Just Wouldn't be Christmas...

...if Santa didn't make an appearance.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night.

Happy Holidays

Here is the christmas card I designed for this year's Holiday Season.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

~Tim

Caricatures

Just playin around with some caricatures of some of the year's biggest money-makers (and random celebrities)...
Hope you enjoy!

The Pumpkin Man

When all else fails....
Just throw in some Eyvind Earle trees.

Everybody Get Your Vote On!!!!

Is It That Time Already???

...there will probably be more of these...

The Man and the Bird

Just doodling during downtime =)

Good Vs. Evil

This is just something I was working on a while back that I never got around to posting.  

The idea is that this angel and devil that are always competing with each other to accomplish some sort of task...

Despite all of the devil's efforts, the angel usually comes out on top.  Sort of a "roadrunner/coyote" type of thing...

DUCK Show and Totoro

Now that some of the dust has settled and I've had some time to breathe again, I thought I'd post some of the work from the two galleries I was involved in; the DUCK!!! show (at D-Structure through September) and the Totoro Forest Project, which took place last Saturday at PIXAR.

These are the pieces I submitted for the DUCK gallery (and I hope to post some other work and photos soon)...

...And this is the piece that I submitted to the Totoro Forest Project (unfortunately I don't have a decent photo of it framed, but hopefully I will be able to get one...

BigToe

In light of all the recent buzz about possible bigfoot findings and what have you, I thought I'd revisit an old comic strip character of mine, "BigToe".  He's your typical legendary, elusive, forest dwelling gorilla-man, with the slight distinction of having extremely large... big toes.

Totoro Forest Project Tickets Available Monday 8/11 10:00am Pacific Time!

Many of you have been wondering when and how you can buy tickets for the upcoming Totoro Forest Art Auction Benefit Event to be held here at Pixar on September 6th. Finally we are ready to start selling these online! The first pre-sale will start monday 8/11 at 10am. Here's the options available - Please note that all tickets include the stunning Art of Totoro Forest Book (worth $40)

Forest Friend - 100$ regular admission + book.
Forest Sponsor - 200$ includes admission + book + signed limited edition print
Forest Champion - $300 includes middle VIP live auction seating + book + signed limited edition print + gift certificate to Blowfish Sushi
Forest Hero - $500 includes front VIP live auction seating + book + an original drawing by one of the artists

Tickets will go on sale at this LINK exactly at 10AM Monday! We have a rather limited numbers of tickets so we suggest acting quickly if you want to be part of this event. Remember many of the donating artists will be in attendance, this will be a night to remember!! All the "Totoro inspired" art is up for preview at TotoroForestProject.org. All proceed will be donated to the Totoro Forest Foundation!! Let me know if you have any questions.

Magazine

I just got some copies of my first official magazine illustration mailed to me, and I thought I'd post it up...

I posted the actual illustration a while ago, so to see it just scroll down. 

I'm pretty happy with the printing though -- even the design and typeface of the page next to it works well together.

It's fun to see my work take up a whole page in an actual publication!

Woo hoo!

Extra Extra Read All About it!

Hey Everyone!

Just wanted to share some exciting news with you all!
Dice Tsutsumi, Enrico Casarosa, and Ronnie Del Carmen are heading up a HUGE gallery in September called the Totoro Forest Project, and I was asked by some coworkers to join!!

It is going to be a charity auction, and all the proceeds will go to the National Trust Totoro Forest Foundation, founded by Hayao Miyazaki.

The auction event will be held Saturday, Sept 6 at Pixar Studios, followed by two seperate exhibitions held at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum.

The official website for the gallery is up and running here (although some parts are under construction, so if certain areas don't work, please check back!) :

http://totoroforestproject.org/

It's going to be an AMAZING show featuring approximately 200 of the industry's most amazing artists , so PLEASE check it out.

Details of the event, along with all of the artwork donated for the show are posted (or will be posted) on the website.

Please swing by!

News Team Assemble!!!!!!

(Below is a little detail from the piece I did. To see the full piece check out the website or see it in person at the gallery! ;)

"Through the Looking Glass"

This is an illustration I was commissioned to do for an article titled "Through the Looking Glass" in Lexpert magazine (images shown with permission from Lexpert).  To sum up, the article is about lawyers leaving their big time firms to go work for themselves from home, and the difficult transition from one to the other.  They told me off the bat that they wanted sort of an "Alice in Wonderland/falling down the rabbit hole" feel to the illustration, so I just went from there.

I thought I'd show the stages, which were:

Thumbnails

Rough Sketch

Color Comps

and

Final.

I had a great time working on the illustration.

Hope you enjoy!

Branching Out

These are just some pieces I've been workin on in my off time...

Needed to do something different, and it's been really rewarding to play with some new ideas and themes.

Hope you guys like!

(Below are some sketches I did along the way)

 

Happy St. Patty's!!!

Either a dancing leprechaun,
or a sneak peek at a future version of myself.

Not sure which.

Hulk SMASH!!!!!!

As excited as I am to see someone else take a stab at a Hulk movie,
I still think it woulda been sweet for them to go "Old School Grey" with him...



Oh well. Maybe next time...