LINE Contest Stickers pt2: GRAND PRIZE WINNER!

WELP, This was a Christmas surprise!Thanks for all the votes! Feels so awesome, man! Thought I'd post early thought process for Tora, the cat.

When I got the email that I was moving onto round two, I had already made some idea sketches in mind for the contest. I looked at my fiance's cats for inspiration and sketched out more ideas. Before the judges selected my cat for the contest, I also had a dog character named Wolf. So he was part of my early sketches as well.

I narrowed it down to 8 catagories, including the original sticker that got me into round 2. I cleaned them up, animated in Flash, then finished the up in a little over a week. (The turn around was not part of the contest, I just did it for reference).

Being engaged was the #1 thing to happen to me in 2014. But this contest shares a close second next to graduating! Wooo!

LINE Contest Stickers pt1

A few weeks back I participated in the LINE and Giphy.com contest. I got to practice using illustrator and flash and it was fun. Thought I'd share osome of the things I did to help prepare for the contest.

 I looked up some emotion chart/challenges on Deviant Art(there's a lot, and unfortunately I can't remember which one I used) to get some ideas started.

Based off the early sketches, I started doodling a character to go with these emotions.

After reading the rules and learning what kind of stickers they were looking for, I started redrawing the doodles to keep them consistent. I chose some of the interesting stickers they were asking for and sketched them out on my tablet.

Finally, I drew over and colored most of these sketches using Adobe Illustrator.

League of Legend request

Request for a friend for his top characters in League. Was a fun challenge. Biggest challenge was colors for the background. Also finding good reference for Draven! Official art just don't do it.

(From left to right: Udyr, Lux, Draven, Lee, Thresh)

Nintendo Charity Auction 2014 submission!

Last year I signed up for the Nintendo Charity Auction held by SHM group and here's the end result!
After replaying SSBM and raising some in Pokemon X, I never realized how tough Pichu really has it. It's adorable but weak and forgettable. Some of it's pokedex discriptions include Pichu not being able to control the sparks that come off it's electric cheek pouches, and it being so startled by it's own electric sparks that it would make itself cry.  The only thing it has going for it is it's evolution (and maybe Volt Tackle). In Melee, it keeps it's weakness characteristic by hurting itself whenever it uses electric moves. I mean, dude, what? It's hard to wreck house if I wreck myself in the process.

But y'know, I really felt for the little guy.  It just wants to be the best (that no one ever was..). Like the saying goes: No pain, no gain!

Some inspirations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cj1XI5BZII

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJcouMavYLg&list=PL0YN3mEp0MJOd_NHgnZBnazySDKEUDe2u&feature=sharenoembed&index=21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VhnXboC2H4&list=PL0YN3mEp0MJOd_NHgnZBnazySDKEUDe2u&feature=sharenoembed&index=16

San Francisco free day drawings!

I made a puppy!

More Corgi posts to come! See ya!

Ladies night!

Model drawings done on my tablet. Made some additions to make things a little more interesting.