MINION FACTORY

Rocket Rodents!

2012-01-23T08:12:00.000-08:00

I found these designs recently, they were for a show pitch that I worked on for a while that didn't go anywhere. I can't really remember what the show was about other than they are rodents and they fly around in a rocket. It would be a good bet it was suppose to be an action adventure series with a bit of comedy for young adult.

Enjoy.

Aliens Attack!

2012-01-06T15:04:00.000-08:00

ALIENS

Is anyone looking forward to the new one?

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-20T05:59:00.000-08:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

2011-10-31T06:40:00.001-07:00

Star Wars Forever!

2011-09-19T19:28:00.000-07:00

STAR WARS

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

RETURN OF THE JEDI

These movies will always be my favorite movies, you can keep the new three movies. So here's some fun to go with the Blue-ray edition, I am sure you all purchased by now.

Enjoy!

World War II: Super Science!

2011-08-16T06:46:00.000-07:00

After watching "Captain America" the movie and loving it, I dug up some old designs I did in the same world of 1940's super tech. Of coarse the bad guys have all the cool stuff, but it makes the heroes of the story to appear more amazing when they ultimately wins the day.

I have always loved this stuff ever since I saw "Raiders of the lost Ark", I have also made scratch built models from this world, which I will share with you later.

Enjoy!

Voltron Reborn!

2011-07-01T05:36:00.000-07:00

A couple of years ago, I was asked to redsign the kids for voltron. I just recently saw the trailer for the new voltron , so I guess it's O.K. to show these now. I didn't get to redsign the Cats, they were already done by the toy company, to bad, that would have been fun.

Long live Voltron!

Colossal Doodle!

2011-06-03T09:29:00.000-07:00

Found this doodle in a sketch book I came across recently, I think it's about three years old.
He's still one of my favorite X-men , Enjoy!

Seuss it up!

2011-04-24T09:58:00.001-07:00

Hello again everybody! It's been a while, but I have been busy with life stuff.

Here is the job I did last summer as a prop and character designer on this Dr. Seuss show. I had a blast working with this style, I would have done the backgrounds too if they would have let me.

Enjoy!

Space Girl!

2011-02-03T10:46:00.001-08:00

Just some doodle fun in the winter.

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-21T19:56:00.000-08:00

Father Knows Best!

2010-12-10T16:19:00.001-08:00

Just a bunch of styles I designed for a friend starting with the Dad character.

Happy Halloween!

2010-10-31T16:04:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody! It has been a long time since I have posted last. The reason for this is I was in and out of the hospital for the last couple of months.

This post contains images of a project I worked on with a friend of mine and it fits in with the season. Zombies are always fun to play with so we used them as wrestling fodder with commentary.

As you can tell, I had lots of fun working on this project. I hope you all enjoy it to.

What happened to scary monsters?

2010-05-04T17:23:00.000-07:00

I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of this romantic/teen drama crap that has taken over everything. I really miss the classic monsters that your supposed to be afraid of, not trying to date.

So here are some scribbles I did the release the pressure in my brain from all of this so called quality entertainment.

Enjoy!

Wondering where Alice has gone?

2010-03-24T17:20:00.001-07:00

QUEEN OF HEARTS

CATERPILLAR

JABBERWOCKY

MAD HATTER AND THE MARCH HARE

Just saw " Alice in Wonderland " last weekend and had a blast, so I decided to dig up some old design sketches I did a while ago for my own " Alice in Wonderland ". No they are not the greatest colours, but I do what I can, being colour blind and all. Still, I had a lot of fun colouring up these old designs that I refer to as my " Nintendo style " because they look like the old Mario Bros. games.

Enjoy!

Summertime in Canada!

2010-02-27T18:58:00.000-08:00

Howdy hoe everybody! Sorry it has been a while since I posted last, but between my job and my kidney disease, I was just to tired to do anything in my spare time. I'm feeling much better now, so back to the drawing board!

This is some more pitch package art I did for a Canadian version of " South Park " that revolves around hockey. Not the most original idea I have ever worked on, but I think the kids turned out pretty good.

I like the twins the most of all.

Monster Scribbles!

2010-01-20T15:13:00.000-08:00

Happy new year, Ya All! Just some doodles I did over the Christmas holidays while I was sick for three weeks. Not the most Ideal way to spend my time off, but that's life.

Hope you enjoy them!

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-24T09:06:00.001-08:00

Hail Halo!

2009-12-15T17:35:00.001-08:00

This was a commissioned piece I did a couple of months ago for someones birthday. It was a big hit, so I decided to share with all of you.

