Needs more mandibles.

Started drawing a bunch of different head concepts for an crustacean-like alien race. Really just kind of spitballing and seeing what I could come up with for some interesting looking faces. 

I have a couple favorites here, but which one(s) do you like?

Dogshark

Got bored at work earlier this week and drew a dog-shark kinda monster. Instead of inking it like i would usually do, I decided to shade it with pencils which I have not done in quite a while.
Scanned it in, opened it up in Photoshop, touched it up a little, and coloured it while eating cupcakes and drinking bad coffee!
It was a very good way to spend Friday.

Sharks with legs: when Mother Nature wants to say "fuck you guys!"

PANZER.

So back in the day I used to play this pen and paper superhero RPG with a group of friends down at the local hobby shop and we had this recurring villain named 'Panzer' who was a WWII Nazi cyborg who was reawakened in the present day and would frequently take on the entire team of us, often coming very close to bloody well killing us all. He was the coolest villain we fought in my opinion and we always dreaded having him show up in our games. I always had this image of him in my head as this horribly scared and mutilated aryan man encased in this huge, hulking juggernaught of a powered exoskeleton, a slightly tragic figure, but completely menacing and determined.

I like birds.

There have been a few cardinals around at home recently, just doing bird stuff and taking baths in the eavesdrops (which is adorable!) and I decided to draw them (or at least the male) since they are one of my favorite local birds.

It also got me thinking, are Catholic Cardinals named after the bird or is the bird named after the Catholics? Is the cardinal native to North America or is there a species in Europe?
How funny would it be to have the bird hold an office at the Vatican?

Male Cardinal bust

Male Cardinal

UPDATE! WUT WUT?!

Okay, haven't really posted anything for a few months since school ended. That's my bad folks, it kinda slipped my mind as I have been working my summer co-op placement at Hunter Amenities in Burlington, and it's been keeping me fairly busy. It's been mostly all photography and graphic design stuff for the past couple months this summer, which I would post here, but I think the contract I signs says I can't, so for now I think that will have to wait.

Anyway, I'll be trying to post more stuff more frequently as I have a few personal projects going on in the background.

Another Human Heart

Pen and Gouache on wood board

Getting close to the end of 3rd year now.
We where given/assigned some "bonus" work to put up in the Illustration Hall that is supposed to both demonstrate our work and our experience of 3rd year.
So, I made this (finishing it in the wee hours of the morning): it's how I like to work and because I like to draw stylized human hearts when I get depressed, which has been the general tone of 3rd year.
On the upside, I think I'm finally starting to come into my own as an artist with stuff like this.

Doctors Without Borders

Linear line-work

Final with colour

Poster for 'Doctors without borders" (Medecins Sans Frontieres)