Offered in the spirit of “here’s what I was drawing yesterday,” rather than “these are the greatest drawings of the century.” Pencil’s messy, but you can correct. Above are some faces from a book of old pictures and Elizabethan miniatures. I’m finding I’m happier and draw better faces if I try to consider the face […]
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Saint Patrick’s day has come and gone, but the parade is today. So, last night, they were getting ready the green food colouring for the beer at the Cock N’ Bull pub. And I was drawing mildly salacious scenes happening around me and my friends Rick and Marr. Rick inked these, or in the case […]
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Above, a simple, quick cat, in wash. Below, an even simpler cat, on typing paper:
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“Monkey man, monkey man, I wanna be a monkey man.” (The Specials, I think)
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Tough doing plain backgrounds…
Tags: colour, horses, watercolour
Or maybe a fun one, if you’re into it.
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More drawing from the other night, meeting with friends at the Cock N’ Bull bar. Rick Gagnon was there. Marr was there, too, but he didn’t stay long enough to draw anything. Still, Rick was able to ink things like this drawing above of mine of one of the servers. Below is my drawing, embellished […]
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This warrior character fears his masculinity is being compromised by his having to ride a giant quarter-rabbit. But the villagers will probably be as terrified as ever. He should have and painted frightening runes on the sides of his mount, and tied victims’ skulls to the saddle, in order to increase the menacing effect.
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Here’s something fun. This caricature I did of former Prime Minister, the late John Diefenbaker, is going into an upcoming political documentary. Rather than just downloading it and using it, they were nice enough to ask, and we negotiated a fee. That’s classy, and it’s nice to think of something of yours sticking around, maybe […]
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Above, some fantasy with the Queen of the Fridge. Below, one of the first of the season’s real-life sketches.
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And some mono-chromatic characters:
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Loads of graphical play last night with friends at the Cock N’ Bull Bar. Rick and Marr were also doing crosswords, but those are much less interesting to look at. Above is my interpretation of some pool-playing characters, with a few lines and patches of black added by Rick. Below is Rick’s more graphical version […]
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This was a lot of work. Still, if I want one of these pictures to look less silly, I’d have to carefully plan it: do thumbnail drawings for composition, value studies so I could develop a proper colour palette, and then draw my figures from copy. This would involve multiple studies so the proportions and […]
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Looking at my darned “Lord of the Rings” DVDs again. I find the documentaries and the sketch galleries more interesting than the films! Afraid things are going to look a little warlike here for the next while, because of some projects I’m working on. I don’t love war, but like drawing the accoutrements.
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