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Playing Dress-Up

Kim — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:53:10 +0000

Narrative class is weird. We’ve been getting costumed models in – what this has to do with narrative art I’m not entirely sure (well, no, that’s a lie, but still) but, uh, here’s the result. I’m not entirely happy with any of them, but they were all done so quickly it’s hard to judge them too harshly.

Femme Fatale

CSI Sheridan

Deadwood

Fair and Balanced

Kim — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:17:28 +0000

Went to the Royal Winter Fair. Drew animals. Here are animals!

We weren’t there for very long, but it was a good time. Mostly sheep, really. Have a look at Mike’s drawings, which make me look like a hack, although to be fair he totally did all that watercolour after we left the place. Also there were Craig, Rosemary, Jesse, and Yien (whose site has gone AWOL), but none of them have, as of yet, posted any of their drawings.

Also, there was a guy selling a bunch of vintage prints, and I discovered a fantastic old illustrator I’d never heard of before: Herbert Paus. (Also here.) Good thing he signed his work.

I’m totally filing this under lifedrawing. I mean, it was life, and I drew it.

CSI Sheridan

Kim — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:54:33 +0000

Digital lifedrawing in narrative class. This is technically a work in progress as I’ll be taking this home and doing way more to it – not sure what yet – but for now, I thought I’d post the totality of the lifedrawing bit. About an hour and a half, from a model who really was lit with those crazy lights.

…Aaaand now that I see it posted I realize her head is enormous. Good thing it’s a work in progress…

Beards are Hard to Paint

Kim — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:27:00 +0000

More digital lifedrawing – the last of the year. Hopefully I can do more of this next year, since I finally feel like I was really starting to get it.

Excuse to See Naked People

Kim — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:22:00 +0000

Uh, ignore the title. Sims 2 reference. Couldn’t help myself.

Anyhow, more digital lifedrawing. Warning: nudity! Obviously.

I’m really enjoying this; shame the year is just about over. I haven’t done much proper digital painting all year, due to lack of time, and at the same time I’ve been angrily struggling with acrylics in lifedrawing class. My analogy is this: if media were friends, digital painting would be that old friend I’ve known forever. We’re totally comfortable with each other, enjoy hanging out, and even after all these years we’re still discovering new things about each other. Watercolour would be that kid I always saw around in high school, but never really talked to… and years later ran into again, and realized we had so much in common. Wondered why on earth we weren’t friends before. And acrylic?

Me and acrylic are like the cops in a buddy cop movie, except at the beginning, before they’re friends and they band together to stop the bad guy. You know, “I don’t like you, you don’t like me, but we have a job to do, so I guess we’re gonna have to do it.”

That said, give me a couple of weeks, and I’ll try to have a couple of my acrylic paintings from lifedrawing up here. But don’t say I didn’t warn you…

Digital Lifedrawing

Kim — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:02:00 +0000

I’ve been ungodly busy lately, just coming off an (INCREDIBLE) three-week co-op at the National Post, and I still ought to post some of the stuff I did there. I think I’m allowed to do that? And now I’m catching up on 3 weeks of schoolwork, which is… tiring.

But until I can get any of that up, here’s a two-hour digital painting from life. I got sick of acrylics and dragged my laptop and tablet to class today.

The proper version:

The AWESOME version:

What can I say, I thought he had kind of a comic book supervillain look to him, and wanted to see what I could to do exacerbate that.