Colour Study

As usual, a colour study from a random Flickr photo.

Colour Study

Colour study from random photo on Flickr.

Colour Study

Colour study from random photo on Flickr.

Colour Study

From a random photo on Flickr.

Candycanesaurus

The candycanesaurus lives on the doughnut islands of Great Lake Cacao.

Journal - Pub Sketch

Sketched a fellow guest at a going-away party at the pub:

Forest Altar

Dug out my old Col-erase pencils.  I don't normally like working with them, but I had a hankering to do some sketching with something other than graphite.

Christmas Card 1

A little Christmas card I made for my friend.  I'm making several of them this year and this was the first one that I finished, except for the experimental one that looked just awful.

Werewolf of London - Rough

Just a rough sketch based on the Warren Zevon song.  Turns out I really like Warren Zevon.

Pumpkin Blimp

So the Fairy Godmother saw Cinders off in the Pumpkin Blimp, headed for Adventure with a capital A.

Maybe sometime I'll write the rest of the story.

Steampunk Cinderella

The last Haturday gave me an idea for a Steampunkish retelling of Cinderella.

A Magic Teapot

This was an illustration done for Spellbound Magazine, a fantasy magazine for children.

It is in the Winter 2012 issue "Rings and Magical Things" which is available for sale at this link. If you have or know children 8-12 years old who like fantasy art and stories and read e-magazines, you might want to get a copy or even buy a subscription. I was very impressed with the quality of work inside, and I'm not easy to impress!

Haturday 2

Cat Chef

Finished the cat chef sketch!

Journal - LRT Sketches

Journal - Zenaris

I had to go downtown for a dental appointment and stopped for lunch at Zenari's for the first time.  I'm not usually one for panini, since there's always one ingredient or another that I object to, but Zenari's does make a good grilled vegetable panino.

A Dream - Rough

A quick rough sketch based on a dream I had.

Haturday

Something I thought of while writing my morning pages. A ricockulous hat design a week!

I love hats. (Probably won't do this every week, some Saturdays are pretty busy.)

Meowthfield

For a friend who suddenly got into Pokemon and dragged me along for the ride.  I had to do this. :)

Christmas Ornament Designs

Every year my friend and her mother, who does woodworking, has some people over to paint Christmas ornaments. A couple years ago they suggested that I design some fantasy-based ornaments, but I didn't manage to get to it until this year.

These will be cut out of wood and painted, hopefully approximating what I've done digitally. We'll see. I'll be posting the results, if there are any, in late December.

Flower Owl Girl

Worm Attack

Sketchcrawl - City Market

After coffee and lunch I wandered over to the north side of Churchill Square. I had been planning to sketch some sheep that were in a paddock in the ice rink/wading pool area, but I had forgotten to bring a hat and gloves. It was much to chilly to hang around outside. Instead I went into City Hall to check out the City Farmer's Market.

I sketched a vegetable booth and had a very short chat with a face painter who had a little table below me. She got some customers while I was there, which was nice to see. I bought a bag of Spartan apples, dark red and covered in powdery yeast and went home to roast some pork for a party we were hosting later in the evening.

Sketchcrawl - Coffee Shop Guy

The group met partway through at a cafe to show off sketches and have lunch.  This guy was sitting behind us.

Sketchcrawl - Downtown Library

Went out with the local Urban Sketchers again. This time we met at the Stanley A. Milner Library downtown and scattered to sketch around Churchill Square.

Here are some snow-covered basketball nets on the south side of the library:

I liked how lonely they looked.

Character Sketches

International Self-Portrait Day

 

Actually managed to paint an acrylic self-portrait this year. One that looked sort of not unlike me. Last year the painting was so bad that I had to scrap it and do a speedpainting in the evening when the light had completely gone.

This is the fourth year that I've done this.  You can see other people's portraits in this thread on ConceptArt.org. This is the second year that I've done a self-portrait from life and not photos. I would like to do an ink or pencil crayon portrait sometime but it has to be done in its entirety on November 1st and I think those media are way too slow to do something with.

This year I tried to do a very stylized, flattened portrait and although I'm not sure it entirely worked out, it was something new and I actually quite like the original.  I had to assemble the scan from five different pieces, since it was too dark outside to photograph it properly.  I might play around with this style of portrait some more.

It'll be interesting to do this for six more years and see the changes both in myself and my artwork.

For reference: 2009 2010 2011

...Man I need a haircut.