Larval Stage

2012-01-13T23:38:00.000-08:00

It's a big ol' zoo dump!

I went to the Calgary Zoo a couple times over the winter break , trying to draw while your hands are slowly going numb adds to the challenge! Non-animal blog posts coming soon, hopefully.

2011-12-31T20:12:00.000-08:00

Holidays= comfort food and comfort doodles. Go ahead....try to make me be productive right now.

2011-11-30T01:24:00.000-08:00

Gettin' hitched

2011-11-15T22:13:00.000-08:00

Some from this week's life drawing class
(We are stardust, we are golden)
Ranging from 2 min to 10 min

2011-11-11T23:20:00.000-08:00

Dumping some stuff here from the Royal Winter Fair
(It's my blog
I'll do what I want)

2011-10-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

Life drawing stuff from this semester....after week one it all went downhill.

2011-10-14T02:56:00.000-07:00

Scanned a couple sketchbook pages from the last two weeks. Quick update, then back to film!

2011-09-26T21:35:00.000-07:00

I procrastinate by drawing lots of horses. The other stuff was inspired by the lovely creepy music being played in the studio on Saturday night. Kids are weird.

2011-09-14T17:43:00.000-07:00

Just dumpin some animals here, 'cause I was scanning them anyway for my life drawing teacher. I draw people too but ehhhh....

Polo pony practice in my park! Awesome!

Dogs dogs friend dogs and other dogs

Mah pets!!!

My cat is fat and old and smelly and bowlegged and drools a lot but she still knows she's cooler than me.

Some sketches of my dog the day she died. WTF.

Chill out with some birds and stuff

2011-09-14T17:36:00.000-07:00

Go go go to the zoo zoo zoo

Jaguars are probably cooler than you

Weird quick tiger things

No lions this time, but here's some bears?

2011-07-06T19:08:00.000-07:00

How I Spent my Summer Vacation

Went to the zoo. Kinda drew. Someone will perhaps make a comment about poo?

Giraffes with gigantor heads. I think I had heatstroke at this point.

Aaand doodles from the train ride back.

Summer needs to be spent outside. Unless you're like agoraphobic or allergic to sunlight or something. If so, I'm truly sorry and I wish you the best of luck.

2011-05-03T19:29:00.000-07:00

Nothing exciting here, some old life drawings from a few weeks ago. I can't wait for summer!

2011-03-07T10:28:00.000-08:00

Leica for music class, there is not much of a story but I wanted more of the atmosphere I got from the song. I was trying to work on composition and environments 'cause they're some of my weak areas.

2011-02-17T20:04:00.000-08:00

Bombed the geisha in class, needed to have some fun at extra-life tonight

(Ed is awesome)

2011-02-02T18:32:00.000-08:00

Snow day, coloured some boobs

2011-01-30T15:47:00.000-08:00

Coloured a sketch

2011-01-25T21:58:00.001-08:00

Drawing for the sake of drawing, I don't know

2011-01-22T22:25:00.000-08:00

Fast sketch for a slow day

2011-01-09T15:37:00.000-08:00

Action analysis/sleep-stealing incubus from hell

2011-01-08T01:21:00.000-08:00

Timmyhos and mall-etians

More of those weird-looking people I live with

A few more mermaid things that my sister didn't like. Also she seems to have been using horse shampoo on her luxurious golden tresses, I tried some and that stuff actually is pretty good!

2011-01-03T08:59:00.000-08:00

So coming home for the holidays, I was super stoked to get to finally draw a kitty after a whole semester of deprivation. However it didn't take long to be reminded of the reason why I rarely draw my fat, smelly cat. She's grumpy and lazy and can pretty much be found in only about 3 positions.

More pets...the big(ger) sleeping one up top is my dog Gina, and the other drawings are of my grandparents' Bichon Rascal. And my grandparents' window looks out onto the neighbourhood tobagganing hill so I drew some kids doing...that.

My sister's been trying to get me to draw a nice classical mermaid for her but all my attempts thus far have failed to please. Also (sometimes) I paint like a 5-year-old.
Back to Christmas, out my grandparents' front window, grandma and my mom.

Hope everyone's having a kind of great holiday, get some rest because in a week the stress and sleeplessness begins again!

2010-11-29T21:00:00.000-08:00

So blah blah busy busy blah blah...almost done my sketchbook (finished in under a month! Good riddance too the paper in it is crap) so scan time is nigh.

I like to draw people. Here are some.

Sometimes I bust out the ol' pen and ink, and then remember why I never use pen and ink.

Also here is some unicorn stuff everyone has seen already

I should take my own advice.

2010-11-16T16:39:00.000-08:00

Royal Winter Fair! I can't focus on caricaturing and making the pretty pictures other people do. I just have lots of gestures, animal overload!

