Ugg Muggs round deux!

Man.... talk about on the spot!  Here's some of my favorites I cleaned up of my UGG MUGGS I did while at the cons this year along with a couple more randoms.

Hope y'all digs!

Winner of my 2011 artbook name game goes to....

Howdy, folks!

Man, what a busy busy weekend it was.  I wrapped up my 2011 art book cover, and after going through tons of the name entries for the art book name contest, there was no way for me to walk away without blushing!  HAHAHA WOW.... some of you are NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!  HAHAHA


Nonetheless, I can't thank you all enough for participating! Alot of great ones.  It was tough to pick the best one.  However, I managed to find one that fit for what I'm looking for.

The winner is :iconeenlikebean: !
Congrats!!!

I'll post the other 4 runner ups (also get consolation prizes, too!) later today.  In the meantime here's the cover for my 2011 artbook.

Let me tell ya about the book...
-hardback
-140ish pages
-$30.00.
-over 100 new illustrations
-i'll let ya know when preorders are available.  (preorders and regular orders will be available international, too.)

Hope ya'll digs!

New Gumshoes 4 Hire Con Banner W.I.P.

Howdy, gang!

What's the haps on this gorgeous Friday afternoon?

First off, I hope it's going really well.  Today is my deadline for my 2011 art book, so I am making the final choice for the book title winner... Thanks for your patience on me picking the winner.  Alot of travelling the past couple of months and crazy deadlines...

I am really pumped about this year's book.  Alot of diverse stuff from backgrounds, character development, and panels from my creator own ips in it.  I feel it has a good balance of roughs and finishes for sure.

Because of your patience.... not only will the winner get 2 books, a high five and good game to boot, but I will select 4 runner ups to get a copy as well.  Watch out.... I'm kinda loco, but that's cool with me, if it's cool witchu.  :)

Aight.... Imma leave ya for a minute to share with ya my Gumshoes 4 Hire banner layout I did earlier this week.

I will post the cover with title included TONIGHT!  Woot!  Woot!  Like a good book, show, song... STAY TUNED!

Hope ya digs!

JUDO CHOP to the dome and my 2011 art book cover roughs!

heh heh...

Here's some more exploratory designs I did of Miggy from my Gumshoes 4 Hire project.

Don't let her outside cuteness get the drop on ya other wise it's a JUDO CHOP to the noggin before ya know it!  :P

Also wanted to share with ya the roughs I just wrapped up for my 2011 art book wrap around cover. 

Now i just need to pick a winner for the art book name game! I've widdled it down to the final handful... too many good ones... hahaha

Hope ya'll digs!

Pimp my Ride!

Gumshoes 4 Hire

Howdy, gang!  Thanks so much for the kind words for the recent Iron Man stuffs!  You all are too kind.

Just wanted to let ya get a peeky-peek to more Gumshoes 4 Hire stuffs.  I finally finished the designs!  HAHAHA

The comic is well underway and looking as if issue 1 will be finished up by San Diego Comic Con.

The 1st issue is written by:
Sean Galloway
and story-edited by Kevin Hopps

With art assists by:

Rob Haynes
Dario Brizuela
DJ Welch
Derek Laufman

Color scripts by:

Bob Strang

Vehicle clean-up by:

DJ Welch

Vehicle colors by:
Bob Strang and DJ Welch

Hope y'all digs!

Iron Man and Fin Fang Foom

Been awhile since I did fanart, so I thought I'd draw Iron Man (I'm a huge fan of this version of the ol' shellhead, and of course with some updated accessories.  hehe).  To the right is Fin Fang Foom, a character I never drew before, so I thought I'd give it a shot.  :)

Hope y'all digs!

Gumshoes 4 Hire backgrounds and World of Warcraft

Howdy, gang!

Been super swamped.  Thanks for checking in on me.  You all are very kind.  Just catching up with work deadlines and making a dash for my 2011 artbook deadline.

Here's a sneak peak into some of the bgs I did to set the mood and vibe of the small town the Gumshoes 4 Hire sleuths live in.

And I'm close to picking the winner for this years book title!
I'll be announcing it soon!

You can view more Gumshoes 4 Hire here


Also here's me just messing around redesigning this cool-arse character; Rahjak the Blademaster.



Hope y'all digs!

