sketch

Just a sketch from inside of my head of an angle I thought might be interesting as I was warming up for the images for the CD. I still may do something with it though...never know.

Cd booklet

Hey,

This past weekend was a CD launch for Chris Coole's CD 'Old Dog'. He asked me to do the artwork for the CD booklet and had a really different approach. He wanted an image that would stand in place of liner notes to communicate something more about the songs, pictures being worth a 1000 words and all that. So we listened to the tunes, talked a bit about them and came up with what I think turned out to be a great project. At the launch of the CD I hung prints and did a limited run of this image here which is a variation on one of the images in the actual CD. It seemed to me a great way to bring together music and image in a way that enriched both and a creative approach to producing a CD, which in the end is always about images and music and their interaction.

The print is 12 X 16 and the original was done with brush and ink.

Check out his site at www.chriscoole.com it is a great CD and all his stuff is top notch.

Lovely Cadaver

Here is my take on a cool character designed by John McNally called The Lovley Cadaver and I did my version of it for the Drawing Board. I thought I would share it here too. His site is www.jonmcnally.net check it out he has some great stuff.

Pocket Watch

I have been doing a whole pile of digital object drawings lately for work, here is one of them. I have always wanted a pocket watch but never find one I like enough to get so for now I am happy to own this one, even if it is only on the computer.

Edward Gorey

I thought I would post a sample of my work in the style of the great Edward Gorey. Hope you like it.

Animation

These are 2 stills from a short animation that I am making. I will post more as it gets done.

That time of year

I have been swamped lately with work and just now got time to post my Christmas card for this year, Merry Christmas to those of you that celebrate it and happy holidays to everyone else.

Memory sketching

I have been doing doodles from memory and usually warm up with a drawing of myself since I should remember what I look like. So here are a few... the first one is of me and the others are just faces I made up, oooh and a cartoonesque car.

Another Car

Here is another car I have been working on. It was painted entirely in photoshop and man are these fun to do.

Trosley Car

After doing lots of drawing on the computer the past few days I was longing for the old school black and white marker approach. So I did a drawing of one of George Trosley's cars that I loved as a kid, all with marker only and it was quite a blast. It is great to hold an original piece that I have worked on and not just a print out from the computer.

Speakeasy Comic Show

Here in Toronto there are some amazing comic artists, some of the best in the industry. Last Thursday night I attended this local comic event called SPEAKEASY that has been running for 14 years and is meant as a way for artists to get out of the studio and see what other folks locked away in their studios have been up to. People really talk openly about their process, new things we have learned and really share knowledge between peers, which is why it is called 'speakeasy' and why it is such a great event. Each month has a different theme and I will be in the illustrator and comic events in the new year and I am looking forward to it.

Pencilbolt Logo

This is one of several logo designs I did for a comic book collective that is made up of writers and artists that work together as a group. I chose a pencil because it represents a drawing tool and a writing tool and it is used in the idea stages of both disciplines. This group feels that ideas are what they are really about and combining it with the lightning bolt shows that their ideas are dynamic and charged full of energy. The comic style word balloon in the background establishes the field they are working in.

More Old time

Here is a cover for an Old-time stringband CD that I did. I also did this portrait of a banjomaker for a series of upcoming T-shirts to promote his instruments and on-line store.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Here is the art for an upcoming comic book cover and I thought it would be the perfect Halloween image for the blog. It is one of four panels that make up the whole cover, each panel has a different theme. I have left space at the top for the title and issue info which will be inserted when all the panels are complete.
Click on the image for a closer look....
.....if you are brave enough...oohhh...scary.

Life Drawing 2

There are a couple more life drawings on my flickr site and here is a sample of one of them. Just good old conte and newsprint. The drawing is about 15" tall and took somewhere in the 5 to 10 minute range.

Eyes

Just hammering out some practice this weekend and thought I would post this one of men's eyes. I did these on the computer with my wacom tablet in photoshop and find myself working more this way lately as a result of the type of jobs that I am working on these days. You can click on this image (as with most of my blog pics) for a closer look if you'd like.

Doodles

Here are smaller things I have been doing just for kicks lately. The first is a drawing of how I remember my good friend back in his contemplative days, the second is a quick sketch of the great Doc Watson fretting out some tunes, the third doodle is of my favourite autoharp player Kilby Snow and the last one was done while having lunch at a great local spot called Mocha Mocha

Life Drawing

I like to keep up my drawing from observation when I can and life drawing is my favourite way to do it. It helps me stay focused and present when drawing and pushes me to constantly discover new ways of drawing and seeing. To watch a quick slide show of the life drawings I have posted so far click here then feel free to snoop around the rest of my flickr site

Metalhead

Here is a pencil sketch of a character called 'Metalhead'. He has the body of a man with the head of a robot! How cooky crazy is that?