Inspiration from "crumby" Situation

I was recently diagnosed with celiac disease! So instead of being stressed about it...I took inspiration from it and did this quick sketch!! I am sure there will be many more to come as I change my life style from this!

Enjoy!!

Quick Sketch!

So I have been busy working full time again, and freelance!

So here is a Caricature I did for a client.

Books !

Presents Presents Soft Cover and Hard Cover

A peek inside!

I should have posted this a while back!
I have two books for sale

Jenny's Doodles a 28 page book of my Drawings $10.00 plus shipping
And
The Presents Presents a children's book I illustrated $15.00 plus shipping

You can order them from my by sending me a message or at these links

http://www.sexypinupstickers.com/?PRODUCT_TYPE=Art+Book
http://smallshifts.com/default.asp?tier_1=19&tier_2=19&content=19

Sculpting!

I took a sculpting class a few years ago and haven't touched it since.

Until the other night when I did this! It took about 9 hrs.

I think I am going to make a few more it was super fun and really relaxing!

The Presents' Presents! On Global Tv

The Presents' Presents! On Global TV

Teresa the author of "The Presents, Presents!" Was recently on Global TV. She did an amazing job and she was really nice to mention me!! Thanks Teressa

You can watch the TV spot here http://web.mac.com/glofoto/Site/Movie_2.html
and you can see the book!!When I figure out how to put video on here I will make a direct link!!

Enjoy!!

The Presents' Presents!

A children's book I have been working on for a while has finally been published!!

It hits the shelf this week. This is a look at the main character "Rae".

The book was written by a friend of mine Teresa de Grosbois.

We are ramping up to start our second book!!

Hope you enjoy!

This is a scan of some warm up sketches!

Super Kids

These are the super hero kids for Small Shifts Books & Media Ink the writer and publisher of two of my kids books!

Calgary Expo

Post Well there is Time!

So here are some more samples of work I have been doing. These are Science Exercise Sheets for Grades k-6 if you live in Alberta and have kids these will probably end up in your home within the next year! These were super fun I hope the kids like them!

Kids Books

It has been a while since I posted. I have been super busy so I thought I would give you a peek at what I am up too.

This is a rough from a kids book I am working on one of 3 to be out this year I will post the details when I have them!

Curse of the Pharaoh

A few of us locals worked on this game

"Curse of the Pharaoh"

Check it out at.

http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/3029/curse-of-the-pharaoh/index.html

I will post some art from the game later!

It looks like the game is being received pretty well !

http://www.gamezebo.com/features/just_in_curse_of_the_pharoah_t.html

http://www.propeller.com/tag/curse+of+the+pharaoh+the+quest+for+nefertiti

http://www.millionsofgames.com/game/ology/19692/
http://skeetsstuff.skeeterbess.com/2008/03/10/curse-of-the-pharaoh-adventure-and-hidden-object-game/

Safe Surf Launch

Hi Everyone,

Monday was the launch of a pretty large project I have been working on. If you are in Calgary you can check it out at South Centre Mall all week. The are giving out nifty usb keys as well.

If you're not able to make it to the mall you can check it out here http://www.youthlinkcalgary.com/safesurf/

Here is some of the work from the project!!

This is the original Concept sketch for Browzer!

I will try and figure out the video setting on here and post some animation soon!

Concept Art!

Here are a couple of Chef Concepts I did this week!

I believe education is something every artist must continue

So it's not very often that I like to post things that I am learning. I just finished a class with Bobby Chui online at Schoolism.com. It is a brilliant class. I had never digitally painted before this. I have been strictly very vector art so this is me fully exposed in a new medium....don't be to hard :(.

Assignment 1 - wow this is bad it was really hard to not describe things with one line!
Assignment Two - This one turned out Great! I got a 5/5 on this one I was pretty Proud
Assignment 3 - This one again was tricky
Assignment 4 - getting harder!
Assignment 5 - this one ws fun!

Assignment 6 -I liked this one! I did really well on this one as well! 5/5Assignment 7 - This one was more in my element I got a 5/5Assignment 8 & 9 - This one was hard but fun. I haven't got a grade yet

Doodles

Hey Everyone! Things have been really busy. I just attended a Digital Alberta event in Banff this weekend. It was an incredible event. I had the pleasure to meet some AMAZING people.

Tad Stones - Writer and Artist - Darkwing Duck, Rescue Rangers, Ducktales, Hellboy animated and many others
Matt Costello- Writer- http://www.mattcostello.com
Gabe Kean - Art Director - Born Presents and Belle and Belle and Wissle
Matt Rhodes- Lead Artist- Bioware
Mike Laidlaw- Writer - Bioware

And many others, from guest speakers to attendees it was an incredible experience.

The trip up, we drove to Lake Louise by mistake!!! On the way back on Sun we had the WORSE snow storm there was at least 15 vehicles turned flipped and crashed in the ditches some buried over 2 feet in the snow. The Banff center is amazing.

I have finished my online Class with Bobby Chui I will post all my work from his class at a later date. I highly recommend that any artist interested in learning digital painting take his course.

Character Development Sketches!

These are a few rough sketches for a concept art meeting with a client.

Wed and Thur Post

I missed Yesterday so I posted two for today.

A lot of the time I will draw in a meeting with clients. I find this easier to get the ideas out of there heads these are some doodles from a recent meeting.

Concept Art for a Client.

Tuesdays Drawing a lil late !

This is an add I did about 2 years back for a Tec Magazine. Really bad drawings, that's how it is when you get rush jobs sometimes! But its still a cool add it works for what it is.

Daily Posting!!

Hey There! So here is the start of posting daily these are two old pages from a sketch book I will be trying to post new stuff every day when I get busy I will post an older sketch but it will still be new to this blog! As most of my drawings these days are for clients it will be hard but I want to try and do it to keep my dreams of bigger and brighter opportunity's alive!

Site Launched

So it is official my site is finally up and running www.lightboxentertainment.com
I will be trying to post "something" everyday as this blog is link to the daily doodles on my site.
Hope you enjoy the new site and the drawings to come! Wish me luck!