Deadly - GustoArt

Demon Water

2012-01-21T23:00:00.000-08:00

The last of my little 'aquatic' series, or... whatever you might wanna call that.

This one was on a piece of 30x24 piece of craft paper, so it reaaaally sucked trying to figure out how to get this. I tried to take a picture of it as best I could, but the colours are really muted and a bit messed in comparison to real life. :/

Oh well. Demon girl, oddly happy with what she's doing.

Artwork done and © Gus Kosmopoulos, 2012. Please do not copy or redistribute without permission.

Again... more vibrant in person. :P

Mind of My Own

2012-01-01T21:05:00.001-08:00

‎'Misery' is a character from my comic (with all the other characters). Tried to include little subtleties in this one.

Her tale has always been a sad one in the comic for years. I've been trying to figure out little stories and everything to mix in with the main plot. And when I make characters, I can't help but come up with a back story.

But this'll be the third and last of the 'Misery' series. She's been sad long enough, taken enough of me (whenever I feel rough, she takes the abuse from me.. and that's just not fair), so you will see her happy in the next picture! and it'll probably be the last you see of Misery.

She'll be turned into Hope.

based off of 'Mind of my Own' by Strung Out.

Artwork done entirely in Photoshop CS5 with a Graphire 4.

Sulpher Brothers

2011-12-27T14:27:00.000-08:00

Here's a commission from my roommate T.J.; a portrait of him and his brother Jordan that he wanted to give to various family members as presents. I don't have pictures of this up in a frame, but it looked pretty damn good. :) And everyone in T.J.'s family loved it. As did he. :) Happy with how some of this came out.

hey's...

2011-12-23T01:57:00.000-08:00

It's startin' to get to me a bit. Whoever is anonymously leaving messages and being an asshole needs to stop. I'll keep deleting them 'cause frankly, I don't need that here.

So stop, please. At least have the marbles to use your fucking name.

Aie..

EDIT: As blogger.com doesn't show IP addresses (i've searched how to do it multiple times), I've installed that flag counter at the side. I apparently need an outside source to track any visitations to my blog-- so on top of collecting cool little flags, It'll now give me some IP addresses if I go visit the details. if you post again, I'll be able to narrow down who it is, now.

Kathleen's Walk

2011-12-21T20:05:00.000-08:00

This was a commission done for my friend Kathleen! She wanted a drawing of her on a walk with her dog Beanie, and her cat Peanut. :) Peanut recently passed away as I was painting this, so I hope to do something a little more proper for Kathleen when I get a chance. Of Peanut, I mean. :)

I think I need to get a handle or incorporate my style somehow into my backgrounds. They don't seem to match with my characters. To me, anyway. But this was fun to do. :)

Jelly Investments

2011-11-24T19:49:00.001-08:00

Not even sure what she is. Lawyer? Stock Broker? Bank.. associate?

I may take another picture of this at some point, or try and rescan it. not sure I like how this came out just yet. Had to do some adjustments in photoshop to get it right.

Also may tidy up the background more, but.. if I mess with it anymore right now, I'll kill it.

Aquatic Savant

2011-11-21T17:00:00.000-08:00

My newest print now available. Did this picture in between a large amount of commissions I have to work through. It's good to draw for yourself once in a while. :)

Coloured pencil on craft paper, with a texture thrown overtop in Photoshop!

TJ's Tattoo Commission!

2011-11-15T21:19:00.000-08:00

Here's a tattoo commission I did for my roommate, T.J. :D This is a large piece that's going on his chest. I was quite happy he asked me to do this too, so so fun. Obviously though, the tattoo artist has to take a few liberties, but they'll make it all the better!

Opening commissions soon again, speaking of which. One everything on this list is done! Finally catching up on that massive thing. Eesh!

Lily-Monster!

2011-11-11T13:11:00.000-08:00

An image that I drew for Lily! She's using it for her webpage and .. well whatever she wants! :) There's some things I wish I could of improved on, but I think it came out alright :D

Halloween!

2011-10-28T20:51:00.001-07:00

Also trying to get this done in time for Halloween. I think I can do it, but i've been kinda distracted. My head hasn't been playing fair. :P

But! Gunna try my hardest.

Sketches

2011-10-24T22:37:00.000-07:00

Some character head sketches I did while bored at work!
I had to cover for my mother at our parents restaurant while she was in Toronto; my sister just had a son! So... .. yeah :)

These are all characters of mine I'm trying to slowly revamp! The first set is a bunch of elf characters I have (all female, surprise). And then the bottom are this... large mercenary group/nation called the Kaare. It has a main group, but a few others have been welcomed into this nation.

