June Sketch

Hey all here's my most recent sketch of the month available at Off the Page at Disney's California Adventure, enjoy!
More details on the official website here.
I'm working on some new doodles that I hope to post a few of soon, keep an eye out. Later!

Narustitch?

I like to draw Disney characters as Naruto characters! Believe it!

March Sketch of the Month

Hey all, little slim on the posts lately. Sorry. Well I do have a couple new things:

1) The new Disney Gallery Website is up and running now, so feel free to stop by there and check out my new profile.

2) Also from the new Disney Gallery Website is my new Maleficent Sketch of the Month for this month too. Please come by Off the Page to pick one up!

Saturday's Pin Event

Hey everyone, my pin signing this weekend went really well! Thank you so much to those of you who might be reading that came to support me and pick up a pin or two of mine despite to rain and gloom that morning! I was really surprised to see the crowd. While walking through the store to the tables they had set up for us to sign at, I glanced outside and saw a line at the 1/2 way mark of the World of Disney store! Now I'm not sure if anyone knows or has been to this store before but it's a looooong store. Just seeing that was really surprising especially since I had heard that releases of Cast Create-a-Pins were usually less attended than regular pin events. But more surprising was that I heard later that the line I saw actually extended nearly to the end of the building! Now I know it wasn't just for me but it was really amazing to see such a turnout and a wonderful experience that I hope to have again someday (I'm working on my design for the next Create-a-Pin contest now!) Here're some pictures from the event, thanks so much again to those of you who came!Even my fiance stopped by...The three artists together again...Here's a close-up of the pin itself. (Sorry for the poor quality, because of the size and the metal I was having trouble scanning and photographing it.)Afterwards we took some more pictures of all 3 of us pin design winners and they gave me this framed picture of my design which includes my original concept I submitted, an early color version of the pin and an artist proof copy of the pin, along with 4 other artist proofs of the pin. I was so thrilled! It was more than I had expected!I haven't taken it out of the wrapping as of yet, unfortunatly I don't have a place to hang it right now...

Pin release this weekend! Update: January Sketch of the Month!

Hey everybody,
Don't forget to come down to World of Disney this Saturday to pick up the Haunted Mansion pin that I created. The number of pins made is limited to only 500 so it will probably sell out this weekend, maybe even that same day! I'll be there along with the other two pin design winners signing pins from 9:30-11:30am this Saturday the 24th. See you there!

A little more info here: http://eventservices.disney.go.com/pintrading/pin?id=41424

Update: For some reason I forgot to mention that my Sketch of the Month for January is also avaliable right now at Off the Page in Disney's California Adventure.All the info on it is listed here! Come on down and pick one up, there's a very limited number of these made!

Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas card this year! Merry Christmas everybody!

Updates and Good News!

Hey Everybody, I'm not sure if anyone even stops by my blog anymore but for the few of you who do I wanted to let you know about a few cool things there were going on. First and foremost my girlfriend and I are now fiance and fiancee! Eunice and I have known right from the beginning that we were right for each other, but now we're really committed towards working on a future together!Also the other news is about the pin design that I mentioned a while back that Disney is making. Here's my original drawing:

And here's the pin that they're making off of it:
The pin will be sold at The World of Disney in Downtown Disney on January 24th and will be limited to only 500 being made at $10.95. Stop on by to chat and come pick one up! The other two winners and I will be there signing the pins that morning. and these Create-a-Pins usually sell out within the first week of their release so don't wait too long! More info here!

Hitchhiking Ghosts

Yes, you guys are right, I need to post more of my artwork. Well here's something new: October's Sketch of the Month I made for the store I work at in Disney's California Adventure. Come on down to Off the Page during the whole month of October and come pick up a Brian Growe original! Nice! As always, more info is at the Disney gallery Website!

Also, I talked over my pin design with the artist who will be sculpting my Create-A-Pin design at Disneyland. It sounds like the pin will be ready and I'll be having a signing for this pin in January. When it gets a little bit closer to the release I've been told it will be alright to show my original design here, so I'll post that sometime soon too.

Baby steps....

