Wanna watch me and a few of my friends in our day to day our nerdy/geeky activities? No? Too bad, you don’t have a choice!

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So, remember when I was all busy working on character designs for Paul Guerrin’s awesome company Lionfish Create in Australia? No? Well, I was really busy cranking out character designs for the company last year for an animated series. Well, lately they’ve been doing live stage shows trying to get people to be aware of the characters and store, most recently at a local school fete in Brisbane, QLD. You have no idea how exciting it is to see something you worked on come to life.

Check out their FaceBook page https://www.facebook.com/theenviromentals and the company website http://lionfishcreate.com/Lionfish_Create/Lionfish_Create.html

I grew up with really cool friends like Robert Lassen and Jason Alvear who exposed me to some of the coolest video games with the greatest stories ever told. One of my all time favorites is Chrono Cross on the original Playstation, a game that to this very day remains one of the most epic stories I’ve ever played through. This is my favorite character from the game, Kid, drawn in my own style trying to keep it as close to the original as I could. Drawn while listening to a song from the game’s soundtrack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBE3c9X0BoA

A lot of times when I can’t think of anything to draw, I’ll pick up something around the house, in this case a DVD case, and redraw it in my own style.

There are a few things that I’ve always wanted to do before I died, though I may never get to so this is the next best thing. The list includes working on a Sonic the Hedgehog project, be it a comic, cartoon or game; work on a Fantastic Four cartoon as the character designer or art director; get a job at Disney, Warner Bros. or Nintendo. Anyway, I really just wanted to draw the Fantastic Four movie cover in my cartoony style because I love the FF and I love the movies, even if no one else did. This is the third sketch in my  new sketchbook. I’d upload the other two, but it’s my understanding that unless you’re terribly popular, no one gives a damn about your original characters.

Dug this out of my comics box earlier when I was feeling a little better (the flu sucks by the way). This was a letter I wrote to Archie Comics TMNT back in 1992 (the part in the green boxes). I later sent them a drawing of Slash, in which they responded with an awesome compliment telling me I was going to be a great artist some day if I kept at it on this green post card with an awesome print of a battle scene from an earlier issue. I wish I still had that. It was damaged in a flood 2 years later.

Chiki Chiki Boys, or Mega Twins, depending on where you live. I found the pencils for this which I did back in 2005, just sitting in my Lost and Found folder on my hard drive. I figured 7 years was long enough to wait and ink and color it so I did.

I’m an old man, so naturally, I’m a fan of old things…old video games, old cartoons, old toys, etc., so yeah, this was by far one of my favorite video games as a kid, back when I actually gave a damn about Capcom as a company. This is also the only other piece of Chiki Chiki fan art that I’ve ever done so I felt like it had to be finished.

True story. Back in 2004-2005, I created a series called aminals. Eventually, it became a 7 page (might be 6) comic that was published in an anthology book with comics from other underground unknown artists. It sucked. Not the artwork, but that could have been a contributing factor, but due to my job at the time, I had to try and condense the story and end it at an odd point. It was printed. Luckily you can no longer get your hands on it (I have a copy obviously). I actually went back a few years ago and retooled the story, making it make a hell of a lot more sense and even started drawing the pages on comic boards. Then by the time I got to page 7, I was like “You know, why am I doing this? I’m never going to publish it” and stopped. I contemplated picking it up again but I know once I start, I’ll hit a roadblock again. Anyway, this is an updated (background at least) pinup I had on my old site to promote it. The character’s name is Brittany, and she’s a kangaroo mouse, inspired by Gadget from Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers (the goggles at least), named after a cousin, and outfit based on something I saw a girl wearing while working at my old job back then.

The unedited (meaning no clouds, no textures) version of this was done 6 years ago in 2006 and I never liked it. I figured I might as well mess around with it this morning and see if I could force myself to be ok with it. I still have my issues with it but meh.

I think part of the problem is because I’m not really a Superman fan. I like the movies and cartoons but the comics don’t really do anything for me, though I do have 3 trade paperbacks.

This was a birthday drawing for my buddy Aleena a few weeks ago. She’s dressed as Yuna from Final Fantasy X-2, based on one of her cosplay photos. This makes her the 9th one of my friends to ever be drawn by my unsteady hand. Wonder who’s next?

While it’s impossible for three versions of Goku to exist at the same time (unless you’re reading someone’s terrible Dragon Ball Z fanfiction) these are the only DBZ figures I have left. Well, there’s a Trunks somewhere in the house along with a Vegeta that’s permanently posed to shoot an energy blast…he’s so ugly. These are pretty old. Probably can’t find them anywhere other than ebay or a local comic book shop these days.

I bought these so long ago (even had a friend try and steal them from my apartment years ago) but I can’t remember where I got them. I wanna say Wal-Mart since it was right down the street, but so was Toys ‘r’ Us. In any case, I still think this is the coolest Batman figure I’ve ever owned…oh yeah, and Robin’s ok I guess.

I drew this back in 2007 (the original version) for some kid whose name I can’t for the life of me remember, but he begged me to draw him a picture of Robin from the Teen Titans cartoon.

That kid is probably a teenager now and more than likely doesn’t give a squirrel’s fart about comics or cartoons anymore…he’s probably girl crazy. I’m willing to bet money on it…

From 2007 and edited 2012.

This is the only drawing I’ve ever done of The Flash, and while I like it, I still felt it could use a little extra before returning it to my gallery. So, I added some dust, a new street and some new lighting.

This was another picture from 2006 that came from a conversation between my buddy Zac and one of his employees (back when they worked for GameStop) as to who’d win in a fight. Obviously, Zac was smart and said that Batman could take on both Cap and Snake and leave the fight unharmed. I’d have to agree, to an extent. I don’t really care for Captain America myself so I’d love to see Batman beat his ass to nothing, but Snake…Snake might actually make him have to work a bit.

This is an updated version as well. That brick pavement wasn’t there in the original…it was just a white background (which made no sense). The lighting is also new, but that’s it. All my anatomy mistakes from 2006 are still intact lol!

Seven years ago in 2005 my buddy Zac challenged me to draw something dark…dark as in not all sugar and rainbows and happy go lucky like 99.99% of what I usually draw. So I drew the darkest thing I could think off without being gory…Batman on the verge of killing Robin for more than likely sleeping with Catwoman behind his back…cause you know…you may be able to use Batman’s gear, but don’t touch any of his women…

This is edited slightly though. I added some stained textures and bloom to make it look a little better than the original. Also, the original was scanned on my old scanner/computer which didn’t scan black too well so I adjusted that as well.