Digital Scrapbooking

Hey blogoverse! Long time no type!

I've been busy over here, making my biggest work of art - a baby in my belly! I'm due around May 1st and know the little one will provide a lot of inspiration for my work. Tyrone and I are super excited.

Not only that, I've also been working on getting my Scrapbook design store going. Digital Scrapbooking has a huge following. It's basically like the traditional cut and paste physical scrapping.. but everything is done digitally in photoshop. I make the elements and papers and people purchase my kits to capture their memories. It's fun, and allows me complete creative freedom.

Here are some examples of my kits. To see more visit my store at Scrapbookgraphics.com

Gotta get the work done, son.

This must be the first blog that won't showcase someone's latest work nor demand critique/praise, but is instead just a standard blog about what's going on. Not that there's been drama in our group (ie. Brian wanting to lay the smackdown on Zen if Zen ever mentions the word "Adam Corolla"), but we've got lives between comic conventions.

Since the start of 2009, I've been working like a thoroughbred on the second volume of AWOL'd, pencilling and inking TWO full chapters. I'm surprised and amazed I was able to pull that off and still balance my full-time job. Unfortunately, the book won't be ready for TCAF in May but a backstory comic to Leeves will be out then.

This whole week, I've been excited to work on a full-colour GIJoe mini-comic for the upcoming Canadian GIJoe Convention. If you want any clues on what the comic is about, I suggest you check out their forum. It's gonna be my best comic to date since I've been honing my drawing skills in the past few months. Straight up, if I was asked to draw this out two years ago, it would have been crap.

So basically, I've been busy working on new stuff to put out on our Sketchkrieg! tables. The same goes with the others. Brian should have a full-colour art book based on the Medicine series ready for TCAF and as well as Evan's new post-apocalyptic 120-page graphic novel Quarter-Life Crisis. I'm sure they're gonna share their progress of their books on the blog (looking at you two).

YO JOE, eh!

Here are some artwork I've done for Hasbro-approved exclusive figures being offered at the upcoming Canadian Joe Con.
On the left is an unknown Cobra dude and the other is Back-Stop, the only Canadian in the GIJoe team.

Marvel tryout book page

This is 85% finished pg 2 of 5 from a book given to me years ago. I finally got the courage to pursue it.

NiNja Cat

Hey! Sorry for the lack of posts, I've just been having computer problems ... and I've been busy with work. I recently did work for Nelvana, and it inspired me to do these these Ninja Cat poses. Enjoy.

sneak peek of AWOL'd vol. 2

I know it's been a long while since my last post...but rest assured, I've been busy on the new volume of AWOL'd that should be out this summer.
Here are the last panels of you'll find in the first two chapters of the book. Come up with your own conclusions.

Quarter-Life in Progress

I've been working a lot on the Quarter-Life book, so I thought I'd add some more pages in progress.





Some scenes of the brothers at their OCAD sanctuary.





And a flashback of pre-apocalyptic times, at the Royal Ontario Museum. (The book has a Lost-esque structure with interspersed flashbacks.)

A little sneak peek at one of the pieces I will be including in my full-colour Medicine artbook coming out in May.

Huh?

Something about the web?

Its about self discipline.

Issue 3

Issue #3 preview.

DEAL WITH IT!

COBRAAAAAH!

I know, I haven't posted on this blog like forever...

This is a commission piece I did that will be used for Joe Canuck and Canadian Joe Convention websites. Apparently, Hasbro allowed us the rights to use CC which is pretty sick!

Rex 'n Stuff

Here's a pinup that is going to be in the next Rex Libris trade. It's scheduled to be out soon. I really had fun drawing the nazi zombies!

This is what Medicine would look like if i had done it in the 90's. Wanted so badly to throw in a lens flare or two but i just couldn't find the right place to put it.

Hot Dog Carts & Huggin'

I've been busy working on a children educational book, so I haven't had a chance to post anything. But now that I'm finished I have the free time. So check out these illos I've done for The Canadian Sportsman. The first one is an article about this guy who hires this crazy woman and she gets her husband to intimidate him because he's late on giving her paycheck.

This one is about this guy who meets up with an old buddy every year at this horse racing event.

Some more stripmalling

A few final things done for Stripmalling (out this coming spring). The first two are freeze frames following protagonist Jonny's parents and his brother after the events of the novel. (They worship different gods.)




And then, an illustration for an excerpt of the book for Broken Pencil. The excerpt was much more graphic than this image.

The Power of Music Compels You!

A fun piece I did for zen's A.S.S. 

I'm Rich!

My latest illustration for The Canadian Sportsman. The article was weird and difficult to read because it was written in the style of the 1920's. But the gist of it was about a guy who was lucky and kept winning.

Sketches

For the sketches they wanted the main guy in the middle of a crowd of sad people with no money. So I came up with these sketches.

Linear

AAAYYY!

Signed and approved by Mr. Winkler himself at the Toronto Fan Expo.
What a nice guy.

Lil' Brother

Recently, This Magazine asked me to illustrate an article about the new Cory Doctorow book, Little Brother. The writer compared it (unfavourably) to Ferris Bueller's Day Off meets 1984. So I came up with some sketches.




The dude in this second one is supposed to be Michael Chertoff, Director of Homeland Security.




And this final sketch refers to the 'freedom' fought for by the young scamps in the book as more of a 'freedom-to-stay-up-and-party', rather than, say, the right to vote or protection from cruel and unusual punishment.

They liked the awesome dude with sunglasses the best, and he became the final colour illustration:

Convention report?!

Hey all! I missed FanExpo for the first time in many, many years this past weekend! How was the how for you guys? What did I miss? Fill me in on all the gory details!

ADC

Action Satisfaction Supreme: Issue#3 preview/Sketchbook

Come and get it!

Nice Trip!

Check out this piece I did for the Canadian Sportsman. I finished this one a while back, it's just been difficult to find the time to post it. The article was about this horse trainer who had many quirks. One of the quirks was how he would train the horses to get into the stables by pretending to trip over his laces. I know, weird.

Sketches

In this sketch I wanted to show a standard portrait of all the horses he trained.In this one, I showed the part in the article when he would do the "trip over his laces" trick. I was going to just send these two sketches...

... but I decided to do one more and i came up with this one. As you can see the editor really liked this one.

Inks

In the sketch there was a border, I decided to take it out. Looks way better without it.

The Calm Before The Storm

Page 1 of 12 sampler or of A.S.S. issue #3.
Pure Digital.
I'm having troubles with the title. Any suggestions?