The Year of the Dragon is now a Story App

Hey everybody!

The Year of the Dragon has been transformed into a really fun and super cute interactive animated 3D story app by the talented folks at Mobad Media. I saw a sneak preview of it awhile back and was very impressed by the work they put into it. When I was told an app for the book was being made I really had no idea what to expect and this went way beyond any expectations I had, they really did an awesome job. Please check out the preview video:



The app is currently available for the Ipad/Iphone and also Mac OS 10.7:

Ipad/Iphone App

Mac App Store

And thanks so much again for all your support!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

The Year of the Dragon is now available, yay!

I recently received my copies and it was very exciting to finally see my first children's book in print!

To anyone interested in purchasing a copy you can find it over at Immedium's website here or click the image above.

And a big thank you in advance to all who do pick up a copy-your support is greatly appreciated and I hope you enjoy the book!

Happy 2012!

Feeling Crafty

So recently I've become quite obsessed with needle-felting. This is Charley, he was my first attempt and I had so much fun making him that I couldn't wait to make more. He's about 13 inches long from tail tip to nose. I pretty much taught myself using a few tutorials online and also stabbing my fingers a bunch of times - For those who aren't familiar, needle-felting involves using a special barbed (and very sharp) needle to shape and adhere raw wool fibers together. I really enjoy the process of working with the raw wool. It's a new and refreshingly welcome challenge that I've found has combined my interest in sculpting and knitting into something I absolutely love. It's also a nice break from hours spent staring at a computer screen...

Hatching Soon!

The children's book I illustrated, The Year of the Dragon should be released soon. This is another character promo piece I did of young Dominic the dragon with his proud parents. Here's the rough drawing too and also the rough of the lineup I posted awhile back, I had fun drawing and painting these.

FlapMutts

Here are some of the silly looking dogs I did for the same episode of "Flapjack" that featured all the cats:

FlapCats

Some more stuff from my time on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
These are all from the episode called "Who Let the Cats Out of the Old Bag's House?" which is probably my favorite episode I was assigned--I got to draw a ton of cats : ) The story involves Flapjack accidentally releasing all the cats from the crazy cat lady's house and they run amok in Stormalong. There also are a bunch of dogs in this episode which I'll try to share in another post.
Many of these felines were based on real kitties that my art director has and I also snuck my own crazy cat in this episode:

Sable Antelope

Just a practice painting for fun.