The Hidden Nook

Harry Potter/Dr. Who for DRAW2d2

2011-06-16T18:07:00.000-07:00

"Choose your Ride Playa"

Its that time again! Mash-ups!

Here is my contribution for this weeks draw2d2 mashup. Harry Potter and Dr. Who. This one is based around all
those sweet magic British Rides.

Hope you guys enjoy and check out the Draw2d2 Blog for more awesome Mashups! And don't forget to vote for your favorites.

Couch Surfing

2011-06-13T13:11:00.000-07:00

Was visiting the parents this weekend and I had to whip up a quick illustration for gizmodo. Let me tell you drawing on a couch with a cintiq is not fun for the ol' neck.

Conspire to Inspire Party and Interview

2011-06-01T14:36:00.000-07:00

So a friend of mine started this cool organization with some peeps called Conspire to inspire. They throw monthly networking parties for creatives and philantropists. June 3rd Is the next one and if you are in the NYC area definitely check it out! You can also enter to win a custom framed raccoonnook print. wooo art.

They also tied me to a chair in a dark basement, fed me some crackers and asked me a few questions.
You can check out my answers : HERE:

Looky what I got in the mail.

2011-05-29T13:01:00.000-07:00

Check it out, Wired just sent me a copy of the issue my illustration is in. Pretty neat, also I love how it's next to the Patron ad.

Also Posting a full version of illustration, the extra markings are animal migrations but in the end they were not needed.

Scrap:002: Sometimes I just like to mess around with my sketches...

2011-05-27T09:45:00.000-07:00

STAR WARS / PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN for DRAW2d2

2011-05-19T12:46:00.000-07:00

Here is my contribution for this weeks draw2d2 mashup. Star Wars and Pirates of the caribbean, or in this case R2-D2 and Captian Jack Sparrow.

Draw2d2

Hope you guys enjoy and check out the Draw2d2 Blog for more awesome Mashups! And don't forget to vote for your favorites.

Sure is dusty around here...

2011-05-09T14:06:00.000-07:00

Dusting this baby off and trying to post more regularly. Thanks to all those who follow!

Also here is a picture from outside my window and me walking around the neighborhood from this past winter. Just for fun.

Till next time...

SOS Lives at BlueRoom in NYC

2010-09-01T08:53:00.000-07:00

Heres a cool tidbit. One of my friends recently brought to my attention that bluerooms website showed a picture of my original canvas print of SOS sakura in their about section. The Same one that was shown at the send help project. I sold the print to the design house almost a year ago and its good to see it has a good home!

Blue Room

Interview over at cpluv

2010-08-07T14:50:00.000-07:00

I posted this on twitter but I might as well Post it on my blog.

There's a neat Interview with me over at Computer Love conducted by Matthew Newton.

You Can Check it out Here

Scrap:001:Ballerina

2010-08-01T12:23:00.000-07:00

This started out as part of a set of boards for an up and coming movie about ballerinas. I wish I was able to finish it but alas I was moved on to another project at the time.

Wired Mag: EFP Diagrams.

2010-07-16T10:11:00.000-07:00

I recently did some Diagram illustrations for Wired Magazines on RoadSide Bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its out now and while they are super tiny they still look good.

Folio link

Open Studio Panoramic Shots

2010-07-08T16:27:00.000-07:00

If you ever Wonder Where I work when I am not booked at a Location, Here is my Green point Studio. Which I lovingly walk to from Williamsburg.

I dont usually like my own art work on the walls but This was taken around the time of our Open studio. So I kinda had to throw my crap on the wall.

Oh and thats my Studio Mate Cindy, She is a super cool Designer.

I'll post more later on of the ongoings of that night.

The Decade Art show photos

2010-04-26T14:33:00.000-07:00

While I wasn't able to attend the show I did get to relive it through

cRease1ne's Flickr photo Set Here

Remember not my photo.

Woke up so late today...Son of a.....

2010-04-21T07:42:00.000-07:00

East and West Coast.

2010-04-16T16:04:00.000-07:00

Hey all you beautiful people! Long time no post but I wanted to give a heads up. There are two Events happening for April 17th.

First We have The Decade art show in San Francisco. Its being put together by Assembly line Collective and it's going to take place at Space Gallery. There are going to be some awesome artist showing which you may know! I wont be there in person so if you do show up please be so kind to take some pictures.

Here is the flyer for more info:

Larger Image

Also a link to all the artist Here

Now if You are on the East Coast and able to get to Brooklyn. The building Which I have my studio in (and share with a friend) is throwing an open house. 30 studios will be open to the public including Mines. Plenty of free Booze and Artist at hand, So come by to hang. Also Free Limo Service from the train station to the studio. And of course another Flyer with info Yay!

