Ryan as Ken

Ryan's been hittin' the Street Fighter IV quite a bit lately. He usually plays as Ken.

old sketches

I was looking through my old files for examples of my best work... I wouldn't present these as "my best work," but I like these old caricatures.


Michael (Steve Carrel) from The Office. The nose is pretty off, but oh well. :\

Stanley from The Office

Robbie Rotten from LazyTown (I know, right? What was I doing watching LazyTown? :p)

long time no blog

I recently got to do a very fun piece for GenCon Indy 2009. They asked me to come up with an anime mascot. I did the illustration and the type will be added by their designers.

The mascot girl I created for them is a big mashup of anime stereotypes...

She's got a mechanical arm (like Jet from Cowboy Bebop, Tetsuo from Akira, Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist), she's got an eye covered up (Kakashi from Naruto, Sanji from One Piece, Gegege no Kitaro), she's wearing a school girl uniform (Sailor Moon, Haruhi) and she's holding a genki dama (Dragonball Z).

This image belongs to GenCon. It was a blast to do.



SPACE DISK is totally cancelled
SPACE SWORDS is totally cancelled
SPACE LUGE is also cancelled
and all other events are pendiiing

If none of this makes sense to you, educate yourself. I live for SNL Digital Shorts.


This was a commissioned piece with the characters from Arashi no Yoru Ni, a movie about a goat and a wolf that become best friends. They have adorable misconceptions about what the other likes to eat. And they were fun to draw -- I liked the wolf's fluff.


Gegege no Kitaro doing his hair needles attack. The little eyeball guy hanging out in his hair is his dad.


This is an acrylic painting, about 18"x32" or so...
The idea behind it: One lady does the voice for both of these characters. When they scream/yell "UWAAAAAaaaah!!", they both sound exactly the same.


I did this for a buddy of mine, Krhainos, that likes Swat Kats.

Okay, and here are some pictures of me in Japan. My fiance and I visited for two weeks in November.


At a train station getting some vitamin C drink (I had a cold). ...In my thug hat I bought at a 100-yen store.


Me upstairs in the Kitaro Tea House, snuggling with a pillow Nezumi Otoko (he was filthy from all the cuddling).


Me eating Monjayaki, and being extremely skeptical of it. It's like gravied cabbage on a hot grill that you eat off the back of a spatula. It was... interesting. I'll stick with Okonomiyaki.


Rar, I'm a foo dog. I getchoo.
(This was outside a shrine in Suginami)

work dump

Dude. It's Hurley.


Emu. Scary.


Kitty bothers its mommy.


Walk cycle.


Pandas actually don't much care for bamboo.


Some character design... This is a bad-guy cat mechanic.


Ridiculous pygmy goat.


Wolf!


Suave alligator.


It's over 9000, ZOMG. Been watching a lot of Dragonball Z lately since we dropped the cable.

photoshop paintings

Trying out some experiments with color. Putting unexpected greens in a region of orange and so forth. For now, it's nothing too gutsy, but I'm enjoying it.

First one is a character from an anime that I like.

This one was difficult because of the hands. If there's one thing I wish I would have done more of in school, it's draw more hands in Life Drawing. I have a horrible habit of leaving out a joint when I'm drawing fingers. For this sketch, I looked at my own hands, which is why his (yes, it's a he) left hands looks like it's attached wrong.

Second one is a character that belongs to a friend.

This one was finished pretty quickly and loosely, about half an hour. It was fun.

sketchy experimental drawing

Drawing of a character of a buddy of mine.

Trying a looser technique. This is sort of like a project I did in Advanced Life Drawing with gesso and charcoal on 2' x 3' paper... I made a sloppy sketch, and tried to make the sketch into a more finished piece, while still using the same amount of looseness and spontaneity used to make the original sketch. Except instead of using gesso and charcoal, I'm using Photoshop and a teeny Wacom tablet. Being loose is harder to do when you can't use your whole arm to draw, only your wrist.

Some concept sketches for an upcoming cartoon at work, Ninja Kitty. Written by J. Robert Novak.

Here's what the cartoon itself looks like, hooray!