Entertaining Sheep

Here is another set of playful animals for my deluxe version of Penguin Ultimatum! See more of the animals here. All the animals are performing the same four activities: Singing, acrobatics, dancing, and juggling. So I wanted to make sure there was still a decent amount of variety!

Macleans: October 18 issue

Here's my latest illustration for Macleans for the obituary on the back page. This time, it was about a man who was a computer game designer and musician -- taking a different road than his family, who were all in the medical field.

I had a lot of fun doing this image because I got to work in some pixellated effects. I was inspired by the adventure game stuff I'm working on. I'm hoping to incorporate more of this in the future!

I've posted some (but not all) of the other images I've done for Macleans, I ought to get around to posting the rest at some point :P

Save on airfare

I stared long and hard at the little hearthstone icon in the game. I wanted to make my sculpted version look as much as possible as the "real" thing!

Seals!

Here is some more art from the Penguin Ultimatum game I recreated for my sister. Stay tuned for bears, sheep, and kangaroos!

Going My Way, continued

Here's something I'm returning to after being busy with other stuff. My Wizard of Oz piece! I decided to update her look a bit to make it a bit more fashion-y. It's kind of the same thing I did with my Alice piece, although visually I have a different look in mind for this one.

Yellow and green are two of my favourite colours to use, so I'm kind of surprised it's taken me this long to do a Wizard of Oz illustration!

Partying Penguins

My sister is a huge board game geek. Her gateway game was Settlers of Catan, but she's since gotten into all manner of Euro-style (aka not Monopoly or Game of Life) strategic games -- of the kind designed so often by Germans (Klaus Teuber, Reiner Knizia, shout out!). Of course, I've been a guinea pig for her playtesting so I've seen my fair share.

A game we both enjoyed was The Penguin Ultimatum, which is about penguins and parties, and kangaroos. The art is very lo-res and pixellated, so I offered to redo the game completely. Here is the first set of cards!

The idea is that these penguins are entertaining their king, so they perform fun routines such as (clockwise from top) acrobatics, juggling, dancing, and music. I really wanted to be playful with the colours, which you think would be hard when the game is set in the snowy Antarctic! But actually, working with white is great because it sets of any other colour so well.

If you're interested in making your own playing cards, definitely check out this Board Game Geek forum post. I used the same materials and got colour laser prints on linen cardstock and they are turning out amazingly.

I'm glad I set up my blog this year, because I can share stuff that wouldn't necessarily go on my portfolio site. Experimenting with all sorts of different kinds of art is inspiring me in my professional work -- I'm so impressed with the playing cards that I think it would be be a terrific way to produce a print promo!

Munny!

Here's a Munny I painted! I used liquid acrylics. I have my eye on a blank Raffy to paint (giraffe-shaped figure). It's a lot of fun to do 3D stuff now and again.