Enjoy!

Jim!

2009-12-03T17:46:00.001-08:00

His name is Jim. He likes long walks on the beach, occasionally plays cricket in his spare time, and goes square dancing every Thursday. But Jim is a business man at heart, no fooling around for him. He is a professional searcher of floor pie, not pudding, that's communist talk!

Steve!

2009-11-22T07:31:00.001-08:00

Greetings my good chums! Its been a while, but I have been busy so here's a doodle I did at lunch.

Enjoy!

March of the Ants!

2009-11-07T15:47:00.001-08:00

I found these drawings when I was looking for something else, Isn't that always the way of things. Anyway, I still thought they looked pretty good. These pose sheets were mainly done to help me understand these complex characters from the show " Anthony Ant ".

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

2009-10-30T13:19:00.001-07:00

Tis the Season!

2009-10-24T18:38:00.000-07:00

VAMPIRE VS WOLFMAN

MUMMY

GHOSTIES

THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALGARI

NOSFERATU

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Back to my first love, the classic monsters and ghoulies. I always get that fuzzy feeling this time of year, then an uncontrollable urge comes over me and I can't stop drawing thing that go bump in the night. It is kind of like a disease, that I intend to spread to as many people as possible.

Even you!

Cobra!

2009-10-18T10:39:00.001-07:00

COBRA COMMANDER

DESTRO

THE BARONESS

STORM SHADOW

MAJOR BLUDD

FIREFLY

My favourite is "Major Bludd", How about you?

Yo Joe!

2009-10-10T13:45:00.001-07:00

DUKE

SCARLETT

ROADBLOCK

GUNG-HO

SNAKE EYES

STALKERS

If you were one of those people that were sorely disappointed in the live action feature of your favorite 80's toy, take a deep breath and calm down. Here is my take on one of my favorite cartoon shows. I hope you will get some joy out it.

Stay tuned next week for the invasion of Cobra!

P.S.
If you are wondering why "G.I.Joe" is spelled in Japanese, I just thought it looked cool.

The Russians Are Coming! The Russians are Coming!

2009-10-03T13:08:00.000-07:00

Just having some fun. Enjoy!

Return of Kid Galaxy!

2009-09-26T15:54:00.000-07:00

This is the last of Kid Galaxy stuff, it was designed for the gross out comedy for kids. It was all done with brush pen, I find this style works good when designing bizarre characters, and I like the play-doo look it gives everything.

Kid Galaxy Strikes Back!

2009-09-19T13:36:00.000-07:00

Just another set of Kid Galaxy styles and there is more to boot! The last batch of these drawing is quit different, they were all done with brush pen. So stay tuned for that!

Enjoy!

The misadventures of Kid Galaxy!

2009-09-12T13:48:00.000-07:00

I think the title is right, but I can't remember. This was yet another in a long list of pitch packages I worked on, and the only thing I had to do on this one is to come up with a style for the show. I don't know what happened to this project, I usually don't see them again unless the studio I am working for, gets a green light for the production of the show.

Anyway, here's the first batch of styles, the rest to follow.

Germ Warfare!

2009-09-05T18:40:00.000-07:00

KING SNOT AND THE BOOGER BRIGADE

VARIOUS GERMS

FLY CAR AND VARIOUS GERMS

These are some doodles I came up with when I was working on an idea for a show about germs that drive flies like cars and live in fungus homes. That's as far as I got with this idea, maybe I should do some more on this subject, it actually looks like fun.

Franken doodles!

2009-08-28T15:13:00.000-07:00

Just a couple of sketches of everybody's favorite bag of bones, meat sack, or walking puzzle of the dead, if you prefer. He is one of my all time favorites among the Universal monsters, him and the Mutant from "This island earth".

Enjoy these gruesome portraits!

Batgirl Bombshell!

2009-08-21T15:34:00.000-07:00

I didn't get much done this week, feeling a bit under the weather. So here is the first thing I worked on when I was learning Photoshop. I think it turned out pretty good, not the best, but good enough. Hopefully I will get some new stuff done for next week.

So long for now.

Motorola Comic Book: Part Three!

2009-08-14T13:39:00.000-07:00

PAGE 5

PAGE 6

PAGE 7

PAGE 8

PAGE 9

Well , that's the last of it. It came out at Christmas 2008 with the new phones, it also came in a tin case. That was my first professional comic book and probably the last, but you never know what the future holds.

See ya next week!

Motorola Comic Book: Part Two!

