So far this has been a crazy action-packed year – and I’d be lying if I said it was all fun and games.  Scary to think that summer is just starting and it feels like a year’s worth of life has been crammed into 6 months.

First off, the best job I’ve ever had in my life came to a sudden end.  Activision shut down my studio  Underground Development.

Then we learned we had to move as our landlady just had a baby. She and her family we’re going to move back into her condo when our lease was up. We just moved last year!

If you read my last post, then you know my wife’s grandmother passed away recently.

It hasn’t been all bad though.  I’m back working on The Sims franchise at Electronic Arts.  I’ve joined a great team, and I’m an artist doing art for a living- making video games!  I am living the dream!

Finally, we’ve moved into a wonderful flat in our favorite neighborhood in San Francisco.  I love the Inner Sunset!

I’ll be back later…

On the 11th of June  we lost my wife’s wonderful grandmother.   She was my 3rd grandmother.  As my grandparents were in India I only got to see them in 5 – 7 year increments.   With the recent loss of Po Po, I actually miss them all more now.    Jun Sau Lee lived for 86 years.  An educated woman (from a time when many women of her background didn’t have the opportunity), she left China with her husband Gilbert to start a new life here in America.  They worked and sacrificed and gave their 5 daughters a better life than the one they had. (continue reading…)

Here’s the first page of my new sketchbook:

I used  ball-point, Pigma Micron 05, and Sharpie fine point  pens.  Pictured: Om, Toshiro Mifune, Hunny Bunny and some random model from the UK magazine “Continental Film Review” from the 60s. (See this and more of my work in my gallery.)

My latest digital painting. This one took about 28 hours or so. (click here for larger version)

I wanted to introduce you to the newest member of my arsenal:  My Res-O-Glas Valco Airline “JB Hutto” reproduction.  It’s angular futuristic appearance led to some players calling it the Jetsons guitar! (continue reading…)