Stripmall for me, baby

More pages from Jon Paul Fiorentino's forthcoming epic novel, Stripmalling. This series of pages has fewer beatings and more capitalist critique. Enjoy!

Bollywood caricatures...

Here's some caricatures of Bollywood celebs Hrithik Roshan and Shilpa Shetty I've done freehanded on Adobe Illustrator. It's part of an upcoming web project.
Enjoy!

Harry Potter and the environmental crisis

This is a quick illustration I did for the environmental magazine, Alternatives Journal. The article is an environmental reading of the Harry Potter books, but for the illustration, they just wanted a depction of a scene in the final book, Harry Potter walking through the Forbidden Forest with the spirits of his fallen loved ones by his side.

Not a Fan

Hey! I just wanted to post this latest illustration I did. I'm not really too keen on it but it's what the art director wanted. The article is about an owner nicknaming a skinny mare and its small foal Olive Oyl & Sweet Pea. So the best solution I was told to do was to have the horses resemble the faces of the two Popeye characters. So here ya go ... enjoy. Alana can't even look at this ... she says it creeps her out.

-Ty

Stripmalling finals

Long time, no blog. Here are the first half of the pages I've done for Jon Paul Fiorentino's upcoming novel, Stripmalling. I'll post the others soon. Some solid beatings and face-sewing in this set.

Return of Drawing from Life

After a long unexplainable break from life drawing, I'm back at it. I find it's a good way to rid of my dying brush markers in the best possible way.
Compared to my past sessions, I've now gotten avoided the pencilling stage for each drawing and just gone straight to inking on a blank page. That's guts and balls, I say!

10 minutes...I was really experimenting with this one. I wanted to see if I can shade this drawing without graytone markers. I ended up using the markers half-way through.


10 minutes...Just finding the contours. Never mind the hiccups around the arms. Yikes!


10 minutes


15 minutes...

Portraits

Hey check it out! I just finished up this illustration and wanted to share it with everyone. The illo was for an article in The Canadian Sportsman. It was about different writers experiences with horse racing. So for each story I had to draw a portrait of each writer. It was fun to do. Enjoy.

-Ty

Its been a bit. I am working on several new surreal works as well as the new ASS#3 which will be previewed very soon. Until then check this out.

Zen's Con Sketches

Here's Zen's con sketch of Blanka at the FanExpo (Aug. 24-26 2007). Zen wanted me to take a pic of it so he can remember it. So here ya go Zen.

And here's another ...

-Ty

The Boy and The Crow - Ty's Version

Hey! This is my version, or should I say versions of The Boy and The Crow!

I did this one first. I wanted to do a dark sort of piece. Once I was finished, I felt like doing another one.

This time I wanted to do something completely opposite of the other one, something fun. So I came up with this.
At Willow and Ray's reception I had people complimenting on the second piece more so than the first. What do you think?

-Ty

The Boy and the Crow

This painting was a gift for the wedding of two wonderful people Willow Dawson and Ray Cammaert. The theme for their celebration was "The Boy and The Crow." Which I later found out worked off Willow's last name - Dawson meaning son of daw (Jackdaw) Ray being the boy.

I stuck with a two tone palette of burnt sienna, ultramarine and white. I laid down a neutral grey tone in the background and then worked the highlights and shadows up from there.

Cat Lady - B&W

I'm in the midst of coloring her, but here's an inked cat lady. After all the comic conventions I've been attending lately I thought I would try my hand at some traditional ink drawing. As for the subject matter - with a new kitten running around here (bringing our cat total up to three) I sometimes feel like a cat lady.

Fan Expo weekend

It's Fan Expo weekend and Sketchkrieg! will strike again!
I'll be bringing copies of my new comic series AWOL'd, plus copies of my sketchbook filled with concept sketches, comics, life drawings, and randoms.
The cover of my sketchbook is shown above.

TCAF this weekend!