These ones I did afterwards from memory, stuff I saw at the fair

This lady looked EXACTLY like the whoallama, I'm not even exaggerating at all.

2010-10-30T13:52:00.000-07:00

Finished the Angha! Learned that I need a lot more practice finishing things. Here's some process sketches:

(How not to use a brushpen)

Sketch for final

(Yeah, the kid's suckling on the dogbird. Apparently this happens a lot.

So many other things I wanted to do with this, but I guess they'll have to wait till later. Must do schoolwork now!

2010-10-25T20:47:00.000-07:00

My week:

Wife drawing (5 min poses)

Forests are nice. I'd like to just walk in the woods all day, every day. Even the snowy days.

Outside place, and kitties.

This is some process stuff/studies for an art challenge thing I'm gonna try this week, draw an Angha/Simurgh, a mythical beast with the body of a dog, wings and tail of a peacock, and lion claws. Awesome.

The Wiki description said the Angha is "unambiguously female", so please excuse the dogboobs.

Somehow my family worked their way onto this page. If any family members are reading this right now, do NOT tell my mom I drew her, she'd murder me!

2010-10-18T12:54:00.000-07:00

Throwing up this story assignment from second year, 'cause I still sorta like it. :D-

2010-10-15T21:35:00.000-07:00

Clydesdales at the school, I need more animals to draw, BRING THEM TO ME

This page was done in Character and Culture class. Sorry to anyone who recognizes themselves, if it's any consolation these are pretty bad drawings and you don't actually look much like this.

Story lecture, half in the dark

Round it out with some life drawing. 1-2 minute gestures of the awesome model Chantal

3-5 minutes

2010-10-15T21:32:00.000-07:00

I have a little sketchbook that I use for little drawings and secret sketches.

I'm cultivating a secret thing for trees. Soon: a fungal fondness for cars?

These aren't very good drawings, but the girl with the pink hairband was fun to draw

2010-10-15T21:25:00.000-07:00

What's that, blog? You say you want an update? Well, okay, but I've got kind of a backlog here. That's okay? Okay, I'll get this old stuff out of the way first. Kickin' back to August.

Went to the zoo, drew some anteaters

The life drawing place I go to over the summer is a lifesaver. I get impatient sometimes during the longer poses, but it's good to learn how to slow down.

2010-10-07T18:50:00.000-07:00

Beat it

2010-10-06T12:18:00.000-07:00

This blog is in a sorry state. Feeding it with story concept stuff.

2010-04-23T07:53:00.000-07:00

Painted some of my layouts....and some familiar guys (they're hiding the hideously-painted sofa in the background).

And because I should have posted this like way long ago, a beautiful portait done of me by Dylan.

SO MAGESTIC

2010-02-26T20:33:00.000-08:00

O-kay, I took out a couple layers, so now it looks like he's talking to himself but at least it looks like something, right?

2010-02-19T20:55:00.000-08:00

Hoooly macaroni, you can't see a thing in this video. The animation is in there...somewhere...

2010-02-14T14:31:00.001-08:00

So the fact that my blog hasn't been updated in months is making me a little :(. I might start scanning a couple sketchbook pages a week and throwing them up here, just to keep this thing going. What do you think?

2009-12-17T20:19:00.000-08:00

Expression change assignment. Sorry bout the floaty hands, Mark!

2009-12-12T23:06:00.000-08:00

(This blog post is brought to you by SADD- Students Against Data Destruction).

So a couple months ago I was doing this thing for an online calendar when my computer imploded. This is all that remains. I still don't back up my files. Moral of the story, missed.

2009-12-12T00:34:00.000-08:00

Just assume that ballerinas often carry croissants in their tutus, okay?

2009-11-30T19:43:00.001-08:00

Animation? Laaaaame.

2009-11-16T20:08:00.000-08:00

...Part 3. (PONIES!!!!)

2009-11-16T20:05:00.000-08:00

Royal Winter Fair Part Two. Couple more cows managed to sneak in here...

2009-11-16T20:03:00.000-08:00

Royal Winter Fair Part 1: Or, I got a little carried away with the cows.

2009-10-08T20:44:00.000-07:00

This is a very cat-heavy blog update. Apparently I suffer from cat withdrawal. One day at the zoo is not enough.

(KITTIES)

2009-09-22T16:36:00.000-07:00

Zooed it up.

2009-09-22T05:00:00.000-07:00

Agh school is eating my face. Here's a couple sketchbook pages from the beginning of the month, most of these are from the week before school.

This one I liked most of the page except for the bottom right, so I cut-and-pasted a guy with part of a shoe on his head in there instead.

Zoo drawings to come!

2009-08-16T11:57:00.000-07:00

The title of this blog is pretty apt, since nothing on here seems to get finished.

