Life drawing dump

Here are some pages of life drawing from the past year. poses are between 1-10 mins.

Feel like I'm in a bit of a slump right now.

zombie

Weekly illustration # 3000000000000 or something.

This is a picture of Miss Undead USA after she won the pageant. She is also miss North Dakota.

I figured the only thing that could make a zombie scarier is if it was also a beauty queen.

somewhat speedy paintings

This is my first attempt at a speed painting. The reason it was a speed painting was because I had to do something for colour class tomorrow, and little time to do it in after I had finished everything else on my list today. Come to think of it, I didn't finish everything on my list because it is impossibly long.
Here is a fish I painted for my Opa's birthday.

bad luck

I don't know if the cat or the mirror is the unlucky one.

paranoid

she's paranoid.

evil

This is babayaga. I was thinking of Lauren for inspiration. I drew it in the taxi on the way home from school last night. And I'm sure you wouldn't have guessed, but I coloured it in about 5 minutes. I am so tired.

obsession

weekly illustration 3. watercolour doesn't like cartridge paper.

starving artist

week 2 illustration. paint is high in nutrients and sooo delicious.

coffee shop sketches

Went and did some sketching at a coffee shop last night, and then went to a burlesque show, which as it turns out, is amazing for life drawing. Anyway, these are mostly from the coffee shop.

slef portrait

Errr...hate comeputers today. This is the fourth attempt at posting this.
Anyway, here is my week one illustration. Yes, Janis, those are peoples souls that I've captured. They do bear a striking resemblence to yellow butterflies.

randomness

random sketchypoos. trying to learn how to use markers. tips welcome.

soooo late but I don't care

Here is a card I meant to post between Christmas and New Years. I didn't have very good Internet access while I was away, so that's my excuse.

Childhood Trauma

A lot of my friends had very "friendly" dogs that would either steal my food, hump my leg or bite me. I was really scared of dogs until I was about 10 years old. Small ones are the worst.

Hooray...now all my animation assignments are done!

B is for...

balloon.

Phobia

This week's illustration. I hate rats. Especially sewer rats. I feel a little sick just thinking about them.
Also, I used to work in an animal lab (a friendly one... at a university... no cruel tests). I had to help clean out the rat cages sometimes. THey told me if you picked up the rats by their tail, the rats couldn't bite you. Wrong. The phobia started after that.

the next victim

This is th character for my next animation assignment. She's likes girls a lot, but hasn't realized she's a lesbian yet. (I am using a piece of dialogue from "Election") . I don't know why I decided to put out her hand like that...it's ugly.

Retro

Hula is retro...right?
Here you go Mark...she has a leg now and tangents revised. (Actually, it's still there kind of...but I have to start animating now or I will most likely die before next tuesday) Still have some colouring issues though. Also, I would advise to not look up close at this image. It ain't pretty.

gluttony

Weekly illustrations #8. Topic: Gluttony
This is one I call "Janice reclining."
Please note that Janice is spelled JaniCE and not JanIS, therefore not referencing Janis from our class whatsoever.

Colouring takes sooooooo long. I was going to blend and whatever, but lost patience.

Halloween

This week's illustration topic: halloween.
I saw this woman on her way to work this morning. I might have exagerated her costume a bit... she was smoking though. Someday she will die. (Morbid thought in honour of halloween).

before and after

Okay okay...I'll try not to talk about it that much in class, but this weekend was amazing. Short version of the story: I went to L.A. with Lauren and Sarah for the Pixar Day of the Screenwriting Expo. Through a combonation of luck and the kindness of Lauren and Sarah's friend, Mark Walton, we also got to meet James Baxter and have lunch with Andreas Deja, not to mention all the other extremely talented people I also got to chat with.
Still in shock.

Socially Awkward

I am only posting this because I have to.
I recognize that the girl with the pigtails is extremely ugly...not to mention the other children.

Frustration

This week's topic was frustration.

I feel like in these types of situations, both people usually are frustrated on some level or another.

My scanner wasn't big enough.

