Beam me up!

"Safety in Numbers"

Hey guys! I made a piece for the "Beam Me Up: Star Trek Art Show", opening tomorrow 7PM @ Qpop in Little Tokyo. Truthfully I haven't watched much of the show, but I know that it's campy and awesome and that a red shirt usually means bad news for its wearer. So I just did a little something simple :) Some process shots below!

Also, I tried to use actual redshirts, so here's a little reference chart:

 

you can read about how they died here!

RIP, brave bearers of the crimson uniform.

The Cat in the Library

 

Just throwing up some gallery art! This is my piece for the Curiosities show at Nucleus.

The exhibit/workshop/signing is centered around Mike's and Vicky's recent project "Curiosities: An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity" (which was funded through Kickstarter, yay!). From the Nucleus site: Talented couple Mike Yamada and Victoria Ying have been collaborating on animation-inspired illustrations for some time. Most recently, the duo set out on a Kickstarter.com book project that successfully funded more than ten times their original goal. "Curiosities: An Illustrated History of Ancestral Oddity" is the tale of a brother and sister who inherit an old, mysterious mansion and all of the odd relics that are housed inside within.

I'm really excited about the show because the subject matter is right up my alley, and if you're free you should definitely stop by and say hi! :)
The opening will be on Oct. 27, 7-11 PM

Here's the rough, too...as usual:

before & after sloth

 

I did this lil guy for a Nickelodeon gallery show: Sloth Loves Reading, 5x7", ink.

I'd like to get better at inking! It's so hard :(

Qpop Tokusatsu Show + some wee foxes

 This is my piece for the Qpop Tokusatsu show...a cuter take on Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah. According to the event page, "Tokusatsu (特撮?) is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and/or monsters and makes considerable use of special effects (tokusatsu literally translates as "special filming" in Japanese).

More info about the event here!: https://www.facebook.com/events/454837717870454/

The show opening is on Saturday, Sept 15 @ 7 PM. A lot of great artists will be participating, and it should be an amazing show. Hope to see you there! Here are some process pics:

this is how it usually starts, with crappy thumbs in PS

Sketch. After I'm done sketching in PS I'll print it out to do a graphite transfer

i usually use extra watercolor paper scraps as my palettes

 And here are some sketchy foxes from a while back :)

a couple of paintings!

I did a couple of pieces for the Pencil Mileage Club's student/alumni gallery. The show opens tomorrow night at CSU Fullerton, everyone is welcome! :)

I always thought some of the collective names for animal groups were rather odd and cute, so I decided to take them literally. I'm sure this has been done before, but it was fun for little paintings.

 

both are watercolor...i need to practice more :(

 

in frames

 

sketch and color exploration

 

See you there! (traffic permitting...D:)