Story sketches & research.

I have a ton of stuff I keep meaning to post, but everytime I look at it, I want to color it and make it look all spiffy for the interweb...and there's never enough time to do so! So, in the meantime, I did get around to quickly coloring up some story sketches I've been doing for the driver idea, as well as him in his original uniform, some location sketching, thumbnail boards and character body type exploration. There's a bunch more, subway sketches and the like to come, I've been sketching like mad; one of the upsides to a long commute down to work in the mornings. If it starts getting too long before the next post, I'll just post whatever I have, colored or not. In the meantime let me know what you think of this stuff, thanks for all the previous comments, much appreciated.

-R.

More Driver stuff...

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, been incredibly busy and had a few personal things to take care of. I'm at work right now and am just posting a doodle I did in photoshop while watching the phones using the lasso tool, just like I used to way back when (read: last year). This is just a quick image to feel like I've actually posted something, I have a bunch of things waiting to be colored, so hopefully I'll be doing that today or tomorrow, time permitting. Thanks for the visits and thank you all SO much for the comments on the last post...I'll be starting to post a few thumbnail boards and stuff as the idea progresses. As always, it's great to hear what you guys think!

-R.

Passengers

This woman was on the bus on the way home, definitely seemed like she knew what was going on. She was carrying a TON.

This one was done REALLY quickly as I realized that the subway was pulling into the final stop. Sometimes you neglect to hear these things when you have headphones on.

First off, thanks so much to the people who commented on the last post. I really appreciate it. Now, on to this week. I realize I missed a week in posting. Sorry. These drawings are all in the theme of passengers, all of them are pretty much from the subway, except for the first old lady. She's part of the cab driver story and ends up having the unfortunate luck to be in the cab on the wrong day. Most are done in pen and then colored in Photoshop, some were cleaned up and colored in openCanvas (which I just started using) .
C&C welcome and appreciated.
-R.

The Driver & the Guitar Player

Just a quick post as I'm forcing myself to post every week (at least) with the amount of stuff I've been doing...
The first is a character for a possible story idea I have about a cab driver, and I tried my hand at painting it - not sure how well it turned out...
The second, was a guy I saw one day after work as I was getting off the subway. He was holding a Tim Horton's cup, with his shirt wrapped around his waist, playing the air guitar to high hell...with no sign of music anywhere. Whatever music he was hearing, must have ROCKED!
The third is just a girl I saw on the subway, standing in various ways.

-R.

Zoo and Cafe Drawings

lion-tailed Macaques

Golden-lion Tamarins (if ever I was to get an exotic pet, this would be it)

Tapir and Orangutan

Grizzly Bears
Drawn in pen, colored with watercolors

More Golden-lion Tamarins

Cafe Sketches

"A mime is a terrible thing to waste"

Last week, Cliff, Emma, Matt and I all went to the zoo - it was a real refreshing day after months of solid work at school. Lots of fun. This past week, I've been enjoying the time off just cafe sketching and drawing up some characters - I've been experimenting with some coloring as well. Most of the drawings here are drawn in pen and colored in photoshop unless otherwise indicated.
Also, I'm going to Montreal this weekend to check out the "Etait une fois...Walt Disney" (Once upon a time...Walt Disney) exhibit at the musee de beaux arts, if anyone is going to be there, leave a comment, I think I'll either be going on the Friday or the Saturday.

-R.

The CHEF.

Here's a character that I've been working on - right now simply called the Chef. He has but one arm...how? Stay tuned.
Also some other work that I've colored.
C&C appreciated.

-R.

Summer!

School's out!! I'll be posting much, much more now...at least, I hope to. This year has been extremely interesting, albeit tough, but I definitely learned an incredible amount, about people in general, but most importantly at this stage, about myself as an artist and a person. I really want to thank all those around me, not mentioning any names - but you know who you are.
I've been trying some new stuff out in terms of technique and "style" - just experimenting really, I find I get really repetitive with the method I'm drawing in, the shapes I'm using, so I have to break it up and try and take a left turn to enhance my shape vocabulary. So if some of the stuff doesn't work as well as others, that's just me trying out new stuff...also, feel free to let me know what you think is working and what isn't, I'd love to hear opinions - after all, it's all about growing as an artist.
On to the art! More coming soon, got some more stuff I'd like to color!
C&C welcome!
-R.

One more week...

The films are due in a week, I'll be posting up a link to it when it's done. In the meantime, I was able to steal away 20 min this week to go sketch in the cafeteria and some are other ones that I hadn't gotten around to scanning. Comments are appreciated as always.
Also, for any artist who's ever felt even remotely insecure about showing their sketchbook to someone (I'm pretty sure that's everyone) please do yourself a favour and check out Mark Kennedy's post on Carrying a Sketchbook Part one can be found HERE, he discusses the importance of carrying a sketchbook and feeling insecure about your art, comparing yourself to others and competing with yourself as an artist. Mark's blog is a must ready, so go check it out!
Hope you like these drawings!

-R.