And then Cammy from Street Fighter.

... does that make sense? Not sure. :)

But these are just so I can do their full body pics. need to update these guys badly.

Amanda

2011-10-24T22:32:00.000-07:00

Here's another painting I did of Amanda. She's a great subject to paint. And such a wonderful girl. It'll be fun to see her again.

Added a texture on top. Will update soon about Amanda and I's Chicago trip, with some neat photos and drawings. :)

Ironclad 2012 Calender Submission

2011-10-14T02:00:00.000-07:00

My submission for the 2012 Ironclad Calender here in Kingston, where local artist's get a chance to have their work displayed together in a calender! I was lucky enough to get May (December being my first :) ) and well, here's my illustration. I took out the days and numbers in this one.

I spent a week doing those clouds. Looking at tutorials, examples, mimicing, doing, learning as much as I could. Eesh.. But this is one of my best pieces to date :) And I'm quite happy with it to be honest.

Pictures! .. yeah I know, lame...

2011-08-29T23:34:00.000-07:00

I couldn't come up with a better title :)

First there's a commission I did for my friend Tyne. I wanted to try something different with the background, more of a cutout style... kinda successful.. but I'm quite happy with this I like how Tyne turned out! And best of all, she loved it! I will have the one of her son Jaymes up soon.

next I did a Wedding Tree for my friend Kirby and Meaghan for Meaghan's sister. basically, this is their guestbook; people sign it by using their finger prints in autumn leaf colours, pressing them down as leaves, and write a little signatue and message if they want :) neat idea. Not mine, but this was so fun to do!

And then some backgrounds I'm working on for the iPod touch/iPhone game I'm working on at work! Phew! This will be out soon, so be sure to check the Apple Store when it's available. I'll throw a link up!

"Goodbye, Butterfly"

2011-07-25T16:53:00.000-07:00

No significance, just an idea I thought up of. A simpler image is on my website, http://www.itsdeadly.com, but I decided to go on ahead and finish it. :) Was pretty fun to do. I'll tell yah one thing, window cracks are a bitch.

Stick speed painting + Sketches!

2011-07-15T20:39:00.000-07:00

I limited myself to an hour when I did this, but it came to around 45-46 mins... trying to see how quick and accurately I can do this :) but I think I can simplify my shading and maybe make a few new brushes to help me out...

And some life drawings based off of some of her photos. I need to practice now that I can't get to life drawing, and she's a wonderful subject for it ;)

I'll put up other life drawing sketches in a collection in an upcoming post!

go visit this beautiful girls website! See what she has to offer!
Vanilla7 Stick

Ophelia

2011-07-09T22:30:00.000-07:00

A redesign of an old character of mine named Ophelia. Succubus, think she was my first homage to Darkstalkers. :D but yeah! I'm trying to work out a few comic sequential pages with her and her fighting style. it's a bit peculiar, but! it'd be way, way fun to show in sequence the shit she can do :)

I'll probably end up colouring this and fixing mistakes as I do!

Hipster Girls with Horns

2011-07-05T16:37:00.001-07:00

Old characters of mine, Satana and Rosalyn. Satana's got blue hair in this one for some reason... and Rosalyn's one of my homage's to Darkstalkers. :) I loved that game as a teenager. Monsters fighting monsters? suuuuure!

I did these inbetween commission work to keep myself going. I started a new job developing artwork and animation for some ipod games, and so far it's been fun as hell. :) I finally get paid by the hour to do what I love, AND i get to have a lot of freedom with it!

Good summer. :)

Soon I'll have prints up here for sale, in a nice organized list. I'll also add commission prices here... also...

http://www.itsdeadly.com <-- will be up soon. don't go just yet, because my 'coming soon' pic isn't done!

Commissions!

2011-07-02T17:42:00.000-07:00

Here are a few commissions I worked on :) I don't get to put many of them up, but the ones I get permission for or that I really, really enjoyed, I throw them on here. :)

I did a humming bird for an ex-cooworker friend of mine named Carloyn! I tried to change the colours around a bit for her so she had more to choose from.

And the second is a business card my friend Lin commissioned from me! this one I highly enjoyed doing. When I get to work in my style on a commission, it's amazing. :D

Thinking in Blue

2011-05-23T17:30:00.000-07:00

because sometimes when I'm alone, my mind drifts to times that make me smile.

And old drawing from last year that I tried my best to fix and ink/colour digitally.. , but I like the roughness of the inking and the colours I used. Kinda different than my usual stuff, I guess?

print of this available soon!

