Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

Wanted to try my hand at a softer kind of illustration and I used a nondescript Tron character to do it. I played around a lot with this one and used lots and lots of layers which resulted in a pretty big file. Although the end result is not quite what I had in my [...]

This is proof that “not according to plan” can yield positive results sometimes. My plan was to have the fight take place in a Mushroom Kingdom version of the platforms from the very opening levels of the first two Kingdom Hearts games. This is mostly because the worlds in KH are largely Disney based and [...]

For Superhero of the Month. The challenge was to redesign two Birds of Prey characters and I went with Black Canary and Lady Blackhawk because the guns vs. fists thing seemed like an interesting contrast to me. Redesigning Dinah was a pretty smooth process. I know the character for JLU and from a handful of [...]

Trying to get a little more character and storytelling into my pin-ups instead of just some chick in a sexy pose. I mean, I still plan on doing some of those (as airbrush studies mostly) but I’m trying to do stuff that says a little more. Murderbot is a variation of a robot (or “robot-type” [...]

It’s the Battle of the Moustaches! The line art for this had been lying in my sketchbook for a while and now that I’m caught up with commissions I can finally finish it up. The idea for this moustache face-off has been in my head for a while and it’s a nice change of pace [...]

This was supposed to be a quickie in between commissions but, of course, I spent way longer on it that I intended. Was mostly trying to play around with different kinds of brushes and trying to add texture to a mostly flat image. Maybe I overdid it but I do kinda like the look of [...]

I’m really, really liking how this turned out. I like it even better when I compare it to Mario vs. The Heavy. I still love that piece but it seems almost crude in comparison and the improvement is quite palpable. But anyway, it’s Mario and The Pyro from the amazing Team Fortress 2 (officially my [...]

I’ve been wanting to do this piece for a while and, in spite of my better judgement because I have so much other stuff I need to do, it’s finally done and I’m glad to have gotten it out of my system. It’s a fairly ambitious piece relative to what I usually do and I’m [...]

Without getting too much into it, I think that the Starfire controversy last year was partly due to a failure in the writer and artist to properly convey the nature of the character and not so much in the skimpiness of it all. Koriand’r shouldn’t be covered up like a nun, she’s an alien princess [...]

Having Tetris blocks about to crush Mario was the obvious thing to do here because, well, what else would they do? A little more difficult was coming up with a way to make them threatening so I crushed Mario’s hand to make the stakes a little more clearer. Also, after my previous Mario fights, it [...]