Signal Studios Animation Reel

Getting close to a final cut of my reel. The music is placeholder until my brother gets me another tune, and I still haven't settled on the clips included in this cut, but here you go anyway ...

Wittnerfest 2014

I made a poster for this year's Wittnerfest.

Shilshole Sunset

Belated birthday dinner in beautiful Ballard at the Staple & Fancy (really good) followed by a walk along the beach at Golden Gardens. There's no better month than August.

38 Years Old

Olympic Sculpture Park

My lovely wife. She's a great woman.

The latest evidence: She got me a Sony NEX-6 for my birthday. I've always been interested in photography, but up until now I've always done the best I could with cheap digital cameras, and the results were never impressive. Now I have one that can make an average wanna-be artist like me look like he sorta knows what he's doing.

I'm still learning how to use it. These images represent the best of my playing around since I opened the box two days ago. It's easily the nicest camera I've ever owned, and I'm excited about trying to take all kinds of pretty pictures with it.

I am still drawing however. If nothing else, I hope the camera inspires my drawing. Make art. Make art.

I did three Christmas cards this year because I enjoy torturing myself.

Really, I couldn't think of a single grand idea, so I thought I'd do three really simple line drawings concerning a different aspect of Seattle. I of course got carried away and spent way more time on them then I originally intended.

The tree on top of the Space Needle is my favorite part of all of them.

An old friend recently got engaged, so I made him a comic strip.

Lowlights From 2011

Just a couple pieces I did and some bits from my sketchbook over the past year. In my personal opinion, not a whole lot to get excited about, but at least I'm drawing regularly. The highlight is the mosiac below, which was made from paper tiles hand-painted by me when I was taking art classes at the University of Kentucky. They've been waiting for 15 years just to be in this mosiac and didn't even know it!

I also did this Christmas card. Just drew it straight-up in Photoshop using my Wacom tablet.

Quick cafe portraits. Hmm, shame, no women!

Caricatures of my brother, Nick Kondo and Nick Vigna, and a spaceman ...

Abstract weirdness done while on jury duty ...

A sneak peek at a comic strip I've been developing. The old man at the bottom right is based on my late grandfather.

More to come.