The Year of the Brave Bear

My friend Berni Xiong just published her first book, and I had the pleasure to make the cover art.
She is one inspiring gal and you can see it for yourself in here

Buy "The Year of the Brave Bear"

Walking in the rain

I've been thinking a lot about doing a 2D animated series, but first I need to remember how to do certain things. It's been a while! This is just a short exercise to try a couple of new tools.

A Mahi Mahi

This is a character I modeled based on a previous design.

Two Seconds of Beach

I'm a student at AnimSchool, in the Character Animation program. This was the last assignment I had to do for my first class. I thought it'd be fun to light the scene and render it.

If anybody's been following my posts, they could tell there's a common thing going on. Yes, I want to go to the beach and enjoy some warm weather! This winter's been rough in Chicago...

Island birds

3 minute fish

For some time I've been trying to do a screen capture of me drawing a quick sketch, just for fun. I recently discovered the screen recording feature available on Quicktime, so I packed my stuff, went to a coffee house and this is what came up.





Final result:

A different cover letter

A really good friend of mine reached out to me to help him out with this pretty original idea:
to create a cover letter in a comic/storyboard format. I made 10 different slides for him and these are my favorite ones.

I hope this helps him get the amazing job he deserves!

Freddie Freddy

This one is an oldie, but I really like how it turned out. Limited palette helps you find new ways to apply color.

Doodles on a plane

Going to the West Coast for the long weekend! Nothing like my sketchbook to keep me busy during the flight.

Sketchbook Scans

Kitty is not impressed

T&D

Whatever

Last weekend we had Lollapalooza. These were multiplied by the hundreds.

New brushes!

Speaking of aliens...

I was going through some of my old folders and I found this illo that I did a while back. At the time I was a little obsessed with the Ancient Aliens series, where they usually mentioned that humans were the result of aliens and primitive homo sapiens getting frisky. This is how I think they started seeing each other...