Fairy Tales - Gallery 1988 West

Been awhile, here's my piece for Gallery 1988's Fairy Tales print show, The Pied Piper! Limited edition of 50 chop-stamped, signed/numbered giclee prints!

Opening Reception: Friday, January 10th, 7-10PM  - up til February 1st! 

3NES Show!

The 3NES show is coming up, premiering at Bottleneck Gallery September 6th in Brooklyn! Here are my three pieces for Metroid, Super Mario and Zelda!  Framed prints as well as giclee prints for sale! Hope some of you can make it to the opening! :) 

 Ice Beam & Missiles

  Player #2

 The F'ing Water Temple

Happy (Early) Chinese New Year!

 

Quickie illustration for the New Year; I cranked this guy out real fast on Thursday :) Figured I'd post today because who checks blogs and things on the weekend?! Hope you all have a great year, and according to the Chinese, the year of Snake is meant for steady progress and attention to detail!

24-Hour Comic

I recently took part in a insane challenging task call the 24-Hour Comic by Scott McCloud. You create 24 pages of a completed comic in 24 straight hours without any planning whatsoever. I recommend doing this at least once in your life to experience torture the depths of determination you possess.  If you'd like to read it, click the cover image up yonder :)

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays, all! My annual postcard I sent out to friends and family this year :)

His name is...ATREYU.

My finished piece of the Neverending Story for the Gauntlet Gallery's grand opening show!
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Zombies Can't Swim Comic - FOR SALE!

FINALLY done and printed, and ready to be put into your hands! Based on a true conversation: What would YOU do during a zombie apocalypse?!  Everything the couple discusses starts happening around them!

40 pages of awesome zombie fighting action for sale in my etsy shop, available HERE! Includes lots of zombies, and swords! Each copy is signed!  Yay!

 

GIMME YER QUICK BOOMERANG!

Quick Man from Mega Man II, for the Mega Man Boss Battle show coming up in December.

Zombies Can't Swim

Wrap-around cover for a new 40-page comic I'm self publishing that's obviously about.... zombies!  These will be available at Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco, October 13-14. Granted, I won't physically be there, but my work will be sold by friends at tables 911-912. Hope some of you can stop by!

25 Years of Street Fighter

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Finished piece for the 25th Anniversary of Street Fighter - this is part of an online group show which will be featured on this blog sometime in the near future.Each illustrator got to pick a character and through some miracle, Ryu was still available. Lucky me!

Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

New piece for an upcoming group show based on Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes. This one being the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, or you know, the Japanese tale of the Moon Princess!

The Lion Tamer

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For the Eat Your Art Out V charity art auction, in Los Angeles, the theme being an eerie, early 1900s Carnival. I was inspired by all of the vintage photos from the era, which depicted cherub-faced women in ferocious situations!

Go Samus, Go!

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New Metroid piece that will be featured in Geekart.net's show, "8-Bit Champions" in Paris, France.

backstory:

Metroid holds a bit of a special place for me. I distinctly remember sitting in my basement as a kid, and watching my older brother play it (majority of original NES games are memories of watching him play it before I actually got my hands on experiencing the game for myself). Right after he'd just beaten the last level, Metroid reveals in the ending that --(ZOMG SPOILER?!?) Samus is actually a female under all that androgynous space-suit looking armor. That really got me, mainly because all of the games I'd been playing up until that point always starred a male character (Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Mega Man etc.). And this female heroine was extremely awesome!

I tweaked Samus's armor some because it was looking a bit outdated (according to the original NES covers and manual booklets that came with the game).

Fairy Eater!

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"Full Health Restore"
13" x 19"

My new Legend of Zelda piece for the 25th year anniversary is finally finished! When Link touched fairies and made them disappear, this is how he got his health back ...right?

This will be in Gallery 1988's Old School Video Game Art show, invite poster is available here:

WARRIORS... COME OUT TO PLAY-AY!

New illustration I just finished of the Warriors (that film's still considered a cult classic, right?) This will be part of Gallery1988's Crazy 4 Cult 5 show down in LA. The opening reception is July 8th!

Illos for GamesTM in UK

Did some video-game themed illustrations for GamesTM magazine (sort of like the UK version of GameInformer here!). Figured everyone here loves video games and I hadn't posted in forever!! The article deals with the choices a player can make for their character, whether it be the places you go, or the morals you decide. So here's Gordon Freeman from Half-Life 2, Lara Croft, and Ezio from Assassin's Creed:

Happy Valentine's Day!

May love strike you when you're not looking and least expect it.

The Cranes are Coming

Commission for a co-worker/friend, he just gave it to the bride for her birthday!


The story is very adorable: They knew one another in High School and in their Sophomore year, the bride folded a paper crane for the groom in one of their shared classes. He kept the crane as a memento (he had a crush on her). They ended up getting into a relationship after high school, then married. They used paper cranes as the theme of their wedding, and the groom used the very same paper crane the bride had folded him on their table at the reception. This was based off of the bride's favorite photo from the wedding; with a touch of my obsession for paper cranes included. Enjoy!

Black Swan

Phew. I haven't posted here in forever, and I apologize for that! Just finished this now, in honor of the film Black Swan that recently premiered. I haven't even SEEN the film yet, but I just loved the trailer and its whole concept far too beautiful to not create something for it.


Hope you like it!

The Mother Hen Project

Been awhile since I posted! I was invited to participate in a charity art auction that will take place on November 20th called "The Mother Hen Project." This is to raise funds for Chicks in Crisis, which helps facilitate children into being adopted. A bunch of artists from Pixar will also be part of it! If you live in the San Francisco/Novato area, hope you can make it! This illustration's my contribution!