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Hey folks,

Here's a poster I did for another bike polo tournament happening here in Ottawa. This one's a little different from the last one because it's teams of 9 rolling 3 lines of 3. Hence the title in the poster. Should be pretty good seeing as it's supposed to be some of the best players in the world out.
Hope you enjoy. I realized my friend Casual Rex hasn't made any appearances in a while, stay tuned for him.

SHARK RIDERS! continued

So I finally colored up a few more shark riders. Did these a while ago actually. I still got a bunch more waiting to be colored. I wanted to put them all up at once but I got busy with other projects that are a little more time sensitive, and I wanted to put something up.

So I had to do up the token hammer head Shark. I mean you can't have a fleet of shark riding marauders without one riding a hammerhead. They're just good subject matter. They look freakin' sinister, and the name hammer head has a certain punk rock quality I enjoy.


So a few folks have been asking me what I plan to do with these guys? A comic book or something? Maybe? Truth is though I kinda picture them as a cartoon show, like one that would've sold a butt load of toys, maybe Biker Mice from Mars would've led into it back in the day. It would be one of those shows were they're the villains but the main draw of the show.
Was pondering the theme song too. Lots of 90's electric guitar maybe, but one things for sure, at some point it would go "SHARK RIDERS COUNTDOWN!" and then list them all off. Yeah...

The Shark riders are not a Dudes only affair. Got some lady shark riders in the mix as well, as pictured above. Hopefully I'll be getting the other one's up soon. Got a few more action shots involving the Shark riders and our submarine suit wearing hero. Also we haven't even met #1 yet, the Shark riders evil leader.

Stay tuned.

Stuff for the family

Hey folks,

Here's some stuff I've colored up over the last little bit.

This one I did for my Grandpa. He likes the political cartoons in the economist so I figured this would be a good one for him. I alkways liked Uncle Same as a character, aswell as the whole Donkey and Elephant personifying the political parties in the states.

This one I did for my Grandma. She loves birds, and also enjoys a good hockey game now and then.


This one I did up for my Dad. When I was younger he used to read a lot of Terry Pratchett and stuff like that, so I figured this would be up his alley.


A friend of mine asked if I could draw up a Wonder Woman for her, so this is what i drew at work the other day. Initially I had her towing off a random burglar type with her golden lasso, but a buddy of mine suggested it would be funnier if she was messing with Aquaman. I agreed.

So folks have been asking me if I got anymore Shark Riders in the works. The answer is yes. Lots more Shark riders, hopefully to be posted soon. Also probably some layouts as well. Stay tuned.

New Years day

Happy new years all!

So I feel like this is going to be a very good year, especially on the drawing front. I still had a few drawings I found while going through my old hard drive that I wanted to share with you before I dive into the recent stuff. So here they are.

So I figured given how most people are probably feeling today this would be a good one to start with. I drew this guy a while ago, I think the first day I got my cintiq actually. I believe I was calling him Mr. Wubz. This was around the time I really wanted to do that comic magazine (which I still think would be an awesome idea), and I think how much fun I had drawing this guy is what made me want to call it "La pacederme rose."

So everyone's making new years resolutions right now, to better themselves and try and realize some goal they've had. I think it's time I start working on one of mine. Maybe making it happen all this year would be a tall order, but I want to eventually own my own professional baseball team. Doesn't necessarily have to be Major League, I'd be happy with triple A, or maybe a Mexican or Japanese baseball team. Anyway, when it happens this is going to be the logo. So I've got that done, now I just got to accumulate millions of dollars to buy a team.

So a while back some musicians I know from Sudbury (who have since relocated to toronto) where talking about a new musical project they had in the works called the Nightlife. Will, they guy from the band, had this idea for an album cover with all these nocturnal animals hanging out in this night forest bar thing, and asked me if I'd be interested in doing it. So i did up these drawings of different nocturnal animals hanging out. Unfortunately this was around the time I started back at the studio so I didn't end up finishing these up, and shortly after I think they moved on to another musical project called Old World Romance which I quite enjoy. I still was really happy with how these guys turned out and always thought it was a shame nothing came of it. I think the bats are my favorite, although honorable mention goes to the raccoons, just cuz I love raccoons so much.


Lastly here's a drawing I did of Rhino that I had completely forgotten about. Kind of makes me want to do Spidey and all the other villains too, so maybe that'll happen sometime soon. Rhino was always one of my favorites though.

Anyways, hope the new year is treating you all well so far. Got lots more coming!

Adventure time!

