Winter Village - Commission

Back in December I was commissioned to create a winter village scene. I really didn't want to make it look too Christmas-y so I made sure to leave out any holiday lights/decorations.

Ottawa Magazine

 I was recently asked to complete an illustration for the Ottawa Magazine. The article is titled 'Get A Real Job' by Fateema Sayani and it's about how modern day workers must rely on multiple streams of income to support themselves. 

I decided to play with multiple 'streams' being my main visual reference and work from there. Ultimately I am very pleased with the outcome 

Here are some other examples of roughs I completed. I had about 12 ideas and the art director narrowed them down to two:

A Hoot and A Half

This is a long-time-coming piece. It was originally inspired by a friend of mine from school years ago and I’ve always wanted to do something with it. I finally was motivated to do it after drawing too many fat owls, I didn’t know what to do with them. The boy in the tree slightly resembles myself in a weird way, it was not intentional.

Happy Halloween!

Let me first start off by blowing some dust off my blog. -Ahem-

Ok, thanks.

My life has just been absolutely crazy since moving back to Ottawa and I have put a lot of my life on hold as a result. I am currently working at Bell in the internet technical support department and that's mostly where my time is going. My hours are really messed up and because of that, I am often not very inspired to do work when I get home. Luckily, it's autumn and I always get so inspired during the fall season. So finally I was able to come up with some ideas for a new piece and here it is!

I spent the entire day yesterday searching for inspiration and I finally found it. I am quite pleased with how it turned out. I think my most favorite holiday event would be Halloween, which is why it's only necessary I do an illustration inspired by it :)!

An Evening Stroll

Not too much to say about this piece. I went out with friends the other night for a bike ride in downtown Oakville and I got inspired by the park. Thoughts?

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