Take a trip

Hi -- long time, no nothing!

Postcard-ish

Ha! Two in a day --although I spent only minutes on this...



Inspired by the "tree birds" in Marjatta Kurenniemi's kids' books.

Bedtime

He's afraid of spiders too.

Buncha knights

Frog Knight.

I decided to take part in the current 30 Days Project with the peer support of Cloudscape. On a whim I set "Knights" as my theme. (30 Days of Knights, geddit HAAHAA?!!)
I have been (and will be) drawing a knight, or a knight-related illustration, every day this June! These are some of my favourites so far -- if you want to see my every single knight check out my dA & Tumblr.


^Coal Knight -- I think I read about this guy in a creepy kids' book once... I think.


^Um... Jedi Knight


^Marionette Knight with neon accessories



Guess I should have chosen horses as my theme instead of knights. Well, more ideas for next time!

I WILL spam you now

- I'm going to Stumptown this weekend! I'm not selling stuff (but I can draw sketch commissions), just chillin as part of the Cloudscape contingent, table A-24.
- Thank you to everyone who preordered "21 Journeys", donated or sent positive vibes or whatever. The anthology goes to print soon.








Watercolour paper experiments. Traditional funtimes!
I bet you're thinking I traced pictures 3 & 4, but no: I did use my VIDF lifedrws. as references and I have a feeling everyone can tell I was looking at a drawing instead of a live human. But they have a nice screenprint-looking effect.

"Suspicious" + calendar comics

This is an acrylic painting on a cradled wood panel (8x8 inches) that I did for the "21 Journeys" fundraiser. I was going to write that you can buy this at the Cloudscape Etsy store, but to my colossal surprise, someone has already bought it. Thank you to whoever you are! You have just greatly helped our publishing effort, and I guarantee you will find this painting even cuter in your hands than on your screen.
And thanks to Jayleen (Guru) for getting the word out on Twitter. :D

Check out our Etsy page to see other 8x8 panel paintings by Cloudscape members. Proceeds go towards printing 21 Journeys. (I'm sorry, Japan.) I'm working on another one as well. And again, if paintings don't interest you but you'd like to pre-order the book or donate, you can do that at IndieGoGo.
We also have this 24-hour webcam jam coming up on April 1st that I'm going to take part in. As soon as I find out what the hell that means, I'll let you know.

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Now, here's some more Calendar Comics... This is fun.
(Whoops! PROFANITY WARNING.)



Yet another totally favourite self-portrait:

Want to preorder 21 Journeys?

(Sorry to repeat myself, but since selling time is now upon us...)
I collaborated on a comic for Cloudscape's fifth anthology 21 Journeys. To give you a taste, here is a page (though not the beginning) of said story:


At the 21 Journeys IndieGoGo page, you can preorder the book itself for $25 (CAD) -- and if you're feeling generous, for more sizable donations you get more and more goodies with your order. For example, a $100 gets you the entire Cloudscape "library" of all the previous anthologies and a few of the members' publications on top of that (including Xeric grant winners "Lotus Root Children" and "Lords of Death and Life"). So if you're interested, check out what all you can get for a donation that suits you.

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Today I venture to work for the first time after being bedridden for an entire week. This is the longest I've been sick since I was two years old. I feel awful for the wasted time but if I could get through this, I guess nothing's really gonna shake me after. Now I'm on a medication for people with ulcers, which is actually kind of -- kiiiiiind of -- hilarious.

Recent Things

This post has many things!!


Bored to Death is back, I'm glad. I was doubled over during the pay phone sequence.

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I couldn't let the little boy on the bus go! I scribbled him an imaginary friend too.

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The ruffled-looking bird is imaginary, the ibis I drew at the Aquarium.

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If you absolutely have to make a bird movie, by all means, make it about owls and not penguins.
Yes, owls are pretty cool.
Are they cool enough to wield medieval weapons in battle? Yes.
Are they cool enough to withstand Zack Snyder's overuse of slo-mo (which is a parody of itself at this point and actually also much earlier)? Yes.
Are they cool enough to be subjected to both at the same time?
NO THEY FRIKKING ARE NOT.

Check out the owl movie if you want a hearty chuckle.

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Mostly done in comics club meet. The knight's not a character of mine, just another fandoodle (for "7 Soldiers of Victory" that I've mentioned somewhere along the way)

Doodle dump

I have gotten into the habit of attending Cloudscape Comics' weekly meet. I find I don't have a terrib' much to say, but I listen to the others and doodle at the same time. Surprisingly, drawing in a group while following other people's conversation can be pretty inspiring. Here's a couple of my Wednesday scribbles.


^Some sort of teenage superhero type


^The amazing Brian and Steve from the obviously amazing The Sarah Silverman Program


^A Slings & Arrows doodle! Poor Geoffrey :]

...I draw quite a bit about TV.

Whoops almost forgot this preliminary marker sketch for a "7 Soldiers of Victory" fanart idea. When will I actually bring it to completion... is another matter entirely. v

Blast from Ze Past

If you want to see some of my (and my wonderful Opus colleagues') artwork check out our staff show, in the North Van Opus classroom. Starting... well, starting today, pretty much. It's only up for a couple of days.
Everything that I have there has already been posted on my blog though, because I haven't had time to draw anything new, but just in case you're interested in seeing it in all its lively vibrancy...

I found this when choosing lifedrawings for my bit of show wall and I had COMPLETELY forgotten about drawing it, but I found it pretty cool. This is for an old illustration homework assignment, subject "Crazy Old Zebra". This is what I scrawled in lifedrawing class:


...and here's the homework I actually turned in, which I also quite like:

Doodle dump!

There's a little bit of eeeverything!
Puppies!

A frog!

A fandoodle of Young Dracula ! (I sure hope I've mentioned this show before, because iiiit roooocks)

A... thing!

And a whole bunch of quickies that I want to flesh out at some point!


Let me tell you something... DOODLES MAKE ME FEEL GOOO-OOD

Cloudy Jellyfish

Overlap and follow through, rough animation

Well, it's been a while since I've wanted to post any of my animation assignments, but this one's pretty cute. Characters are mine, in all their unoriginality - but whatever, I had to come up with something quickly.

Stuff and more stuff

I believe the professional term is SKETCHDUMP.
Well, since this is a sketchblog and since I'm having such fun working on these characters, here's what's happening with Jack and Stephen YAY!
I don't know how this whole colouring business will end... It's not my forté. I like the texture though. Wonder how it would come across on my gradpage...




Some not at all bad croquis of Trev and then some female models that I didn't like very much but whateverrrrr




We keep wanting to go to the zoo but keep getting foiled by rain. Here are some marker doodles that I based on quick sketches from my last trip to the zoo, over the summer.