Merry Grinchmas 2014 - LIMITED RELEASE CARDS

OCTOBER 2014- December 2014 Made a limited run of cards

MERRY GRINCHMAS!!!

THE DOUGHNUT SATANS - The gang for people who love metal and doughnuts.

Sticking to my doughnut theme I imagined a funny metal gang THE DOUGHNUT SATANS.

As it made me giggle every time I said it, So only thought it was time to make it happen

Pencilled out the 3 hand shapes I planned to use.

Scanned in the pencil line-work and made it in to the pentagram shape, which is usually pretty intimidating but this time around. Maybe a little more sprinkle. 

I then added the colour of icing and doughnut with a simple lightsouce for depth then add the awesome sprinkles. Because life needs sprinkles. 

SKULLY Doughnut. - Version 1.0

This was a fun warm up design for getting my pencil feeling natural and ready to draw Darth Vader.

Here is the doughnut version, I love the idea of something yummy with something bleak like a skull. Skulls and anatomy I love heaps. So exciting and inspiring at Mr Leon Taylor.




Pencil Sketch idea from the couch, while enjoying basketball. Before cleanup and colour.

Frederick Leverets - Time travelling cyber bunny. 2 hour practice.

Making Frederick Leverets was a quick exercise to make a time travelling cyber bunny.

This bunny has seen some stuff man. He has saved some lives , seen some lost and even some come back to life. He has many stories of travelling the galaxy and timelines of many. He is Frederick Leverets.


Rough out bunny using reference.

Add cool bits to make in cyber.

Add detail

Clean it up

Finished result.

Mr Leon Taylor Facebook "LIKE" competition - WINNER.

Mr Leon Taylor Facebook "LIKE" competition - WINNER.

Amanda was the actual winner of my first ever Facebook comp. I wanted to reach 250 likes! I got there in record time. I am very humbled by this experience so far and only received very positive feedback. I am now over 300!

About the creation process.

Where I started? finding out what Shaneel likes. He likes metal, loves his family and is an all around hard working dude. So I wanted the perfect pose. Yes it is a neutral pose but it is still important. This is the process side by side my rough line work / construction then a cleaned up with version to be scanned in to Photoshop.

The happiness from people seeing themselves as a cartoon character is exciting and fun. I wish I had more time to do this for all my friends. But am super tied down to some commitments (all drawing based). CAN NOT WAIT TO SHARE all of the current work I am doing.

With the final version I put one of Slayers most popular albums as the background. Just because I can.

Me and Maya, my new best friend. A visual diary.

I have started the year learning MAYA autodesk. Its been a steep learning curve to get used to navigating around the programme and apply those 2D skills. I always knew it would take me a few months to get my head around it. Extremely glad I am learning it in an institute,  I learn well in a team environment and speaking things out loud.

This is a visual diary to record my own progress, that's what I love about blogging the most. Looking back through the pages of work you have created. This is not a show reel of my best work. This is my learning process.

Neon gross-ness I can not stop looking at.

I grew up in the 1980s. Every year of it. One thing I remember the most is collecting cards. I collected TMNT live action and animated, Dick Tracey, Goonies, WWF and my favourite Garbage pail kids.

There was always something so appealing about these cards. They were also the only ones that came is a smaller pack.

This drawing I like to think has those "cool!" Closely followed by a " gross!" Feelings

I have made them with different palates to go for a feel. When I did a vote on instagram and facebook this is the order of which people voted as their favourite.

Twelve horns - Four seasons - One Moon

This started as a vision of explaining seasons through out the year and years lived. I was originally going to make it one character holding a large falcon.But once I had started to research my animal anatomy, then attempted to draw what I had planned. But, it didn't work out. I was clouded, with a stronger vision of what I wanted from the drawing. The current drawing, It didn't explain how I feel towards these seasons. Nor did it explain the organic feel I was going for.

I'm gonna need a bigger bit of paper.

Four Seasons : This is to illustrate the times of year. Living on this amazing earth we all experience winter at other times of year. So I did not want to bunch them in to months that not everyone can relate too.


12 horns : The 12 horns you might think stand for the number of months. In a way it does. But It stems back to the quality of life I feel we get from these times of year. In summer times, we have more daylight to achieve our goals and with the sun can have extra energy.


One moon: We live with one moon. This fascinates me. It is all apart of this world we live in. The planet still spins regardless of how we react to it.


Explanations of the piece of art.


FARM GOAT / SUMMER: Farm goats are sturdy animals and relentless with the job. The goat has four horns to illustrate quality of life and amount of life enjoyed.



WOLF / AUTUMN: The wolf is a ravenous animal. I used it to illustrate how we gather supplies for the winter looking for what's best in the coming months.



BEAR / WINTER: The bear in a caring yet protective animal. We sometimes lock down over winter, we don't spend as much time with people as we would like. But spending time with those closest to you can really make you feel great as you look forward to spring



MOUNTAIN GOAT / SPRING: The mountain goat has a balance we can all admire. No fear of the steepness and I feel the illustrate how hard work over the colder months pays off. The goat also has four horns to illustrate quality of life and amount of life enjoyed. But is in a different shape to show how life can be a little tough too.



I was very pleased with the end result.

I hope you enjoy.

mrleontaylor