Intricadoodle Crazy

"On Safari" (click to enlarge!) - 3'x5' - Acrylic/Latex on canvas

Really want to thank Tim for commissioning my latest 5 foot canvas. I wish the detail on screen could convey the presence of this beast.. The under sketch is an iridescent silver that has a cool metallic sheen in the light, and there is definitely a little hidden riddle doodled. Twas fun and I'm now in full doodle mode with tons of blank canvas!

Here are some detail shots of some characters at actual size, as well as a relative size shot of the whole canvas. (Click to enlarge)


Also while I was down in California, I picked up a 2ft x 3ft canvas to doodle up for Danielle, as well as 2 5x7inch canvases that I was able to knock out.

Intricate Conception (click to enlarge) - 2'x3' - Acrylic/Latex on canvas




5"x7" - Acrylic on canvas

5"x7" - Acrylic on canvas

I have much more blank canvas just screaming at me... I'll update soon!

Agata Collabo

This was a quick little character collab w/ Giant Thinkwell illustrator Agata Jelen.

Life has been quite busy with Funko stuff that I've done very few illustration projects in the last couple months. I started building my audio studio and have been spending countless hours mashing around, learning how to make noise. I'll post up specifics and my attempts at said noise here soon!

Also there are 3 art shows in February that I will be contributing to and will surely post up the pieces when done.

Definition of Doodle

“If we sketched Doodling into a family tree, it could be the cousin of comics, the child of activism, and the nephew of Graffiti (an uncle who encouraged it to sneak out of the house at night and acquire a shared addiction to big walls and the adrenaline rush of personal risk.)

A doodle is defined as an unfocused drawing, which is made almost subconsciously; the mind preoccupied or struggling to deny distraction. A doodle takes shape in the void, finding form from the shadows. Doodle as defense.”

- Harlan Levey

 

Frankloaf

My buddy Frank Chimero, the amazing illustrator, was in Seattle for a couple weeks and we got to sit down and chat it up. I always leave our conversations feeling quite inspired. In the midst of one of our conversations, this popped into my head. It haunted me for about a week until I sat down and got it out. I know it's entirely out of context, but enjoy it for what it is! haha

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Also I was working on some Nodniks packaging and when I deleted the character, some of my layers were locked - this is what was left over. Can you guess which character it was?

Rayola - ColorInk Book

 

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Here's a quick little render I did for this DIY periodical called "ColorInk Book". There are some awesome artists with awesome submissions for you to color up! I highly suggest picking one up.

They have a character called 'Rayloa' that frequently an artist's take applied to him. This is my take, with lots of gradient lovin' of course!

Here is the wireframe of the gradients in Illustrator:

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The initial sketch:

Be on the lookout for the next issue if you'd like to color up some of my doodles 'n characters!

Intfinity

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Intfinity - 5ft canvas - Acrylic, oil based latex, spraypaint

If you live in and around Seattle/Kirkland, I highly suggest seeing this beast in person! There's so much going on in the background, which appears black in the image, plus all the hidden goodies. It is showing at Sureel through July.

 

As with most blogs, I've had a bit of a hiatus! This last month or so has been non-stop every single day. The last couple weekends has been one show after another after another, each week up til the wee hours prepping, cutting, printing, painting, etc. The overall success of the shows hasn't been immediately fruitful, but some amazing seeds have been planted! Now projects and opportunities are popping up all over. Anyways, lots of coooool stuff on the horizon, both from personal creative ventures and the toy development at Funko. My toy line "Nodniks" is starting to pour in! I've done about 32 characters in the Nodniks line and they are looking awesome. I'll definitely be posting more info on these soon.

I'll try to get back into the daily mix of things. I've just got to train myself to steal a few seconds from each day again.