This guy really like shoes..
Initial rough ideas and exploration for the “Sneaker Sniffer”…..complete with smell lines.
Zeroed in on these designs, but we still weren’t quite there.
Exploring colour palette.
Rough sketches of the rotation for the toy modeller.
Final Character rotation.
Final toy production.
Went a bit more “broad strokes” and painterly with this one. Was fun to do!
I think this is a fairly regular scene these days, with a lot of Moms taking on caring for their kids, teaching their kids, and trying to work themselves. Cheers to all the awesome Moms out there somehow making it all work!
My take on the 'ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing!
Back when kids could head outside and play together and not have to be 6 feet apart! Hopefully we’ll be back to this soon! :)
Clearly this was done before social distancing…and Schools for that matter! Remember Schools? Anyways…this hasn’t aged well for our current situation. Sharing your sandwich with someone right now maybe isn’t the best idea, but hopefully it will be again soon! Stay healthy everyone!
A game I’ve been working on and Art Directing for the past year, Wild Words, is featured today on the Apple App Store in Canada. Check it out if you get a chance!
Nothing like a summer road trip with the family!
A sketch that never became more than that…
I recently had the opportunity to design a T-Shirt for the Kings of Pool team at Uken Games who worked on Scratch, which includes me! It was really fun to turn the 3D character design of Scratch into a 2D design that would work well for a shirt, and also incorporated Pool into it in some way. This shirt is now in regular rotation in my wardrobe :)
Recently I checked off another first: designing a character used in an AR (Augmented Reality) mobile game! For those of you who don't know what that is exactly, AR games use your phone's camera to interact with your actual environment. In this case Scratch is your opponent in an AR game called "Kings of Pool" (available on iOS and Google). You can place a virtual pool table in your real environment and go toe-to-toe with Scratch. This was a lot of fun to work on, and Cheers to my buddy Greg Puzniak for modelling the final 3D version.
Here are some barbarian drawings I did a while back - Enjoy!
You don’t see one of these every day…
Winter fun…
Here's an Illustration I did of a treasure-hunting Gecko, in a bit of a different style for me. He’s like Lara Croft, except much less cleavage.
Final Illustration
Colour Rough
Sketch
Just doodlin'
More camping kids!
More designs for my kids adventure/camping idea.
Here's a peek at an idea I’ve been thinking about. I'm going to be illustrating some kids and their trusty dog that are going on a bunch of adventures. Will show more soon!