Wednesday

I havent been thinking much about artmaking the last couple of weeks. I think it's mostly from trying to adjust to working again. it'll come back, I think. doing daily drawings helps. the shame of putting so little effort into a drawing one day pushes me to do a better one the following day. or the shame of several days built up. ahem. my art peeps may or may not know what I'm talking about.

anyway this girl is getting abducted. she's pretty surprised! please click on the image to see it big. I'd have saved it even bigger if it wasn't such a big file.

thursday

Posting this way early because I am going out tonight! hot diggity.

This is John Candy, Canadian actor and comedyman. You can see him in Space Balls, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Cool Runnings, and plenty of other big films. This is drawn from a still of the movie Uncle Buck, which I liked a lot. He was among the coolest of dudes. RIP, John.

Thursday

it's not only a Canadian Celebrity this week, it's a Newfoundland celebrity. Ryan Snoddon does the weather portion of the CBC evening news in this province, and since he arrived to pick up after Carl Wells, he's been doing a really great job. Personable, knows what he's talking about, has a kind of fun relationship with the two news anchors, Debbie and Jonathan, looks eerily similar to my younger brother..... 

Anyway, I just think he's a cool dude. while looking for a photo for this drawing I found his fanclub on facebook. wheee. (maybe I will post this drawing there? WHO KNOWS.)

monday

This is Cale from the movie Titan AE. I sorta made him look like Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford during the making of these doodles. I'm trying to see if I can adapt to working with someone else's characters and still make them look like they should.

not all that easy for me... I rarely draw the same thing twice. it's hard to get things/people to look like the same thing/person in multiple drawings. hmm.

Thursdayz

Canadian celebrity KATE BEATON. she's just awesome as awesome can be. you can find her witty webcomic at www.harkavagrant.com. She's a pretty shy woman, so it's difficult to find a clear photo of her, but I took my reference from a photo of her with a fan, found at this person's flickr. She originates from Nova Scotia and currently lives in... Toronto? I think? anyway. she's a pretty cute person, it seems. 

also, this. http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=81

Fridaisy, with Thursdaisy extract.

Among the coolest of dudes, Mister Jay Ingram. He is a tv and radio (and book, and convention, etc) science personality, and he just rocks. He is my Canadian Celebrity for this week, making up for yesterday.