sketchimeroos

here is a big fat sketch dump of what I doodle on the way to work in the morning, and at the opera.

new toy

*edit*

I got to play more this morning!

this year I got a cintiq sized tax return. then my computer busted and so I got a new computer too. Andrzej was kind enough to spend all day building the new computer for me today and now all the new stuff is set up and it's bed time but I did a quick sketch just to make sure that my new stuff is all really cool.

my colleagues at work were kind enough to remind me that a cintiq will not make me a better drawer. I will try to keep that it mind.

lalalala-lifedrawing

Here, have some life drawing. I have piles and piles of it. I sorted through some of it and put aside "good" drawings", but now I've lost them. These ones are from last week. I'm pretty sure I have enough life drawing to feed a small country. Like Denmark.

heavy

This was too big for the scanner, so please excuse the crappy photography. This started out as something for illustration friday about 4 weeks ago, and I was like "I'm going to do an illustration every week"
....but then I didn't.

Two down....

I finished another one!

I finished one!!!

tralala, I am productive.

unfinished illustrations

Lately I've noticed a theme in my work. That theme is "unfinished." Hopefully soon I'll be able to do more with them. I'm posting these mostly because it's been over a month since my lasy post.

Here are some quick colour sketches.

sidne sylvestri wears her cats

yes she does. they seem to like it.

promises promises

sooooo...I've been having trouble completing anything lately. I thought I would post the roughs for this painting as a way of making me finish it eventually.

oil

hmmm..long time no post.

I got oil paints for Christmas....I finally got up the nerve to use them last night. I started three little paintings just to play with different ways of using the paint. The other two are drying and need more work. I did this one for instant gratification and to finally have something to post.

Merry Christmas

These orphan zombie snowchildren wish you happy holidays! (and so do I)

random bits

I got sick of seeing the opera sketches so I took them down and put up this random girl.

Here is a doodle.

For Heather

This was done for my little sister.

Here is the rough.

After school life drawing

Some life drawing from the summer. Not and interesting post....maybe soon.

drawing on paper= better than drawing on computer

A girl and her friend out for a walk.

These girls live in a barn, and spend their time pinching chickens and gossipping.
After months of using a cintique, the tablet is a little cumbersome. Therefore, I will now only be using real paints and pencils. (or copping out and using flat colours).

This is my ideal halloween costume.

mindless doodles

This is a picture that I did while watching Young Frankenstien, one of the best movies of all time. Here are some heads that I did too. They are done from Young Frankenstein and Some Like It Hot. (another one of the best movies of all time). Also, some pictures of Danny Devito.
Here is a picture of Gordon Crum.
These pictures were done a few months back when I was feeling slighty more inspired. I was going to post some more doodles that I did at work, but blogger won't let me.

holy crap...another post the very next day

This is done from a doodle I did at work a few monthes back. Finally got around to colouring it. I learned a bit more about horses in the mean time so I've tried to correct some of the funny stuff going on in her legs.

Here's the original drawing. now that I look at it again, I think I should do a bit more with her hair in the painting...later.

animal life drawing

I've been trying to go draw animals more regularly due to my lack of skills in that area...so far I've managed to go once a week for the past three weeks and it is still kicking my ass, but I think I'm starting to get used to the general anatomy a bit. These were done at Maplewood farms in North Van, and the Seattle Zoo.

gifty art

some stuff I did for people's birthdays. Apparently, half the world was born in August. More to come probably since I've only posted two.

scanner hate

Sometimes I think my scanner just chooses random colours. Oh well.