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Wired (Italy)

This sentence is an introduction. I always find the first sentence of a blog the hardest to write. Not sure why?...moving on. This illustration was for Wired magazine in Italy. I was super excited when I received the email for this project. It has been a dream of mine out of school to illustrate for Wired. The illustration accompanied the article of the top 10 Geek Foods. The AD wanted me to combine the words Geek and Food and see what I could come up with. Huge thanks to Daniela! Here are some roughs:

Potato Chips

Cheese Plate

Hamburger Combo

I had a blast with this assignment. There are so many different kinds of "Geeks" I tried to encompass them all in the last two roughs. The added elements were mainly the ones that resonated with me the most! I'm not gonna name all the references but lets see if you can spot them! (I do wish I could of illustrated the Cheese Star Destroyer a la Spaceballs)

I wish I spoke Italian

Random note: Starcraft 2 is coming out this month!!!
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Hello all! Recently I have been working on some animation shorts for Kickpixel. It's been a fun experience doing these as well as a big challenge. These are in no particular order but, Run Man Run was the first one I did and Cannot Connect is the latest one. Hello all! Recently I have been working on some animation shorts for Kickpixel. It's been a fun experience doing these as well as a big challenge.

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Some rough ideas all of these I would of loved to do as well.

A cover I illustrated for an Irvine Visitors Magazine. I was really excited to do the project mainly because it was the first cover assignment I've done. I did a similar map illustration of Newport Beach for the Paddle 2 live poster and they wanted something with a similar feel. The challenge always is to make the complicated area simple and informative, and it's always a fun challenge figuring it out.

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Another Rap artist portrait of one of my all time favorites Eminem (Slim Shady). In elementary school and high school I pretty much grew up listening to him. You know during those days where you had to pay a friend to burn you a mix CD. I remember the first time I saw Eminem was watching BET with my brother then "Hi My Name Is" came on. We both remember thinking who the hell is this guy? Man this dude does not have a chance.

I was having a lot of fun messing around with my Kickpixel site and pixeling shoes, that I thought I would give portraits a try. I'm also thinking of making a separate portfolio for my pixel art. Would be awesome to market this style I think. Here is another side project I forgot to blog post about. I wanted to challenge myself to do an interior this style. So what better place than the mode of transport I'm most at THE "GLORIOUS" TTC SUBWAY SYSTEM.

Heyyo, here is a recent illustration for Rogue magazine on Filipino comic heroes. I was asked to redraw some classic characters and put my own spin on them. Huge thanks to Miguel for the awesome project! Inprint version and below a quick sketch with the layout. I was lucky enough to visit the Rogue offices during my trip to Philippines last year and thank Miguel Mari and Miguel Lugtu for their awesome hospitality.
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I've been trying out some different things recently with the Ebony Pencil. I was never really big into shading in my illustrations. I just really relied on the linework most of the time. However when I'm sketching I really have fun shading. So I'm trying to experiment more using shading in final pieces.

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