Archive for December, 2008

Oddest Illustration Friday topic I’ve seen to date, and my response isn’t exactly awesome, but I’m on Christmas break now. I do what I WANT. Woo!

Pencil and watercolour in my sketchbook. Didn’t plan to take it this far, but I was inspired and having fun and things.

I was trying to find some reference of 80’s punk clothing for something else I’ve been toying with, and I came across this picture, which I found weirdly adorable. So this is sort of a rough amalgamation of those two girls. I’m not sure exactly how rambunctious the result is, but what the hell, “rambunctious”? Really? Could be stranger, I suppose. Apparently one synonym is “obstreperous”.

(Click the thumbnail and lookit the big one… pretty please?)

Final project of the semester, for Visual Dialogue. The theme is Heaven and Hell. Probably still not weird enough for Rick, but c’mon, he’s pretty damn weird. (And I mean that in a nice way, of course.)

I haven’t done a really serious digital painting in ages, and doing one basically all in one day probably wasn’t the way to start again, but poor perspective, iffy lighting, and the ominous-smoke-of-I’m-running-out-of-time aside, that is by far the best hand I have ever painted and may ever paint again.

…And now I sleep.

So we, uh, watched Evil Dead.

Says Karen: “I think that’s the scariest thing I’ve seen you attempt to draw.” Well, thanks, I think. I know, I know, I’m not exactly a master of terror. But as my mother has been known to say: “Well, that’s a bit… dark.”

Besides, you just know it would be one of those stories ending with “…and then her HEAD FELL OFF!”

With all the shenanigans going on in the Canadian parliament at the moment this whole thing feels sort of absurdly moot, but I drew it, I finished it, and up it goes. Current Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been notorious for several funding cuts to arts and culture, saying that Canadians don’t care about art, and canceling the National Portrait Gallery project. This inspired some to fight back with a portrait gallery of their own, and since I still needed a final person for my Interp likeness project, I figured hey, why not take a shot at it. I don’t think it’s as subtly elegant as Rosemary’s (okay every time I look at that picture I laugh for like five minutes) but it’s something.