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Pandamonium: Urban Brawl (Revisited)

When I was preparing to display my art at Cafe Cesura, I was planning on including the four Pandamonium: Urban Brawl pieces from my Pandamonium show. But there was something that didn’t sit well inside of me about those pieces. For one thing, the pieces were incomplete. In the days leading up to my Pandamonium show, I was scrambling to complete the PUB pieces before I had to send them to the printer. I even pulled an all-nighter the day before to get the piece to a respectable level.

Even though the piece got a good reception, I still wasn’t completely happy with the piece. I expressed my thoughts to Olwen, and she suggested I touch it up a bit, but I knew it wasn’t going to be just a touch-up. It was going to take me a lot of time, A LOT of time. But I was going to do it.

In order to finish on time, I had to economize the way I worked. That meant creating more custom brushes for the buildings and the trees. But the pandas and all the broken windows were done by hand, there’s no cutting and pasting there. In my first Pandamonium piece, I knew I had 500 pandas; in this one, I lost count.

A few weeks later, here’s the final product. I still have it printed in four separate pieces in case someone wanted to take home a smaller portion, but I do plan on printing the whole thing at once eventually. I can probably still work some more on this piece, but I’m completely satisfied with how it turned out.

Close-up detail: East

Close-up detail: East

Close-up detail: South

Close-up detail: South

Close-up detail: West

Close-up detail: West

Close-up detail: North

Close-up detail: North

Meet the Artist!

Apparently #MeetTheArtist is trending right now. Let’s join in on the fun, shall we?

Super Pandas

Leading up to Emerald City Comicon, I decided to do another series of pandas titled “Super Pandas.”  I tried to pick the most popular superheroes I could think of, but there were still a lot that I left out.  Maybe I’ll revisit them one day, but for now, let’s start with the X-Men, or should I say, X-Pandas!

 

Then there’s DC Comics’ Justice League (it depends though if you think Cyborg belongs here or not).

Justice Pandas

 

How can we forget Marvel’s Avengers!

Avenger Pandas

 

And let’s have a couple more bonus characters: Deadman, Daredevil, Deadpool, Baymax, and Hiro Hamada!

Bonus Pandas

Piggy Panda comission

I recently finished a commission for a client who wanted to include a pig as a companion for one of my pandas.  The three ink drawings revolved around their interests and quirks, namely the wife’s profession as a pediatrician, and the husband’s interest in Reddit.  The last drawing relates to a Hawaii vacation which the client and his wife are probably on right now.  Anyways, hope that’s enough to explain the drawings, but enjoy them anyways.

The rough concepts that I presented to the client.

The rough concepts that I presented to the client.

Illo Advent 2014

Hey everyone, I’m catching up with my posts since a lot has happened over the holidays.  Sometime in November, I caught wind of an art thread on Twitter called #illo_advent where artists can create a drawing for each day leading up to Advent.  At first, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to commit enough time to finishing 25 drawings, but two weeks later, I decided to give it a go.

Of course, being two weeks behind schedule was quite a challenge.  But after forgoing some sleep and downing a lot of holiday cheer, I managed to finish the series in time to open presents on Christmas morning. I had a lot of fun, and at the end of the series, I had plenty of art to give away as Christmas gifts.  There was even an artist who made an ornament out of one of my drawings which I’ll show below.

So without further ado, I present to you the 25 drawings of #illo_advent.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them.  Cheers!

Artist, Ms. Taffy, or Molly Marmalade, decided to make an actual wool ornament based on the ornament pandas sketch.  I say she did a smashing job, wouldn’t you say?  I mean, LOOK at it!!! Go check out her other stuff, or follow her on Twitter.

New original art posted to store!

Hey everybody, I added another one of my original Inktober panda sketch to the store, Professor Panda! Check out my other prints to find something you like!

 

Inktober: Week 5

And that’s a wrap for my first Inktober!  It was a lot of fun, and I definitely learned a ton that I’ll be incorporating in my future work.  Here’s the process video for the Professor Panda, enjoy!


Inktober: Week 4

Here’s the process video for the Pondering Panda, enjoy!

Inktober: Week 2

Here’s the process video for the Pillaging Panda!

And here’s video for the Pachinko Pandas, enjoy!

Inktober: Week 1

Here’s the process video for my first Inktober Sketch.