Deadpool Jumping the Sharks...

Step 1: Deadpool Pencils
Step 2: Ink Deadpool and decide Deadpool is jumping over sharks
Step 3: Find references for sharks, sketch and ink
Step 4: Color time! Used the Cuts & Gradients method of coloring.

Poster & Flyer Designs

Various Poster and Flyer designs for Clients.

Ghostpool

Deadpool + Ghostrider = Ghostpool. A penance stare that makes trolls you with every single internet meme known to man and then some. You will never have been Rick Rolled so hard.

Deadpool and Ghostrider are the property of Marvel.

Logo Design

Various logos I have designed for clients.

El Tiburon vs El Pulpo WiP

WiP of my El Tiburon (Shark) vs El Pulpo (Octopus) piece so far.

1. Preliminary sketch.

2. Refined my sketch - The position of the original octopus was no good Luchador was not looking at it. So I modified it to make them face to face and eye to eye. Also improves composition. I try to fix as many errors at this stage, proportions, composition, etc.

3. Cleaned up the lines for a more refined line drawing. Ready for colors.

4. Added some base colors to characters. Modified digitally via hue/saturation/brightness/contrast to get the colors I want.

5. Changed base colors up to give the characters more contrast. Made Octopus red to contrast with the Luchador's blues.
 - Went with a comic book coloring style. Created separate layers on top of base colors, Shadows set to Overlay and Highlights set to Color Dodge.
 - Chose a dark turquoise value for the shadows and color picked base colors for color dodge highlights.
 - Used lasso tool to select areas I needed and then used the Gradient fill tool set to circular and Foreground to Transparent and filled in selections.

6. Will fill this step in when I get there, but will probably be more of step 4 and just deciding on a background.

APE 2012

I'll be with my buddies Ralph Miranda and Chris Kawagiwa at the Alternative Press Expo October 13 & 14.

Green Lantern WiP

Decided to boot up a year old sketch I did and work on it. Original GL sketch done ~ Sept 2011. Digital update Sept 2012.

Green Lantern is the property of DC.

Society6 Store

I've just set up shop with Society 6. Prints, iphone cases, and shirts will be available there.

Comikaze 2012

I will be attending Comikaze this weekend with fellow artists and buddies Chris Kawagiwa and Ralph Miranda. If you are in the neighborhood stop by and say hi!

Korra Progress Sneak Peak

Sneak peak at my Korra Digital Painting.

Korra is from The Legend of Korra and is the property of Nickelodean.

Hand Studies 09102012

45min Hand Studies since everyone loves drawing hands. Also a 45min video on Livestream of me drawing these hands: Hand Video

Korra Sketch

Korra Sketch Work in Progress that I am...uh....working on.

Hand Trick 1

Digital Trick: Recently I've been trying to draw more hands...yeah HANDS! Since I'm right handed, I tend to use my LEFT hand as reference. So drawing a characters left hand is getting easier.

But characters have right hands too! Since I can't draw with my left hand to free up my right hand for reference, I just flip the DIGITAL drawing horizontally so that the characters right hand is now his or her left. Now I can draw it and just flip it back later.

So when you see a right hand drawn from me...it's really a left hand...I just draw left hands.

Flipping the image also helps you see wrong proportions, tangents, basically stuff that is "OFF" so it's good to flip the image back and forth when you are working on it.

But what about traditional hand studies? Once I figure that out, I'll write something, but for the time being, maybe mirrors or those nifty hand mannequins.

Hope someone finds this useful.

Deadpool Falling

Deadpool is too fun not to draw.
Deadpool is also the property of Marvel.

Lucky Rabbits Foot

A lucky rabbit foot has to come from somehwere and Deadpool intends to get one.

CUTEthulhu

Cute Cthulhu

A video of the process here on Livestream:
http://www.livestream.com/syngeist/video?clipId=pla_9e85ebb1-b359-4e8a-a750-1131bab35221

Creatures and Cryptids

Sorry, been lagging on updates. But here's some things from the past month. Sketches of demons, dragons, creatures, and cryptids.

Comic Con 2012 & Drawings

Comic Con was great. Hung out with and saw a lot of friends. So much to see and so little time to see everything. Got to chat with some of the Udon artists, Long Vo and Joe Ng (http://vampbeauty.deviantart.com/). Met Linda, aka Vampy! (http://vampbeauty.deviantart.com/). Got to chat a bit with Raychul (http://www.raychul.com/). Also had a fun chat with a Resident Evil fan at the Capcom booth, Su Wan (http://www.qishi.deviantart.com/). Including the people that I met, Vampy, Raychul, Su Wan, there were soooo many other great costumers and cosplayers there. Made it into the Community panel! Pop! Pop! Attended the Epic Mickey panel w/ Marv Wolfman and watched Jim Lee draw several times. Picked up a couple of Alex Ross sketchbooks and came back with 8+ shirts, my favorite of which is the Playstation: All Star Battle Royale Team Sly Shirt, since my initials are SLY! Also came away with a Hitman tie, a beanie, and a Foot clan hat. A great 5 days. Can't wait for next year.

A few things I drew while there:

Deadpools

 Been in a Deadpool mood lately and drawing a lot of Deadpool. Above...why not?!

 My idea for a movie version of Deadpool.

 Deadpool and the deadly Hulk Rodeo.

To Deadpool, the week only consists of Fridays.

Anime Expo

Anime Expo is now over. Always great to see an event and community where people of all ages can really let loose, hang out, and share their love of Anime, Manga, Comics, and Cosplaying.

The Lovely Linda Le or as many people know here as Vampy. http://vampbeauty.deviantart.com/

The original Hipster Ariel, also Lovely and talented, Traci Hines. http://www.tracihines.com/

Some pics I snapped while attending along with some marker drawings done with a variety of Prismacolor Brush markers, Flex markers, and Shinhan Touch Markers.