. Than like a spiders web my mind puts it together, combine Dead Fix with ZOAP.

So there you have it, a weird explanation on how I combined two ideas into one that should be really good. And to be honest, so far, the ideas my cousin and I have been coming up with are awesome. The reason I even worked on this today and will be working on it for the next while is because a friend of mine Adam (another great artist I will make a link for), showed me a show called Dead Set. Awesome British zombie show.

Hollyworld Cover

A bit more detail on this page. I'm going to work on page four and maybe five of Hollyworld tomorrow. That way I have a cover, and a five page sequence for the portfolio. I'm really enjoying making this cover.

HollyWorld cover design

So I started getting back into my own stories I'm trying to write. HollyWorld being one that I think has some pretty good potential. This cover design features a couple different elements that I..well lets not sugar coat, I stole. I based my lead character off of George Clooney, so I thought I might as well use one of his movie posters, see what design elements they had. The Good German poster was a really nice one I thought, so I used George and Cate Blanchett as the center piece. There's also a cast of shadowy figures known as "The Directors" who run HollyWorld, so to show them I went back to one of my favourite late night cartoons, Clone High. I based my Directors on their cast of shadowy figures that the principal had to answer too. Their name escapes me at the moment. Anyways, I added the car and the guy stabbing the other guy and the original poster didn't have a panel above. So, I don't really feel as though I'm completely ripping anything off here. You be the judge I guess.

REAL Kids Magazine...

So I took on a job that I probably should've gotten all the information on first. Seems like I might be dropping this work due to a very tight schedule that I can't work with due to my part time job and other commission work thats paying more for less work. I'll decided later today.