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.

Studies

Head Studies

Compositional Studies

Sketches in Ballpoint Pen/Pencil/Pilot Pen

I'm working on some more stuff to post soon - in the meantime, any requests for any movie reviews?

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'.

Circuit Paris

(Slightly cut off - click through to play proper ratio)

In keeping with the trend, I realized I hadn't uploaded my film that I completed in my final year at Sheridan College, so here it is. Roughly about 4 months doing storyboards, a month doing layout, design and art direction/color styling and 3 months animating. The voices were done by Vadim as the cab driver, and Matt as the Old Woman. I've posted some process work in the past from it, which you can check out here about halfway down the page to the bottom. It was an enormous education (there are a ton of things I'd do differently) and an amazing experience - one I ended up wishing we'd had more of a chance to do during our time at school and I can't wait to make another.
100% Hand drawn - colored in Photoshop and composited in After Effects and Premiere.
Also, My buddies Vlad and Matt just uploaded their kickass films, so I'd definitely recommend watching theirs as well and checking out their awesome blogs. Also, Matt's been posting some pretty hilarious comics of him and myself - we're working on a little project together that's brought out some...material.

And here's a couple of quick little sketches:



Comments and crits appreciated! Til next time.
R.