Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Zombie Coconut

While I was sitting at my computer last night checking my email, twitter, some forums and blogs. I was inspired to do this sketch. Zombie Coconut. Inspired by Justin and Bianca's Fresh Like Coconuts site (FLC). It came out pretty good for something that originally started as a rough pencil doodle. Then I started to get into it and tightened the lines some and inked it in. Had to use a fine point Sharpie, since my regular Sharpie went AWOL on me. Added a maggot friend on his head too.

Think I am going to take this into Illustrator and simplify it a bit... tone down the detail a little and give it some color. May even try a mini painting of this.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Luchador Mr. Toast

I have got to get one of these! Luchador Mr. Toast. A DesignerCon exclusive. Edition of 25 at $25 each available this Saturday. If you are not able to get one of these, Dan said that he may get some more made at a later date. But those will have a different color mask.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Kitson Exclusive Uglydoll Ket

David Horvath just posted on his blog that Kitson has an Exclusive Uglydoll. Ket Kitson Edition was just released this week in stores and online. The regular version will be released in late 2010 and be a different color from this one. Ket is the first Uglydoll to be a confirmed in the 2010 line-up of Uglydolls. The rest should be revealed soon.

Ket was first seen at the Dehara & David Have Mono Show in Tokyo, Japan back in September of this year. There were 2 black handmade versions for this show.

I stopped by the Kitson store on Robertson, while on my way home from work, to see if I could pick one up. Wasn't too hard to spot. They were in a clear cube holder, on the floor. Not too far from the entrance aisle walkway. Might go back later this week and get at least one more.

Monday, November 09, 2009

Hello Kitty Meet the Artists Party

The Meet the Artists Party at the Hello Kitty Exhibition at Royal/T was on Saturday, 7pm-11pm. Went with my co-worker's blog partner Cecy and her friend. She was going in as media to interview the artists that were there for their mommy blog and I was assisting her. Just like being her Executive Assistant for the show. Since she wasn't very familiar with the artists, and I was, I could help her out by identifying who's who and give her background info.

There was a line to get into the pop-up shop in the front and another in the back to get into the gallery. But since we were media, we got in without any line waiting. Even got to go into the VIP lounge area for free beverages and appetizers. Some of the artists were in that area chillin' out before stepping out into the main gallery area.

I got to meet so many of the talented artists that took part in this show: Camilla D'errico, Angry Woebots, Deph, Misha, Dan Goodsell, Melissa Contreras, Peekaboo Monster, Gary Baseman, Jason Han, Thomas Han, Luke Chueh, Buff Monster, Natalia Fabia and Melly Trochez are the ones that I can remember at the moment.

Live painting started earlier in the day with Peekaboo Monster at 2pm, Angry Woebots at 4pm and Camilla D'errico at 6pm. Then there was the artist jam session during the Meet event where all the artists in attendance collaborated on one canvas. Paintings were auctioned and proceeds went to charity. There was also Live T-shirt Screenprinting at the event with art by: 64 Colors, Crowded Teeth, Buff Monster, Plasticgod and Mark Dean Veca. New print releases by Angry Woebots, Camilla D'errico and Peekaboo Monster, plus some of his custom The Birds resins too.

Would have taken more pics, but I was recording some of the interviews on my iPhone. Just in case Cecy missed writing anything down. She also purchased one of the Three Apples exhibit books to get the artists to sign. They are putting it up on their mommy blog, thatsitmommy.com, as a fan giveaway prize package. I picked up 2 watercolors by Dan Goodsell. He posted a bunch of them on his blog, but the 2 that I really wanted with Keroppi and Tuxedo Sam were already gone. Those 2 are my favorite Sanrio characters. Ended up getting one with Chococat and another with Sweet Coron.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Ultimate Alliance 2: DLC Pack


Looks like the first DLC Pack for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 is coming out this Thursday, November 5th. 800 Microsoft Points and $9.99 PSN Store. The Pack will include 5 new characters to the game: Carnage, Psylocke, Cable, Black Panther and another soon to be announced character. Also the Juggernaut pre-order DLC, that was a Gamestop exclusive pre-order, will be available on that same day. 160 microsoft Points and $1.99 PSN Store.

I pre-ordered this game at SDCC back in July just to get the DLC for Juggernaut. Still have not gotten around to play this yet. Trying to finish another game before I start this one. I really loved the first one, even finished the game too. Can't wait to start playing this one.

**JUST ADDED**
The mystery 5th character in the DLC Pack is none other than mutant master of magnetism, Magneto.

Character Sketch

Found these 2 sketches a few days ago in a pile of papers pressed within a sketch book. The first one was my initial detailed design, in pencil, for this character. I know I had some really loose and rough thumbnail pencils that I worked on first, but those may have been on some small pieces of scratch paper. I seem to use those, since I have them on my desk at all times. I try to recycle some of the waste paper from the printer/copier. Should really use my small sketchbooks more often... some of these pieces of paper get discarded afterwords. Especially if they have writing or phone numbers on them from notes or messages.

I knew she was going to have 6 arms (thought about 4 too) and armed with guns and blades. Her look was going to be very Amazon warrior-like with some hi-tech pieces to the uniform. She was part of the Strikforce team I posted in a previous sketch I did. That's about all I had as an idea for her at the time. It is quite a few years old and I vaguely remember some of the other characters that were created for this. Think her name might have been Shiva or Armada or Riot... Shiva sounds more familiar though.

The second one was going to be a much tighter, stylized pencil study of her with design tweaks. Only thing is that it was abandoned... never did finish working on it. Not sure why...