Back from ECCC and it was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the winners of our raffle giveaway. Matt Nelson and Timothy Lamb both won our banners that :iconryanbnjmn: Ryan Benjamin and I use for our cons. The cool part is they are both signed and sketched on by the Great Bruce Timm.  I feel sorry for the unlucky winner who won Ryan's yucky banner (don't tell him I said that)..... I kid!   HAHAHAHA

I am so happy to have met Bruce Timm this year at ECCC.  He's one of my all time favorites ever.  His style and line economy has sexy written (or should I say drawn) all over it.  This was a dream come true for a fanboy like me.

We shared tables next to each other, and boy howdy was I nervous!  So nervous I had Ryan sit in my spot through-out the con.  It was fun seeing people mix Ryan and I up for each other. HAHA  :P

Also, Bruce was such a good sport and pulled the names from the banner bag for the contest for us!  A huge thank you to Bruce and everyone that participated!

What a fun show!

Kai 2.0

Here's a redesign I did for Kai. I felt he needed to feel a little more modern. Or it could be that I grew out of the older design. haha  




Hope y'all digs!

Facebook Game

Woohoo!  Monster Story, a Facebook game I helped design launched this week.  Here's one of the promos I did for it of some of the characters I designed.

Mega-Fool pin-up dos!

I couldn't let the villains go to waste, so I plopped them behind the Megaman I did before.

Coming to a Con near you!

Howdy, gang! Making rounds on the net today, so I wanted to let ya know what cons I'm attending in the near future: 

Emerald City Comicon (Seattle) March 4-6 
Table # E-02
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C2E2 Comic and Entertainment (Chicago) March 18-20
Table unknown yet

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Wondercon (San Francisco) 2011 April 1-3 
Table unknown yet

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Boston Comic Con (Boston hahaha) April 30-May 1
Table unknown yet
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Heroes Con (Charlotte) June 3-5
Table unknown yet

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San Diego Comic Con (San Diego) July 21-24
Table unknown yet




Hope to see you there!

This is what Superman needs..... Oh my! I am so impressed by this guy, Robb Pratt. Super nice guy, and wickedly talented. Robb did a personal Superman animated short that is just crazy awesome. It's new, exciting, intense, and sooooooooooooooooooo good! It's a shout out to the Superman classics. Enjoy. :)

This is what Superman needs.....

Oh my!  I am so impressed by this guy, Robb Pratt.  Super nice guy, and wickedly talented.  Robb did a personal Superman animated short that is just crazy awesome.
It's new, exciting, intense, and sooooooooooooooooooo good!  Here's a link to check it out.  It's a shout out to the Superman classics.  Enjoy. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2WVlmNqMMs&feature=player_embedded

Quit Smurfin around!

Howdy! I'm still up burning the midnight oil... 

Still have one more to go.... Yellow Devil.....

Haven't drawn this many characters in a line-up in ages....


An would ya look at that?!  Dagnabbit, Megaman!  Quit Smurfin around.  Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!

We got surrius bidness to takes cares ofs.  :P

Trying something different for a change... Bet ya thought I was gonna use all the characters from the line-up, huh? hehe  

Hope y'all digs!

Mutha...

.....ship... hehe

Although only in the rough stages I couldn't settle on the last take I did of the B7 carrier ship, Ol' Betsy, so I worked it a bit more.

Here's a redesign of one of the B7 crew.  I kinda grew away from the original design I did for Pierre/No.2.'s combat gear.

Here's the B7 line-up with him in his civilian clothes, and next to that is the old design of him in his yellow uniform.  Not only was the bare chest thing not working for me, but I changed him to his current ethnicity obviously in his civilian version. hahaha  To view a larger version of the line-up, please be sure to click the download button to the right of the image, after you follow the link.

Hope y'all digs!

Ol' Betsy... That Heffer....

I had to eventually design the mutha ship for the B7 fleet. I got into a groove with it, so I couldn't stop til I saw how the ol' girl would hold  up in the Bastion's 7 universe.

Being a huge fan of cruiser-type ships that anime uses for the their sci-fi cartoons, I just couldn't resist injecting it into B7.  hahaha

Earlier, my pal, Jerry, asked me what I was gonna name the mutha ship.

Welp... here's how it went down :

Jerry: dude, that joint looks like it's gonna kick some butt. what do you call it? it's gotta be something crazy like Vanishing point or something like that

Me: thank ya, brutha!  hmmmm the name.... how about ol' betsy?  she can be referred to as the heffer that is ol' betsy.  she likes to take her time to graze the world.  hahaha

Me, I can't wait to see what Jerry does with Ol' Betsy.... nuff said for now....

Hope y'all digs!

Cheeks' Artbook name game 2011

Howdy, gang!


Oh my... where has the time gone?!


