Have you heard the news that you're dead?

I took a break today from working on my book. I had downloaded the new My Chemical Romance song from "The Watchmen" soundtrack on iTunes and couldn't get enough. It's way stripped down from their last album "The Black Parade", A straightforward punk cover of the dylan song "Desolation Row" and it's awesome! I can't wait for their new album later this year.
I was inspired to create a concert poster for their show i saw last year at the warfield in san francisco. buy a print here :)

i've gotta live on an island to find the juice

I woke up on new years morning with an idea for a children's book. I sat down at my desk to write it down and it just poured out. Since working in the video game industry didn't allow me much time to work on my own art, this has been a refreshing start to the new year.
The past few weeks i have working pretty diligently on the illustrations. Here's the first image i created for the book, it's pages 33 and 34 out of 42 pages. I don't know why i started here, out of all the pages it was the easiest one to design. After finishing this one, i felt that i had the tone and style i wanted, and have used it as a template for the rest of the book. i now have about 75% of the book laid out and i hope to be done with it by the end of february. I'll hopefully post some more updates before i finish! What a great way to start out the new year :)

All Aboard the USG Ishimura!

It's been a while since i've updated, so i thought i'd post some work that i did a few years back on "Dead Space" for Electronic Arts. I came onto the project in November of 2006, so just a little over 2 years ago. I was hired to design all of the outfits for the employees and inhabitants of the USG Ishimura. As I sci-fi fan, this was an awesome project to work on, the visual style even at this early stage was evidently different than anything EA had done in the past and i knew it would be a great opportunity to do some fun work. Here are a few of the characters i worked on...





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Blast Off!

2 years ago, on this day, I started this blog. Two years is quite a long time, and a lot has happened that I never imagined! Here's to the next few years:) This started off as a tattoo design for myself, and then somehow i ended up adding a character holding a balloon riding in an old coin-operated machine!

Amazing Adventures

I've been super busy with work lately, and haven't had a chance to actually work on anything of my own for a while. Recently i picked up a great book called "Sci-Fi Poster Art", and I couldn't get enough of the old 50's and 60's sci-fi/monster movie posters. I thought it would be fun to throw a quick one together.

=w= Goat Punishment @ the Knitting Factory

Another awesome show! Goat Punishment shredded up the knitting factory on the eve of new years eve in 2000. An amazing lineup that would probably never happen these days. Please come back Goat Punishment, but this time come to San Francisco =w=

The Network @ The Key Club

Here's another poster i did for The Network show from a few years back at the key club. The network is a sideproject from Green Day that basically sounds like Devo but more awesome. I thought a rubik's cube was a perfect fit

Weezer @ the Glass House

I have always had a soft spot for concert posters. It's a nice little memento of a great show that you get to take home. I have recently started collecting them from the shows that i go to. Back in the summer of 2000 i saw one of the best concerts Weezer has ever put on. I decided to create my own poster for the show.

Ode to Miyamoto

Princess Peach

Princess Zelda

Samus


My 3 favorite nintendo ladies!

Whatsername

The Mechanical Man

i've been listening to a lot of mash-ups lately and i came across a Johnny Cash vs. Ladytron mash-up that's kinda an electronic remix of "The Man Comes Around". As i was listening to the song i thought... what if Johnny Cash was a giant musical robot? Well naturally he'd wander through the forrest playing his giant robot heart out!

Fun for the whole family!

I did this for the EA art blog. The subject was Twisted Childhood Memories... i think it needs more blood.

even monsters get sad sometimes...

...true story

t-shirts?

I'm hoping to turn these and a few more into some t-shirts soon.

A girl and her boy...

Songs From The Black Hole

I've been a huge Weezer fan for a longtime. Recently Rivers Cuomo released a collection of home demos that included some tracks that were meant to be on "Songs From The Black Hole". I was inspired to come up with my own cover for the album and thought i'd share it.

Contact

Here's a new illustration i've been working on. I've been trying to do my own work in my spare time that is very different from what i'm working on at EA.

Dead Space!

It feels nice to finally have this out in the open. For so long when i was working on this project I had to refer to it as "some new EA game"... that new EA game now has a name and it's Dead Space. I worked on this project for about 8 months as a character designer. Can't wait to check out this issue and see what they have to say. I'm really really excited about this project!

Sketchbook - Nicasio

I finally got a chance to get outside and do some landscape painting the other day. Here are two quick sketches of the location we set-up at. It was a little town called Nicasio in Marin County.

illustration Friday - "Visitor"

somebody gonna geta hurt real bad...

illustration Friday - "Captain"

I was tryin to go for a different style than my usual cartoony style of character design. I'd like to do some more work in this style and maybe expand this guys backstory into a fun little side project. it was a relatively quick sketch done all in photoshop in an hour or so

I'm Sorry...

another character sketch done in photoshop. I've been doing 3D work mostly the past few weeks and i needed to get back to some good ol' drawing so i took a break and here she is

the Simpsons

Last year I was hired as a concept artist to work on "The Simpsons Game" for Electronic Arts. Growing up there were 3 things i loved more than anything else in this world... drawing, video games, and The Simpsons! After a year of living in Springfield, I can honestly say that this game is going to be AWESOME!!! Anyway, check out the trailer below...

Sam & Max Concept Art

I got a chance to do some concept art on a Sam and Max game for Telltale Games. Growing up playing adventure games, and loving Sam & Max especially, this was quite an honor. Hopefully i'll get to do some more work on this project :)

illustration Friday - "moon"

delicious moon cheese...mmmmm

it's clobberin' time...

Don't want to meet this guy at the wee hours of the morning. This is one of several characters i'm working on for a little thing i'm puttin together

Illustration Friday - "Discovery"

pen and ink mixed with photoshop. a relatively quick concept sketch

Airport Sketch

a super rough sketch while waiting forever for my plane... I hate southwest

Illustration Friday - "Rejection"

Illustration Friday - "Cars"

When i was a kid, i figured by this time we would have flying cars... i'm still waiting for them. Anyway, here's an old sketch!

"The Replacements" - Agent K

Here's a piece of fan art i did for my good friend Dan Santat, creator of "The Replacements" on the Disney Channel. Check out his awesome work at http://dantat.com

Illustration Friday - "Hide"

I'd probably hide from this guy

Illustration Friday - "Gravity"

Illustration Friday - "Crash"

I hope they're friendly!

airport + ipod + sketchbook

I was at the airport in Oakland waiting for my flight and I was listening to my ipod. I thought it might be a fun little exercise to pick a random song and do a quick sketch based on whatever it was that came up.... Fiona Apple's cover of the Hendrix song "Angel" came on...

Illustration Friday - "Super Hero"

This little guy has been floatin around in my head for a few years... His name is Jonas, and he is a Space Cadet. He may look small and non threatening but he kicks all kinds of ass!

Illustration Friday - "Smoke"

Character Quick Sketch

A quick photoshop sketch

Quick Sketch

A quick pen sketch i scanned in and threw some color on in photoshop

illustration Friday - Ghost

This ghost is a little too happy to be dead...

Retro Military Assault Vehicle

A maya render of a retro military assault tank

Illustration Friday - Trouble

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