2009-08-07T15:28:00.000-07:00

COVER

This was the original cover for the comic, but the client didn't understand the looming head of evil.

COVER

This is the final cover, sorry I don't have the colour version of this one.

PAGE 1

PAGE 2

PAGE 3

PAGE 4

Again, I'm sorry I don't have the colour versions, but I prefer it in black and white. You will notice some thing don't flow to well, but those are the changes the client made and they have no idea how story flows in the comic book world. Also I didn't have time to stylize it as much as I would have liked, still..... I think it turned out pretty good.

More next week!

Motorola Comic Book: Part One!

2009-07-31T15:35:00.000-07:00

ROCKER

In the summer of 2008, I was asked by a friend to help out with a contract he had with Motorola. The result was a comic book of heroes that represent the different type of phones on the market. I designed them more or lest to look like "Bruce Timm" style, they were happy with that. There was not much time for this project, so the clients were not that picky.

UNA

Most of the designs got very little revision, this one was strange because I first designed her with long hair then change my mind with the second sketch. They requested the long hair without ever seeing my first sketch.

RAZOR

This one had a drastic change from " Robin " type character to a slick Japanese ninja type guy.

Ex was thrown in at the last minute and the style was already established, so his design came quite easily with only a helmet revision.

SPY PHONE

Spy Phone is there code for "i phone", get it? Yeah, I thought it was pretty lame to. He started out as a giant robot, but Motorola really did not like that. They were not to thrilled with my second attempt ether.

SPY PHONE

They loved my third shot at it, but thought he looked to much like " Hades " from Disney's Hercules movie, so I gave him a haircut.

MINIONS

What can I say, they wanted minions, lots of minions.

CHARACTER SHEET

This was a printed sheet that came with the comic book giving all the back story to the characters. The writer was rushed also, so forgive the poor guy.

More next week!

Here's Mud in your Eye!

2009-07-25T14:10:00.001-07:00

CLAYFACE

I didn't have alot of time this week, ( busy at work and all ) so I did a quick paint job on a old drawing of the classic walking cow pie.

Enjoy!

Doodlebug got me!

2009-07-17T15:54:00.001-07:00

NOSFERATU

KILLER CLOWN

MEDUSA

GHOUL

BRUTE MAN

VAMPIRE

I came down with another case of doodle-itis, brought on by the bite of the infamous Doodlebug! But I'm feeling much better know . . . even tho I keep seeing pink elephants wanting to do my taxes.

PAC-MAN on the brain!

2009-07-10T15:55:00.000-07:00

Did you ever have one of those days, when something just pops in your brain for no good reason? Well it happened to me recently and it happen to be PAC-MAN, so here's what spilt out.

The last of Jimmy. . . . . . . I Swear!

2009-07-03T15:25:00.000-07:00

O.K. , I didn't think I had so much Jimmy designs, but this is the last of it . . . . at least I'm pretty sure it is. These torture scenes were made up for Lucius's computer back when he was known as Lucifer.

Next week, I will have something other than Jimmy art, I promise!

Jimmy, Jimmy Mo' Jimmy!

2009-06-26T16:23:00.001-07:00

Yet again, I went too far. These designs were done just to get use to the style and feel of the show, but I was having way to much fun . . . so I keep on going. Hope you enjoy them as much as I love mayonnaise, . . . . . . . . . I REALLY love mayonnaise!

More Jimmy to boot!

2009-06-19T18:50:00.000-07:00

When it came time to design Jimmy's dog, nobody knew what they wanted. So a bunch of us at the studio threw in our thoughts on the matter. This is my contribution to the cause.

The Background out the patio windows was done by " JOSH GAY "

They also had a problem with Lucius's wife design, so once again a bunch of us had a crack at establishing a look for her.

The rest of these designs were once again done just for fun and to get a feel for the show. None of these designs were used in the production of " Jimmy Two-Shoes ".

Will the real Jimmy two-shoes, please stand up!

2009-06-12T17:44:00.000-07:00

Here are the sketches I did for the pre-production short of the series " Jimmy Two-Shoes ". This was back in the day when the story of Jimmy was actually in " HELL " and was populated with serial killers and murders. Jimmy was also dead and could be treated as so, just like some of my drawings show. Heloise also was quit different, she was a psychopath that love to torture Jimmy but also loved him. Her personallity kept switching between her love of Jimmy, and her hatred for him. I thought this version had a lot more potential for comedy, but the powers that be disagreed.

These are some of the doodles I did to get in to the style and mood of the show. None of them were acually used, but were a lot of fun to do!

