RUSTY LIFEDRAWING

Last night for my first time in years i had a life drawing session. I hope to get back to the local gallery for the next session coming up. These 4 images were 2, 10, 5 and 2 mins. in length from left to right.

THE CHOCOLATE KID

This is a character concept for a children's book that I'm starting to develop, in partnership with a writer. I'll be working with the writer and coming up with the proper layout and over all look of the book. So hopefully we'll be able to show some more stuff very soon, and possibly start on a few more book ideas over the next few months.

GONE FISHING

This drawing was made by my cousins son. Its a fisherman fishing from shore. I even think he signed it. He's just started school this week, i wish him all the best. Have fun Josh!

HELD CEL

Another tshirt contest , another tshirt design, another waste of time.

The winner of the latest contest will win 15,000 euros. The process for entering is you design, you submit your work and then it gets placed in a voting area where the public can vote, the design with the most votes and feed back, wins. I cant even make the voting stage which leaves me to believe these contests are regulated or controlled to keep with company "standards".

B-BOY

NO TOYS TOLERATED

A flash back to the authentic orange thing...from the garage in '08.

BLUE PENCILS & RECYCLED PAPER

T-SHIRT DESIGN

This was designed for another t-shirt contest at lafraise.com "Vinyl kills mp3" was the theme. Your comments are more than welcome. For some reason this design was not selected or excepted into the voting area which has got me baffled. I would love to know why this image wont work as a t-shirt design? Any silk screening pros out there?

THE SCUGOG Pt.2

A process image from concept black & white to digital colour clean up in CS3. It took a few hours to get this put together, but it was fun. I got a lot on the go these days with odd jobs here and there, and cant wait to get into this 2009 fishing year. I guess a dream design job for me would be designing fishing lures for Strike King or Rapala, then testing them out...maybe one day?

T-SHIRT DESIGN

Thanks for the kind words guys! This is a t-shirt vector design, for an online design comp... not sure which color to go with, it will be printed on a heather grey t-shirt? I liked Blue then Red, others said Yellow I'm starting to lean towards Yellow. April 6th is the deadline, for the BSV "re-animation" themed competition at lafraise.com check it out.

SPRING!

The title pretty much says it all. This design was created using CS3.

CLASSIC CRUNCH

These clips were taken from an ad done for the Doritos Guru Contest. Its a quick animation concept done in flash. The flavour idea is Classic Crunch. Good luck to all contestants.

CAN CONTROL

This image was created using spray paint on wood. I call this piece..."and i hear nothing."

MORNING PENCIL SKETCH

Monday morning tea break. This is a quick sketch done the classical way. Pencil to paper. I got to draw this way more often...

...the top picture is a requested straight scan, altered with color in PS. I find this post leaning towards a kind of Satzinger style.

OL' PAINTING Pt.1

This painting was done with acrylics on canvas. Its a Norman Rockwell study produced for an art show at Reset Clothing Co.

GREEN SKETCH

Sketch Book Pro (SBP) is a great affordable program for anyone who likes to draw, and save on the use of paper. Some one should be paying me to say this rubbish!

WARM UP

This is a warm up sketch from SBP and CS3.

PUT'EM UP

Just another quick late night sketch in PS.

MURAL PART 2

This is a client revision of the mural design below...with a few tweeks here and there.

MURAL PART 1

This design was inspired by the 3D king Daim, who is one of the finest graff artists of our time. It was created in Sketch Book Pro and CS3, and for the purpose of selling the client on this style. If all goes well the mural will be painted inside of a private club/lounge.

LOCAL FALL FISHING

Local fall fishing has been great. Never thought there would be fish like this 10 mins from home. This older fellow showed me a few tricks in taking hooks out. If it wasn't for him this fish might not of made it back into the water.

THE SCUGOG

This is the one that got away. I've obtained a new program for digital painting called "Sketch Book Pro" you can really feel the benefits of a tablet when using it with this program. The Scugog or aka "Mr. Jangles" was my first attempt at using sketch book pro. The lighting effect was created using cs3

TOY DESIGN'

During the past week or so i came across an artist's blog, a great animation design artist i use to work with, named Mr. Crylic. He had posted on his blog, a toy design submission for a competition put on by Aarting Inc. There were many great design submissions entered, like pan-dah by crylic and ladybomb by mena, so i thought i'd give it a shot of my own. "Yukan" the northern kid, is a McCoy original design. The design with the most votes wins. If anyone has time www.aarting.com is where you can vote on your favourite design. Its real simple, go check it out.

UP NORTH

Northern Canada has great fish and some great people. These 2 pictures were taken on the way to fish our morning spot. They turned out blurry, making it look like a painting rather than a photo. I guess the next post will have to be some pictures of fish.

B-BREAK

While recently going through some old jpeg files i came across the "ol' air brush hustle" thought I'd clean them up and post a few. Here's a commissioned air brushed pair of kicks for Andrea Lucchese. Done in 2000-2001.

DUSTY AS DIGITAL

A quick digital picture done in PS. This was from my head, no pictures were used or referenced.

ROB-OT

Digital tablet painting done in approx. 20 mins. on cs3. I found myself subconsciously leaning towards an image i had seen on an artist blog. I'm getting comfortable with digital painting, hopefully soon i'll be able to post some (in house) projects that Studio Zoetrope is working on.

"MARZ"

This is experimental work in using adobe photoshop. I'm trying to become very comfortable painting with a pen tablet. This album cover "MARZ" is fully developed in photoshop cs3 sketched and everything...i got allot to learn about ps brushes, but i'm just getting started...

Colour "Hand" Styles Pt. 2

Another colour concept with some more thought and time.produced in (PS) photoshop

Live Since '31

This was a commissioned t-shirt designed for a local pub. Done back well over the course of seven months. I finally got my hands on a digital camera, to capture this final product. The design was made using Flash, then sent off to be pressed front and back.