ドラゴン

This year, instead of a Christmas piece, I made a New Year's piece, which was actually commissioned by my girlfriend to send out as a postcard to her family.



2012 is the year of the dragon. It's interesting to note that although Lunar New Year isn't until January 23rd, the Japanese celebrate the New Year's on January 1st.

Happy holidays, folks!

Something or other...

Was browsing some street fashion blogs...

히드라리스크 (Hydralisk)

I was trying to get some fanart done for the Montreal Mini Comicon and I've always been a fan of Starcraft...




On another note, I finally figured out what the problem was with many of my images displaying over-saturated colors when viewed with Firefox and Chrome. Apparenlty they can't handle the colors of jpegs when I choose "original size" from the embed link in Picasa. Now I just upload PNGs.

Please let me know if you notice any other display issues.

Why so Blue, Sonic?

So... Cheyenne got into this Sonic 25th anniversary show and I wasn't invited

ニャンコ

I've finally had a bit of time lately to get back on track with my webshorts project. I still won't be done for a while, so here's a Japanese cat:



He's saying "nyan!", which is japanese for "meow!"

EDIT: Made a deluxe version with an extra cat!

Сою́з (Soyuz) Longboard

The "Soyuz" is a commissioned design I made this summer for Restless. It was recently released and can be purchased at many fine board shops in the Montreal area and beyond, or you can order directly from their website (though I'm not sure if it's specifically listed their yet).



The red part of the board is actually the wood of the deck itself stained red.

The other board is one of my older designs named "Telsa Bunny" (also available for purchase). I only included it in this post because I don't think I had ever shown a picture of the deck itself.



I was asked to create a design with the Soyuz theme in mind. I took inspiration from some old Soviet space program art that I found online.

ZOMBEE!

We started themed sketch-lunch activities at work, this week's theme was "The Unexpected Undead". I figured noone would ever expect insects to be undead...



They not only feed on bee brains, but can also sting other animals such as humans thus transforming them into the living dead as well.

BEWARE THE ZOMBEES!!

MANIAC

A music video I worked on last august.

I did all the special FX & animations, with the exception of the subtitles and the "versus" shots.

Astronaut Barbie

Cheyenne & Frank are all about drawing Astronaut Barbie these days, so I decided to draw her as well. For obvious reasons, I decided to draw the 1980's Astronaut Barbie:



I really don't know what's going on with those sleeves...

Maia-Bird

I realized many of my post's colors look over-saturated on my PC at work. I hope they don't look that way for you. My home computer seems to display them ok...

Masa

Another gift for another friend.

East Meets West

Made these a few weeks ago, I was holding off on posting them because I had a few more flag mash-up ideas to go with them, but I'm really busy with freelancing + my day job lately so I haven't time.



"CANIPPON" - Canada / Japan




"MIHANGUK" - USA / Republic of Korea

They can either be taken as political commentaries (particularly the Mihanguk one) or just flags for people of two ethnicities. Hopefully I haven't offended anyone.

La Québécoise

Made this one for a small print that I gave to a dear friend who was leaving Québec... May he never forget.


Had a bit of an anime influence for this one. I guess I was in that mood. I'm considering making this into a series.

Cindy Walks the Dog

Here's a diptych piece I made for my sister in law's birthday:

Pac-Man VS High Five Ghost

I rarely make fan art. In fact, I find fan (fanatic) to be much too strong a word. In any case, I just finished watching the 2 seasons of J.G. Quintel's Regular Show and I really enjoyed it. I wouldn't say High Five Ghost is my favorite character, but I certainly like his design and premise. Thought it'd be fun to combine him with Pac-Man.

Tither!

Based on an old idea I had with Andrew, I've been working on a new web short. Here's a peak:

Assassin Lady

EDIT: Updated deluxe version

Pip Slug

코리안 코믹스 (Korean Comics) Online!

The official 코리안 코믹스 (Korean Comics) website is finally operational! Updates will be irregular but fairly frequent, at least one a week!

koreancomics.blogspot.com

May its silly storyline help familiarize you with Korea whilst still entertaining you in some way.



Also, I updated the blog layout.

Free Comic Book Day!

FCBD is actually tomorrow, but I will be out of town then to attend the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and therefore won't have computer access.

Please enjoy my free comic to you, which was my contribution to last year's Merure Volume 3 comic anthology. You can still buy your own copy of the book featuring over 20 artists/stories at Drownspire.com!

L'Ennui du voyageur

Don't piss off Gaia

She made me do it...

Cheyenne told me to post more naked girl drawings to increase my blog traffic. I said naked guy drawings would be more original, but that didn't happen. In any case, here's a wingless water faerie doodle.


Ive finished a new short short I really want to post, but it's kind of on hold until I figure out what I'm doing for sound.

Political Tees!

The Canadian federal elections are coming up soon, and I got this idea for some minimalist t-shirts for each party. Each of the leaders seem to have one very distinctive feature on their faces, usually but not always some form of facial hair. Not sure if I'll get any printed, maybe if there's any demand. They were just fun to design really.



I'm not very politically-minded, however I do think it's important to vote regardless. During the last election I was still at Sheridan studying animation and many people "were too busy" with their school work to bother to go vote, which is totally bogus. Exercise your rights, yo.

Mr.Martian

I'm currently working on some bigger things, but I wanted to take a break and do a little color doodle. This one's based on a sketch (which I lost but have a fond memory of ) I made last year after reading War of the Worlds. Feels like it's been done before, but whatever.



Although I've put "Une Vie de Maigre" on indefinite hiatus, I'm still planning to continue Korean Comics as soon as I get it's website running. I'm also working on some new short short animations!

Stay tuned.

On-the-Go Sketches

Finally I get to post something. I've been too busy lately, plus I just moved into a new place, so I needed time to unpack and such. Anyway, I'm making a point to properly set aside time for my personal work from now on.

I don't normally post my sketches, but I've been making a point of trying to sketch more on the go these days, so I might as well show a few of those drawings.

Caricatures of friends.

Captain John “Jets” McFadden

A Harajuku Couple

Hyon-Mi!

Meanwhile, I've been getting these really bad shoulder pains. The weird thing is that it's on my left side and I'm right handed. It gets bad when I'm at my desk at work all day, so it's becoming difficult to do some personal work when I get home. I still use my left arm a lot for hotkeys and such. Just typing this is killing me. I gotta see a specialist.

One last note, you can now follow me on TWITTER.

코리안 코믹스 #002

Here's the latest Korean Komics:


Brother: HYON-MI!!!

Hyon-Mi: Now I'm going to school!

Spadoid: I want to go to a bar!

코리안 코믹스 (Korean Comics)!

I've finally gotten around to seriously studying the Korean language, which is a nice break from my art-related pursuits. However, it occurred to me last week that I may be able to merge both passions into one.

I've always found that restrictions allow for more creativity. In this case, my severe lack of Korean fluency poses an interesting challenge in coming up with entertaining comics strips.

The idea is that if I continue the comics over a long period of time, the text will improve along with my grasp of the language, making it a sort of journal of my progress.

Hopefully I won't insult an entire culture in the process.

Enjoy!

Brother: My younger sister is drinking soju!!

Spadoid: Bottoms up!

100th Post!

Pour les femmes qui mon aimé:

현미

Just an idea.

Le trio

More "Une Vie de Maigre" development...


For more in the genre, check out this post Cheyenne made a little while ago. It's totally awesome and she'll love the attention, haha.

Le Petit Louis

"Une Vie de Maigre"'s main character when he's just a tyke.