PixArt Salute to Pixar Heroines

The Pixar Times had an open call for artists to submit their work for the “PixArt Salute to Pixar Heroines” to celebrate Brave and its first leading female character. Artists were asked to draw their favorite Pixar Heroine, so I drew Violet Parr because when The Incredibles came out, she was the one I related to, being 13 and an awkward teenager like her. I wanted to illustrate the scene where she is given her mask by her mom and starts to realize her duty as a superhero and her true power.

Laika/House Creative Challenge: June 2012

For June's Laika/House Creative Challenge, the concept was to create monsters at the beach! I wanted to do something different and I wanted the beach experience to be something only monsters could take part in. I created this 1950s style family of fire serpent monsters who are taking their annual trip to the lava sea!

Laundry Day

I've Been Published!

I had the honor of having my Disneybound illustrations published in the Malaysian Disney magazine, Taman Ria Disney! Its set to be released in June! 

Here is the article translated:

1. the text above (the one with the pink background titled ‘Disney Era Modern’)

Imagine if the characters of your favorite Disney movies were in modern times. What would happen? What will their image and style look like? Let’s take a look at Disney in Modern Era according to Disney’s biggest fan and artist, Phillip Light!

2. The text below (with my icon next to it)

How adorable and awesome is this series of art works of Disney characters? For your information, the artist of this series, Phillip Light is an art student in Oregon University and he has a dream to work in a animation studio. Lets support his dream together! He can be reached at Phillip-L@hotmail.com. You also can visit his website which is http://philliplight.blogspot.com/.

Monsters!

Bummed beetle girl who wears Lolita fashion

Boar boy who wears a t-shirt and plays with yo-yo

Friday night elf girl who wears a trench coat (I only just realized that its Saturday Night Fever and not Friday Night Fever...which is why I had her looking 70s Disco...I thought I was being sooooo clever!)

Mammoth seahorse boy who wears a jean jacket

Stressed vampire girl who wears thigh high socks

I recently found out about this Monster Generator (http://www.generatorland.com/usergenerator.aspx?id=2339). It gives you random ideas for characters! Its really fun for when you're in an art rut and need inspiration.

Summertime Kids

Its been a really nice couple of days here in Oregon and the weather makes it feel like summer is right around the corner! I had to draw some folks enjoying the nice weather in summertime clothes.

Jack Sparrow and Ariel Outfit Illustration

A couples outfit of Jack Sparrow and Ariel, based off the scandalous backstage Disneyland photo of a costumed Jack and Ariel kissing. For this drawing I wanted to break away from my “Disneybound” style and give it the look of illustrations from old fairy tales and adventure novels, with a bit of a comic book feel as well. I wanted to make this drawing really epic, because what isn’t epic about forbidden love?


Disneybound outfits and my illustrations can be found at: Disneybound.tumblr.com