Nora was looking cute the other night. So I painted her. Was she THIS cute? Still, pretty darn cute. More of the usual thing. A pilot woman, in front of a Battle-Star Galactica kind of thing. One of my usual sketchbook pages. Including Garlic Heads.
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, cats, men, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour, women
Painting and drawing stuff makes me feel better. here’s are some things from yesterday and this morning! Above is Bamako the Black Cat, whom I’m taking care of for the moment, and an Evil Skwirl. Below, some sketches from my balcony I drew with a ballpoint pen I just bought. Can’t resist trying out a […]
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, cats, colour, men, paintings, ruttan's place, sketches, women
I was out on the weekend, and wasn’t able to post things. But today, here’s this nice page. At least, I like the mom and kid, drawn from life.
Tags: Animals, cats, sketches, watercolour, women
I’ve scanned a lot of pictures I’ve been painting the last while, and am going to put them up on the blog step by step, maybe. That’s so I can post stuff every day! Or, I might put them up all at once. Who knows?
Tags: Animals, cat, cats, colour, dog, dogs, Nora the cat, sketches, watercolour
It’s awkward scanning things out of a ring-bound sketchbook. Pages are all “cockled” when it’s watercolour, and you can never get it to line up on the scanner. I also had to scan this page twice and “stitch” together, which also was a pain. Not to mention fixing that tree, which had a lot of […]
Tags: Animals, cats, colour, paintings, Plants, sketches, watercolor, watercolour, women
After not posting much, for a while, I’ve been doing a flurry of painting. Seems I need to go through a number of indifferent things to “ramp up” to something better. Anyhow, I’m happier with what’s going on here. Painting lots of cats for this cat strip I’m trying to finish. Wish it felt easier, […]
Tags: Animals, cats, colour, dogs, men, sketches, watercolour, women
Some fairly scary watercolour cats I did, based loosely on creatures I saw over the weekend. They often look a little deranged to me, but maybe that’s what I see!
Tags: Animals, cats, sketches, watercolour
Didn’t blog for a while. Cause I was sick, and busy, then wasn’t doing much that pleased me. Still could be happier, but at least I’m painting some things. Not horribly thrilled with how the paper’s working. Maybe it’s always absorbed and lightened paint, but I thought that was how it worked, until I painted […]
Tags: cats, colour, men, Nora the cat, paintings, watercolour, women
As related in an earlier post on my tumblr blog, this year I built a light box, to trace drawings for watercolours. It was made out of a cardboard box my scanner came in, a couple of dollar store LED light bars, and a square of frosted glass I’d found in an alley. It was […]
Tags: Brush Pen, cartoons, cats, colour, ruttan's place, sketches
I’m not relating to Sundays much. Thought I’d get some time off, but I’ve got to prepare for a meeting and some work. Still, I found time to sketch these things. Small cat, and some dame. I don’t call them watercolours because they involve the brush pen, and aren’t pure. I like modelling things in […]
Tags: Animals, Brush Pen, cats, colour, Nora the cat, sketches, wash, women
Here’s another of those old strips of mine. Worked on at the comic jam, mainly by Rick Gagnon, over my scribbly pencils. Hence the odd faces here and there. Still funny, though. I’m running out of these, but have a few more tricks up my sleeve before I’ll have to start drawing stuff again.
Tags: Animals, cats, collaboration, comics, Montreal Comic Jam, Richard Gagnon
Got this printed up and sent out, so I feel like I can “share” it now. Noting that other illustrators are doing more than one design. But aside from maybe painting a quick neighbourhood snowscape that’s it for me. Took me a while, because the challenge I set for myself was to learn more about […]
The usual guys blankly staring, cats, and below, cute chicks. Just because I go out to events doesn’t mean I’m not a strange recluse. It just means there are a lot of events happening. But the video stuff is fun. Takes a long time to upload. My next challenge there is finding music I can […]
Tags: Animals, ballpoint pen, Burlesque, cats, colour, men, Nora the cat, sketches, wash, watercolour, women