Who can guess what time of year it is?


That's right!  The "help Cheeks' name his artbook(s)" game!  Wait..... What do I see in bold to the left? Artbooks?!  What the hay is going on?!  Was that a typo?  Hellz naw, to the naw-nawz it ain't!  You read it correctly.  I am putting out 2 artbooks this year.  One book will have 99 pages and the other will have 1 page... j/k!  


There will be 2 books, fo true!  More details about book prices, page count and content later.  What's more important is to figure out what to call them!  Think of them as a set of books.  I'm sure you all know the rules by now.... but here goes




The rules..... 
None!  Well, do me a solid and please try to keep it clean if it's really your name game entry (haha)!  Or at least witty and almost over the line.  


deadline is February 28th.


The prize:
Me singing Happy Birfday to you!  Well maybe the Hello Kitty earplugs that you'll need when I sing Happy Birfday to ya.
Just teasin'.  




How it works is, whomever I choose as the winner will get 2 free copies of each book, signed, and with a head-sketch.  


My previous books
I have a theme....in the past years I used word play for my titles, of course you probably already picked up on that.  :P

My books from oldest to newest were called:
1)Got Cheeks?  
2)Had Cheeks Want More?
3)Grab Yo'self A Handful of Cheeks (Vol.1 and Vol.2)  
4)Spread the Cheeks
5)Cheeks:UNCLENCHED
6)Cheeks: Freshly Squeezed


My final decision is TBD (basically when I have time to read over them :P). HEHEHE


Who's ready to bruise their dukes?  Above the belt, aight?  Good luck, bubs, and bubettes (as Wolverine would say if he were the one typing this)!!


While you're playing, I'll listen to my boy Jon Secada's Just Another Day.  Don't hate on him.  He's still the man.

A very sad day today....

An amazing person, a tremendous artist & a bottomless pit of inspiration, Clement Sauve has passed away, today. I'm devastated.  Thank you for all the inspiration, brutha.  R.I.P.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MY!!!!!!!!

I love BOLLYWOOD....

Do yourself a favor and enjoy the next 10 minutes of your life.
Very clever, and very fun.  Embrace it.

Bastion's 7 animatic boards polished

Howdy, gang!

What's the happenin's?

Remember the little ol' B7 animatic I had shared last year?
If not you can watch it by clicking this http://vimeo.com/13687272


I had a lot of good critques from when I first posted the link, and I can't thank you enough for taking the time to watch it and speak about it.
There was a lot of great feedback in regards to timing, and etc...

Welp, I gathered a crew together of amazing talent to give me a hand to push this puppy to a final feel.
We still have our work cut out for us, but I thought I'd share with ya what's cookin.

Credits:

Produced by: Sean Galloway

Art Director: Sean Galloway

Main characters and incidental characters  and character colors by Sean Galloway
Incidental character assists by Jerry Gaylord
Backgrounds by Dario Brizuela and Sean Galloway
BG colors by Caleb Sawyer
Storyboard revisions by Sean Galloway and Derek Laufman
Clean-ups by Sean Galloway
Flats: Mike Komai

Past credits:

Special thanks to the talented fellas that put in hours and hours of hard work into making this B7 rough animatic possible!

Produced by: Sean “Cheeks” Galloway

Art Director: Sean Galloway

Written and directed by: Adam Van Wyk and Sean Galloway

Storyboards: Adam Van Wyk, Calvin Tsang, Travis Sengaus, D.J. Welch, Ryan Odagawa

Additional storyboard clean-ups: Sean Galloway, Hwang Nguyen, Ryan Odagawa

Color scripts: Caleb Sawyer, Bob Strang, Sean Galloway

Animatic Compositing: Hwang Nguyen

Music editing: Ryan Odagawa, Sean Galloway

Voice talents:
Ama/Taki/Professor Bastion: Kevin Galloway :iconkeggo:
Kai/Oki(Zero): Dan Merriman
Blanquet/Jojo(No.1): Erin Merriman

Additional Oki grunts: Ryan Odagawa

Music:
Akon- Sexy Chick Inst.
Dave Guetta

Black Eyed Peas- I gotta Feelin
(Mysto & Pizzi Electro Remix)

Linkin Park & Jay-Z- Numb/Encore Inst.

Their amazing works can be found here:

Me: www.cheeks-74.deviantart.com/gallery/
Calvin Tsang
Travis Sengaus
DJ Welch
Caleb Sawyer
Bob Strang
Hwang Nguyen
Ryan Odagawa

Another inspirational blog....