Classmate as an animal

Here's week 3's illustration!
not sure if you can recognize who this is...

I tried not to give it any props to give it away...I figured paper and a pencil was applicable to about...er....um... 95% of the class.

Belleville Rembrandt

This week's animation class illustration was to design a character in the "Triplets of Belleville" style. I decided to caricature (sp?) Rembrandt because his nose kind of reminds me of the Mafia boss in the movie. Deep, I know. And yes, this pose/ colouring is ripped directly out one of his self portaits.

ancient - please note my ability to spell

ok, I didn't go into school today because I figured I would finish up some stuff from home, and take care of some errands that I know I won't have time to do starting this week. Unfortunately, I left my stuff for layout at school, and finished everything else, so I tried colouring this sucker again. I don't think I made any development, from where I left off last time, but I don't have time/patience to do more.

Colouring is kind of boring. Unless it's with real paint, or something else fun like pastels, markers, pencil crayons, etc. Basically, anything but the computer.

Anicient

-Every morning Mrs. O'Sullivan would go sit in the park. At this point, all the rats would scurry around her feet, waiting for her to keel over so they could all have a nice lunch.-

This is the first weekly illustration for animation class. I was going to colour it, but I got lazy before I was half done, so maybe I'll do that some other time.

Hooray! It's Saturday morning and I get to go to school now. Yay!

wtf?

This is a birthday card I made for my dear friend Gordon.
He turned 23 today.
Congratulations Gordon.

I realize the image doesn't really scream "Happy Birthday"... I drew some stick figures wearing party hats on the inside.

is it okay now?

Alright...
I changed the background. The template still looks wrong on my mac, but at least I can see the text now. It seems to work ok on both our pcs. I'm not sure why it would display differently on different computers, but if anybody knows the reason, please let me know so I can fix it. I don't really know much about html, so I'm doing everything by trial and error. lalalala.

some things are green...

Dog walking girlies... This is a character sktech that was inspired by a short story ("Oh Joseph, I'm so tired") I read a while ago.
green girly.
monsters....

last of the cards

Here's the last of the birthday cards.
It was for my sister, who just turned 21. Way too old to be displaying this kind of behaviour.

(Actually, I drew the picture of the girl on the beach and then decided to turn it into a birthday card. I wasn't sure how to relate the picture of a child playing in the sand to turning 21, so I just added in some poop. Basically there are some things that are universally funny, and poop is one of them. Other things that fall into this category are fart jokes and men dressing up as women.)

skunks in love

Nothing quite says "Happy Anniversary" like skunks in love. It's, like, a metaphore.

The colours didn't really scan very well...I've noticed this is a reoccuring problem.

Animals are cute

These are some birthday cards I made recently. The subject matter is inspired by a recent trip to Tofino. It was really incredible up there. We were with my parents, so we got to do the touristy stuff like sea kyaking and whale watching.
Wild life sightings report: grey whale, humpback whale, sea otters, seal, starfish, anemone, murres, some other things that live in the ocean, bald eagles and some seagulls.
I decided to feature the otters. Why? because they are the cutest.

Speaking of sea otters.... I took my parents to the aquarium while they were in Vancouver, and my dad and I were watching a sea otter playing with a pool noodle. Then I hear this kid say, "is that it's penis," and I was thinking to myself, "no, stupid. That's a pool noodle." But then the sea otter faced me and I realized that the kid wasn't really that stupid. The sea otter was definitely having a sexual encounter with the pool noodle, and continued to do so the whole time the beluga show was going on next door.

I decided not to feature that scene on the birthday card for my grandfather. The sea otters in Tofino appeared to be very chaste.

There is one more card that belongs with this post, but I didn't get a chance to scan. Hopefully my sister will be so kind to scan it and e-mail me the file.

Jumping on the pirate bandwagon

Here are some things that are re-posts from the class blog. I'll post some more new stuff soon.
I thought it was pretty amazing how many people posted pirate stuff after the movie came out.
Here's my contirbution to the craze. Next time you watch "Dead Man's Chest" look carefully, because the bunny and beaver have difficult-to-see cameos.