Vanilla7 Stick

2011-05-23T12:40:00.000-07:00

I had the pleasure to get in contact with this lady! She does modeling work, makes clothing and costumes (as well as accessories)and just so happened to love my artwork! She's a great girl to talk to! So I did this for her as thank-you/commission/art trade/gift (phew). And it was completely my pleasure, she's been motivating me, art wise.

She wanted herself drawn as a cat!

So I kind of took the Darkstalkers approach... I looked up reference pictures of Felicia while doing this. So I guess.. she's a were-cat? i dunno what to classify her as! Either way, I'm happy with how this came out and she's very happy with how this came out as well. :)

Go visit her site and maybe hire her for some shoots! Or buy her items!

-->Vanilla7 Stick<--

"Une Promenade Avec le Vol"

2011-04-27T18:17:00.000-07:00

I guess everything sounds better in french.

A piece I did inbetween commissions and to get ready for a showing at The Sleepless Goat in Kingston, Ontario. We'll see how it goes. One step at a time.

Tattoo-- 'Hope'

2011-04-05T21:36:00.001-07:00

This was for my hip, but it may be too intricate/big for it.... my friend Cynthia is popping over tomorrow to tattoo a couple of people, including myself and my roommate! but i think... i have a smaller idea than this one. this just MIGHT be too huge... oh well. :P

I really like how this came out, however. Fun times between commissions! Argh, my fingers hurt.

Update: GOT THE TATTOO. :D

Please help out!

2011-03-17T15:15:00.000-07:00

Please vote for Angel's designs here! it'd be great for her to win and besides, her designs are pretty damn awesome.

First:

Second:

http://mactattz.com/contest/artist6.php

Third:

http://mactattz.com/contest/artist4.php

Fourth:

http://mactattz.com/contest/artist3.php

Fifth:

http://mactattz.com/contest/artist3.php

Sixth:

http://mactattz.com/contest/artist1.php

Her Blog ---> Angel Card

i'd appreciate it if you checked it out and at least voted!

Thanks!

Quick preview

2011-03-16T21:32:00.001-07:00

Something I'm just trying to finish up over the next few days between commissions. Adjustments still to be made. Got a couple of more, soo! We'll see how it goes.

Not exactly the right colours, but I like how it came out. :D

Kassandra

2011-02-19T19:32:00.000-08:00

Forgot to put this up.... this is a portrait I did of one of my beautiful co-workers. I've tweaked it since I've given it to her, part of the reason why it's not up here... 'cause I'm -finally- satisfied with it, haha.

But yeah! I love doing these portraits. And such a great person to paint.

Super Aidan

2011-02-16T22:10:00.000-08:00

A painting of Mae's son, Aidan that I painted for her! She asked me to dress 'em up like a super hero, so.. hey, here he is? I really like how I did the cape. But it was -really- tough to make up my own lighting using the photo I had.

I used a grid system to get things started and keep everything proportional and correct, then took it away and painted!

Hope she likes it. :)

Happy Valentines Day After!

2011-02-15T18:36:00.000-08:00

I usually hate Valentines Day. But I told myself I wasn't gunna feel like crap; i've got a ton of great memories stored in my head. i've got tattoos to remember some of them. So! An hour of fun, and boom.

Fuck it :D Happy Valentines Day-After!

Samara Character Sketches

2011-01-26T12:58:00.000-08:00

The main character of my story at the age of 9-11, Samara. She's half demon, half angel, and the most powerful being in my story. I'm just warming up to my style again... I've done nothing but commission work the last three months, most of which I can't share as of yet (or ever, possibly) so I had to get my style back somehow.

So! Some random sketches of my character Samara with her new life long friend, a pig. I haven't named it yet... but it's pretty much a pig but with horns and wings. it acts like a pig that can fly, basically, and is kept immortal (unknowingly) by Samara. She cares a lot for it and it remains a constant companion.

hooray for sketches! Some little errors, and the first sketch is a little smaller than the other two, but meh!

Samara © Gus Kosmopoulos 2011. please do not copy or redistribute without permission, sanks! I love my little demon/angel girl.

The Llama and the Sloth

2011-01-18T18:52:00.000-08:00

My roommate T.J. asked me to do a commission of his girlfriends favourite animal, the Llama. And then to add his favourite animal, a Sloth. So! ... here's a Llama and a Sloth? Sorry for the somewhat shitty quality. i took a photo of it and gave it to his girlfriend before I could get a better scan or SOMETHING of it. but this was fun to do :)

Finishing touches

2010-12-12T23:26:00.000-08:00

I've working on the Damp Athetic film I did for my 4th year film at Sheridan. it's done already, I finished it, but there were things about it that bugged me. So? first stop, reworking some of the backgrounds to look better. So this is a 'work in progress' on the animated music video for Captain Kife. one of the opening shots!

