Tentacular Spectacular

Cthulhu!

Brainshake

Do those pesky zombies have you on the run?  Are you out of ammo and tired of swinging that axe around?  If you life's at stake, give 'em a brainshake!

Building A Better Future

A poster project from 2008. Designed with an emphasis on solar and wind power, electric cars and rooftop gardens.

Lion Redux

Touched up from a piece I did in 2008

Chimp on a Chain

Inspired by the 1936 film "The Man Who Changed His Mind" starring Boris Karloff. The entire film can be found on youtube

Machine Elf

Treesition

Abstraction

Fragmental

Could be a cool tattoo..

Year of the Dragon

Haven't posted in a little while, but I drew this one a couple weeks back to commemorate the current year. Hoping to put it on skin at some point. Any takers? :)

boOM

Crystal Skull

The Origin of Mexico City

After a long walk coming from Aztlán located at the western north of Mexico, the Mexicas arrived in the valley of Mexico City guided by their principal god Huitzilopochtli and directed by their Tenoch priest.

The legend tells that while they were seeking for food, they discovered finally on an island, the eagle perched on a cactus rooted in a stone, devouring a snake. This was the sign they were seeking, the prophecy of Huitzilopochtli was carried out.

It was in 1325 in which the mythical town of Tenochtitlán was founded.

text from http://azteca.free.fr/legende.htm

Ouroboros

The circular image of a snake swallowing its own tail - an emblem of the eternal and indivisible, and of cyclic time. The image has been variously interpreted, combining the creation symbolism of the egg (the space within the circle), the terrestrial symbolism of the serpent and the celestial symbolism of the circle.

In its original Egyptian religious form, the ouroboros is thought to have symbolized the sun's daily return to its point of departure, passing through the sky and underworld. In Greece, death and rebirth symbolism seems indicated by its use in Orphic iconography. Gnostics saw it as an image of self-sustaining Nature, endlessly recreating itself, and of unity in duality, the essential oneness of life, the universal serpent moving through all things.

The maxim "One is all" sometimes accompanies the symbol. As an emblem of eternity, it was associated in the Roman Empire with Saturn, as the god of time, and Janus, the god of the New Year.

text from The Complete Dictionary of Symbols: In Myth, Art and Literature

Crash Landing

Illustration for an abandoned spacecraft theme on the Hybrid Collective blog :}

P.A.S.S.I.O.N

A recently commissioned piece, redone from a version I did in high school.

funguy

continuing on the theme of an earlier post:::

• feel the atmosphere • breathe the air •

• see the sights • but beware •

• of teeth that gnaw • and lips that curl •

• mouths that murmur • all's a knot •

• silently shouting • patiently prying •

• ears that listen • can hear a thought •

Venusian Fly Trap

My contribution to the Canvas Collective, a site hosted by fellow Sheridan alumni Erika Brouwer. Lots of other great wallpapers to be found there, and freshly updated every week!

Fire Fly

This has been sitting in my sketchbook for a good while. Couldn't bring myself to finish the stippled background by hand so I completed it in Photoshop.

Mainly just wanted to draw a big bug, but was partially inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Situated in a post apocalyptic future, it's a story of mankind's struggle for survival against the ever spreading toxic forests and monstrously mutated insects. A great movie and an even better manga. As always, Miyazaki is the master!

The Cyborg of Sargon

This is known as a Lamassu, a celestial being from Mesopotamian mythology. In art, they were depicted as hybrids ~ winged bulls or lions with the head of a human male and considered househould protective spirits of the common Babylonian people. Babylonian history later portrays these bull-men as the protectors of kings and statues of them were often used as gatekeepers. Usually sculpted with five legs to show balance from all angles.