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

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)

Boredom = 3D mechs

Got really bored and built a mech in Google Sketchup for fun.

Chalk kitchen octopus!

So, one of the walls in the kitchen at home is covered in chalkboard paint, and every month or so I spend about an hour drawing something on it with chalk to liven up the place a bit.
So, a couple weeks back I drew a Giant Pacific Octopus creeping out from behind the fridge.

Deception

 Octopus 1/3

 1/3 of a narrative piece about deception and fraud.
I chose to do a series of images dealing with an octopus partly because it's my favorite animal EVER and so much fun to draw, and because I think it really embodies the idea of deception.

If you would like to see all 3 images in the series, go check out my website at: http://www.behance.net/OctopusIllustration

Spaceship speedpaint

Quick speed painting of a starship for Digital Media. Not as finished as I would like and I think it could still use better brush-handling, but whatever, it's done, it's mildly interesting.
Probably come back to it sometime in the future and refine it more.

Royal Ontario Museum Sketchapalooza 2013!

I call him 'Hank'

And in order from top to bottom, Olga,  Peter, and Christina

And here we have Jennifer and Stuart.

I visited the R.O.M. in Toronto last week with my good friend, the lovely and very talented Michelle Moniz (visit her blog at http://michatah.tumblr.com/   ! Go on, it's okay, I'll wait. Back now? Cool, huh? Now where where we? Oh, right! DINOSAURS.) and spent the day drawing dinosaur skeletons (again). I could have easily spent another couple days in those rooms alone drawing, but I got some good sketches from that trip.

In other news, I'm working on another dinosaur painting, this time I'm doing a male velociraptor!
Just finished roughing out the basics last night, so hopefully this one won't take quite so long as the T-rex did!

Tyrannosaurus: Tyrant Lizard King

I call her Suzann!

Tyrannosaurus was an apex predator that lived in what is now North America during the late Cretaceous before the mass extinction events roughly 65 million years ago.  
The largest member of the Tyrannosarinea family, Tyrannosaurus was a massive land predator designed to combat heavily armored prey such as triceratops, and could deliver approximately 3000lb of pressure in a single bite, enough to shatter bone and tear muscle with ease.
Tyrannosaurus was not built for speed, scientist think it could have run under 15km/h at top speed, meaning it was probably an opportunistic predator, scavenging kills whenever possible, but capable of hunting. 

All 14 of the paintings of the great men of the Renaissance I did for the final of
Italian Art and Culture.
 

Brunelleschi

Botticelli

Cosimo Medici

Dante

Galileo

Giorgo Vasari

Giotto

Leonardo DaVinci

Leonardo Burni

Cosimo Medici

Michelangelo

Donatello

St. Francis

Massacio

Tarbosaurus

Teratophoneus

Last 2 dinosaurs for the Tyrannosaurinea Infographic; Tarbosaurus and Terarophoneus!

Alioramus

Daspletosaurs

Tyrannosaurus

More dinosaurs!
For our second infographic at Sheridan, I'm doing a map of where various species of Tyrannosaurus lived, and their evolutionary descent (really, this is just an excuse to draw dinosaurs).
I have 3 of 8 here so far done: Alioramus, Daspletosaurs, and the famous Tyrannosaurus.

It's also worth adding that this is my first real, serious venture into digital painting. I've dabbled in it before, but never really done much of anything with it.

The Weaping Queen

Most recent version/design for a character of mine, the "Weaping Queen"
Haven't entirly naild down a story for the character yet, but the basic idea is some kind of queen of ghosts that haunts her old kingdome, constantly weaping over a tragedy no one can remember.

More journal stuff

 Some selected pages from my Italy Journal from over the summer.