Rolling Pin

I'm trying to do alittle 'word of the week' illustration.
This week is 'rolling pin'...

SB vs. DC

2 weeks ago, our sticker crew ( http://sticky-bandits.blogspot.com/ ) was invited down to DC to do some live painting and just to hang. Of course me being in los angeles i couldnt make it out. So instead I whipped up alittle sticker design for the others to slap up!

From sketch to final design...

Gingerbread Card

Last minute freelance work, I wrapped up a x-mas card for my girlfriends post production company.



and heres some worthless sketches...




This x-mas I'll be flying all over in this horrible weather, to Colorado, to Pittsburgh, and to Chicago. Wish me luck there will be no delays of flight cancellations!

Big Cartel

I opened up a small web store to sell some small paintings and books!
Check it out at http://joshandjosh.bigcartel.com/

Below is the header and the sketches...

SonicPool is Muppets

I finished a last minute freelance design project right before heading out for the holidays in chicago. The past 3 years I have been doing the x-mas card for my girlfriends company "SonicPool". They wanted to go with the theme of the muppets, since the muppets are all about christmas, haha. But I finished it up in less than a week and here it is...


Heres some of the process, the first round of roughs...




getting more defined on pass two...






the people spoke up and wanted some fixes...





So I digitalized everyone...


In the end it was fun, most detailed card as of yet. They printed some up as I got my hands on them already...

Road Tripper

Final digital design...

I Need Some Hope

I know its alittle late to make something like this, but I had some free time this week.

Sonic Peanuts

Finished this years christmas card for my girls company. The theme was 'the peanuts'

A few sketches...


And the final piece done in flash...

Meteor

I did an art test for a more creative job. I had to draw a forest world with a character plus his sidekick (a frog).
here some sketches...





...and threw some colors in flash!

franks and beans

did this as part of my works sketch blog party @ http://massapeel.blogspot.com/

...and many more!

Back when I did the sonic pool characters, I was asked to do a quick character of the bosses daughter for her... which they turned to a b-day card.
this is the original sketch which they wanted her to be more girlie and wear a dress:



they didn't like the shadows like i did here, but to me a little extra flavor:



done in flash!

Nacho Man

earlier this year i did some freelance. mostly for fun cause i was younger and not wiser at all! trying to build my portfolio and make connections.
this one guy kinda suckered me into doing work for him. his concept was a 'nacho man' set along the venice beach. heres his concept he put together:



yuck! what was he thinking???
i wanted to turn it into something more cartoonly and wild, with style and pazazz!
heres some brainstorming i did...





after that, he hated them all and wanted more realistic. wtf? a real nacho chip man?
so anyway i deleveloped more stuff like this...





well anyway, he keep giving me harash deadlines (not only this but for 6 other characters and storyboard backgrounds), and he wanted the final colored piece to be just lines; no lineweight and solid colores (something i never want to see in a cartoon)...



ughhh its so to look at. this is what happens to a deperate artist like me, working with a lawyer who has high hopes with a youngen like me.
but...
it gets worse, surprisingly

this guys name is 'grub'. an old retired homeless clown...






...and heres nacho mans love interest, suzie...





...nacho man's sidekick 'Tako', get it...taco, tako?...




...but wait, nacho man has to have an enemy to pick on, and that guy is Vic, short for Victor Vomit (thats right! his last name is vomit!)...





so for a second i thought i was done with characters, but last minute he tells me to make 2 new characters.
i actually liked this one of a basketball player, but then he tells me after i showed him the sketches that the ball player, whos name is Holmes, to make him into a hotdog...





...and a tattooed gypise named tina...



and lastly i was suppose to do a storyboard work. he wanted full color and had high expectations from it as well. i only did 2 before i ran out of time:



(all colored work done in flash, to save time mainly)

ughhh...thats the end of that.
over worked
underpaid (only $100.00 bucks)
and an embarashment on top of it all.

i learned alot, mostly what not to do, and to follow your own style, cause thats what a client hires you for.