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.

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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?

Parachute Party

Check it out, this is the latest illo I did for The Canadian Sportsman. I really like how this one turned out.

Sketches

In the first sketch, the article wasn't too clear that it was harness racing (plus it was dated back in the 1970's) so I just assumed that the rider was riding horseback. But I was wrong.

So I fixed it up. The editor wanted to show the part in the article where the trainers come in and slowed the horse down with a parachute. This sketch is pretty much what the final illo looks like. The editor dug this image.

Inks

There you have it. Enjoy!

Glamour Shots

More character sketches for Quarter Life Crisis, which I'm feverishly working on.



Our protagonists.



The Rogers.



The 1895s.



The Bay Street Thugs.



The Koreans.

On A Plane

Here's another illo that happens on a plane. The article is about how the writer dislikes making small talk with people on planes. So she decides to tell lies. It's pretty funny.

Sketches

In the article it mentions that the writer gets air sickness and the passenger beside her just keeps on yapping. The image of her looking ill didn't go over well with editor. They wanted me to concentrate more on the lying aspect.

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So there ya go! I made it looks like she was bragging about herself, in a sense she is. In a lying sort of way.

Inks

How to Draw!

Hal Niedzviecki, that is.

Broken Pencil asked me to do a two-page spread on how to draw their founding editor and indie culture guy Hal Niedzviecki. Here 'tis!

this image will be used on the back cover of my next book (coming out very VERY soon).

Cinderella-ella-ella

I just finished this theatre poster for Theatre by the Bay. It's for their Cinderella play that's for kids. I really have fun doing these posters. Here's my process:

Sketches

They wanted the Fairy Godmother to be a bit smaller, she seemed to be dominating the poster. The wicked step sisters were too scary looking so I had to change them. Also they preferred that Cinderella's hair was up in a bun.

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Before moving onto the inks, they wanted the bottom of Cinderella's dress to have a flower pattern.

Inks

AWOL'd cover volume ONE

Here's a cover design for the nearly complete volume one of AWOL'd.

Stripmalling Cover Draft

I made up this quick cover mockup for the book Stripmalling. The final will be in colour and have nicer fonts, but this is the basic concept. And the illustrations of all the characters are going to be used as finals (or that's the plan, at least). If you see anything horrible with any of the sketches, let me know so I can fix them before I continue.

This looks like a job for ...

So, I've been working on my Superman illustration for the Shuster Awards next month. I wanted to go for something that showcased Clark Kent more, since everyone will be drawing the classic Superman in costume. I started out with this rough:



But then I realized I needed to do something vertically oriented (to fit the rest of the Superman illustrations). So I think I recreated the same feeling with this sketch:



And then, the inked, larger final version.



I added just a bit of colour -- his costume underneath the suit is red and yellow and blue and his eyes are blue. But the final is otherwise black and white. But my scanner is really lame and keeps crashing when I try to scan it in colour. What do you think?

Lobster Goodness!

Here's the latest illustration I did for The Canadian Sportsman. When I was working on this piece I wasn't enjoying it, I don't know why. Maybe because I was busy working on my comic. But I really like how this piece turned out in the end and in print it looks great!
Check out my process:

Sketches

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Inks