Friday, also Thursday

Rick Mercer, a very cool dude, who interviews Canadian politicians and goofs his way around national events, is the Canadian portrait this week. At several points in this drawing he was looking dangerously like Tom Hanks, but I think it sort of looks more like him now. not sure how I manage to make people look like other people... very weird.

quite tired now, so goodnight!

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Credit for the reference shot goes to this John W. Macdonald person, who's flickr album lies here.

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.)

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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

another Thursday!

Roberta Bondar was the first female Canadian astronaut. when I was a kid I looked up to her since she was a woman scholar who made it to space. that's basically the best you can do in life. when looking for a reference picture for this (which can be found here) I learned that she was a neurobiologist and a photographer, with her own book of photography out. she is also still oot and aboot in her home province of Ontario, doing sciency stuff as seen in this video of her giving a keynote address at an Ontario environment conference last year. 

Thursday, canadian celebrity day. :)

In honour of the final season/episode of Corner Gas that recently aired, I figured I'd draw Brent Butt, canadian comedian! He's known for his unoffensive humour and reams of wit. Very cool guy. I hear he's writing another show featuring his wife, Nancy Robertson, also a comedian. 

Also, for those who like weirdness, let me direct your eyeballs here: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3601373952/nm0125217

Thursday. Canadian Celebrity Portrait!

I'm glad the Blogger server is in a different time zone than me (or maybe I just need to adjust time zone settings?) because it is seemingly much more forgiving of my late drawing days.

Anyway,one of my ideas yesterday was to do some mini portraits of my favorite CANADIAN celebrities! I get so excited over some of these people and the fact that they give me a twinge of canadian pride is a cool part of that. Anyway, this is Jian Ghomeshi who is the host of a CBC radio show called Q that focusses mainly on musicians, but covers other topics as well. He's actually in the news right now for an interview, but he's been hosting the show for a couple of years now and has had many really great interviews and guest singers. ALSO he was the host of the Canada Day celebrations in London when I was there!

I did this drawing by finding one of his interviews on youtube and pausing it at a good moment to get a screen capture. the cap can be seen here: screen cap.

hope all is well with you guys. :)

PS- should I make this a day of the week thing? like, portrait of famous/infamous person on thursdays? hmmmmmmmmm!