Gone to California

Be back in a week.

-R.

Stupid computer...

So there's actually a legitimate reason for not posting for so long...my computer was basically dead. It was a fancy internet machine. None of the USB ports were working among other things. In the meantime, I filled up a sketchbook and a bit - so needless to say I have a lot of crap I need to scan and post, most of them observational drawings which is my new love.
As some of you may know, I'm going to California for the San Diego Comic Con, as well as a tour of a few studios...more on that soon.
Some of the following drawings are obviously better than others, but as I've said before, can't have the sweet without the sour.
In the meantime, I give you...
stuff.

-R.

more life

I've really been enjoying drawing observational sketches - it's a lot of fun, and you learn a lot from it. Comments and crits appreciated - let me know what you think!

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Enjoy
-R.

I'm a Bad Blogger.

Hullo,

Yeah, I know I haven't posted in a while...been busy, trying to do a million things at once. Doesn't work so well. Ah well...I HAVE been drawing! Here are some observational sketches, many events planned this summer, including the ROM, Zoo, and Subway Sketching.

Let me know what you think of this stuff, and any improvements anyone can suggest, as well as which are your favourites, as I'm preparing a portfolio.

-R.

Cardboard?

Here are two drawings I did - on random pieces of cardboard I found at work. They were about to be thrown out, so I figured what the hell. These are digitally colored versions...I think I'm going to try to color them in pastel. I think the guy may be a character I'm going to work on...have some interesting plans for him.
Comments and crits appreciated - let me know what you think!

-R.

More gallery stuff...

So here are some more gallery sketches and a sketch of some random musicians playing at the Distillery. Man, now that the weather is nice - that's definitely a place I'd love to hang out...there, and flippin' France and England. Yeah...I know the two don't coincide, but hey, a guy can dream right? Oh...Europe.
Comments and crits appreciated...I went thru a lot of hassling from some crazy old woman working at the gallery to get these sketches....enjoy!

-R.

I'm Back!

Hi,
Yeah...I've been...not here for a little while. At the behest of Sarah, I'm posting, but moreso because I felt guilty and have been meaning to - but a various amount of things have been keeping me from doing so. Summer began, and I started working at the Ministry of Transportation from the Government of Ontario. It's an alright job. I've been working 40 hours then coming home - pretty tired, not really doing much at the job, but still abnormally tired after the day - attempting to finish my lipsync to enter into Teletoon and practicing drawing things. Lots of work. Not enough time to blog. I've been trying to get some ideas together for films, and various other things.

Anyway, less talk, more sleep, more art. That's the way it goes.
These are some drawings I did after visiting the Sandra Ainsley Gallery at the Distillery on the weekend. They had an exhibit of crazy cool (and odd) glassworks as well as other mixed media works (the most notable being a 4ft. by 6ft. portrait of a boy made entirely out of nails and a single 2 mile long piece of string wrapped around it. The first two are two glass sculpture (fairly small) and the third is one of many african mask type things they had there.
I should've written the name of the artists on the page if any of you are curious.
Comments and crits appreciated.

-R.

More Life Drawings

Yep - school's out for summer! Been doing a whole lot of nothing before kicking the summer into high gear and doing so much that I have time for nothing beginning next week. I start my new government job on Monday - hopefully I'll have time to draw and such inbetween breaks and what not. I haven't posted much since school ended b/c I haven't drawn much - and whatever I have hasn't been blogworthy. I'll start to kick my ass by tomorrow if things don't start happening. In the meantime - enjoy these life drawings which are mostly the longer poses...and a huge thanks to everyone who's been commenting!

-R.





















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It's been a while...

It's been a while, I know. Crunch time down at the school. Everything comes to a screeching overlap - so I haven't actually had time to post. Getting a lot of animating done - but my lipsync prject isn't going to be fully completed as I'd hoped. My scanner blows. Anyways, enough excuses. Here's a few life drawings from the past couple weeks. I just realized I hadn't posted any yet - so here we go. These are all gestures - I'll post the longer/sustained ones soon. I realize there are problems with them all, but there's something about all of them that I kinda like.

Also, a quote from Jim Hull's Seward Street Blog when he went to visit Ollie Johnston's place:

"But the one thing he did say, that still stands out for me was, after taking a look at each one of us, he said with a tinge of creative envy, "Look at you guys...you've got the whole world ahead of you..."

"And ever since, I haven't wanted to waste a single moment."

Really great quote - its true - if you can do something, why not do it? There are probably a bunch of people who wish they could, so live it out.

-R.

















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Collaging

I've been doing a bunch of collaged faces while in class. The first done in blue pencil and the second in ballpoint pen. I've noticed doing these really forces you to change up shapes and proportions so that you don't get a repetition on the same page of the same type of face. I can see an improvement from the first to the second one, so I'm going to keep doing these and trying different styles, types and shapes - as much as I possibly can. Now, to character design!

-R.

The Thief and Inspector

Here's a character I made for myself, and a potential story idea. Again, using the poly lasso and paint bucket, I'm planning on using him to learn flash in the summer - he seems very suited for it. Here's the thief's nemesis - the short, wily Inspector Briggs. I'm developing a little short story to animate soon. A model sheet will come soon of this character. Any comments and crits are greatly appreciated.

-R.

Starlet

Just playing around with colours for the character that I drew for the earlier post.
Quick post today, better, longer, newer post tomorrow.

-R.

Characters and a New Method

So, yesterday, I was bored, I didn't feel like doing school work so I decided to do something else involving drawing...other schoolwork. Heh...sorta. I used a character design assignment as a basis of creating four characters. The clothing I tried to keep mundane and simple as that's what the assignment was, but I added some accessories which I wasn't supposed to - I think I'll just hand this in as an extra. These were done in Photoshop with nothing but the Polygonal lasso, paintbrush and paintbucket. I find this exercise really helps as it allows you to break down a character into its simple shapes and the limit to doing point to point forces you to take chances and try new things, I highly recommend it to anyone. More to come in this fashion soon...working on some designs as we speak...screw sleep.

-R.

Costco and Girls

So these are some sketches I did today - the paper bag sketches were from Costco while I was waiting for my bro to finish that Hot Dawg he was eatin. The paper bag was the closest thing nearby. So I started drawing people on it. The girls were just plain ol' doodles. Hope you like, and comments greatly appreciated.

-R.

Some relative's child.

This is a really quick drawing I did on my dads 50th birthday last weekend - had a bunch of people over and this kid who I'm somehow related to was sitting on the kitchen counter having a glass of water...I thought it was kind of funny so I'm putting it up.
The other drawing is some time I took out of doing work this week during the strike (which is now officially over - heading back to school on tuesday) to just play with drawing. What turned out was some brainpuke on paper. Again, I like maybe two pieces on there, but I always enjoy seeing people's process and the crappy drawings with the good - so I'm posting mine.
Comments are always greatly appreciated.

-R.