Upper Deck ASV

Well a little whiles back I was hired to do some concept art for some of the All Star vinyl line that upper deck was putting out. I was really psyched since I'm a big basketball fan and since a lot of my favorite artist where gracing the platform. Anyway long story short, I designed Paul Pierce and Brian Westbrook and shortly after the whole ASV division got canned from Upper Deck. The good news is that they got to rough sculpt stage and you can get a glimpse of what they would of looked like.

They made some changes to my orginal design which I wasn't very happy with, but oh well.

Next up was Brian Westbrook, can't seem to find the artwork, but here is the sculpt.

I think the Westbrook would of kicked ass, but that's that!

Cheeks's Kuta!

I had no idea what to draw last night so I took a look at the stuff in my office and decided to draw up a quick sketch of Cheek's Kuta Vinyl. Awesome figure Cheeks! if ya'll haven't picked one up ya'll need to do so, still one of my favorite pick ups from SDCC this year.

I love to see dope designers interpret there line work as 3d figures, especially toys. I swiped the colors right off of cheeks's avatar, i was being lazy so I just eyedropped them bad boys in PS heheheh. I gray scaled it to show how much more lazier I can be to do the grayscale Kuta bahahaha. Anyway wanted to give the homie his props for staying on his hustle.

Sketching up orders

Hey guys as you know my kanokid blog keeps me real busy and it's hard to get around to sharing sketches and stuff, but here I am. I recently had several orders for my Citizen Kano book via my online store, which is always nice. Even better is the fact that I have some down time from freelance and have time to sketch them up real nice, here are a couple of my favorites.

MJ Sketches

Hey guys, so a little while back I got to do some MJ concept sketches for upper deck, this would have been for the All Star Vinyl line, however I don't think Jordan brand was feeling the ASV figures so they didn't approve the designs. Anyway I got to freelance for Jordan brand from there on based on these drawings, so it's all good.  - click on the pics for a closer look.