2020 – 2021 Years in Review

Now that I have a little break in between projects, I figured I should take some time to update my blog and share what I’ve been up to the last couple of years.

I always thought it a challenge that I could not seem to keep a consistent style and didn’t really want to. I was always trying out one thing or another (cartoon, realistic, anatomy, etc.) However, I believe all that practice and posting was beneficial because, throughout 2020 and 2021, I started receiving offers of work from some cool and interesting companies where I was able to put those skills to use. Unfortunately, I can’t mention some names because of NDA’s.

Over the past two years, I’ve worked on a variety of projects outside my comfort zone. I worked on video game backgrounds, did some concept art for a small video game company, created painted icons for a tablet interface, developed tee designs for a company’s promotion, greyscale colours for a graphic novel, character designs for a comic, and public service illustrations. Unfortunately, my social media and storefronts suffered because I didn’t have time for personal work. Despite that, I somehow still had some sales, especially masks! My heartfelt thanks for the love and support!

We also adopted 2 Bengal-mix kittens from the same litter: Thor and Loki. By a freak accident our dear sweet Loki passed away. It was very tragic and, for the longest time, we couldn’t bring ourselves to write about it. Subsequently, we ended up adopting a Siamese-Bengal mix and named him Baldur. We’re very fortunate the two boys got along and have become almost inseparable.  

bengal kittens

Baldur in front, Thor at back sunning themselves.

A small sample of some of the illustrations I’m allowed to share.

A small selection of icons I created for Almex Group.

beach scene van

One of the many tee designs I produced for Almex Group.


cute tank with kitten

An early rough concept done for a video game company. While I and the client liked it, it didn’t make the cut. I later added a cat, just because.

Happy New Year and Best wishes for 2022!

Chorizo the Game Background Art

Recently, I was asked to create some background art for an indie video game by an artist that I follow on Instagram. His project is still in production but he has kindly given me the go-ahead to share my contribution.

It was a happy coincidence that this opportunity came about; lately, I had been trying to incorporate more backgrounds into my personal work and posting them along with background studies to Instagram. He came across my “Goldhorn” painting and it aligned with the style he was going for. Because my background studies were more for learning, I wasn’t sure how they would work in terms of animation. Fortunately, this parallax animation didn’t require that I deviate too much from my normal workflow—keeping the foreground, mid-ground and backgrounds as separate layers. Of course there were some things I had to be more concerned with, such as painting-in hidden elements so the environment would appear more seamless when layers moved. It was a fun experience and I would welcome the chance to do work like this again.

The Backgrounds

I was sent the following sketches to use as guides. The last image—with the client's cute pig character for placement—is an earlier version I did of the hut scene. For the sunset scene, I was asked to change the monkeys to the “see/speak/hear no evil” iconic poses.

When there is more information available about the game it will be posted over at the official site.