I'm still plugging away at this, but I'll put an updated version up soon. Ish.

Sketchiness

2010-12-10T16:36:00.000-08:00

Just a quick sketch to throw up I did in about 30 mins...

And then a personal piece I'm working on currently! It's gunna be bigger than it is... I tend to draw big 'cause I like to put detail into these kind of pieces. I have a heavy hand, so it helps! I'll just mount this on some more craft paper. But I've been wanting to do a series of these Mardi Gras/Voodoo type of girls. So here's the first one? Work in Progress.

I do my own stuff inbetween the mountain of commissions I have to do to relax me. Commissions get tedious, as much as I love doing them! this round was mostly tedious due to myself; i just took too much on at once! but I'm hammering through it, and I'm not one to give up on stuff or back down easily. So! ... that's what tonight is about.

Moved into my new apartment! fucking -love- it. I couldn't be happier with this place! Lots of light, lots of space (14 foot high ceilings!) and right in the heart of downtown Kingston. I'm slowly building a base here in Kingston, getting more well known and just.. you know, getting the word out! I'm a big DIY (do it yourself) guy. So i'm also saving up for warehouse space for a studio next November. Goooood times ahead!

Miss Mae

2010-10-18T22:40:00.000-07:00

A portrait I did for my beautiful friend, Mae. Gorgeous girl, who I'm probably lucky that she's even able to tolerate me. She's an amazing girl, with such nice eyes and a killer smile.

I'm happy she liked it.

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I'll be updating with a few more images soon, keep checking it out! Working on several between commissions, at the moment.

Anti-Christmas commission

2010-10-12T21:46:00.000-07:00

not so much a commission, cause I volunteered when my friend Nate proposed the idea to me! It was fun to do, but quick as well (internet and real life problems aside! eesh)..

So a very quick painting of Krampus, the demon who accompanied Santa Claus and sent all the naughty children to Hell. Check up on him if you're curious :)

This is a cd cover for an anti-Christmas cd full of wicked songs, commissioned to me and put together by my friend Nate Amey. A lot of people we know are involved musically in this cd, so it's kinda sweet. :)

Works in Progress

2010-10-08T15:13:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick view of shit i'm working on currently. I didn't put up the commissions I'm doing in this, all personal pieces... except the left one :) That one is for a client, but they allowed me to put it up.

Trying to get a load of Halloween art up and finished! got a new job downtown Kingston, so I've been busy. Next year, however, I plan on owning an office space to start a studio.

Good times.

Angels and demons

2010-09-07T00:13:00.000-07:00

After watching the trailer for the game Limbo, I had to try my hand at the style. So that's what the black and white one is all about... very quick, but fun to do. Working on a quick story in this style.

The other is a character of mine named Israfel-- she's an angel, part of a large story I have, as are most of my characters.

Done to destress between commissions.

Captain Kife t-shirts!

2010-08-19T16:10:00.000-07:00

Some shirt designs I was commissioned to do by the band Captain Kife. It was their ideas, and I was just supposed to do 'em. You can obviously tell what the first one is based off of. :) The second is the name of their album, haha.

Fun stuff.

Wrist tattoo designs

2010-08-16T20:28:00.000-07:00

This was for my boss/high school buddy Jake's wife Sue. She had a design already, wanted me to spiff it up and make it better, and so I did this colour spread for her real quick!

She's getting another one too, of one of my chicks on her shoulder. :) Designing that now.

Pirate Hooker

2010-08-08T20:11:00.001-07:00

She's not really. But it's just fun to call someone a Pirate Hooker.

FINALLY, SHE'S FUCKING DONE.
I've been working on this girl for jeez, 3 ears. Updating the style, painting... it's sad though, that my digital painting skills are getting better than my painting skills. I'll have to do something about that.

I haven't gotten a name for her or her cat, but I've had some suggestions.. if anyone else does, I'd be all about hearing them!

Lisa

2010-07-26T17:50:00.000-07:00

Not bad for my first try, I think...
I've known this girl for a long time now, but only recently having moved to Kingston have I got to spend time with her. She's given me a hell of a lot of inspiration . She's pretty, and is fucking funny. And has some of the best movie tastes out there! So this is for Lisa. Glad you liked it. :D

Spent a lot of time and threw up a grid system to get things accurate. Trying to get my digital painting skills better. Slowly getting there... will get better!