Well, it's taking a long time but I'm actually starting to get some of my artwork out there finally. It's just a little thing, but I'm excited about it. Every year where I work (at Disneyland) they have a contest to pick designs from those of us who work there to make into new trading pins that some people go real real crazy for. This year one of my designs was picked! Yay! I'm not sure what the exact timeline will be for producing the pin til the release date, but when it's released they usually have a whole event where the 3 of the people who won have a signing. I've never done something like that before so I'm kinda nervous about that part though. I just can't wait to see it done, I'm really excited! I'll have to find out if I can post my original concept, but if I can I'll do it right away!

Plugs

Hey everyone, sorry for not posting as much. A lot going on at work and stuff that I think I might post some artwork on in a couple days. But, I wanted to plug a few of my friends websites first:

My good friend, Amber Dempsey Shikuma, has a wonderful new website up where you can view her work and when you see how awesome she is I know you're all gonna wanna hire her to do your wedding sculpture or maquette. Last Christmas she even did some awesome ornaments caricaturing a couple of our friends including your's truely. You can see them at her blog here. But definitely check out her main site here. SculptingLife.com Awesome work!

My friend Theresa also has a really cool website for a comic book she's working on. Full of neato Sci-fi-iness and very cool moving graphics. It sounds like a pretty cool project. Worth checking out. StellarArcana.com

At The Con 08

I finally have a few moments after San Diego's Comic Con this year to post some pictures. I didn't take as many as last year, but that's cause I was having a lot of fun! It was good hanging out with the entire Hard Ei8ht group and seeing a lot of friends I hadn't seen for a while. We sold some books, I picked up a lot of books (I gotta take a picture of my loot huh?), went to a couple cool panels and met a lot of nice people. Speaking of which, if you missed us this year or forgot to come and pick up your Vol 2 of Hard Ei8ht (our superior super awesome sequel of the ongoing adventures of everyone's favorite 8-fingered assassin) feel free to stop by http://hard8comic.blogspot.com/ You can order both volumes direct from our website. Ain't it cool? But now, the pictures:

The approach to the convention center, I always forget how massive this place is.

Our booth, #1034, mid setup. Hard Ei8ht Mastermind and overall Master Erich Haeger and Matt Spangler of The Those Guys chatting it up.

The calm before the storm.

"I've come down from the mountain to bring thee these 8 commandments!"Some of the crowds leaving the convention center after one of the days.

Masters of the Ei8ht-iverse

Believe it or not this mob is actually a line to get into Hall H at the convention center. The largest room there, where the most popular panels would be held. In was in this crowd mainly to see the Heroes panel then to see the sneak peaks of Disney's Bolt and Pixar's Up. I got in, whoo hoo!

Leaving The Con one night. A view of the convention center from one of the parking structures where we parked a couple of the days.

Dinner one night out with friends. Some of you might recognize my good friends, Aaaamber Dempsey Shikuma as well as her husband Garrett, and my other friends Eren and Wayne.

Is Wayne actually pondering keeping his beard? I'm not sure Eren approves... :)

Eric "The Gute" Gonzalez and his wife Yoly. The Gute's Lotteria characters were again a star attraction at our booth

Looking down at San Diego from one of the lines I stood in to see a MST3K panel. It stretched all the way upstairs around the building but I somehow got into this panel too!

Two of my old CSUF pals Markus and Becky dressed up like Speed and Tankgirl.

I could take him...After I while I got tired of holding this pose and being covered in bronze paint.

The Dragon Emperor's Army was on hand to quell any rebellion should it arise at The Con.

The Gang's almost all here! Awesome Comic Con everybody!

A parting look at our booth as we left it Sunday evening. See you next year booth 1034!

San Diego Booth 1034!

I don't mean to be repetitive, but come on by and check us Hard 8 guys over at Booth 1034 at the San Diego Comic Convention! Hard 8 Vol 2 looks awesome, and although I'm not in this volume it features a lot of awesome stories and artwork by:
Erich Haeger
Mike Daley
Alex "The Big Toon" Deligiannis
Eric "The Gute" Gonzalez
Joe Graziani
Josh Pruett
Greg Rankin
Matt Roberts
and Matt Spangler

See you at The Con!