Meet the Phreaks!

2009-06-05T05:50:00.000-07:00

MAD SCIENTIST FATHER

This show was a pet project of a friend who wanted to bring back the fun of those classic shows like " The Munsters " and " The Adams Family ". I'm not really sure what his version was about or how it differed from those other shows, but I was fun to work on anyways. The style was pretty much stolen from the "Beetlejuice/Family Dog" cartoon or at lest an attempt at it.

CREEPY MOTHERS

GRANDPA AND UNCLE

THE PHREAKS TEENAGERS

THE PHREAKS CHILDREN

THE PHREAKS COUSINS AND PET

THE HELP

THE HOUSE

THE NEIGHBOURS

THE NEIGHBOURS TEENS

Well that's all of them, still would have been fun to work on, but thats life. At least I can share them with you here.

Train Trip Sketches!

2009-05-29T06:19:00.000-07:00

Last week I had to take a trip to Toronto to see a medical specialist. I took the train, so I had a lot of time to kill. Thank zombie Jesus I brought my sketch book with me or I would have gone mad twiddling my thumbs for eight hours. Don't try to make any sense out of them, I just put down what ever floated into my head.

Enjoy! ...... if you can.

The Robots are Coming!

2009-05-22T12:45:00.000-07:00

I found these drawings the other day of a robot family I designed for a friends personal project and decided to show them. I didn't really think about colour to much when I designed them, so I'm not that crazy about my selections.

TERMINATOR

And for more robot fun, go see the mighty Terminator! It's fun for the whole family, even grandpa Joe.

I know it does not look alot like chrome, but I couldn't figure out how to colour this thing to save my life. I really got to get more skills in colour selection and paint technique.

Armour Wars!

2009-05-17T13:37:00.000-07:00

STEEL

DOCTOR DOOM

IRON MAN

LEX LUTHOR

Sorry about the delay on my usual Friday update, but I was in the hospital for a couple of day to correct a minor health issue. So this week I decide to show off some of my Armour designs I did a while ago for fun. Hope you like them, they took quite a while to complete, but still fun to do.

Avengers Assemble!

2009-05-08T05:54:00.000-07:00

THE AVENGERS

CAPTAIN AMERICA

THOR

THE HULK

IRON MAN

GIANT MAN

THE WASP

Its another animated look to the mighty Avengers! Its a hobby, I can't help it, its just to fun to draw comic book heroes in there cartoon form ..... soooooo this won't be the last.

Don't forget to watch the STAR TREK movie and all of it's phaser fire fun! Come on, It can't be any worse than " Episode one: The phantom menace "..... or maybe it could be .... anyway, it will have lots of cool special effects to rot your brain until you don't know what's what.

Enjoy!

Tooth and claw!

2009-05-01T06:04:00.000-07:00

The Wolverine movie is now playing and looks pretty entertaining, but I'm still expecting some stupid moments in the story. Oh well, you can't expect Hollywood to always get it right.......ever!

And once again, Some Batman Baddies I redesigned for practicing my skills as a designer. These are the last ones I have done for the Batman world, time to move to the Spider-man universe.

Next week, another Mighty Marvel Team!

It's A Freeze Breeze!

2009-04-24T06:04:00.000-07:00

Another one of my design exercises I did a little while ago, the chilling Mr. Freeze! One of my favorite light bulb headed villains, take that Mysterio! .... no, I'm just kidding, I love him too.

Iggy Arbuckle!

2009-04-17T06:57:00.000-07:00

A while back, I was working for a studio ( Mercury Filmworks ) that was biding on the show "Iggy Arbuckle". They didn't get the contract, but I still got to do some preproduction work on it. It is not very often I get to draw animals and I thought these turned out pretty good.

Next week, A big chill in Gotham city!

Join the Brotherhood!

2009-04-10T06:01:00.000-07:00

JUGGERNAUT

MAGNETO

MYSTIQUE

SABRETOOTH

APOCALYPSE

MOJO

As promised, the evil side to the X-men. Enjoy! and Happy Easter!

1940's Spider-man

2009-04-07T13:09:00.000-07:00

Just a quick doodle I did when I was watching some classic Superman cartoons.

X-Men Unite!

2009-04-03T07:36:00.001-07:00

COLOSSUS

WOLVERINE

MARVEL GIRL & PROFESSOR X

CYCLOPS

NIGHTCRAWLER

STORM

BEAST

Just having some fun with the classic X-men, stay tuned next week for some villains, same X channel, same X time ..... Excelsior!