Today, I was beating myself up trying to remember if I mentioned my pal, Justin Rasch's blog in a previous post, so to give my mind a rest I'll do it today.  Justin and his whole family is so gifted and inspirational, not only with their skill, talent and vision, but also as a family.  When Ichiban (my wifey) and I have our own children we'd want to be as loving day in and day out as the Rasch family.

If you haven't (and I know a ton of you already have) been to their blog, then you gotta go here to be in awe.
You can follow them behind the scenes as they create new worlds you'd wanna live in and explore over at Justin Rasch's blog.

Insanely inspirational....

I can't keep this to myself...

DANG. My pal Caleb keeps hitting me with the jaw-dropping links this morning & I am forever a fan now of these guys.
They are so well done that it hurts.  I feel like a slacker now.  HAHAHAHA

Check them out:


Meet Buck from TeamCerf on Vimeo.



Salesman Pete from Salesman Pete on Vimeo.

My first storyboards debut on G.I.Joe Renegades.

My first storyboards debut came out on the new G.I.Joe Renegades series. My section was from 7:09-8:35.
 

Loved the G.I.Joe Renegade designs by the ever so talented Clement Sauve.

After seeing how my G.I. Joe storyboards came out, I'm really stoked to see how my Scooby Doo storyboards came out since those will be my first boards ever.

This year I wanted to really challenge myself with different line of work, and boy-howdy did I ever.  Boarding a tough gig. I can't thank my directors enough for the opportunity(s).  Much props to all the storyboarders out there.  It takes a heckuva mindset to draw your sections.  Luckily, I was able to tackle a few pages of script here and there to ease into it.  It was a really nice challenge and a great way to get a taste of other avenues outside of just designing characters.

A little bit of Rock and Roll

Been awhile since I've been able to draw a pin-up.  Here's roughs of a little bit of "Rock and Roll" from MegaMan.  :) I'll be adding villains in this later.  Still not sure which ones I want to do just yet.  Too many awesome ones to pick from.  Any requests?


Hope y'all digs!

Layout 1:

Still more to come! Have a Happy New Year, everyone! May it hold nothing but wonderful things for you and yours.

Been awhile since I've been able to draw a pin-up. Here's roughs of a little bit of "Rock and Roll" from MegaMan.  I'll be adding villains in this later. Still not sure which ones I want to do just yet. Too many awesome ones to pick from. Any requests?

Layout 2:

Happy Holidays from the Galloways

Ichiban asked me to draw our holiday card this year.  It doesn't get too cold here in LA, so we're not too bundled up here in the image.  :)

I gotta say, she's the cutest art director I ever had!  HAHAHA

Happy Holidays from us!

Still have Christmas shopping to do?

Waddup, gang.

I bet some of y'all have Christmas shopping to do still, right?  I've brought the price down on the Kuta Vinyls considerably.  Kuta vinyls are going @ $30 for the colored version and $45 for the grey version.

Images of the Kuta vinyl and ordering info can be found here if you're interested!

FAIL

Whoopsie......

Street Fighter busts!!

Haven't had a whole lot of time for any personal drawing lately, so I had to make sure I did something from one of my childhood faves.  I guess What I'll do with this like the ugg muggs is keep updating this deviation as the new heads are done.
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If ya haven't listened to these songs, then I HIGHLY recommend them.  It'll get your lil booty outta the chair and wiggle to the left and wiggle to the right... if it makes ya booty droooooooooop, or do the tootsie roll, then you're on a different level. :P


Cheeky recommendations:


Sex Karma (feat. Solange Knowles): Of Montreal
Cat & Mouse: Nikki & Rich
Next Best Thing: Nikki & Rich
Good Girls Go Bad (feat. Leighton Meester): Cobra Starship
F**k You: Cee Lo Green
Dog Days Are Over: Florence + The Machine
Dakota: Stereophonics
Float On: Modest Mouse
What Part of Forever: Cee Lo Green






Edit: Zangief!
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Edit: Sagat! (That one's for you, Derek!)

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Edit: Chun Li
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Edit: Guile says eating fat meat gives ya hair extra BoUnCe and shine! HAHAHA I couldn't hold out.... I had to add Guile I did over the Thanksgiving weekend. 
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Edit: Enter Balrog! Duck! His left hook is revolving! 



Edit: Zangief

Hope y'all digs!

Rosey Cheeks

Thought I'd brush up on my gesture drawing and practice on my foreshortening while Ichiban was napping. 

Here's to wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving, gang!

Hope y'all digs!