Character Concept in Stages
 Here is a video I created showing my latest character concept going from the posed model in Blender all the way to a finished painting. The goal was to create a badass 19th-century soldier with creative takes on the weaponry and uniforms of that age. The reference images for that time were both fascinating and eerie.
Welcome Keegle!
A new page has been added to Broden Creative - the comic strip Keegle. It was a project IÂ started when I first set out on my own as a creative director. I always loved comics. From an early age I read the comic page of the newspaper religiously. Peanuts, Calvin & Hobbes, Herman, The Far Side, Bloom County - [...]
Schoolism Workshop
This past weekend I attended the Schoolism Live conference. They offer two day workshops dedicated to illustration for movie, television and gaming industries and they finally landed in Montreal. It was excellent with much to learn about how and why you would want to be part of this world. Being surrounded in a room full of talented (and frighteningly young) [...]
Website Status
OK. The website is up. Unfinished but up. I look forward to adding a full illustration section and dressing up the blog page. Plus the portfolio is only 2/3's done. Alas. Now I am just trying to remove the Greek text from the blog presets. Web master James signing off. Oh. This Montreal winter that will not end must die a thousand [...]