Old Skool Newz

Old Skool

Found this while i was cleanin up my studio, it's crazy old. If i had to guess i would say 2000-2001. Figured i'd amp it up with some vector and see if i can't make it somewhat cool. Here's da pencils...stay tuned for the colors




cheers,
-wheat

Playing Catch up

Well, its been awhile since i've updated the blog. BUT my new year resolution was to do at least 7 posts a month. Its gonna be pretty tough now that its almost the end of January and this is my first post:P

so to play some catch up here are KT and I during Halloween, followed by our pumpkinz!











cheers,
-wheat

think i'll have a salad shirt

heres the shirt the ben dale and i did





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-wheat

Da BROOD!

heres the new header i was thinking of putting on the brood site.




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-wheat

Roman

colors, and in a timely fashion!! hopefully this will get the ball rollin' and i'll update this blog more! :P






cheers,
wheat

Finally Back in Action

Sorry guys, i know its been awhile.
i've been swamped on 2 fronts....i've had a heavy dose of freelance work followed by a moderate dose of laziness.

so let's get the ball rolling here's the quick pencils of a piece im working on. The colors should be following shortly.




cheers,
-wheat

Photoshoppin'

here's a nice lil headshot i did to practice coloring something that doesnt have lineart in the final piece...more "painting" than my usual comic colored stuff.

.....it came out alil dark when i converted to a web safe .gif but w/e. and i dont really know what it is, it started out as a vampire then kinda turned into a green goblin/ skrull lovechild.




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wheat

W-series piece 2 of 5

heres the 2nd piece of the "W series"






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wheat

AWESOME!! MY FOOTBALL CARDS ARE OUT!!!!

Finally! Topps finally put out the 2008 football cards so i can FINALLY show off the cards i designed!!!!!!

i designed all the cards for the "NFL DYNASTIES" set. they showcase dynasty teams (including of course the awesome Patriots,*which i designed first:P*)

and they come 4 different ways theres a
1. base card= the plain version, its still a insert but not worth much.
2. auto = same card as the base BUT has the players autograph on it.
3. relic= same as the base, but has a piece of the jersey embedded in the card.
4. auto relic= has a piece of jersey AND a autograph

so same as the baseball series here are my 3 designs i did for the set the 3rd card being the one they picked. *Only the LAST one is the one they picked*



and here's what they ended up as.....pretty much how i designed it but they shortened the super bowl dates, so instead of 2001, its just 01. liked it better 2001 but, w/e

plz excuse the quality of the pics below i grabbed em from Ebay, cuz im too lazy to scan in the ones i got at work today...and i only got a Ronnie Lott and Jerry Rice. still waiting on the Brady




cheers,
wheat

Tom Brady REJECTED?!?!?! R U SERIOUS?!?

Well, here's the Tom Brady Tribute cards i did, that WERE approved and ready to go....until the Pats lost the super bowl.

apparently you can break all the offense records and go undefeated, end up 18-1..and they stiff Brady on the "you rule card"........ugh. it hurts even writing about it.

so here's the cards that were gonna be put out.....sucks cuz i really dug designing them and i wanted to see how they ended up





cheers,
wheat

Flash Competition

so felix, beckett, and i started a flash competition cuz i really wanted to learn flash and nothing makes me learn more than getting ur face smushed in by your 2 friends that know flash way more than you do.

so we started out simple for me. the first round is shapes only, no people animation, etc etc. just shapes.

so i thought about it and the coolest thing i know that just has shapes in it is....well here see for yourself.

*note* starts off slow, but stick with it, it gets alittle better. also plz be gentle i've only used flash for a week, so this is a weeks knowledge of flash.

as the competition gets harder hopefully i'll get better *fingers crossed*

HIT THE LINK TO SEE MY FLASH ANIMATION!

http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lvl1compff3.swf



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wheat

Piece 1 of 5

here's the 1st piece of the "W Series"
its basically showing how movies, comics, etc have influenced my life and put me on the road to do what i've wanted to do since i was 4. create art for a living.
so heres "Power of the pencil"




cheers,
-wheat

Viral Test

prepping for something cool,
more info later





cheers,
-wheat

Mighty Muggs they'll never make series 3

I got an email from Mightyfanatic saying that he stumbled upon my first 2 series of Mighty Muggs and dug them enuff to throw them on his forum The Mighty Muggs Lounge

and asked if i had anymore Muggs, so here they are: Series 3
(theres one missing that i'm still looking for, when i finally find it, i'll drop it in)




cheers,
-wheat

The Rocketeer- Mike Mignola homage

Here's a Rocketeer piece i did that i tried to do in the Mike Mignola style.
I really dug the pencils.....its a cool style to dabble in.








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wheat

King Froggie

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wheat

I'm a complete nerd

Well I got a pleasant surprise from my girl today when I got home from work...

a Iron man mask!! WOOT! and the best thing is, it actully FITS!

here's a quick cell pic of it.




King Froggie and Rocketeer colors up soon, i promise:P

cheers,
-wheat

Rockin' out @ the 2008 Licensing Expo

My work was cool enuff to throw me a pass so i could check out the 2008 Licensing Expo at the Javits Center in good ol NYC

it's always cool when you get to go to an expo DURING work, i basically got paid to go around check out all the cool booths and grab some free lootz

here's a few of the pics i took wit my phone, hope ya likes.





-cheers,
wheat

The Frog King

The Frog King, colors should be coming soon:P





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wheat

Train Drawin' Take 2

So this time I was better prepared than last time and I brought markers and a blue line pencil on the train.

not much here, but i'm working on a rocketeer piece that i'll hopefully finish soon and post up.





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wheat

Breaking the rules part 2

Here's the other insert card i did for the 2008 topps baseball set.
its the Stadium Patch cards. the yankees and the mets are getting new stadiums and this is the last year the teams are gonna play in the old ones so they put out this card to celebrate the old stadiums or w/e.

here's my first design for the 2 cards:







and here's what it ended up as:




kk, so this is the last work stuff for awhile...hopefully i'll post some pencils soon

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wheat

Breaking the rules

I know I said this is for Non-work stuff...........but it's my blog so too bad:P
Finally after like 5 months my baseball cards are out!!! WOOOT!
I designed the Topps Stars and the 2008 Stadium patch cards for the 2008 Topps Baseball card set.

heres the 3 designs i did for the topps cards: the third one being the one they picked.









and here' the final product (i grabbed this pic from Ebay, i actually got 2 of the cards from work, so hopefully i'll stop being lazy and take some better photos of it)




and here's a bad review from "Cardboard Junkie" he reviews all the trading cards and had this to say "Once again there are two inserts in the pack. The Topps Stars card is shiny and glowy and gold and boring. It's a nice card but not my thing."

....awesome. good to see the fans dig my card design:P


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wheat

Helping out a friend

So my friend Beckett called me up today. He was swamped with work and needed my help to meet his deadlines.

He needed a poster for a company that was gonna use it for.....i really don't know i stopped paying attention when he said he needed help and threw money at me:P

only catch was he needed it in 2 hours. so here it is.




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wheat

self-sketch

here's the sketch for the teenage vs. 20+ piece i'm working on.
full pencils up soon.





-cheers,
wheat