Monster Pen Sketches!

2009-03-27T06:40:00.000-07:00

BUG-A-BOO

MIND WARP

JACK THE RIPPER

NIGHTMARE GHOSTS

TEA TIME UNDER THE SEA

HELLBOY

LIVING GHOST

INVISIBLE MAN

Pen and paper doodles with creepy creatures on the brain.

Arkham Asylum role call!

2009-03-20T07:05:00.000-07:00

SCARECROW

THE RIDDLER

THE PENGUIN

MR. FREEZE

MAD HATTER

KILLER CROC

CLAYFACE

CATWOMAN

Just some doodle fun with evil and malcontents. Take that Batman! and your little sidekick too!

Hulk & Superman, side by side.

2009-03-13T06:19:00.001-07:00

THE ETERNALS #15

SUPERMAN

Just practicing on Photoshop with some old drawings of mine, still not the greatest but you got to start somewhere.

Heroes from Japan!

2009-03-06T09:42:00.000-08:00

INAZUMAN

ROBOT DETECTIVE K

KIKAIDER 01

Here's something a little different than usual, foreign heroes from the monster capital of the world, Japan! I have always liked the crazy designs they come up with for there comic book shows, Sci-Fi movies and monster films . There's nothing better than sitting back and watching grown men in rubber suits beating the hell out of each other.

It's fun for everyone!

My Animated Spider-man

2009-02-27T10:45:00.000-08:00

I designed these some time ago, way before the current Spider-man cartoon was done. They are no were near as good as Sean Galloway's Designs, there AWESOME! You might notice I tend to stick with the classic 60's cartoon look , The Rhino with his T.V. screen head, The Lizard with the man head, etc.

Also, before you ask, these were done just for fun, not for any official project.

Spidey Fun Time!

2009-02-20T14:25:00.000-08:00

Having Fun with the amazing Spider-man! One of my all time favorite comic book characters to draw again and again.

Enjoy the Wacky Web Head.

Evil Is, As Evil Does!

2009-02-13T06:33:00.000-08:00

Enjoy some crappy art, then go see a CRAPPY movie! . . . . . Then we can go bowling.

Robot Ninja's . . . . . . in my pants!

2009-02-01T08:42:00.000-08:00

About a year ago, I was working for a company that produces on-line video games and this is what I came up with. They didn't give me any direction except they wanted Robot Ninja's and to capitalize on designer toys market. This is pretty much it, I don't know if it ever got made but I did like the Idea.

Batman & Two-Face Together Again.

2009-01-19T11:06:00.000-08:00

Here's another batch of style exercises and I've decide to stick with the batman theme. I have always like the stylized bad guys in such comic books like Batman, Spiderman, Dick Tracy, etc. There are more to come later once I finished cleaning them up.

Enjoy!

New Year March of Monsters!

2009-01-01T09:31:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year Everybody ! As you can see I really like the classic monster movies, a lot more then most people but we all have our habits. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-22T11:28:00.001-08:00

Joker's Wild!

2008-12-12T14:31:00.000-08:00

Every once and a while, I like to do an exercise in character design by taking one of my favorite characters and see how many styles I can come up with. I always like exploring design in this manner, it boosts up your creativity and talent.

Here are some previous illustrations I did a while ago, they can also be found at my website.

Kung Fu Dino Posse!

2008-12-02T17:15:00.000-08:00

I designed this stuff a while ago, it's a product of a producers imagination who thinks he cracked the code to a successful animated series by taking the hottest toys on the market ( Dinosaurs, Hot Wheels, Power Rangers, etc... ) and putting them into one show. They also drove around in monster trucks & cars and turned into teenagers.

I did look up this show and it is still scheduled to be produced, but don't expect it to look like this. There is a show on ABC called "Dino Squad" which is very similar to this show, not that it matters, they're both pretty stupid if you ask me.

Molly Jean

2008-11-09T09:28:00.001-08:00

Here are some development designs from a while back. It's about a young girl and her friends that traveled through time by going into a mini amusement park of famous monuments from around the world.

I tried to do a design style that was reminiscent of the old UPA cartoons, a style you could really have some fun with in the Flash animation medium.

These Backgrounds were done by an amazing layout artist and designer " Diamond " Dave Merritt.

More Goulish Friends!

2008-10-31T16:16:00.000-07:00

It's simply goulish!

2008-10-31T16:07:00.000-07:00

Here are some scribbles from my monster sketch book.

Happy Halloween!

2008-10-30T16:58:00.000-07:00

More trick than treat, but it's all in good fun.