from idea to finish

"meal "
11X17 digital



if you sit anywhere near my desk you'll see little doodle as crude as this







and I'm starting to sketch out a new kids book here area some very early sketches

warm up sketches

yeesh busy busy , I have some larger post coming in the next few weeks enjoy

Col

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly art show

Thursday, June 30 · 7:00pm - 11:00pm

Location	Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St. West Toronto, ON
things have be crazy I'm currently in Culver City, california working for Sony Pictures Animation for another few weeks, its been a lot of fun hopefully I'll get to show some stuff from the film when it comes out next year COl

paintings so many paintings

"Stroll" 4.5x7 acrylic

I know I'm late to the party but I figured every little bit helps you can buy this paining on ebay
the proceeds will go to help the survivors of the Japan Tsunami you can read more here :
http://give2asia.org/artistshelp


"SnuG" 8x8 wood block, acrylic

this is a photo of a commission painiting I sent off this morning ...yes I do commissions ...tell your friends!




Amends 8x10 acrylic
http://www.muchthecomic.com/

so this is a painting I did for my friend Steve Lecouilliard for his third comic book
"Much the Miller's Son"

I thought this was really cool Brent Wong
http://brentwong.blogspot.com/2011/05/faces-of-square.html
modeled the face of one of my character designs
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqYlZDgXM0OmoWFPLaszi_KS_D1aTqVO9LvFLsD6I7Dsh7v0iMZqJxNst8ZfjhYN7_aOkckPAoxUzWYvDcwW989Q9MN3v9sygxUb3q6lA_prlDh_ave0mGm_BwP-Pci4fZaX0qp32_g9ak/s1600/page_012.jpg

what else what else ...oh I'm working on a feature ....more on that later !
Col

Procrastination Sketch2

ok now back to work
Col

mmm the smell of fresh books

This was a book I illustrated this year with Usborne , I am very happy with how it turned out. It also stirs up some grumpy emotions as well; due to a scheduling error at my old job I ended up having to do two story boards simultaneously while doing this (sigh) , but that's done now thank goodness!


For those of you in the Toronto area my friend and colleague Sam Bradley, with a group of super talented artists, have put together yet another amazing collection of stories in the Anthology Project available at TCAF. I'm totally getting my copy signed....AGAIN!
that's it for now
COL

board seq

I did this during the Christmas holidays and sent it around and I managed to get some pretty great gigs out of it enjoy
col