Unplugged Expo and Art Prints

I have an art booth at Unplugged Expo October 26th and 27th 2013. This year it is at the Daniels Spectrum Centre Downtown Toronto 585 Dundas St. E., Toronto, ON M5A 2B7. My booth is #16, near the exit of the 1st floor of the dealer's room. I got a lot of my artwork printed up for the show. I'll have buttons, stickers, cards and posters.
The above picture is a bunch of the buttons

Some 6" x 4" cards I'll have for sale.  

Main dealer floor layout, I'm at booth 16.  

More photographs are after the jump!

STICKERS!!

I got some 2" x 2" circle stickers printed of my artwork! The prints turned really well. If anyone wants some send me an email with your address and I'll send some out to you for free!

Images on the stickers are from the following works.

Dracula is Still a Threat Logo

Pixel bender

Litwick

Diglett

Japanese Flying Squid

Limbo

Yeti

Skull

Alex

Click the jump for more images of the different stickers.

Pendulum

I went to The Guvernment in Toronto on Feb. 2 to see Pendulum. It was fantastic! Lots of energy, wasn't expecting them to have a live MC though. Only got a few good phots, thought I'd throw them up here, along with a video I took.

Here's a video I took of the band playinr their songs The Island Part I and Part II.

The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77

Bob Rifo and Tommy Tea of The Bloody Beetroots playing Warp 1977.

I went to The Guvernment in Toronto on Sunday Oct. 17 to see The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77. It was amazing! They had a full band instead of just turntables, so they played a lot of punk.

The only bad thing about the show was that it was all ages, so the venue was kicking people out by midnight. Bloody Beetroots only played for about an hour! I hate that Guvernment gets all the great bands, such a bad venue for them.

Watch for more photos on my DeviantART account too.
Bob Rifo of The Bloody Beetroots playing guitar on the speaker right in front of my face!!

I have some more photos that I may edit and post up later on.

Daft Punk - Guy-Manuel Mask

So I finished making my Guy-Manuel mask this morning, just had to place the lights in, turned out pretty well.

I have included a slide show of the whole process below.

Canada Day 2010

I went to Toronto to see Deadmau5, Jesse F. Keeler and Benny Benassi perform at The Guvernment and Kool Haus. This was the highest quality photo I took of Deadmau5's set that night. What a fantastic show, more pictures are on my Facebook account at the moment, but more will be soon elsewhere. Deadmau5's cube had thousands of led lights in them, they changed and flowed with each song. His mask also had a lot of led lights.

You can see a better quality of this image here.

Kool Haus was packed for Deadmau5's show, could not move, luckily I was near the front. Deadmau5 finished at around 3:30 am, so I went to The Guvernment to catch the rest of JFK's set. He is amazing, I loved seeing him in November last year! Left Toronto at 5:30 am, danced for 9 hours straight killed my legs and my body..

MIRP - MSTRKRFT

The monster I saw at MSTRKRFT's DJ set in November.

Check out the slick new blog Monsters in real Places and participate!

Wild Pops - Cereal Ad

This was a project done for Modern Design Illustration class at school. These are all of my illustrations for my cereal ad, from rough concept to final drawing. The idea was to take our cereal box designs, which was aimed at kids, and make an ad that appeals to a different audience.


I wanted to make my ad appeal to people who are interested in music and DJ culture. I decided to sketch some headphones with cereal pieces rolling out of them, and a sticker of my character would be on the headphones.


I then used this image as a reference for my next ad concept. I decided to have the cereal pieces float out of the headphones instead. The pieces would float into a music bar and become part of the notes. I inked the headphones so I could turn it into a vector, and made a thick outline for it to stand out.


This is my colour comp. of my ad idea that I drew in Adobe Photohop. I wanted the headphones to be on the corner of a table or desk with the music bar and notes floating above.
I added a vector image of my cereal's character to the headphones, and added a white border to it so it would look like a sticker.


This is the vector I made in Adobe Illustrator from my inked headphone drawing. I live traced and live painted it to get a clean look.


This is the final ad, put together in Adobe Photoshop. It has my final vector drawing of the headphones, I moved the the character sticker so it looks like it's on a curved surface.
Instead of a table top I decided to take a picture of my turntable and make it a black and white image.
I scanned a plastic bag and made it a texture for my background. I added some green and faded the background toward the turntable.
The word "Pop" is in the Wild Pops font. And I chose a font for the other words that relates to the theme. I knew I wanted to include platter in my catch phrase as it could relate to the turntable platter and a platter for food.
The image in the bottom left corner is the cover of my cereal box that I scanned in. The actual product that the ad is for.

Enjoy!