Snakey Woman

2010-07-08T15:33:00.000-07:00

Aren't they all? *duck*

This is a drawing I did up for my friend Christina, from school! It's one of her characters I took an interest in and suddenly drew! Very fun!

Glad she liked it, too!

Roomie

2010-06-15T15:49:00.000-07:00

For my roomate Hilary! Based off of a photo.

I may however redo the fairy sometime!

Life Drawings/Friend Drawings

2010-05-18T20:28:00.000-07:00

Here we go...

Here's another drawing from a life drawing session I had on Amherst Island...

Also, two portraits I did of my friends Jaime and Hayley! Thanks for letting me crash! I love craft paper :D

Recent Stuff!!

2010-05-09T17:46:00.000-07:00

Let's see here.... two life drawings from a session out on Amherst Island... I get to work with some amazing artists! It's great seeing how they work

And one picture I quickly painted up between work... so like.. 45 mins plus a little extra to do the background, I think.

That one is based off the song "Violins" by Joey Cape/Lagwagon

Violins, music and lyrics © Joey Cape/Lagwagon 2010

Sketches and Works in Progress

2010-04-27T11:17:00.001-07:00

Some Hidden Leaf Shinobi girls, 15-20 min sketch each. And an update on my pirate picture! I'm a little stuck, but I'm gunna try and finish it within the next few days!

Streex of Pink and Black

2010-03-06T22:06:00.000-08:00

Been practicing other peoples styles... got influenced by this guy:
http://xav-drawordie.deviantart.com/

Check his stuff out, french artist, amazing-- my friend Andre had posted up about him on Facebook.

He had a series of drawings done in just pink/black/white so I wanted to try my style in that colour scheme. Not bad! Kind of a boring pose, but hey

Psylocke

2010-02-13T21:47:00.001-08:00

2-3 hours of fun and practice. Psylocke, from the X-men. I think there's a couple of adjustments I need to do first tho....
meh!
She's one of my favourite characters for some reason.

Psylocke © Marvel Entertainment 2010

Waterfall commission

2010-01-13T14:55:00.000-08:00

Gotta work on my landscapes more, but this had to be done within 2 hours and the person liked it. just wish I could of spent way more time on this :P She had given me photo references and how she wanted it. And she was happy with it! so, I can't complain

Fairy Geisha Commission

2009-12-25T21:21:00.001-08:00

A commission I finished up for a friend of mine, Raven! She wanted this for her daughter. I painted it rather big, so the smaller pic loses it's detail, so check it out a little bigger. :) Might even put a bigger one for detail, no clue.

Shark Swimming Animation--rough!

2009-12-16T22:49:00.000-08:00

I'm working on a game with my friend Scott Woods for the iPod Touch. Here's just a quick rough animation of the main character having a swim. Got the go ahead to at least put this baby up for now, dunno how much more I'll do, but I'll see if I can do the cleanup once it's done, too!!

And then the colour version-- tho this is me just screwing around-- the peg bar moved it looks like so he jumps a bit-- Gunna have to rescan! And do some better shading.

He'll be like, the size of your fingernail on the screen, probably smaller, haha.

Images and animation © Scott Woods 2009

Captain Kife Cd Cover

2009-12-04T21:29:00.000-08:00

Here's the cover and cd art I did for my friends band, Captain Kife!

(I'll add a bigger version once I get the go-ahead)

I spent the most time on the background and wish I spent more time on the people :P Oh well!

The cd is a 4 song EP and my buddy Aaron (guitarist, singer, song writer) came home with 1000 of these puppy's to sell!

It's.. intense to see 1000 of something you drew altogether in 3 boxes :D And it'll be a great feeling knowing some people will have this disc in their collection.

So if anyone is interested, you can listen to some of their tunes here!:

Captain Kife
$5 for the EP, if anyone is interested. I'm quite sure they'll mail copies away!

Their official EP release is in January, but they'll be releasing a few cd's at the upcoming Moneen show, in Kingston Ontario (if you know, anyone local is seeing this) on the 11th of December!

Whether you want a cd or not, check them out, they've got some killer tunes :D I recommend Applications

Artwork by Gus Kosmopoulos
© Captain Kife and Aaron Lavigueur, 2009
Guitar, leads vocs: Aaron Lavigueur
Guitar: Andrew Wylie
Bass, backups: Phil Dimopoulos
Drums: Andrew Kirby (ex-My Brilliant Theory)

Kife - (descriptive noun) a term used to describe shitty weed in the Greater Napanee area and surrounding area. Not associated with how the music sounds.

