A perfect MashUp to honor SDCC2019, HELL-KITTY

Below are a few of my responsibilities as an Art Director when working with book cover art. I get the ball rolling by creating a concept sketch for approval. Then, another artist takes that sketch, creates a tight drawing and submits it for feedback. I’ll give overlay notes and suggestions and then final art is created. Most times I’ll get to add some final touches like lighting enhancements or small placement shifts of characters or props.

There are lots of places that Rose likes to go and many friends that she likes to explore with.

For no other reason than rabbits are fun to draw, here is brown rabbit, yellow background!

Random fact: While I was with Nickelodeon, my art team was asked to add flames to an already completed illustration of SpongeBob. We had no idea what this was for but soon after, I saw the art featured in the Moschino collection. Pretty cool.

The Nick team is sometimes tasked with developing a character publishing style for book partners like Little Golden Books. Here’s a stylized look that I developed for Dora and Friends on the right.

Nickelodeon’s Super Brawl Universe!!! An awesome game where some of your favorite Nick characters do battle using special moves and unique attacks. I helped sketch the concept layout seen above and credit for final art goes to my art team, Paul Linsley and Story Sabatino.

Now that I have one picture book under my belt, I’m ready to find my next project. Below are a few illustrations in development from an idea that I’ve been working on about Giants. More to come soon.

Flick and Chester was an exciting, character rich game concept that I designed with my friend, Warren Lee to be pitched to Nickelodeon games. It was modeled after the classic game, Snake. The squirrel character, Flick and his chipmunk buddy, Chester run through levels collecting acorns that trail behind them, while avoiding obstacles and baddies. Like classic snake, you don’t want to collide with the trail that follows you so while moving around the board you try to collect power-ups which shorten your trail.

I had the honor of participating in The Digital Madrid 10! The online gallery event curated by Kadeem Fletcher features art in all mediums from talented people all over the globe. Check out my collection of digital art titled “Humanistic” at TheDigitalMadrid.com

These two lion cubs were created and donated to the art show, Wonderland Art for Animals held at Leanna Lin’s Wonderland. An amazing art gallery/shop that you should definitely check out!

www.LeannaLinsWonderland.com

Here are a few character commissions I’ve done for my friend, Bob Barboza. An educator, STEM Journalist and the founder of Super School International University and the Barboza Space Center for Science and Engineering Prototyping.

On the hunt for H20

A commission I worked on, creating trading card game style character images of an awesome family of 3.

My daughter Olivia and our cat Lola.

This is one cute goat! I had fun recreating this character from the popular King game.

My nephew asked me to redraw his Dark Knight concept. He was happy with the results.

My 13 year old self would have had a heart attack if he knew I’d help to create walk-around characters for Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Along with my team at Nickelodeon, I provided concept art and art direction and worked with Animax Designs, who fabricated these awesome costumes.

Art direction, proportional study and color rendering for TMNT’s Bebop & Rocksteady walk-around character

Fabricated by Animax Designs Inc.

Key-Art helps to promote new shows and intellectual properties. While at Nickelodeon, I provided conceptual designs and art direction for quite a few key art pieces. Here are some of my favorites.

Here is the walk-around character concept I developed for Sunny Day while at Nickelodeon.  I was excited to art direct this project since it meant I’d be working with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop to fabricate her.

Paw Patrol is a hot property and really fun to draw. Below are a few exploratory designs of the most popular pups.