"Punks Jump Up to get beatdown!!!!"

Here's another throwback from back in the day. This was one of the original concept posters I created for a comic book I was working on back in 2003. Thanks to video games I played like "Street fighter" or the "King Of Fighters" I was so influenced by some of the characters and stories in the games that I ended up created my own martial arts based fighting story.

Flame on!

Old school character illustration I did back in 2003 of Elc from the video game "Arc The Lad". Elc was easily one of my favorite characters in that game. It was really fun to draw and color this design. The picture was originally drawn in pencil, scanned, & then colored in Adobe Photoshop.

It's Summertime, Time for fun!

Here's a pen sketch I did the other day form a picture of a girl I know. She was on her summer vacation & had a picture taken of her sitting on some rocks surrounded by water. Anyways, I liked her picture so much that I decided to sketch my own version. It's fun every now & then to just get out there & draw / sketch something on the spur of the moment. It's like "freestyling" in hip-hop.--Straight off the top of the head!

"Made you Look!...Now you're a slave to a page in my sketch book!"

Here's another oldie but goody. I originally created this character for a story/comic book I was working on back in 2003/2004. I later revisited the character design back in 2006 & created this background for it. I think It turned into a cool Illustration. I came across the illustration recently & decided to post on my blog. The story/project is on hold right now but who knows maybe one day I'll go back and finish it. In the meantime enjoy!

Check out my new Video Portfolio!

I created this new video portfolio using a new tool called animoto. I think it's a cool way to market/promote your work online. Check them out www.animoto.com

The Time is Now!

You've just made a new friend!

Okay, so here another space themed Illustration i've been working on. I really love the look of space fantasy, sci-fi, the future, etc. I just basically wanted to have some fun and create a cool futuristic-looking space chick. probably form earth or some other far-away planet.--(Hence the blue hair!) The illustration is entirely my own, but the spaceship & background was copy & pasted from other sources. The background was put together from various stock-photos of outer space. The space ship I actually copy & pasted from this Anime poster I saw for a something called "Koshika". I just basically manipulated the color scheme a bit, added some glow effects and BAM! Made it into my own. I really like how this Illustration turned out though. Definitely a fun diversion from working on my graphic novel.

Here is the original drawing. Started off in pencil, then I hand-inked the drawing & scanned it into Illustrator. (Art Tip)--For those who don't know, Adobe Illustrator CS2--(What I use) has a function that will trace/re-trace your drawing using various styles--(Blck & white, Ink drawing, sketch, comics, photo, etc). I tend to like to trace my drawing using the comic option. Illustrator gives me even better, cleaner lines than Photoshop. As you can also see, some of the lines a little broken up, but that can be fixed later on in Illustrator. Also, once i've finished tracing the drawing, I can easily import the picture into Photoshop for coloring.

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