Brock Hard!!!

In keeping with my MMA illustration theme from last week, I decided to draw the notorious Brock Lesnar. Now those of you not familiar with Brock a short synopsis is that he was a WWE Wrestler now he’s UFC Heavyweight champion. Brock is a massive massssivvvee guy. I believe his mother is American and his dad is a Sherman Tank, but that’s just a rumor, she couldn’t be American. Other than his giganticness Brock is known for his bad ass attitude, which is a love hate thing with many people. But all in all, no one can deny this man is a force in the industry.

I tried some different coloring in this piece; I tried to use softer coloring to go with the hard line edges. I had tones of fun making this, and think it worked out pretty nice.

Here's another version I did, not sure which one I like: vote!!!




Finally, here is a video of Brock in the WWE doing a Shooting Star press (hes almost 300 lbs!!!)

Creative Quarterly 16

I was fortunate enough to be selected in Creative Quarterly 16! I know this post may seem old if you saw Yuta's previous post about it. But lets pretend this is the first time you have seen it..yeah!!.


The illustration was done for Thom Sevalrud's Interprative Illustration class. The illustration is about the theory that we are born criminals. Wow I miss school...someone grade me!!!

I've also now decided to center my images, yay or nay?

Kimbo Slice'd

For some reason I can never think of something to write to start off my blog post, so I started it off by writing that I cant think of anything to write, clever? amazing? yes all those. So today "The Ultimate Fighter 10" was on, and one of the featured contestants was Kimbo Slice (Kimbo is famous for his back yard fist fights seen by millions over something called the internet). Anyways I'm a big fight fan so I thought it would be cool to draw him. I was looking at my old work from school, and there was some illustrations I used to do with flat colors and texture that I really missed. I thought I'd try to combine my style now with some things I was doing before, you know to spice things up a bit. I did this all after the show ended till right now, so it was sort of a quick test on mixing the two styles. What do you guys/girls think?

China's Consumer Tap

Here is this weeks Financial Post investing illustration. The Chinese Consumer market (things like China Mobile companies, Auto, and even beer) are on the rise. With rising incomes in China, and a populace of 1.3 billion people, the industry could be a juggernaut. Canadian Investors can take advantage of this by tapping into the growing industry.

Ace Of Diamonds

Fellow Sheridan graduate Dave Murray started a "To Be Named" face card project. I got the Ace of Diamonds,and this song couldn't get out of my head when I was thinking of an idea. So then it made sense for me to make Smitty the Ace of Diamonds!! I haven't done a portrait in a long time so it was nice to take time and do another one. I'm trying to as well explore more things with texture, I feel it helps lighten the hard black and makes it more easy to look at.

Keep on a look for other face cards blog posts!!