Warmups: F-art Sketch heads!

2009-11-21T23:05:00.000-08:00

Bahaha, I'm just dying on the F-art part.

Yep, I'll be 28 in less than a month, and this still makes me die.

First row: Bleach fanart- Katen Kyōkotsu are the first two chicks, Shunsui Kyōraku (on the end) is their owner. They're swords, so it's not as perverted as it sounds.

Then Michiko, from the series Tara introduced me too. And .. you know, Wolverine out of nowhere.

Beth

2009-10-09T17:04:00.001-07:00

A painting of my friend Beth I owed her a loooong time ago! I think I'm slooooowly getting better at this painting thing. Slowly.

Used a reference pic of her!

Having fun..

2009-10-03T21:02:00.000-07:00

..with an old drawing.
For Erin

New tat

2009-09-25T07:08:00.001-07:00

though I'm playing with the idea of getting 'Devil' on the other shoulder.
Got myself another tattoo. It's kinda like my artistic muse, But this way, my muse is always with me, whispering inspiration into my ear. Though I more refer to her as my misery. She reminds me of mistakes I've made that I fix along the way! Learning from those mistakes, basically..

I want all my tattoos to have meaning to me so when I'm old and feeble, I can smile when I look down and remember them.

Woo, not to get serious or nuthin'. :)

Don't mind my greekness :D haha

Well... I'm very happy with it. Thanks, Cynthia!

Pirate in Progress

2009-08-27T21:14:00.000-07:00

Old-New pic I'm in the process of working with!

Empusa

2009-07-27T19:03:00.000-07:00

An old character of mine-- she's done on large craft paper in gouache, pencil crayon and marker. The background and effects were obviously added digitally :)

It looks fun, at least? Not sure which version I like.

Good news tho, I'll be selling off prints with Angel Card at the Napanee Fair this year, inside the arena. Woohoo to getting our art out there! It's a big event around here, so who knows what'll happen?

Fun stuff!

2009-07-26T19:56:00.000-07:00

Some quick commission work I had finished over time; I drew the animals for my friend Robyn's sister Jen, who had just birthed a baby at the time-- so they were for her baby room. A giraffe, a panda, a flamingo and a cat.

The invitation was for her wedding. These were fun to do :)

Character Designs: 1

2009-07-24T21:47:00.000-07:00

Old characters I redid in an hour each! Part of a huge lineup of characters I'm working on.

Adelleda, Glee, and Zoe. All part of the same story-- which is in my head :P

Velvet Alley

2009-07-20T18:47:00.001-07:00

Digital painting practice... getting there!

Dedicated to a friend.

Aimless

2009-07-16T19:28:00.001-07:00

A warmup drawing that probably went too far when it shouldn't of. :)

"Blue Garden; Yellow Locks"

2009-07-06T20:15:00.001-07:00

I *think* I'm done?

Random update!

2009-07-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

My internet finally works properly at home! And here's a small dump of stuff I've been working on, almost all of them still works in processes, I think! A picture of my friend Becka, gusified
and working with the tablet and painting a little more... then the rest are things I'm finishing up!

Part of the intro

2009-04-17T14:53:00.000-07:00

Still a work in progress.

Dey took er jobs!

2009-04-01T18:16:00.001-07:00

Actually no. More destress work I'll keep working on. Been working on it over a month during classes, heh

Works in Progress

2009-03-14T19:39:00.000-07:00

I saved over the psd. :P it's small now.

I'll finish it one day

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-27T20:52:00.000-08:00

Not sure if it's finished... but I wanted it out for Christmas. okay, it was DONE Christmas, but it's late for... you know, here. :P

But enjoy. :)

More Life Drawings

2008-12-07T21:19:00.000-08:00

For my fourth year Portfolio, 2nd round.

Damp Athetic rough Leica Reel

2008-11-21T21:50:00.001-08:00

Here's the rough leica reel for my fourth year film, a music video for the band 'Captain Kife'.

YouTube kinda.. squished things I noticed...

Butterfly Kiss

2008-11-19T00:33:00.001-08:00

I dunno, I needed to destress. I got the idea from speaking with a friend and looking at Robert McGuire art.. weird combination, but! both the talk and the images came to this?

3rd Year Film preview!

2008-11-14T12:09:00.000-08:00

I keep forgetting to put this up! but here's the preview of last year's 3rd year films from Sheridan College

Life Drawings

2008-11-11T19:49:00.000-08:00

Some drawings from my last portfolio. Too bad the photos of them aren't too killer. I did the best I could in adjusting in Photoshop!