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Link to artist Here

The Passenger: The Meet with Lars

2009-09-30T17:40:00.000-07:00

Based on Christian Marra's Character The Passenger. Christian asked me to do a spread for one of his issues, I couldn't resist. The imaged popped into my head immediately and I actually went straight to modeling, not a whole lot of drawing and planing was done before hand. My favorite part is the dog, saved him for last.

illustrations for this months Popular Mechanics

2009-09-24T15:25:00.000-07:00

Got to work with the fine People at Popular mechanics once again. This time for their Self Reliance issue. The article revolves around 4 Stories of People in Dire Situations And how those people Survived.I even got to do some Sketches for the composition of the cover. You can check out a better version of this one as well as the others on my site HERE

White Room-W.I.P.

2009-09-18T08:59:00.001-07:00

Jordan Metcalf is the Man

2009-09-14T12:12:00.000-07:00

Checkout what awesome Cape Town based illustrator/Designer Jordan Metcalf sent me. Totally made me giddy. "Die Cuts for the Cynical". Now i just have too come up with a worthy enough return for Jordan.

You can check out his Wonderful work at his Behance portfolio HERE

or his Flickr Account HERE

The envelope itself is just bad ass. Even if he just sent me the envelope empty I would be stoked.

The Die cuts Themselves are just so well done.

New Website!

2009-09-10T15:05:00.000-07:00

Its been a while, But I am not dead! Here is my new site. Nookillustration is dead, Long live Raccoonnook. Thanks Cargo!

Raccoonnook

SEND HELP PROJECT

2009-03-25T20:21:00.000-07:00

So Its been a while since my last update. Been busy working on a few things in the meanwhile. One of them being a piece for the SEND Help Project. I was invited and asked along with the other artist participating to interpret the phrase "Send Help" in any medium we chose. The project was started and organized by a few friends of mine and is being hosted at creative labs.The show Is happening this Saturday the 28th for one night only. For more cool info on the project you can check out the blog.

http://www.sendhelpproject.blogspot.com/

Also I included a sneak peek on my entry. To tell you the truth I didn't think I was going to make it. Its a massive piece printed on a canvas roughly about 6 and a half feet long and 36 inches High. The Photoshop file was massive and created a slew of computer problems. But now that its done and the beard is shave I can relax a bit before the next project coming up.

Freestyle Collective Presents: Recession Sessions

2009-02-03T10:50:00.000-08:00

If You're in the NYC area. you should drop by the Vig Bar for some dope beats dropped by DJ's Chowtime and Freestyle's own Incognegro 65.

Feb 9th

7-10pm

The Vig Bar

12 Spring Street

(Cross Street:Elizabeth)

Recycled work! (but now with more progress)

2009-01-24T19:25:00.001-08:00

Also Its a bit more closer to the actual colors.

Happy Holidays !

2008-12-26T03:16:00.000-08:00

Done for Freestyle Collective's Holiday Card.

Here's the original Sketch

IdN/FSC NeoYork Submission

2008-12-23T11:58:00.000-08:00

Forgot to upload this back in November. This is my entry for an upcoming book by Freestyle Collective and IdN.

Artist were invited and asked to depict a moment in their idea of Neo New York. Anyway not much to say about the piece, overall I felt it was a little rushed, but I am happy with the result.

Cover art of the book coming soon.

Need Sleep...

2008-11-20T03:23:00.001-08:00

Been pretty busy with a few projects lately, here is a progress of one of them.

Some more upcoming Doo doo (J/K)

2008-11-15T18:10:00.000-08:00

Line Work and Background render for up coming piece.

Sneaky Peak

2008-11-09T19:27:00.000-08:00

Progress shot of new stuff. Cheers!

November Issue of Imagine FX

2008-10-31T10:39:00.000-07:00

I recently Sent in art work for Imagine FX magazines Expose Section. Here is my page from The november Issue out now. It was a good feeling seeing these two pieces in print In one of my fav. mags, there's also a small bad picture of me. I also wanna take this time to thank the team at imagine FX for liking my stuff and for anyone else who hasn't checked out the magazine to check it out. It chock full of good stuff.

Sketches

2008-09-26T19:55:00.001-07:00

So I got a 3 pack of these thin moleskin sketch books. I like them cause they are thin and light, offer more space for drawing and feel less important (?) then the regular hardcover ones. Hoping to just draw more in my sketchbooks so Hopefully there will be more to come.

The Sexy Panther

2008-09-25T21:21:00.000-07:00

Hahaha, I did this while working on boards for a pitch to BET. It was for the opening of the coming up Black Panther Animated Series. I usually don't draw Super heros but this was a fun diversion. For some reason I imagined him in a nice 70's style pad in which he would have a sweet Hokusai screen behind him. I know it doesn't really fit but it's what I had in my head.

FreeStyle Collective Chicks

2008-09-24T20:52:00.000-07:00

This was a nice little side project at work to get large pieces for hanging around the Freestyle Collective Studio. I went Simple and graphic, I also really wanted to use the color pink. The texture overlays are from Cgtextures. Above I have the Final as well as some photos of the proof and Finished Canvas Print from Duggal. Some extra progress and photo shots can be found at my Behance page.

Spaceman-First Post

2007-05-09T06:52:00.000-07:00

Not really a new piece, but its something to have up. Hope to have some more newer stuff up
soon.

and a close up for fun...