As I mentioned previously, here's my illustration that revolves around a toaster and some toast. The concept is a twist on 'love' (well duh, 90% my illustrations are somehow revolved around love) but yeah this one is about the negativity of love and how it sometimes 'burns' or basically hurts. I hope you like it, it was not as easy as I thought it would be mainly because giving the toast the characteristics that are appropriate for the situation wasn't as smooth going as I thought it would be but all in all I guess it turned out well.

Click download from the deviantart page to get the wallpaper version.

I went back to my original vector painting style for this particular piece because I felt it would convey the sentimentality of it in a much clearer and elegant way as opposed to my other cartoony illustrative style. I felt a little rusty while working on this because it has been a while since I worked on this style but as I progressed my confidence was restored and it just came along nicely I believe. I think that this piece would work nicely as a card or post card..hmm.

Hope you like it.

My latest vector illustration. I wanted to illustrate something about feeling 'different' and 'left out' and well, after 10 days of tossing the idea around in my head the final visualization appeared to me. I'm quite happy with how it turned out and feel that it's one of my finer illustrations to date in terms of how clean the execution is, not a bad start for the new year although I wish I could be more productive and pump out more illustrations as I used to back in 2007, but then again my circumstances have changed since then and I'm lucky now if I have time to illustrate even one piece a month. I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to use all of these illustrations in the future, do I want to make T.Shirts, Greeting cards? or Wall Graphics? Not sure yet but I know it's going to be a fun ride once it starts.

I have another illustration in the works, something that involves toast and a toaster, will see how that turns out and if I am able to materialize it from the way it looks in my head.

On a side note, Dashboard Confessional's latest album 'Alter The Ending' is fantastic, I can't stop listening to several tracks on it. Check it out and don't forget to purchase albums, no matter what, downloading is still considered stealing.

Update: 05/02/2010

I made a wallpaper version of this artwork which I happen to just love and have been using ever since, I think it fits nicely on the desktop without interfering with the icons which is exactly what I look for in a wallpaper, and the dark background is easy on the eyes. I hope all of you enjoy using it.

I don't feel like writing up a general entry of my highlights in 2009 because not much would be different than other years seeing that I certainly won't expose too many personal details about my life which lets face it would pretty much make the entry useless, so I'm going to talk about a career advancement which is working on the 'renna' account for most of the year. It's an amazing opportunity, especially here in Oman to work on a project that feels just right for you and this account was just perfect for me. I was able to use my illustrative style and showcase it to the masses and thanks the the many months of illustrating for them my skills have improved so much since I started illustrating, in fact when i look back at some of the illustrations from back in January or February I definitely feel that they're not as great as they could've been but what the heck it's a learning process and I'm glad I got to learn it this way.

I look forward to what's in store next year, who knows? maybe a physical gallery? a small business on the side? All I can say now is thank you god for this beautiful and amazing gift, thank you 'realitycg' and 'renna' for the incredible opportunity and thanks to everyone who supported and encouraged me through the years, I am eternally grateful for it.

This is my latest artwork which I'm very pleased with the result, I wanted to illustrate something for the winter and thought that it would be fun to do something cheeky that revolves around hot chocolate. I hope you like it. Also exclusive to my blog is a wallpaper version of it for anyone who wants to place it on their desktop, the wallpaper has various textures on it which were added in photoshop. Enjoy.

Wallpaper Version: