caricatures

Some caricatures i did of friends. Painted these in Painter10.

ECU figure drawing

I was at ECU figure drawing session on Monday for the first time in years.
last time I went I think I was in 2nd year taking a drawing class and went there for practice...
the thing I didn't like about the session was the drawing table... it was too high for the seats! so I was standing the whole time.
but the model was great. might give it a shot again next week.

Mar14 Sketchgroup stuff

some drawings from this week's sketchgroup.

Mar 1 Figure drawing

I tried to switch it up a bit for this week's figure drawing - ditched the conte and busted out my watercolors. 5-15 mins sketches.

the Alchemist

The theme for this week was Alchemist. I actually pictured him more of an explosives expert than alchemist so i thought i'd mix it up a bit.

221a Feb08 life drawing

I've been doing alot of figure drawing lately to better my anatomic rendering skills. I usually try to go once a week.. but ever since 221a started hosting figure drawing sessions, I started going to that too. I think it's really helping me out alot. here's what came out of today's session.

Pistol Baron

another themed weekly illustration - Pistol Baron. (Not so much pistol but more shotgun, probably b/c of too much L4D).

Basic Inquiry Feb 7

blademaster

A couple of friends and I started a new blog for this weekly-themed illustration to push ourselves to design and draw. this week was "blade master".

Basic Inquiry Jan 28, 2009

Figure drawing @ 221a Jan 25, 2009

Vancouver SketchGroup

Some big changes are happening to the Vancouver sketchgroup- good things: Tyler's going to California to pursue his concept art education... Morena is headed to Toronto for her new job... and congrats to Sunny who's getting married! You'll all be missed!

here's my little experimentation in photoshop with this week's sketch.

figure drawing at 221a

Gallery 221 recently started hosting figure drawing as one of their regular ongoing programs in Chinatown. These were some gestures from the session.

Jan21 figure drawing

Daruman t-shirts...by me!

So I decided to take a screen-printing workshop at Blim. They're a local custom t-shirt store that runs these little t-shirt workshops. I attended one tonight and it was AWESOME. I think they're the ONLY store that run workshops and have open studio for anyone who wants to drop in and just print a couple of t-shirts and go. Highly recommended for people who don't want to spend money getting all the equipment themselves but just want to create a cool tshirt here and there for friends and family.

My shirts turned out far better than I expected. Many many thanks to Yuriko, the workshop leader, for running the workshop. It was very well conducted and I'd definitely drop by and work on some more in the future. Edy's sweatshop here I come!!! Meanwhile, here's what I printed in tonight's workshop...

Steampunk Money Cat

I initially planned on entering the cgtalk challenge but didn't have time to finish, which is a shame because the theme was soooo good. I'm gonna try and finish these outside the challenge and might do a couple of more drawings based on this theme until I get sick of it.

For these 2 sketches...

My concept for the steampunk myth was the money cat. (thanks Jonathan for suggesting this awesome idea).
I wanted to create this really rundown industrial village/town that worships this money cat monument. Wanted to try two different looks. One with more of a Tekkon look and the other more dark/Industrial smelter look.

Happy Holidays

a little Holiday e-card I made to send to friends and family...

Dec 6-7 sketches

At Waves coffee again this weekend... arrived late. so only got 1 page.
but got some other sketches done from the photos I took of the Vancouver DTE. I'm hoping to get some of these painted on canvas. so these would serve as a study.

I recently moved into Gallery 221A, an artist collective also known as NOART, formed by Emily Carr students. It's a great place located in the Vancouver Chinatown area where food, transit, and other resources are within close proximity. I'm wanting to paint more so hopefully having a studio space would give me some motivation to start.

and I dropped by Basic Inquiry for a quick drawing session...

here's this weekends batch of updates.