Valentine's Day Card for Someone Who Sweeps a Lot

I drew a 3x5 Valentine's Day card at lunch today. I decided it'd be fun to have it target people who do a lot of sweeping. I suppose the card would have made more sense if I had feet being swept into the air than hearts. It would probably be less romantic. Or more. I don't know.

Anyhow, you can download the 300dpi version (for fancy high resolution printing) by following the link below.

Related Link: Valentine's Day Card - 300dpi

Work in Progress: Fight Night Flyer

The folks at The MADE, essentially the Bay Area's museum for video games, asked me to do a flyer for them for their weekly retro fighting game nights. I haven't done illustrative work in this capacity in a while and it was fun to get to it again. They only asked me to do a black and white version, but thought it'd be wasteful to not color it in.

Anyhow, if you're in the area and you see this flyer up in a window, you can say you know the chap who did it.

I also like The MADE because I'm a donor. I think it's a good cause and believe we require a place to share the importance of video game history.

Related Link: The MADE (official website)

APE 2011 this weekend!

APE 2011 (Alternative Press Expo) will be happening this coming weekend and I'll be there at Table #204.

I'll have old comics, the Robot in the City plushies and a lot of original art for sale (framed stuff, original skeleton stuff, etc.). I'll also have the following 8x10 prints for sale as well for a measly $10 each! I'll also have some slip cast skull heads Josie made for sale as well. Check it out and I hope to see you there!


SATURDAY
October 1
11am - 7pm

SUNDAY
October 2
11am - 6pm

The Concourse
635 8th Street
San Francisco
Source: APE 2011

Finishing up projects for 2011.

I'm finishing up most of my big projects for 2011 and by "big projects" I mean my main freelance projects. My brain feels pretty tired from it all, namely working with outside clients is just tiring overall. The biggest project that still has a ways to go, though thankfully it is one of my own, is my zine/comic for the Alternative Press Expo this year. I've been doing it every year for the last six years and it's pretty great to be able to do it again. It will be based on a new project I'm working on that I hope to be the next Mister Goh, but with regular updates.

Outside of that I'd like to work on a few more games this year. I just finished my iOS game Epoch Gate and it's currently sitting in the queue for approval. I'd like to do something with Renpy by the end of the year, preferably something like the amazing Bento Smile indie development team (of one?). Their work is so wonderful and full of self-awareness and charm.

I've also got a comedy-music gig coming up this weekend in Oakland Chinatown. It's called RefleKTions and I'm opening for the comedy troupe KT Comedy. It'll be nice as I've been away from guitar and performing for a while. I'll be able to debut my new song "Stuck Between Two Hanging Rugs At Crate & Barrel" and possibly, if I can finish it in time, "Who Pooped On the Rug?".

Hopefully I'll see you guys soon!

Oh, and I've been playing a load of Warmachine and that makes me additionally happy.

Horizontal Red Envelope

I sent an e-mail to my parents to see if they had any horizontal opening red envelopes in the house. Josie and I need one for a gift. I wasn't sure if my textual description made any sense so I drew an image for my parents to reference.

I think I got the point across. Can you tell that's Benjamin Franklin?

Netflix Art - Sister Act 2 and Narnia 3

I saw some cool Netflix Envelope Art and decided to start doing it myself based on the DVD inside the envelope.



Related Link: 10 Pieces of Awesome Netflix Art

Free piano gun for LA Noire!

Update: For those curious on how it works, there are some missions where a police car has weapons in the trunk ("Death From Above" side mission, for example). The piano gun will be selectable. Unlike the image sent with the e-mail, it looks like a Tommy Gun, not a pistol or player piano.

Gamestop just sent me an e-mail and code for a free piano gun for L.A. Noire. I'm pretty excited to play this game as I'm a fan of solving mysteries and murders in my free time.

Related Link: L.A. Noire

I'm getting married in six days.

So as the title suggests, I'm getting married in six days. Since I haven't posted much lately (I've only recently recovered from my trip to House of Prime Rib), I decided to start the week off with a quick drawing of Mr. Peterson wearing a suit. I drew him in both fictional and realistic poses. Can you guess which one is which?

Related Link: Cat Man

Good grief!

Josie and I have had a busy week this week. This includes group projects with team members not knowing the definition of "team", grumpy days, late trains, needless worrying and other junk. At least the week's over and this weekend should be filled with a good balance of busy relaxing (the kind where you're having fun, but are busy) and wedding stuff.

This image was inspired by this Peanuts mug I bought at Target. It has Charlie Brown on it with his arms wide open and a smile. The text beneath, strangely, says "Good Grief!"

Good grief, indeed.

Related Link: Peanuts

Sleepy and my arm hurts.

I'm not quite sure why, but I've been incredibly sleepy as of late. Granted I don't get the "suggested seven hours" a day, but still. Last night I found myself dead tired around 9:15pm. It's like old folks home bedtime hour. I did turn in relatively early though, which was nice since I had to wake up at 5:00am to get some freelance illustration work done. Kind of counterbalances the whole thing.

In other news, I have this shooting pain around my triceps on my right arm. It's just above the elbow. It's strange since it's localized to just a four to five inch line. It's also strange, to me anyway, because it only occurs when my arm is at a very specific angle and position (namely the "chicken arms" position). A doctor friend of mine has suggested it may be the ulna nerve. I need to get it checked out regardless.

I also purchased sea monkeys the other day. Yay for sea monkeys.

Related Link: Schylling Sea Monkeys Magicquarium