Hot Docs 2014 Poster

I met with the wonderful people at Hot Docs last October to discuss creating the poster art for their 2014 program.
We played around with a few directions, but agreed that portraits based on the Hot Docs logo created the strongest narrative.

I wish to extend my fondest thank you to ADs Jonathan Da Silva and Jane Chisholm for their incredible focus and hard work.
Most importantly, go check out the festival if you’re in Toronto April 24th – May 4th!

Below are samples of working tiles that, while we loved them, didn’t quite make the final cut :)

The Art of the Movie Character

I created a couple of paintings for “The Art of the Movie Character” show at Spin in Toronto this week.
The show will be hung until mid May, so pop by if you’re in the area and play some ping-pong :)

Vincent Vega – 24 x 36 inches

A Tasty Burger – 24 x 36 inches

Gord Downie, The Sadies, and The Conquering Sun

I was recently asked by Arts & Crafts Records to create album artwork for the upcoming collaborative album by Gord Downie and The Sadies.

Front Cover

Back Cover

Band Portraits

The artwork was also used in the video shoot for the first single, “Crater”, directed by Norman Wong.

Photo Copyright Norman Wong

Here is some sample footage that will be in the video, which was actually used as the opening song to Hockey Night in Canada last week:

The album will be released April 15th, but is available for pre-order through the band’s website.

Hope you enjoyed the incredible amount of hometown Canadian content in this post!
Thanks, as always, to Arts & Crafts, and ADs Jonathan Shedletzky and Jenn Kitagawa :)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

I just finished a poster for Unknown Mortal Orchestra and their upcoming 2014 Korean tour.
If you haven’t listened to them before, check out their site and prepare to have their songs stuck in your head for a long time.

Thanks, as always, to SuperColorSuper.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra poster

Biology and Pirates

It’s been a hectic couple of months of finishing up some new work, and getting it all in one place and ready to upload to my brand new website (which will launch in October). I know I’ll be publically praising my buddy Jason Byck for a while for his incredible ability (and willingness) to code my new site from scratch, so I might as well get a head start. Jason’s awesome. Give him a call.

Below are a couple of illustrations that I created recently. The first is for Synbiota, who I hold very dear to my heart. A great group of people, currently doing some remarkable work with biohacking.

The images below that are screenshots from a quick animation that I created, honouring my favourite baseball team from my youth. I have a great-aunt that lives in Pittsburgh, and the city is always a really enchanted place to visit in my eyes.

Also, I’ll have my full animation reel from 2013 ready to go in the next couple of weeks. Oh, and I’m working on an illustration for a book of Goosebumps-inspired drawings that a couple of good friends are releasing. My page is dedicated to “The Ghost Next Door”. I’ll post the info as the drawing begins to resemble something.

Synbiota Poster

Pirates 1

Pirates 2

Drive

Last Thursday marked the opening of a new exhibition at Spin Galactic in Toronto. The theme of this month’s show was automotive, for which I painted Ryan Gosling’s scorpion jacket from Drive. It was a tough choice between the scorpion jacket and the Skull & CrossBolts Chevy Nova from Death Proof. I just recently saw Drive for the first time, and it has really stuck with me for the last while. I felt a small tribute was in order :)

Drive Jacket

More Portraits

A portrait of my friend Dusan Stojanovski that I recently finished.

Dusan

Also, my friend Krys at The Refined Portrait whipped out this awesome drawing of me. I love it.

Copyright Refined Portrait