Here, let's start the party with a couple recent life drawings. They're not really very specific or accurate, and if Thurman ever saw them he'd be crying into his carrot sticks, but whatevs they're fun. I'M ON VACATION I'LL DO WHAT I WANT.

Strange little sketch that for some reason gets its own page.

Some gorfiness I did while hanging out in a friend's garage.

Crayolas? Oh hell yes.

2 more weeks til school starts and I haven't done dickall! Hope all you guys are enjoying your summers!

2009-07-23T17:00:00.001-07:00

Whyyy do I always draw useless shit

2009-07-22T13:02:00.000-07:00

I really need to learn how to colour. And yeah yeah, I know tigers are like way overdone. But KITTIES ARE AWESOME OKAY

2009-06-22T17:38:00.000-07:00

6 girls and a sensitive guy

2009-06-13T19:59:00.000-07:00

Hey Hey! I swear I have been drawing more than once every couple months, but it's all half-assed sketches or for other people, so I can't/won't put them up here. This one's close enough to being finished though (I've certainly spent enough- too much- frigging time on it), probably needs a bit of shading on her and the deer but I haven't decided if it'd be worthwhile or not. In any case, it's coloured and has a background, which is closer to being complete than I typically get.

2009-04-19T09:21:00.000-07:00

Look ma, I'm on YouTube!

Damn tail.

2009-04-10T16:02:00.000-07:00

My character for the last character design of the year...not too special, but it's done!

2009-03-25T07:06:00.000-07:00

Zoobedoobedoo.

2009-03-11T18:49:00.001-07:00

I'll throw some random sketches up as proof that I am, in fact, still solid matter.

Here are some tigers from the plane. (The tigers were not on the plane, my sketchbook was)

In-class still life that looks much better in reality, I swear! These school scanners are balls.

A Song of Ice and Fire fanart, 'cause I am just that geeky.

Random character design ideas for our last Layout assignment, a receptionist and a male model. Why don't I type in complete sentences?

Well, I guess that's all I bothered to scan!

2009-02-04T16:35:00.000-08:00

And now I commence my slow Death By Assignments.

2009-01-28T15:32:00.000-08:00

Tired of the old post, but I can't be bothered to polish up any of the sketchy blobs in my sketchbook. So here, have a colourful sketchy blob that is eerily similar to my last post!

2008-12-22T20:32:00.000-08:00

Holiday post! Here, have some painting fail.

Also, I am finally reading the series A Song of Ice and Fire and it is every bit as good as I've heard. I typically avoid High Fantasy like the dirty plague-ridden medieval peasants it puts me in mind of, but I must say ASoIaF has won my heart. Also, dragons.

2008-11-15T13:26:00.000-08:00

Royal Winter Fair makes me happy.

2008-11-10T20:35:00.000-08:00

I think the full-fat yogurt I accidentally ate this weekend affected my brain.

2008-11-04T18:08:00.000-08:00

Character posing assignment...no point in hiding it now, I guess.

2008-10-25T08:11:00.000-07:00

Update time! I guess I could be posting my hands and feet and bone drawings here, it just feels weird I suppose. How many people really want to see those, anyway?

Haha, like my pre-lecture sketches are any better. Oh, I guess a foot did sneak in there. One of the crap ones, that's a bummer.

Stalked my pets for about 45 minutes this week in practice for the Royal Winter Fair! Gina spent most of the time waiting for her food, so she wasn't too tough to draw. Suzi, on the other hand, is by far the most, um, stationary person in the house most of the time, but as soon as I try and draw her she gets all embarrassed and fidgety. Stupid cat, I really need to work on my cat drawings too.

This one is just a mishmash of stuff from the last week or so. The girl on the bottom is totally sketch. Mark Thurman says my shoulders are looking good, hopefully it's just a matter of time before that transfers to my "aht uh mi hed" drawings.

2008-09-28T08:10:00.000-07:00

Alrighty, I have finally scanned a big batch of stuff to unload here! There still may be more, I didn't scan anything from my old sketchbook yet and I've got a few random scribbles lying around that I was too lazy to scan with these others because man alive, the scanners here takes forever! I could do 10 gestures before 1 scan is done. :P Other than that, school is awesome.

2008-08-26T17:56:00.000-07:00

Okay, a couple more...

I've been reading a lot about these Black Dogs again. The damn things are fascinating to me for some reason.

2008-08-25T18:27:00.000-07:00

Sorry I haven't been updating all summer, most of what I've drawn has been for work and I don't think I can post that publicly. But if I may get this thing up and rolling again, here's some fanart of my new favorite book, Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar. If you like Buffy, werewolves, or better yet both I highly suggest giving it a try. These are two of my favorite characters, the titulary character Kalix and her shit-kicking cousin Dominil.

Next time I update this, I may well be at Sheridan College!