Trailer Park Boys

2008-09-20T17:00:00.000-07:00

Bubbles could use some work.

But! I had fun drawing these while watching their movie, "The Big Dirty".

Ricky, Julian, Bubbles.

Captain Kife Video/Tara Diaries commercial

2008-09-12T12:05:00.000-07:00

Two videos for ya!

First, The Captain Kife video for 'Break', if you didn't get a chance to see it. Its on Youtube now.

And the commercial I did for "The Tara Diaries". It's not amazing, and they cut it up rather bad... but two weeks to do it, i'm not used to that... yet!

The Celestial Ox!

2008-09-01T14:14:00.000-07:00

Our 3rd year film, The Celestial Ox, is now up on Youtube!

As sorry for my links, I switched to the new 'blogger' or whatever and they're all gone, so they'll be back soon!

Captain Kife video!!

2008-08-05T12:17:00.000-07:00

Break - Captain Kife

I'll try and figure out a way to put the video physically on here (with their permission) but for now, check out Captain Kife's live video my buddy Doug shot with a crew! It's wicked to see my friends in a video :)

More characters and news

2008-07-14T17:44:00.000-07:00

Woo! So my animation (tho cut up and.. odd, tho expected) is on the site for Tara Oram now, on CMT! The "Tara Oram Diaries' premires on CMT on July 20th at 9pm I think? I'm not too sure! but here's the link so far: The Tara Oram Diaries! Doug did some editting to it, added the background, but hey, came out okay.

Right on the bottom right, I think. Woo! I may not have been totally satisfied with it, but it's cool to know it's gunna be on tv. :) Woo! again!

Did this diddy while I was bored.

The scan came out like shit. :( Gunna try and rescan it somewhere else, but for now....

Satana; Daughter of Misery.

.... ... you know....

NATHAN EXPLOSION

2008-07-11T09:56:00.001-07:00

Nathan Explosion of Dethklok

Just trying to see if I can actually digitally paint. It's slooowly getting there, but i'm determined. :)

Oh hey, so my animation is going to be in Tara Oram's show, which premieres oh July 20th on CMT! My friend Doug wasn't sure if it'd be in the first episode or not, but he's added it in the intro (like in the background type thing) so it's kinda neat that my stuff is gunna be on tv for at least 6 shows. :)

Sweet.

Work related, but not co-op related

2008-06-23T17:21:00.000-07:00

A quick part of an animation I'm doing for CMT (Country Music Television) for a show they're doing for one of the Canadian Idol contestants. I had such a short time to do it, and this is scene ...2 of 5. Phew.. 3 weeks to do it all was kinda intense

Work related!

2008-06-03T11:57:00.000-07:00

Here's some stuff I've worked on over the last little while. For my coop, the first two- a myspace layout for Captain Kife (http://www.myspace.com/captainkife awesome tunes, but not up yet) and one of the many show posters I did for Jimmy. I'll post more of those up soon

The last two are just personal. The life drawing is from, well, life drawing. And the second one is just for me. Experimenting with Gaouche on that brown kraft paper. I love that stuff.

I'll try and post more as I go along!!

The Celestial Ox opening scene!

2008-04-14T19:15:00.000-07:00

Here's the opening scene to our third year film, The Celestial Ox, that I animated. But it would never look as beautiful as this without Brock's work in After Effects, and I cannot thank that guy enough, so cheers man. Thank-you so much.

And thanks to everyone in the group, you all worked so damn hard on this film, and we produced something amazing. I can't believe we did this :)

So thanks, Kelly, Brock, Mark, Stacey, Rachel, Andy, Kamal, Alex, Angeline, and Jason!!

Demo Reel

2008-02-11T07:23:00.000-08:00

My current Demo Reel, but it's going to change

Inada Amai

2008-02-09T23:03:00.000-08:00

Inada Amai; my frozen queen.

Captain Kife

2008-01-24T17:22:00.000-08:00

Cafe drawings of my good friends for their band, Captain Kife. this is only 3 of the four members, so far. I'll update as I go.

Rappaccini's Daughter

2007-12-11T16:33:00.001-08:00

For literature class.

Effects!

2007-12-02T18:41:00.000-08:00

Some key frame effects I shot for my transformation scene for my thirty second film.

Rough background thrown in :)

More girls.

2007-12-02T10:12:00.001-08:00

Surprised?

Woo updates!

