Monday, October 13, 2008

Weekend wrap-up



Sunday, September 28, 2008

Fall Sketching

I’m now in the movie business!
I started doing production art professionally for a company that works on feature films.

The commute is long, however that leaves some time open to still sketch in the mornings and evenings.







I also included a sketch from Dr. Sketchy Toronto -- a wacky lifedrawing session in the back of a bar. There's costumed models, themes, and prizes. I won a very odd trophy for my efforts that night, however I gave my best (winning) drawing to the model at the end of the session.


Monday, September 1, 2008

The Return

School Starts in…. Hey wait..



I’ll be moving back within an arms reach of Toronto and directly across the street from Sheridan. This will be the closest to the school I’ve ever lived, however I’ve graduated and no longer attend classes there.

I’m excited because I’ll be returning to an apartment with other art students. My production is about to go way up. Those sketches spilled all over the floor a couple posts ago are just the beginning.

I also have a crazy plan of how to attend the Illustration Master Class next summer. More on that later.

Here's some pieces that I've been working on:

Linnansa Vanki - Indica

Illustration depicting the members of the Finnish band; Indica.



Indica is fronted by Jonsu on vocals and violin...




--and an illustration of Kenny Vs. Spenny with initial sketch


Friday, August 29, 2008

August is also drawing month

*continues to draw*

-- I think this is the point where a typical blog-writer enters the line "sorry for the lack of updates, everyone, but I was --."

How's this?



Graphite taking my formerly massive pad of visual bond paper to dinner.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Adama Portrait

Likeness of Edward James Olmos (actor who plays Admiral Adama on Battlestar Galactica) done for Toronto Fan Expo. He is one of the many celebrities set to appear there.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

July is drawing month

Drawing, drawing, drawing, drawing.... etc.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Late July Sketching

Ballpoints on paper

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Summer Sketching

Friday, June 20, 2008

Cottage Trip

Vacation to my friend's cottage and I brought my sketchbook along.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Nightwish Concert

I went to a Nightwish Concert in London Ontario last Sunday. Here's some selections of the sketches I made during the commute and the hours in line before the show started.



Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Public Sketches

Decided to pick up a Moleskine and do some public sketching. The paper is very nice on the pens.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Grad April 2008

And…………….. We’re done.
Sheridan Illustration program completed and now I’m on to new adventures.

I’m thinking I’m definitely going to miss it. Towards the end it became the thing I had imagined art school to be long before I ever went there.
– Life-drawing and then painting long into the night with close friends, buying pizza at 2:00am right before the plaza across the street closed completely, working in the studio for as long as we could and then returning home to sleep as the sun crept up (usually surprised by the glowing sphere on the horizon) This was followed by returning to school for class just after noon and then repeating the spectacle from the night before.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Show in Toronto

The show at the Burroughs building in Toronto just finished Friday evening.

Here's a picture I took of my displayed work right before we had to take everything down.



The grad book designed by Rethink and some really talented illustration students students:



Rebus cover can be peeled off and separated into individual magnets. There's a metal plate inside the cover so the magnets are able to stick.



Friday, April 4, 2008

Almost there…

Heading into my last two weeks at Sheridan.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

The Flight of the Conchords

Over Christmas I was given the DVD’s for the television series; Flight of the Conchords. They’re quite possibly the funniest series/songs that I’ve watched in a long time.

It was a lot of fun to try my hand at drawing them.




Portraits of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie of the New Zealand band Flight of the Conchords.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Juno



Portraits of Ellen Page (Juno) and Michael Cera (Paulie Bleeker) who play the main characters in the 2007 movie, Juno. The illustration itself was for a film review article as it’s recently come out on DVD.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Draw the Cowboy



A short-deadline illustration based around the theme of 'Draw the cowboy'. Acrylic Paint and mixed media.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Beef Cake

Placemat design comically illustrating the term: Beef Cake. (Acrylic and ink)

Friday, March 21, 2008

Souperficial



Illustration about perceiving religious manifestations in one's food.