A few weeks ago I received a nice little email from Ryan Killeem asking me to submit a piece for Artism.

“Artism is an independent organisation working towards raising money for the National Autistic Society charity through the use of Art.
We will gladly accept donations from artists of any kind to sell/auction off for the charity .
All proceeds go to The National Autistic Society.”

In high school, I had a friend named David who is autistic. He was one of the most memorable characters I knew. We were in the same Math AP class together in grade 12, and we became friends when I came back from my exchange to Japan. At the time he knew Pi to the 200th digit and would stay in the math classroom during lunch time and preform algorithms based on the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. Unfortunately some kids from my high school were less than accepting and give him a tough time the three years we were there. Unfortunately we fell out of touch after high school as I moved away for school and jobs… I hope he’s doing wonderful.

Anyway, for more information about this project, please visit the site(click on the image below)!

Yesterday I was inspired to go through all of my old sketchbooks and scan in sketches/drawings I’ve made. During which I came across a flip book I made for a 2nd year design class(design for motion, many moons ago). I’ve always really liked what I produced for this project so I thought I’d put it together and make it into a mini movie, and apply some sound to it as well. Its been forever since I’ve worked in flash, and I was extremely rusty at it… But this reminded me why I loved motion and that I should do this more!

And here are some excerpts from the sketchbooks I went through.
Check here for more!

I helped my friend Risto with an interview and photography for Sahtel 7.
The English version is available here.

I actually had no part in the design, they were by Risto of Sahtel. Words and a few photos were by me(the English version).

Excerpts:

I did this drawing a little while ago… It was to test my brush handling abilities.

I’ve never officially shown this. But this is the logotype/mark for LoveAffair made by yours truly.
I think I will start applying these to my promotional pieces. I hope you guys like it too!

Refreshment:
1: the act of refreshing : the state of being refreshed 2 a: something (as food or drink) that refreshes b plural (1): a light meal (2): assorted light foods 3: bottomless beer see fig. 1

*Submission for a magazine called +rosebud from Austria. The issue is about humour, and this was my joke… I’m not sure if this will be used, but I thought I’d share it anyway, because I really enjoy this drawing!*

Main Entry:

nep·o·tism 

Pronunciation:

\ˈne-pə-ˌti-zəm\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

French népotisme, from Italian nepotismo, from nepote nephew, from Latin nepot-, nepos grandson, nephew — more at nephew

Date:

1670

— nep·o·tis·tic  \ˌne-pə-ˈtis-tik\ adjective

Totally being sarcastic.