What time is it?
Adventure time!

So a while back I was pretty much watching adventure time non stop. I did these sketches at work of Finn and Jake and the Ice King, but in my style. I intended to color them up, but then I couldn't find where I put them. The other week though while combing through old sketchbooks they turned up. I was contemplating giving Jake some tightey whitey's or something, cuz I thought since my style is a little more anatomical it was getting a little weird, but I decided I'd leave him like that.

The Ice King's my favorite of the bunch. I think he translated into my style the best. Kinda fitting seeing as he's probably my favorite character. Having a good villain always ups my appreciation of a show, and I think the Ice King is one of the best villains going.


So after finding those I had the urge to draw some more. I've got a huge crush on Marceline the vampire Queen so I figure I'd draw her next. She's a total babe.

Then there's Princess Bubblegum and Lady Rain-o-corn. I was originally going to do the Princess on her battle swan, but I found this picture of her riding Lady Rain-o-corn pin up styles and decided I'd rather do that.

Hope you enjoyed these, got a few more I found in those old sketch pads, as well as a whole swack of new stuff to come.

NAKED FOLKS!

So as promised I combed through a couple of the old sketchpads for some life drawing.

These are most of my favorite ones. The bottom right darwing is pretty recent but everything else is from a while ago. Makes me think I should be getting back to life drawing on a more regular basis.The top right one is probaly my favorite, just because I got her looking so sultry.

This page is comprised of three of my favorite models to draw. Rocking the mask, there's Duncan. I generally have pretty good drawing days whenever he's the model because he knows how to strike a good pose. The Girl with the glasses, I believe her name is Sascha. I love drawing her because she's like something out of an old french movie, like right after they started making movies in colour. I wish I could find the drawings of the time her and her boyfriend did doubles together. She's fantastic though. The girl with the nice big bum there, that's my friend Tiira. I actually hooked her up with the modeling gig that day. I find her really fun to draw.

Here's a few more I found while combing through the sketch pad. I didn't find all the ones I really wanted to post, but did find a few I'd forgotten about. I had forgotten completely about the two in the bottom left corner. That's another model that deserves a shout out actually. I think her name's Sophie. The doubles drawing from the first page, that's her and her boyfriend. Every once in a while I'll run into them at the bar and he'll introduce me as "the guy that drew them naked that one time."

The last page here is all stuff I did while I was in college. It was on my old hard drive, and I still like alot of it, so I figured I'd toss it up too. My favorite peice on this page is the one at the bottom. By far my favorite peice of life drawing I did in college. Those are my friends Debby and Shanna. Debby had agreed to model for me, and Shanna was in the room studying when Debby pointed out she could study and model at the same time. Ended up turning out pretty good. The freaky looking dude in the top right corner actually isn't a real person. We took a class trip to see these sculptures at the national gallery that looked really life like. There was a giant baby and other cool stuff. That dude actually sat 14 feet high.

Anyway, I got some more shark riders I've been inking, probaly won't be throwing them up until January though. Did find a few other hidden gems in those sketch pads I might be tossing up real soon, as well as some commisions I've got on the go for christmas.

Shark Riders!

Hey Folks,

So here's a little sneak peak of one project I've been working on. Not the big project. That is still yet too come. I just had a week a while ago where I just couldn't stop drawing scuba dudes riding sharks. So I figured I should color up a few of them and throw them up here.

I kinda liked the idea of these dudes throwing numbers on there sharks. I figure they are some sort of sinister underwater team that rides sharks that they have somehow tamed, we're not sure how though. The're pretty shrouded in mystery. They make their coin kidnapping mermaids, attacking submarines, and looting sunken ships.

So with these dastardly Shark riding marauders up to no good, we need a hero to fight the good fight and dish out some nautical justice. I figure I'm up to the task. I'd definitely need a bad ass submarine suit though. Been using this one as my profile pic on the ol' facebook for the last bit.

Here's our hero rescuing a sexy mermaid babe from the evil clutches of the Shark Riders.

I've got a ton more of the Shark Riders themselves, just havn't gotten around to inking and coloring them. Might do that soon, or I might just throw the roughs up. We'll see how I'm feeling.

And here's a little something I drew up for my Mom a few months back for her birthday. I did it pretty quick, but I like how it turned out so I figured I'd toss it up.

So I've got a lot hopefully to come since I'll be having some extra free time around the holidays. I also started life drawing again, and it got me thinking I've got a whole chunk of life drawing that'd be worth putting up too, just got to sort through the old sketch pads.