Update since last post

Hey everyone,

I'm sorry I haven't posted in the last little bit there's been a lot of change lately. I finally got a job in animation again. Don't get me wrong I've enjoyed my time working with my parents and my sister at the family business but animation is my passion. I'm working at Cuppa Coffee studios in Toronto and it's a kick butt job! Here's some sketches and other randoms from the past little bit. 

random goodies

Lately I've been asked by my parents to do some odd jobs for them. From my dad I was asked to design him a header for his in the works / sort of started vintage Christmas ornament blog. This is the kind of project I love to do! It's retro sorta UPA style work, I tried to mimic the simple colour scheme and stylings of old school wrapping papers and Christmas cards that both my dad and I love. I can't get enough of the simple shading they would do using strictly black and white. As well as the limited colour pallettes the designers would use. Its pure simple design, but its super effective. The other thing I've been asked to do has been some different advertising materials for my parents business. They are wedding and event decorators and their business was in need of a bit of an overhaul. So I chose a new colour for the front of our new location, designed some new business cards, started them a blog, and created the new advertisement for the Wedding Book from our area. Check out the blog www.specialeventsandflowers.blogspot.com to see some of the stuff I was talking about and some of the work my parents as well as myself and my sister do. I love it when my life becomes diverse like this! My areas of interest are so vast so its fun to change gears every now and then.
Enjoy!

Over a year of blogging...

Hello out there. I just realized I've missed my 1st anniversary of being a blogger, woah time flies. Honestly, it feels like it wasn't that long ago that I was graduating from Sheridan and putting my first ever post together. A lot has changed since then. When I look at the past year its been a crazy one. A year with some major highs and serious lows but all in all its been decent, haha! Those of you that are close enough to me will understand. One thing is for sure, this past year has been chock full of learning experiences. One of the largest of those was my time in Sudbury working as a bg painter on a show called Dex Hamilton. What an experience! The show had such nice looking layouts and it was wicked to be able to paint some of them. Here is a sample of a key painting I ended up doing, I was (and still am) pretty happy with the results.

Enjoy

-Rob

evil monkey

Hey everyone, I know it's been a while since I've posted but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy producing stuff. I've been in a real craft mood as of late, making lots of cards and stuff animals. I wanna put some of them up eventually but hopefully this will do for now.

project: pocket watch

Why you ask? Because I love watches...so much genius piled into one very attractive looking package. This painting is the first step in what I hope will turn out to be a very large piece of art which will hang on the wall in my future home. Be sure to check back for my progress. Thanks for looking.

C is for...

The story behind this one is pretty simple. I wanted to paint something and didn't know what, so I asked a friend for some help, "Give me a letter and something that starts with it", to which he replied with nothing. I ended up coming up with "C is for Cadillac" on my own and here's the end result. I hope you all like it as this is my first attempt at painting a car and metallic lettering. The car and "cadillac" logo design are trademark of GM but as I said drawn and painted by me. Enjoy!