Speed Painting 18: Rob Ford

So I decided make the first Canadian topic about.. well yes, our own pride and glory, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. I normally have to explain most of my thought process but regarding this man, everything is as blatant as it can be in this youtube speed painting. The seems to have been involved, in drugs, alcohol, potentially prostitutes. I also heard an interesting interview before making this illustrating of Mayor Rob Ford, with one of the most ridiculous responses I have ever heard from a politician. I don't want to spoil the surprise, so watch until the end.. and make sure the sound and captions are on.

Speed Painting 17: Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad. One of the greatest shows ever made. I made a different scenario for this youtube speed painting illustration, with my type of circumstances added in there. I don't want to say anymore however, since I wouldn't want to spoil this masterpiece to the people that watch it.

The video doesn't work if you use a cellphone apparently, because Youtube is not allowing it for this one video.

Speed Painting 16: Halloween

With Halloween coming up at the end of the month, I thought I may as well make a speed painting about a holiday. It's one of the funnest holidays out there for kids and adults in some cases as well. I wanted to create a character that would embody Halloween, but in a more creepy manner.

He only appears during Halloween. He has a multiple personality disorder, one where his emotions differentiate between happy and celebratory to sad and a serial killer. A creature created by many different aspects that embody Halloween. While his two heads are comprised of pumpkin material, his body is that of a mummy. You know he is coming since green fireflies will start appearing by the dozen, and then you better hope he is in a good mood, or he will kill you and then eat you.

Speed Painting 15: Person of Interest

You are being watched. This is the theme of the tv show Person of Interest. Cameras everywhere, listening and watching everything everyone does. Watch_Dogs, a new videogame is all about using technology to take advantage of the situation and control an entire city. It shows how easily the current technology can be manipulated. Add Edward Snowden's whistle blowing which confirmed that America is spying on every single citizen, which made my decision quite easy to make a speed painting about Person of Interest. The series also starts this month.

Enjoy the video. I worked a bit more on Adobe AE for both effects at the end and played with the music quite a bit.

Speed Painting 14: Batman vs Superman

The new Man of Steel 2 movie has been announced, and it has been revealed that Batman will play a major role in it. In its introduction, they quoted part of Frank Miller's comic where Batman and Superman fight one another, likely foreshadowing that the two will fight at least at some point during the movie. This is how I came with a basic idea of the two going against one another for my next speed painting. Now before Superman fanboys start raging about how Superman will always win, just stop. Batman is a much better character and always will be then Mr. "I have 0 flaws and every superpower they could think of when they made me". I used an outline and caricature style for this illustration, moreso for experimentation and to get out of my comfort zone. The green light at the top is supposed to give an idea of Green Lantern getting involved on what looks to be a city in massive chaos, trying to stop Lex Luthor. As we know, the Green Lantern movie that should have never been made was made, so I included him in here. Ryan Reynolds was born to play the Flash, not Hal Jordan.

Speed Painting 13: Star Wars

Hey guys, a new month and as always, a new speed painting coming out on the first day. I chose to illustrate Star Wars and have a detailed paragraph explaining what I was trying to convey. Hope you guys enjoy it, cheers!



So I finally watched all 6 Star Wars movies and decided to make a speed painting about it (yes I live in a cave, that's why I've never watched them all). An ex boss of mine was a huge Star Wars fan and I wanted to make a poster for him, and I thought might as well make it a speed painting while I'm at it. I've been checking out Dan Luvisi's pop culture work recently and may have subconsciously been innovated to make a Star Wars variation of such nature, where I make a gangster realistic style Star Wars crew (if you call that realistic...). I've put a lot of Easter eggs in this illustration, the question is can you find them all?

Marketing Special: Sony humiliates Microsoft at E3

You don't have to love gaming to read this article (but seriously.. why don't you love gaming?). In case you didn't know, E3 is the biggest gaming show of the year where the big 3 companies, Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft show their games and hardware. Considering that Microsoft and Sony are launching their new consoles at the end of the year, this was going to be a massive deal this year to see who brings in the fans. Sony however humiliated Microsoft at such a level, that marketing teachers are likely to use this example in their college and university classes. It was that bad.



Microsoft had their conference a few weeks back and received a massive backlash, so they were under massive pressure to perform. They didn't mention policies such DRM, which is to stop used games (or only do it once after their original backlash), you have to connect online once every 24 hours even if you are playing a single player game, and having a Kinect mandatory to be on when you are gaming. In light of PRISM and Microsoft being the first company to go along with selling out their information to the government, you can see how this unnecessary feature of the Kinect always being on is.. suspicious. Now as you can see in the video above, Sony had a decent event until the end, where they specifically stated everything Microsoft did wrong, that they would do the opposite. I have seen a lot of E3 events, and I have never heard a crowd chant one of the console publisher's names, or that high amount of cheering and hysteria. Microsoft made some silly moves to make a console for publishers rather than consumers and tried to hide those facts during E3 by only speaking about their great games instead, however Sony basically reminded everyone at the end of their show.

This was just hit after hit, as afterwards essentially every gaming media and (even non-media) went in Sony's corner and started bashing Microsoft even more than when they first announced those features. There was a whole issue and a twitter campaign to stop Sony from doing DRM called #PS4noDRM which even CNN picked up at some point before E3 when Microsoft first announced their features. Sony execs responded with "very happy to see how passionate our fans are".. so an answer that says nothing, they waited until E3. Sony originally did not specify much and basically Microsoft started talking about all the features. It may have been that Sony wanted to implement some type of DRM feature but they let Microsoft go first, saw a monumental negative backlash and basically used that to completely rip them apart in the biggest gaming conference of the year. With Amazon on facebook for pre-orders showing a 17-1 ratio in PS4's favor over the Xbox One and even general non gamers on my news feed on facebook knowing that Sony humiliated Microsoft at E3, this is showing to be quite a massive deal. Microsoft execs also did a terrible PR jobs in different interviews where they further angered the fans.



This video launched right after E3, Sony basically trashing Microsoft even more and making it that much more humiliating. After two days, the 22 second video already hit over 8 million views.