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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Change of pace: Took a tour yesterday of Westmount and Notre Dame de Grace (NDG) in Montreal with a friend. Part of it was a walk in the greenhouse attached to the Westmount library. Took pictures, and my friend was gracious enough to identify all the plants in the pictures. You can see the entire […]
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 […]
Tags: black and white, collaboration, Gagnon Fridays, Marr, Richard Gagnon, sketches
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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The guy above looks pretty formidable. Might be doing some military-themed things in the next while. But most of what there is to do at the moment, is wait for some things to come through. Below, some more characters, including, up top, the late Montreal artist Betty Goodwin.
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These are a pair of characters from the beginning of Tarkovsky’s Solaris, which I am watching in the Criterion edition, graciously leant to me by my sketching friend Rick. I think they’re his production manager and co-writer, which he put into his film because they were lucky for him, and also close at hand. The […]
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Copied off the back of a comic book. A lot of work. Why do I bother?
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As promised, here’s the hot pool player that Rick beat the other night. I think she also beat the other guy, or at least he stopped playing as well as he had against Rick, for whatever reason. This is drawn just from memory. She maybe didn’t quite look so much like Morticia of the Addams […]
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