Raven and Squirrel

During my last month of college our group went to Chicago for a week to relax and study art and architecture there. The students that couldn't go stayed here in Winnipeg and did sketches around the city. This piece is of a slightly disturbing exhibit that has fascinated me since I was a kid. Its on natural decomposers of the forest featuring a variety of flesh eating insects and fungi, thankfully not many people find this display as it is tucked away in a dark corner of the Manitoba museum.

Leech in a glass 2

This is the second comic in the series.

Pixie Postcards

I used two species of sprite creatures I imagined up to create two unique postcards that I plan to send off to anyone who wants one. After sketching them on watercolor paper I painted them and fix them up in photoshop. If people like them enough I might do a few more and create a series.

Little Birdie

This painting was originally the VERY last sketchbook assignment I did for my first year of college, I decided that instead of half-assing one I would do something a bit more developed. The idea behind the painting is the first signs of spring, since the Yellow warbler is considered a spring bird, I choose to render a super cute version of one and paint it. The lines are done with ball point pen, just in-case you need to know (They work well with watercolors as ballpoint ink is not water soluble). After I got it back I framed it and am going to give it to my girlfriend.

Skateboard Design

Second year graphic design students do a skateboard project for illustration class. In our first year we had a sketchbook assignment where we were supposed to plan ahead for it. This was my design involving puppets it's called "cut your strings".

Leech in a Glass

Leech in a glass are little comic strips I filled my first semester college sketchbook with in order to pass some time (In the end they go me bonus marks!). I made eight in total and will be posting them once a week, or so.

Driving with Thomas

This short comic took me two days of labor but was all worth it. With that said its very sloppy and hastily done, but its depicting an inside joke between tom and I and our group of friends. You see Thomas is a crazy guy and a crazy driver, he can find his way around traffic like no one else I know. We all thought it be hilarious if his car had gadgets to help him do that and this is one of them. MATURE LANGUAGE WARNING!!

Tarot Card

I can't say this project was recent but not that long ago the blog Super punch started doing a call for illustrators to create a deck of unique tarot cards. Though I wasn't one of the artists chosen for a main card I sent a design in anyway and it was posted. The hermit represents withdrawal or hastiness.

Cubeecraft posts

Even though it hasn't happened recently I have been fortunate enough to have a couple of my designs posted a few months ago on Cubeecraft. One of them being my own creation titled Furlit and the other a papercraft of the puppet Billy from the saw movies. You can check them out and download them to make yourself at cubeecraft.com.

Bruce

While awake at 12:30 last night, I decided to instead of going to sleep, to try and work on a fiction portrait with my bamboo tablet. I like how it turned out, but I could have used the sleep.