Cinister Pictures Logo

Re-worked an old drawing for my logo and trying to figure out a 70s Horror movie font for my logo...

Yuji's Birthday Card

We call them squeak birds because they can't take off without making these precious little squeaking noises. They're pretty much my favorite birds, just common brown doves that you see all over the place here.

Homemade sketchbooks!

Fancy $15 Pentel brush pen vs cheapo $1 Daiso brush pen.

Was testing out some new materials with this one and actually ended up liking the cheapo Daiso brush pen better. It had a felt tip rather than plastic hairs so I thought it was easier to control. The brush tips are cool for adding drama/ texture though.

Holden Caulfield

One of my favorite books ever is "The Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger. I recently re-read it for reference because the language inside it is so witty and original. Not only that, but the book is just plain hilarious, even though it was written in the 50s it still reads as very clever and witty. Second of all, its a coming of age story, which is in a sense the kind of story I am attempting to write, even though my main character is 36. I guess what I'm trying to say is that people can come of age at any age. Right?

HEADING TO ALASKA

Friends! Great news! I was recently accepted to an Artist in Residency program and will be traveling to Alaska the last week in July. The National park rangers there have commissioned me to make a conservationist comic book, to be delivered after our 9 day kayaking and camping trip through the wilderness.

And below is a random drawing that has nothing to do with Alaska.

Cheers!!!

Since everybody seems to be looking for

Color work these days I decided to add some color to my repertoire, just in time for spring.

 

BEAST is BACK!

After 3 months of being stuck on the command shell screen, I finally fixed BEAST! Aka Moro, my desktop computer with the tricked out hardware. Just testing out how everything is running in PS, I had been having some problems with brush lag in PS, but it seems to be related to how hot it is in my apartment....as long as it doesn't hit 100 again outside I think we're ok...

Happy Holidays Friends!

Holiday mailer 2013! Poking a bit of fun at these "hipster" types you see so often in urban settings...

LA For The Win!

I really hate winter...

...LA for the win!!!

Pony Express

Here’s me in 1860 riding cross country to deliver mail for the Pony express, fighting outlaws and bandits by day and sleeping under the stars by night. I realize the bg is kind of a cop-out/hack (its actually a photo I took when we visited Arches national park in Utah) but it kinda fit the style i was going for.

Below is the actual recruitment poster for the Pony express. I like how honest they are: "must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred” Damn, dude that is no joke. You might die, but if you don’t die you will get 25 dollars a week. Was that even a lot of money back then? I have to believe that anyone that took this job was a stone cold badass. Also, these people had to make it from Misourri to San Fran in 10 days or less on a horse! That’s some serious haul-assery!!

Hair

My hair is like my security blanket and source of power. I'm trying to force myself to work in color and get used to the idea of creating lighting from my head. I think to do this really effectively you must have done enough still life and portrait studies that you are comfortable with color theory and can easily pull from your mind. Definitely out of my comfort zone...Well my new gouache set arrived today, I guess we'll see what I end up making with it! Fun times ahead!

Cat logo

Properly remade the logo to my site hi-res for my business cards. Cat branding, it's the way of the future..

I mean, who doesn't love a slightly wall-eyed striped fat cat with tiny toothpick legs??

A lot of people?

Oh...

Robin

I wanted to do Robin from Batman the Animated Series in a creepy jamie hewlett-ish style. I always had a thing for Robin when I was younger. Now that I'm older I see its because he’s the full package,

-smart

-athletic

-edgy

-obsessed with revenge personality disorder

..wait a minute.. Oh well …

Today's Paintover

Today I took an old marker sketch and spiced it up in photoshop, adding some dramatic lighting. Here's a before and after..

I thought the moon was competing with the jack o lantern too much so I scaled it  back quite a bit. Definitely need more animal anatomy, and trees are also a challenge for me.

SAY WHUT?!

The beginnings of a fight scene I've been thinking about for a while. More to come, so stay tuned.

Father's Day Sketches

Some drawings I made for my pop.

Cycling in Nyack.

*Somebody* likes to spoil their pets..