Early bird sees the light

This is what I get for starting my day early. 

Sunlight shine on in and ignite my imagination and rejuvenate my motivation Kyrptonian style!!!    

Casa de Doodle

Sometimes - not always, but, sometimes the studio is in shape enough for pictures. Today seemed like one of those days. Now let's  see how long this will last shall we. I give it till the end of the day.  

I finally did it.

After plenty of kicking and screaming I have finally caved and joined the land of Twitter.  

Follow me @HouseOfDoodle

I can only promise to keep you on your toes b/c in my life you never know what to expect!

Wall of Doodle

The brick side of my studio has been dubbed the "Doodle wall". A mix of my work and HoDsters (student).

 

No doodle gets left behind! 

Coming Real Soon!

It's been a while but we are coming back at ya in full effect real soon! Be sure to follow HoD on instagram @houseofdoodle and check out the shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/HouseOfDoodle  

In the thick of it

Finally, Revamping the site!!! Getting my online stores in order and ready to launch with new prints and postcards and originals! Check my House of Doodle Facebook during this time for daily-ish updates! High Five! Doodle

LET'S GO THUNDER! LET'S GO!

It's that time of season again and I'm happy to once again have the opportunity to be the 2012 Stockton Thunders Caricature Auction artist! This season I've had the chance to bring out the players inner superheroes, a total win - win situation. I like to draw superheroes, if you haven't noticed, so I got to kick it up a notch this year and I'm totally psyched about how they turned out! Each drawing is autographed by the players with the whole team signing the drawing of their mascot Thor. And if you look closely enough you will find your eyes don't deceive, that really is a puck attached to the frame. Just a lil' something extra to top it all off.


#24 Garet Hunt #17 Jason Morgan


As always with this auciton proceeds go to helping me putting the Art back in the HeArts of children in my hometown who need a little extra something to smile about. This year in collaboration with JnA Collectibles we will be putting together Art Kits for children in need including drawing materials, reading materials (comics) and a high fives! After all, Kids deserve to be able to be kids no matter what.


Auction will be held at the Stockton Arena, February 18th during the Stockton Thunder Hockey game.

Puck drops at 7:30pm and this Doodle with be there handing out high fives.

The Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day!

The Pathways for Kids Annual Anniversary Benefit Gala went off with out a hitch! A fantastic organization and an amazing event. The auction filled both ballrooms of the Intercontinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco. And with everyone dressed to the nines and matching masquerade masks coming together for such a great cause made it a total sight to be seen. Gotta love that old Hollywood feel.




I was pleased my contribution sold at auction for a pretty penny. Another HoD original gets a new home and the proceeds go to benefit Pathways for Kids. Done and done.



I want to congratulate Eric Yee on putting on such an amazing event from sound to well... EVERYTHING! You knocked this one out of the park yet again my friend.


On Deck

- Stockton Thunder Auction 2012 set up is starting this week. Poor me, I have to go hang out with hockey players :( oh the things I do for art.
- Finishing up loose ends with personal projects
- Tattoo designs
- Private lessons
- Staying warm
- The Holidays


Keep it real folks and I promise to do the same.
Till' next time - The Doodle.

Wooooosh.... and I'm back.

First off I just noticed the last time I updated was in June and I blame what ever time portal I fell into because, holy calender days Batman, it's almost Thanksgiving!

The run down. I've recently acquired my own studio space and all that goes along with it and I have been working on making it feel like House of Doodles fortress of not so solitude. I'm super fortunate to have a space to create and meet with clients, hang with friends or just recharge and allow inspiration to hit. And it has, more paintings, more drawings, more sculptures, more prints, more workshops, more clients, more! more! more!



With great studio space comes great responsibility.


In other news,

It's Hockey season again and you know what that means! I will be back for the Stockton Thunders 3rd Annual Player Character Auction. This season drawings are going to be crazy, so keep an eye out so save the date - Feb. 18th 2012!

Volume 3 of The Sugar Ninja Anthology will be hitting the shelves and convention floors soon. Both books are sure to be awesome and have something for everyone!

I have an original piece of work up for auction at Pathways for Kids annual Black and White Ball this weekend in San Fransisco. This project has spawned a new set of ideas for prints so stay tuned!

I'm in the process of updating my digital portfolio so many new things to come!

I recently visited Pixar and man am I inspired.

Remember to "Like" House Of Doodle on Facebook for random randomness and weekly doodles.

