tuesday

just screwin' around! I needed to warm up a bit before I could draw properly.

friday

here is some stuff I doodled.

today was my birthday! it went pretty well, I did a few things I like doing and overall it was pretty quiet. I'll get some more presents when I fly home on sunday, yay!

I might do a drawing or two over the weekend since I am going to be leaving my tablet behind, so I may post a few times over the next few weeks. however, I'll be taking my official break on this blog after tonight!

hopefully I can come up with a few plans over christmas for how I'd like to proceed.

merry christmas, everybody! I care about and appreciate you all and I hope you have a safe and happy holiday with loved ones, whoever they may be. :)

I drew this using a website called Tegaki E. it's like a forum but each thread begins with a drawing and all replies are also in the form of drawings. I think it's a neat thing. I mean, the site is filled with teenagers, but whatever. I still think it is fun. the drawing tools are kind of challenging though.

Monday

some days I get so frustrated with myself because I am just totally useless. arrrrggg.

anyway this is a face. :/I wanted to draw how the mouth and eyes and nose all curve around the front of the face and it's not flat, because that's important sometimes.

anyway.

Monday.

featuring: Miss Ima Hogg, an army general, a railroad worker, and a soldier in gear. all from photos from the blog http://old-photos.blogspot.com/, which is full of really great old photos, mostly from America. I just wanted to try a few unusual faces and lines, because I'm tired of drawing myself all the time.

also: that railroad guy is wearing a suit and tie. INSIDE his work uniform. people used to be so much classier. back in the day.

friday

rrrrr

Tuesday

I finished the fourth Ace Attorney game today. if you've played any of them before you should recognize a few of these faces. I got a bit carried away. if you haven't, I guess it doesn't matter.

weeeoooo.

remembrance day tomorrow. don't forget, dudes.

Tuesday

no animation tonight,

I was busy watching that old Carl Sagan series about the universe and it's so gosh darn cool oh man. the UNIVERSE, guys!

the universe.

Tuesday

is something underhanded afoot? who knooowwwssss....

noses are the most difficult to draw.

Friday

this might benefit from a bit more time. the hair could turn out pretty cool.

ummmm.

yeah.

have a good long weekend, people!

EDIT:

here you go here you go here you go!

Wednesday

go go gadget androgyny.

oh, also: it's 24hour comic day on saturday. go visit your local comic book shops yo, and bring some munchies for the hardworking comic artists! I'm thinking about giving it an unofficial try, but I'm unsure. I think it may be better for me to start off a little slower. I've got some ideas brewing, I will need to learn this from the ground up. the paper up.

anyway.

wednesday! it feels like monday. sheesh.

Friday

lips.

I should practice drawing different kinds of lips.

tuesday

lips

leaving for st john's, reunion, pasadena, reunion, and then home, in that order, starting tomorrow. unsure of how I will be updating, but I'll try to keep up anyway! may end up putting photos up instead or something for a couple of days. we'll see.

bon soir~

thursday

teeth lips tongue

I keep dreading work. bleh.

tuesday

I should find a small portable mirror. too bad I smashed that nice rectangle one with the stand on the back. whoops!

maybe I should replace those two burned out lightbulbs in the ceiling too.

it has been a long day, my friends. take care.

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.

Friday

feeling semi-inspired by looking at other internet art-heads. I'm really impressed by the drawings and colouring in this comic, and found the artist's art journal where she's been very productive indeed. she's got this very velvety smooth and polished style that is quite nice. seems kind of like candy when compared to paintings and "fine art" though. I'm not sure whether it's wholesome? perhaps it will depend on the story that comes out of the webcomic.

a lot of webcomics I read (I'm pretty much trying to read everything) are sort of shallow. there's little breadth of exploration in the story or in the artistic style, and the plots can sometimes get your mind caught up in things that are actually really petty when you stand back from them. drama is attractive, of course, so of course there will be stories centreing on it. heck, I'll still read all of them because I enjoy reading about social interaction. bleh. not quite sure how to say what I am trying to say. 

I first started noticing the fine art/commercial art divide when I was on DeviantArt in 2004, and started my degree. there was such a HUGE difference between what was acceptable at school and what was praised on the Deviantart website, and I was sort of put out in a way. I started to figure out "the difference" though. that being that people on the popular art website didnt want to think too hard about what they were drawing/creating/photographing. (not true for all users, but for many.) a lot of it was self-centred, or overdramatic, or indulgent. nothing really needed to be justified beyond being cute or pretty or that solemn gothy type of pretty. at school, however, we had to justify everything, branch out in new and sometimes painful directions, and we had to do it without a fan club. profs would be pleased with pieces that we would rather burn and throw out. we had to get bad again before we could get better. art school and DeviantArt was a strange set of opposites which I indulged until around 2006. don't get me wrong though, there are some great artists and great community ideas kicking around on that site, but it's no longer where I go to drool over the artwork. 

I tried not to sound too opinionated in this entry, but if I do sound a bit coarse, please keep in mind this is just my opinion. I have a hard time writing this kind of stuff because there's so many exceptions to my opinions. hopefully one of you understands what I am saying, and perhaps even agrees with some of it. if not, tell me so. I wonder if anyone will read this. <_<

cheers, guys and gals.

Tuesdayz

Here's some faces I do not usually draw.

Yep.

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