Out Of Picture!

Covers designed by Mike Knapp and Dice Tsutsumi.

Out Of Picture 1 has been making some buzz with the new re-released soft cover edition by Villard which you can find in book stores everywhere! Or if you prefer you can order them online. Check it out...this lady is diggin' the new gallery section...

I had the oppurtunity to be a part of Out Of Picture 2 which will be coming out in the summer. Here's the first page of my contribution called 'Plane Food'...

DRAWFORCE!

DrawForce has landed! It's a little blog a few friends and I will be getting our weekly geek fix on. Jake Parker, Peter Nguyen, Vincent Nguyen, Mike Lee and me make up the furious five that make...DrawForce...Force...Force...Force. Here are my first two posts. Peace.

'Clobber'

Clobber and his catastrophic clobbering

'coach'

A design in the works for a freelance project I'm working on...'if I tolds ya I'd have to kill ya'. Anyways I was playing with the memories of my high school gym teacher who's shorts were too short and calves were bionic.

Happy Holidays!

Hope you all have been having a nice holiday and continue to do so through the new year. I personally can't wait till egg nogg is on the grocery shelf all year long. Here's an idea I have of this character who has tentacles for arms...and flies a capsule shaped space ship...and wears a cool hat...obviously a work in progress. Happy 2008!

willie

New Horton Trailer!

Check out this pretty cool looking trailer for 'Horton Hears A Who'...and here are a few of my personal favorites. Can't wait to see it =]

ping kong

a work in progress. some of the guys here at work helped with value, value, and value. mike lee said to 'power bomb that color!' vincent showed me what not to do...just kidding freckles. so yeah, this piece is a test. i want to try and figure out a process where i can add color and value but not lose the line i'm soo in love with. nos vemos!

sketchbook pages

Here are a few pages from my sketchboook. I finally had some time to just sit one night and sketch for fun. For one reason or another skulls and astronauts are my default imagery when I start doodling. The last one is from a 'draw-a-thon' in Brooklyn...best NYC night ever!

Figure Drawing...

I haven't drawn from a live model in a very, very loooong time. Bare with me as I try and find my foundation. Anyways, the poses and times vary...oh and I did some doodles of faces at the very bottom. Apologies for the lack of posting...work is still crazy busy.

"la Muerte te escojio"

Goliath Part 1

Well, it's not really part 1 because I did some thumbnails for the pose. It's more like stages 2 and 3 (pencil and ink). I just wanted to post to see some progress in the next few posts. I've scanned it in and now comes the hardest step for me...color. Hopefully it works out...wish me luck. Any suggestions are welcomed =] David will make an appearance soon.

Out of Picture 2

Phew! This was probably the biggest project I've ever taken on. 14 Pages of graphic novel, comic book madness for the upcoming Out of Picture 2 book. I finished last night and it doesn't come out until next year so I wanted to post a preview of one of the pages.

I hand lettered the type which was heavily edited by a friend by the name of Lisa Durr. Thanks kid! You saved my illiterate life.

Anyways, hope you dig and this also means I will be posting more often! waahoo...go posting...go posting...it's your birfday...(sorry)

vehicular doodling

hey guys and gals. just wanted to post something up because i haven't in a while. things are busy ahh yadda yadda yaa, you know the whole routine. friends and co-workers just got back from comic con and said they had a blast. i unfortunately was unable to attend but i'm definitely booking for next year. out of picture will be done in a week or so...i'll post up one of the pages so you can see whats kept me from giving this blog some TLC. peace out.

a motorcycle telephone pole riding monkey

A doodle turned sketch turned photoshop while listening to a friend play guitar. His name is Tony Jung and his album comes out in the near future (the sooner the better).

i am stoked!

the real deal

trikes

here's a piece that started as a doodle the other night. i love to draw wheels, vehicles, bikes, and anything with circles. i started with the one in the middle and worked my way back. maybe they're trikes that belong to a trike gang that goes around the neighborhood collecting lemonheads or something....

ps. it's the start of a bigger bicycle project that i want to do. maybe i'll do a piece a week or so and work up a good number of originals to maybe even show, who knows. i'm inspired by bicycle thieves...one of my favorite movies of all time.

'Luminous'

Character Design Interview!

I'm really excited about being interviewed this past week by a fella named Randall over at the Character Design Blog. (pinch) ouch! It was a fun and interesting process because some of the questions asked were things I've never really put much thought into. I learned a lot about myself and yeah I still don't know how to write...sorry Mrs. Wolf (High School English Teacher). Check it out if you get a chance and thanks Randall. I had a blast!

http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/

One last thing, here are some of my latest that were included in the interview.

'Las quatro manos de Muerte'

'Chica on a bike'

'fork flower'

Deep Sea

Benefit Auction

Here's a drawing I'm donating to a benefit auction back home in SF. I learned about this cool oppurtunity through a friend and co-worker, Dice. The proceeds will go to an organization named Emergency which helps build hospitals in war torn countries. Besides being a meaningful cause the auction looks like it'll be an amazing show held at the Maverix Studios. Wish I could attend!

Anyways the drawing started as a doodle which turned into a small piece dealing with death and it's.....curiosity. Sort of like a small stranger who comes up to you and says "hello".

It was 1984 and I didn't know the meaning of the word consequences...does any child? Anyways, my childhood best friend and some other kids from the block would position themselves at the intersections and give the thumbs up when it was clear. We went through several big wheels doing that...the plastic tires would scrape down to nothing along with the soles of our shoes. Good times. I would never in my right mind do it again.....but you can if you'd like right here!

recent sketches n' stuff...

character studies.

character studies.

i like fish!...(fish study)

it's been raining here...a lot...but i kinda like it.
here's a sketch that hopefully someday i can sculpt.
i just think it would be cool to try and suspend
that cloud above the figure with thin wires or something?

one of my favorite movies of all time (the bicycle thief)

a model i know...

the last king of ping pong.

out of picture on the brew!

There's an interesting article on Cartoon Brew about artists working in the animation industry and their creative outlets outside of the 9 to 5. Out of Picture is mentioned in it along with other sweet books. I'm really happy to be a part of the second one and I'm learning a gazillion things as I go along. Storytelling panel to panel is a huge challenge! Here's a sneak peak of a panel in progress...shh, don't tell anyone =]

i like fish...

...and i like to post. wish i could post more often but yadda yadda yadda, you know the deal. anyways jake parker and i dedicated today's lunch hour to drawing what we saw on our way to work in the morning. i really did see this guy and he really did ask for directions...really.

(not really, but that's why i love drawing)