Intermission II

Cupcake Girl

I sincerely despise the length of time between these posts. Definitely going to need to fix that. Life, fun, friends, summer and work have all been keeping me incredibly occupied. So much has happened in the last three (!) months - hopefully I'll figure out a way to share a bunch of it. I recently took a trip to San Diego & LA for comic-con and to hang out with some of my best friends on the west coast, and in the process made some fantastic new ones. In any case, here's the intermittent post, a doodle and some sketches from around Toronto, but mostly the subway.

I swear there's a new post coming. Ideas a-brewin'.

As always, comments and crits appreciated.

R.

Sketches!

from facehunter

Sorry once again, it's been so long - been a busy couple months. Here are some sketches I did around town (subway/cafe/whatever) in a brand new awesome sketchbook. I also recently visited Montreal, and had the chance to go to a great french comic book store and check it out. I ended up buying two simply fantastic, amazing and beautifully stunning books - the first being Joann Sfar's "Gainsbourg" which is a 400 page collection of his notes/sketches and the like from making his comic, as well as his live-action biopic of the great french singer, Serge Gainsbourg.If you're a fan of Sfar's work (which you should be, because he's AMAZING) this book is pure, pure gold.
The other, is Bastien Vives "Dans Mes Yeux" which is a brilliantly drawn comic (pen and pencil crayon) which is basically a love story, told literally through the male character's eyes. Lovely.
Also, check out this ad for the 2010 Olympics that the BBC commissioned, and was co-designed by the super talented Jon Klassen, and co-designed by Studio AKA's Marc Craste.

Til next time!
R.

Taken @ La Brulerie St. Denis in Montreal, Quebec.

Sketches!

City sketch study.

#2

Compositional Studies @ Grange Park (it was cold)

This woman was so bundled up, it was awesome.

Starting a new sketchbook.

Randoms

Some little random sketches I liked.

Some very recent sketches from traveling around downtown Toronto, I switched to pencil for the time being to try something different. See how long this lasts til I begin pining for a pen again. If you're in Toronto, the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair is this week! Definitely heading down there for some sketching sometime, it's always a blast! Thanks to everyone who's been commenting - it's really much appreciated! While I've been looking for a job and amongst doing a few other side projects on my own, Matt and I have started on a short film, and set up a production blog! Check it out!

Also, if you haven't had a chance yet, I'd definitely recommend going and checking out Where the Wild Things Are. Spike Jonze has made, in my opinion, an absolutely amazing, stunning and poignant film - some tend to disagree, and I've really only found two opposing opinions of the film (love or hate) with very few fence-sitters. Definitely one to catch.

Some fantastic stuff is being posted to James', Nick's and Jenny's blogs. I can't say enough nice things about these guys but definitely give them a look if you get a chance.

Princess and the Frog is being released VERY soon in NY and LA, and on December 11th everywhere! Check it out! And, a really cool Disney TV special from 1981 has been posted on youtube in conjunction with the Illusion of Life. Thanks to Cat Hicks for that one.

Winter's a-comin'.

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving!

This weekend in Canadaland, it's thanksgiving! We celebrate it much like the Americans, what with the delicious, delicious turkey and other such fine foods.
Why do we celebrate it in October?
Because we're awesome.

Or, it could have began by the explorer, Martin Frobisher marking his homecoming from safely finding a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean, avoiding death which had befallen his predecessors. After which, the french settlers, having crossed the ocean and made it safely to Canada, held huge feasts of thanks from 1604 onwards.


(depictions of the french may be grossly exaggerated)

So that's how Thanksgiving in Canada began!
A Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Here are also some sketches I've been doing in the last little while:







Til next time!
R.

Intermission.

Back!

It's been a while, and a busy month or so, but I'm back now! I have a rule to not post videos on here ever, but I had to make an exception for this since it's personal work. If the player/embedding gets annoying or gives anyone issues, let me know and I'll just make it into a link.
Anyway, the video is my last assignment from the Disney internship, where by we had to storyboard out a musical sequence. The music was chosen by our mentors, mine being the AWESOME Aurian Redson who chose the Green Hornet theme.

Also, AURIAN REDSON FINALLY HAS A BLOG. Go visit it NOW. Aurian is one of the nicest guys around and can draw like no one's business. Check him out!

I also went to a few films at the Toronto International Film Fest, which I'll post about soon - they were Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Micmacs", Don Hahn's "Waking Sleeping Beauty", and Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air". All I'll say for now is if the opportunity presents itself, go check any of those out.

I've also posted a ridiculous doodle, and some drawings done around the city and at the zoo, and unfortunately I've had to enable the spam security on the comments, been bombarded lately. Hopefully it's not too much trouble.

That's all for now!

R.

"Four Times the Awesomeness!"

Black Bull Tavern

Aroma Cafe

Zoo

Downtown Toronto - Queen/John

Journal Page from Florida trip