Size does matter.

Murals! I'm talking about murals people, MURALS! Get you mind out of the gutter - Nah, you can leave it there it's cool I wont judge.

About a month I was commissioned to do a mural for Lathrop High School in Lathrop, Ca. A student of mine during a leadership meeting calls me and asked if I would be interested in doing a mural at the school as the Senior gift. What am I supposed to say? "Nope, sorry kid. (click)" That would have sucked major monkey toes and what kind of a mentor would I be if I turned not only her down but her entire senior class. And besides I'm always up for a challenge.
When she first told me the mural was going to be in the cafeteria, I was like cool easy peasy. Then I saw the wall, high school cafeterias have come a long way in 11 years. This place looked like...well a huge ass cafeteria with a giant ass wall!


A super cool thing about this project is that LHS mascot is a Spartan and they wanted a 300 feel to it. Another reason my student nominated me for the job. I don't mean to toot my own horn but BEEP, BEEP! I got this. I did a quick sketch during one of our sessions and she showed it to her classmates and advisers the next day.

The whole process seemed like a task out of Mission Impossible. I was told it needed to be kept secret and done over a weekend so when everyone came in on Monday it would be a surprise. I was assigned senior helpers and pretty much handed the keys to the school for that weekend. Which I would like to say could have gone horribly wrong but it didn't. They even left me with the keys to heavy machinery after only about a 5 min tutorial on how to use the it. My student is still convinced I used some sort of voodoo on these people. What can I say, people just can't resist the Doodles Charm.

So with all that said here's how it all went down.

Digital comp


Friday - Outlines


Saturday - Colors


Sunday - Details. Details. Details.



So after three days, a couple of pizzas and countless rides on the genie lift we were done and might I add a bit delirious.
So on Monday both the LHS student body and faculty had something to look at when grabbing some cheetos and HoD has another challenge matched.

Big ass cafeteria wall - 0 House of Doodle - 1. Winner!



Big thanks and Congrats to the LHS Seniors who helped out that weekend.

A few good paintings

I've added a couple new paintings to the portfolio link to the left. Check them out if you like.
More prints are on their way too! I've still got some of the purple crows in flight as well as bridge prints hanging around too, just a little food for thought.


~ Doodle!

My Lil corner of Mega-Con

Step 1 Step 2
Step 3 Step 4 ( after a 5hr delay)


My trip down to Florida was very productive, eventful and most of all re-energizing. Mega Con was crazy fun and interesting ride to get to. Here's how things went down; got to Miami on a Tuesday night, worked through the night on Wednesday and left for Orlando in our U-Haul van like rock stars for the convention on a Thursday night. 3 people in a van that seats 2 = Awesome! I took one for the team and road the 5 hours or so in the back with all our equipment.


Best seat in the house! Well aside from the whole jail like feel when talking to Cayce and Kit, but after the first hour or so you get used to it.
We also came to the conclusion that if and when there is a Zombie Apocalypse a slightly modified U-Haul van will be the best bet for keeping those hunger buggers at bay.


The crazy fun thing about just going with the flow and traveling like a rock star is the benefit of surrounding yourself with awesome people. Horizons open like flood gates and suddenly things just seem more clear. Through the awesomeness of Cayce and couch surfing I got to meet a bunch of amazing people who do equally amazingly awesome things. For example; ever wonder who writes up all the things you hear in an amusement park to makes it as accurate as possible who's day job is to swim with dolphins and moonlight as a comic writer and rock star? Yeah, seriously who does that! Erin Pyne that's who, check her out. http://www.erinpyne.wordpress.com/ I want to give a special thanks to Erin and her husband Greg for letting us crash at their place during the convention. You guys are completely amazing, thanks again!


At the convention things went pretty Kick-Ass all three days. Sold some prints, cranked out commissions and a crap load of Doodles. I was even compared to Jim Lee and George Perez and told I had the best Gambit at the Con- (makes me blush just thinking about it.) And on Sunday while walking the floor some one from Friday recognized me and was still excited about the Captain America doodle she bought. Aw, Shucks man!

A little glimpse of some stuff from the Con.

Commissions and such.

$1 a Doodle!



More pictures from MegaCon will be added to the portfolio link too.

And so I leave you with the promise of a story for next time about a certain baby unicorn. It's sure to make you go AWWWWwwwwWWWW!


Thanks to everyone! Especially my FCR Cayce Moyer!!! SQUISH!





Doodle