Happy Holidays

I was so honored to be asked to do the holiday card this year for Sketchtravel! I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and a may 2010 be the best year yet!

Fall

I've been playing around with various approaches to illustrating children's books. Here is a simpler style i've been toying around with.

Ice Age Art

Not too long ago, I finished working on my first feature, "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs." Coming in as a rookie, many of the senior artists were incredibly generous about sharing techniques, theories, etc., especially Michael Knapp (Art Director). I use to be a pretty serious noodler, but he helped me to really loosen up and focus. I still have a long long way to go, but I thought I would share some of the development work and some color keys from various sequences.

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Sketch Travel

I recently had the greatest privilege of being invited to the amazing "Sketchtravel" project by the 2 brilliant creators, Gerald Guerlais and Dice Tsutsumi!! I had to keep myself from drooling all over the amazing artwork done by so many fantastic artists. It was one of the most stressful projects to work on because of how fragile and easily I could've screw it all up. (..I hope I didn't) Unfortunately I can't show my contribution, but I believe its set to be released sometime next year.

It was handed off to me by Peter Nguyen, then given to Vincent Nguyen to take to Japan! :)
Safe Journeys!!

Sweet Dreams

Happy Halloween!

Giving Thanks

There is a church out in Flushing, Queens and I think it is becoming a tradition for me to do their annual jr. high/high school retreat poster. The theme this year is "Giving Thanks." I have to "give" it up to Jake Parker for helping me out. If you ever need advise with great ideas, he is your man! Also, when it comes to painting, I can't help but be inspired by Dice Tsutsumi. The way he's able to capture light and his strong sense of value and color is simply amazing. I guess that's why he is art directing "Toy Story 3."

Purrcasso 2009

This is my contribution for Purrcasso 2009. If your interested in supporting doggies and kitties there will be an auction and craft fair on November 7th and 8th 2009. Location is yet to be determined so check their website. Cheers! :)

Swingers

On September 19th, Nucleus Gallery is exhibiting some of the beautiful artwork submitted to the Terrible Yellow Eyes project. I gave my original piece to a selfish friend of mine, VINCE!!! and he wouldn't return it so I created another illustration for the show. :) I hope you guys have a chance to go see it!

Trip

A couple months back I decided to partake on a 3 week volunteer trip to the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. I had the privilege or serving with some of the most amazing people from various parts of the world. To say the least, it was quite the humbling and eye opening experience. It's hard to describe it in words, so i'll let the few pictures below give you a snippet of my short stay in this incredible country. Unfortunately i didn't get to sketch much, but I had plenty of time on the plane. :)

They let us paint this classroom.

Monster Show

Several friends and I will be part of a huge group show this weekend, curated by Travis Louie. The opening is on Saturday, July 11th from 8:00 to 11:00p. Some of the artists include, Dice Tsutsumi, Audrey Kawasaki, Vincent Nguyen, Mark Elliot, Robert Mackenzie, Peter Nguyen, Willie Real, and many many more!! Hope you can make it out!

Copro Gallery
Bergamot Arts Complex
2525 Michigan Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310.829.2156

Happy 4th!

I hope everyone had a fantastic 4th of July weekend!
Me and a couple buddies (Peter Nguyen, Arthur Fong) did a mini sketchcrawl around the city the entire weekend. We went around sketching at cafe's in the west village, aircraft carries at the the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in Chelsea, Chinatown, Soho, and of course the subways. We'll be heading over to the Metropolitan Museum this Saturday (July 11th) so if anyone's interested, we'd love to see you there!
Cheers!

Sketching

New York has so much to offer especially for those who love to sketch. (Bus, Subway, Train, etc.) I've been really trying to push myself these past couple months to draw every chance I get. Here's a bunch of sketches from a short trip I took visiting family and friends back in L.A.