2008-07-06T09:17:00.000-07:00

Oh my! It's been a while since I updated this, hasn't it? Well, no time like the present to start again. Here are some life drawings from the past week. I haven't had much time to get to a life drawing class, so in desperation I drew myself. Times like this I almost wish I was even more muscular (even though I am your typical mesomorph and gain muscle doing dickall) so I could study these muscles in a bit more detail.

Then yesterday I bit the bullet and went to the Stampede. I started drawing at the pigs, which may not have been the best warm-up because I'm none too practiced at drawing pigs anyway, and little bugger kids kept getting in my way and pushing the piglets into different positions. Also sucked for the piglets, but what about ME?

The horses drawn in blue pen are the Budweiser Clydestales! The ones in pencil were in a big tent with rows and rows of gorgeous heavy horses. I lost a page of sketches from in there because I got commissioned on the spot(!) to do a portrait of a pretty mare named Chloe and I accidentally drew her on the other side of a page of sketches. I think all the horses on the other side belonged to the commissioners as well, so I guess they got more of their money's worth. ^^

It started to get pretty late, but my dad let me stay and check out the light horses in the far corner of the tent. They looked so petite after all the drafts! There was a cute little Peruvian Paso, and a stunning Canadian Horse named Nina. I think one of the most fun parts about drawing the horses in this tent was meeting the great people who care for them, and hearing how proud they are of their horses. (And rightly so, every one of those horses was gorgeous.) I could have spent all day drawing in there.

2008-06-14T16:34:00.000-07:00

Life is weird.

2008-05-06T18:03:00.000-07:00

Old stuff from last month. I have been lazy with scanning lately, now I need to play catch-up like whoa!

I couldn't remember if I'd already posted these or not.

Should've done a bit with the ground plane on this one, my Life Drawing teacher would not be happy with me.

Finally, UNICORN OF THE ROAD. BELIEVE IT. (My God, the perspective is fooked on this one)

2008-05-03T15:44:00.000-07:00

Boy howdy, I have so little patience for backgrounds. I had to work on this bit by bit, the original sketch took like 20 minutes and then I spent the rest of the month forcing myself to get it somewhat finished. Anyway, yay for summer!

2008-05-01T07:35:00.000-07:00

Zoo!

2008-04-16T06:16:00.000-07:00

Coloured the monsters!

2008-04-12T07:33:00.000-07:00

Old character design stuff from October(durr!) I love this class. :D

2008-03-31T18:22:00.000-07:00

Holy Dinah, I've gone a whole month without updating this thing! That's practically half a sketchbook. Bad me. I am shamed. (*EDIT* Oh, I guess it's only been a couple weeks. Um, it seemed longer? Anyway...) Well, let's get this show on the road:

2008-03-16T09:59:00.001-07:00

I have been very bad, and not updating this thing. I so need to draw more lately.

2008-02-22T18:18:00.001-08:00

2008-02-15T14:24:00.000-08:00

2008-02-10T07:54:00.000-08:00

The usual.

2008-02-01T19:23:00.000-08:00

All these sketches were inspired by/referenced from the photos in this collection:

http://osandstorrm.deviantart.com/journal/16658015/#journal

2008-01-29T20:05:00.000-08:00

2008-01-19T15:17:00.000-08:00

2008-01-07T18:35:00.001-08:00

Some sketches in Photoshop, obviously didn't spend too much time on them, I just wanted something to colour.

2008-01-02T16:48:00.001-08:00

2008-01-01T15:16:00.000-08:00

2007-11-16T14:42:00.000-08:00

2007-10-23T17:54:00.001-07:00

2007-10-14T12:45:00.000-07:00

2007-10-12T18:20:00.001-07:00

Tum te tum. I forgot my sketchbook at school yesterday, so I had to make do.

2007-09-28T21:19:00.000-07:00

'Sup Blogger.

2007-09-19T14:35:00.000-07:00

Thank God I've got a life drawing class to go to tonight. :P

2007-09-13T21:27:00.000-07:00

2007-08-29T16:23:00.000-07:00

2007-08-17T10:43:00.000-07:00

Some unicorns for y'all.

2007-08-07T13:41:00.001-07:00

Aaaaand for this month...

2007-08-07T13:10:00.000-07:00

Sketches for July...

2007-07-25T10:27:00.000-07:00

Self-portrait in acrylics

2007-07-08T16:43:00.000-07:00

2007-07-08T16:40:00.000-07:00

2007-07-07T20:26:00.000-07:00

My scanner is back in my glad little paws! Now I can start updating with stuff from the last few months. Here's March:

2007-02-19T17:59:00.000-08:00

Sketches from this weekend.

Playing with colour variations in unicorns!

2007-02-11T09:38:00.000-08:00

Update time!

2007-01-18T20:11:00.000-08:00

So this is sort of what my sketchbook looks like so far this year.