2007-11-27T10:28:00.000-08:00

Image for painting class of last year, part of my storyboard. quick painting

Quick background for our group film

A drawing for literature class, but I might change it around. Still in the works.

Random chick. She might be too long. Plan on colouring her.

A painting i'm doing for my friend, Erin. She's gunna have a picture with legs and a background, don't worry :)

I got into corsette peircings in the summer.. they look cool.

But they're just a buncha chicks for now, I think! We'll see what I put up as I put 'em up here....

It's finished!

2007-04-06T11:44:00.000-07:00

And it looks okay. I had fun painting it. Getting better and better. :)

I've been creative

2007-04-04T22:55:00.000-07:00

And when I'm creative, i draw sexy chicks. Kinda. One is with a dragon? When I colour these, i'll fix some mistakes, but for now, linework!

They cannot be stopped

2007-03-05T19:12:00.000-08:00

A picture I threw into Photoshop from my last semester character design book. To keep sane from schoolwork, I did this inbetween storyboard panels and characters. Hooray!

Threw in some of my band Meathook's lyrics in there for fun 'cause hey... it suits it.

Manipulations

2007-03-05T05:40:00.000-08:00

I like to try my hand at everything when it comes to making/drawing/whatever with pictures. :) So here's a little photo manipulation I did using my girlfriend Angel, one stock photo I found from the internet and a buncha landscape/stock photos I took from back home in Napanee or various places. I had fun with this. :) Fun and quick to do.

For a week now my drawing ability has been shit :P I dunno what the hell happened, but I haven't been able to draw anything. Until maybe last night/this morning. So I might have to hand in my character design assignment late. Which completely sucks, but man did I ever try and draw. You should see all the bad roughs I have from this project.

But like I said, it came back to me finally so things will hopefully work themselves out

Personal Piece and Painter Practice.

2007-02-24T06:32:00.001-08:00

Here's an old drawing of mine that I'm repainting in Painter X, trying to work this program out :) People can do some amazing stuff with it and dammit, I wanna be able to do amazing stuff, too. So this is a sample of one of the pieces I'm working on. It's a full body, just cropped down. I'm using the acrylics brush mostly. Fun stuff, man.

Life drawing, animation... you know...

2007-02-24T06:32:00.000-08:00

Thought I'd throw up some life drawings. I want to get better at it, so while going to extra life more often is a given now (heh!), anyone have any tips? Some of my hands are atrocious (but are getting better!) my life drawings as of late are off and on-- either sweet or well... bunk. :) So again, any tips would be awesome. :D

And the animation for the Muzzle Sync. I was gunna make it longer... but couldn't. When I do the beak sync however, I'll throw it all together. The quote is from Waterboy. :) I'll also probably clean this one up, fix his hands, all that.

Animations: jeez, took a while...

2007-02-15T16:13:00.000-08:00

Finally put some animations up on google video 'cause I had trouble with youtube and Stacey recommended it. :D

My Human Lip Sync, featuring Oscar Leeroy from Corner Gas:

My emotion change, done for my buddy joe for Christmas. Music just added in later. :)

I'll throw the others up real soon.

Computer Heroes, away!

2007-02-04T15:56:00.000-08:00

Lol, a company logo I did for my buddy Scott and his computer repair company, Computer Heroes. :D

This was just fun to do.

Digital Painting

2007-02-02T11:01:00.000-08:00

This is my first real venture into colouring with a tablet. i've had a tablet since September, but it's been in hiatus for the last few months as I gathered money to repair it :)

Now I have it though. So i'll eventually get the hang of digital painting. :)

Here's what we did in Mike's class. Paintings mine, drawing is not!

I like my clouds, at least.

Character Design - Beak and Muzzle

2007-01-29T20:59:00.000-08:00

My fox and owl respectively for animation and character design.

So what if I'm done my character design? Big whoop! wanna fight about it??

... Okay I thought it was due this week :p

What? More stuff??

2007-01-25T19:52:00.000-08:00

Finally, eh?

A drawing I did for my girlfriend. her character on the left, Ruzulka (i believe) and mine on the right, Inanna (I named her after The Tea Party song when I was big into them). Wish Inanna came out better. :)

I'll be updating a little more frequently, especially with school stuff, my own stuff and maybe some old pieces I haven't scanned yet.

So stay tuned for more!

Character Heads

2006-11-18T22:01:00.000-08:00

I was bored and wanted to do more marker practice. So I whipped up two new characters. They're supposed to be twins but... I might have to tweak them a bit.

As always, most of my characters are from this whole story I have in my head.