Star Trek Movie Review for PlayBoy

Here's an illustration I did for Playboy Magazine's movie review on the 2009 Star Trek Movie. I didn't have to wrack my brain for anything conceptual so it was a really fun and relaxing project.

I usually start off all my projects by doing a massive image research on the internet. This usually helps kick-start my creative thinking and allows me to conceptually piece together ideas. With this particular project, I stopped midway and I decided to just go and watch the movie at the theatres. I love it when you get to do something fun and attribute it to work

So here are some compositions I came up with:



It’s always difficult for me to make a colour selection because personally, I think all the colours of rainbow are beautiful. I usually end up asking family and friends for their opinions and tally in their votes.



And the most voted image..

The Art of Murder

Here's an illustration for Philadelphia Magazine about volunteers gone wild. I thought it would be fun to illustrate them around a table with hidden weapons in attempt to kill their co-chair.

The step-by-step process: Concept Scribble---> Refined Sketch--> Colour Rough.



And then the final illustration in 2 different colours. The Art Director preferred the yellow version so that ended up being published in the magazine. Personally, I'm obsessed with red. So I did like the red one more.. but am happy either way.

Financial Advisors

Here's an old rough that I tweaked. The Art Director for this project went with a different idea I proposed. I like the concept so I thought to share it with you anyways. The image illustrates Financial Advisors that take advantage of people's money. Enjoy!

Illustration For Out Magazine

Here's something I did for Out Magazine. The illustration is for a diary by 'Shortbus' director John Cameron Mitchell. In the article, he writes of his experiences at the first ever Russian Gay and Lesbian Film festival at St. Petersburg, Russia; which was ultimately met with protest and police presence.

Here were some of the concepts I came up with. The Art Director went with the first one but I also liked the second sketch because it showed censorship in Gay films in a unique way. Perhaps, I’ll take sketch 2 to final on my own time.

Here are some snapshots of my progress work.


For the final illustration, I took a different direction with the colours. You can never go wrong adding more colours ;)

Thank You

Freelancing as an Illustrator is tricky. It takes a lot self perseverance to keep things running but also a lot of self control to maintain a healthy work balance. For the last few months, I’ve been caught up in work and so I’m devoting November to myself, family and friends and only accepting limited work on the side.

There’s a bunch of new images that I’m eager to share with you all. I made an effort to take snapshots of my progress work so that you can follow along. These will have to wait till next week though, because this post is devoted to all the wonderful people who have kindly volunteered their time and efforts to post about me on their blog. It’s a lot of work but these guys do an good job and some of the stuff they share is quite inspiring. If you have time, do take a look:

Abduzeedo / http://www.abduzeedo.com/



Popwhore / http://popwhore.com/



Nonslick / http://www.nonslick.blogspot.com/



Illustration Mundo / http://www.illustrationmundo.com/



Illustrophile / http://www.illustrophile.com/
Charlene does a fantastic job posting about new talents. Probably the first place that blogged about my work.



Drawn! / http://drawn.ca/



Farmidable / http://www.farmidable.com/



LCS / http://thelittlechimpsociety.com/



Thanks guys, keep up the good work.

Enlighten!

Here's my contribution to the Enlighten! Show happening November 21 at the Helms Bakery Building in Culver City , CA. The Limited edition lamp design is available through pre-orders, prior to the event here. Since the lamps are a Limited Edition, orders will only be taken up until Friday, November 20th. For more infomation about the show, go to www.enlightenshow.com

I went with a sketch of roses I did on photoshop as my inspirtaion and worked from there.


Considering that this was for a lamp design, I wanted to make it as bright as possible so i brought back the red. Here's final illustration:



Here's the illustration digitally imposed on lamp.

Illustration for Canadian Business Magazine

"Foreign Acquisitions Rules are getting Muddier"...
Here's an illustration about the whole controversial sale of Canada’s Nortel to US Nokia Siemens Networks. To which, Ontario-based Research in Motion attempts to usurp the deal for themselves but was not allowed to bid in the recent auction.

Here’s the sketches I came up with. The AD went for the pigs.


The fence (representing the foreign rules between Canada and the US) is weak and broken and so the pigs (representing the company’s assets) are wandering aimlessly. Here is the illustration in progress:



The final illustration.


I later cropped the image so it would fit with the page design. Unfortunately some of the pigs were losted in the process. Here's a scan of the actual magazine page: