I just got news from Bill that "Off to a Flying Start: horsing around the language" have been printed and looks wonderful!
Off to a Flying Start: Horsing Around the Language
by Bill Tivenan and Cassandra Cook with illustrations by Ana Mirela Tache

I'm happy that I've redesigned those emoticons for this game , it was fun and Rhys is one of the most nice persons on the net!

casual guy

Character done in vector format from a series. Nothing much to say.....Maybe someone will have an idea for the text in balloons :)

CD cover

CD cover design for two guys who like a folk art, cool, colorful, kid friendly feel. The target was small children and their parents, of course. Done for a contest, I don't think I will win so here is the place for this small work.
Painter+ PS

ODB

A small design for a custom T-shirt that feature a cartoon of Ol' Dirty Bastard and a can of worms.
"The other way to die is eat a can of worms" it's a reference to a lyric in the song "Cracker Jack".

pencil + Illustrator

SisX

Post apocalyptic twins, character(s) done in Painter for the weekly ConceptArt contest. My very first entry!

char 05 detail

..and a bigger version.

character 05

Illustrator mon amour!
Can help myself, so much potential in this software and still new for me. I'm working on a series of teenagers characters, from time to time I'll post some to balance the dark mood pieces.

BabaYaga aka BabaCloanta

A character design done for a contest and also for fun.
In Slavic folklore, a witch-like character who flies around on a giant mortar, kidnaps (and presumably eats) small children, and lives in a house on chicken feet (wiki). There's a Romanian version called Baba Cloanta named after her nose like a scavenger beak. Spooohhhoooooky...

QueenTitania

I wanted to do a character using only Illustrator. So here's Titania as emo teen, didn't make it to the finals but it was fun to work on it!

NObreathing

Character for the CA weekly contest
Chow145: Supervillain Self-Portrait
Here's my concept:
Due to a mistreatment of a rare bacteria infection as asthma that implicated steroid abuse, NObreathing, with her lungs completely destroyed, found a way to survive. She needs huge O2 quantities that only by processing Earth's atmosphere can be supplied, and that makes her not a nice person. She is bounded to a tornado machine, with the only superpower that steroids can can give: super aggressivity!

young warrior 1

I started with intention of a quick color study and ended up with this.
Done in Painter in few days.
Young warrior (1)

young warrior 2

A young warrior (2) from a series of studies done for my portfolio. I was interested in expressions, textures and lights.
Done in Painter in much more time that I planed, but that's it!

beyoncé

This fierce single lady have just put a ring in it!
Done in Painter with a touch of PS in 4 days at medium speed for my portfolio.

rihanna

All past year everytime I opened the browser I saw an advertisement of this girl and her umbrella....
Done for fun in Painter and PS with a Genius tablet in couple of days in spare time for my portfolio.

Decided to start my own blog! I plan to update it as often as I can with useful information about what I'm up to as well as personal works. Thanks for visit!