This weekend is the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I'm so excited to be in it again, along side my partner in crime, Tyrone McCarthy and the members of SketchKRIEG! Best of all it's FREE ADMISSION! Put on by The Beguiling it features a not to be missed lineup of some crazy huge names in comic arts. It's being held on Saturday and Sunday Aug 18 & 19 in the Old Victoria Building, U of T (Northeast corner of Queen's Park.)

I'm working away on having some mini original paintings to sell like the little 4x4" guy up there. One thing I learned from the Fruitopia job is that I can get a lot of painting done in a day if I just focus.

Drop by and visit. All the info is on the link above. It truly is an amazing festival with a little bit of something for everyone.

See you there!

Mobile Art

Crime & Punishment

Fairy Tale Romance

Hey dudes ...
Just wanted to post some illustration work that I've done lately ...
I did these illustrations for a mobile phone company ...
They're "digital stickers" which you would place over a pic that was captured off your mobile phone ...
I had some fun working on the Crime and Punishment piece ...
Fairy Tale Romance was all right ...
Enjoy ...

-Ty

Car Trouble

A black-and-white version of the cover for The Amazing Challengers of Unknown Mystery #3. Everybody dies!

On the RoofTop...

The Human Fly design is finnally up on Project Rooftop. Check on the R.F logo and see how it panned out with the judges.

A.S.S. #3 Sketches

I am working on Action Satisfaction Supreme #3.
In this issue you meet Russ's Family.
I am convinced that using the computer is the best way to go.
My process for this issue will be completely digital.
Let me know what you think.

Farewell Scarborough

It's been a while since I posted anything, but I recently worked on a five-page story that I'm submitting to a magazine for publication. It features a character called Town Cryer that I've bandied about in various forms in my sketchbooks for years. It's nice to see him finally used. Let me know what you think!

Captain America - Con Sketch!

Zen's Cap'n

Ty's Cap'n

Hey! Check out these Captain America sketches that Zen & I did during the Paradise Comics: Toronto Comicon. They were handing out these Captain America comics with blank covers during the show. Apparently the comics were for some sort of auction. Zen and I gave it try and we're pretty happy with our results.

From The Human Fly to Super Fly

There is a site called Project Rooftop devoted to super hero fashion. The challenge is to redesign a character but still making him recognizable and not revamping his orgin. So I did The Human Fly in tribute to my father-in-law's childhood favorite.

the page before

Again some pre-inked work(page 2). Things to note: the last 3 panels have the same image of the hole in the door pasted on over each panel. Also there will be a lot of sound words added.

Princess', Fairies ... OH MY!

Alana is not the only one doing something different. Check it out, I'm drawing fairies and princess'! Before you say, "What the?!" I did this poster for a theatre company in Barrie. It's for their children musical Sleeping Beauty. I don't usually do this sort of subject matter ... but I had fun with it.
Hope you like ...

-Ty

Fashion Illustrations

Now for something completely different.

I've got a bit of a knack for loose watercolor fashion illustrations. Once in a while a job pops up for this type of work and I get called upon to switch styles and mediums. It's a nice respite from the tedious layering of acrylics. The speed and quick decisions needed for these type of images is liberating yet restrictive at the same time. One false stroke and I need to start the whole painting over again. It actually took me a few shots before I loosened up enough to get the look that the designer wanted.

These four were my favorite out of the twelve.

Quite possibly the cutest thing I've ever painted...

Here's the final for the pet portrait of Ludlow. It's full of tooth rotting sugary cuteness! I'm really happy with how it turned out - and so are the couple I was commissioned by (phew!)

PLEASE BE CRUEL....and a little kind... but mostly cruel.

This one page(Page#3) of many in which I will post as the month goes by. I really want to hear some feed back before I lay down the inks. Like for example: where would a cast shadow sit on Diablo in panel#1?

Personally I'm not too crazy on panel#2 and already thinking of another option.