Jason Smash!!!

I did a little scribbley portrait doodle of Hulk this morning and threw some rushed color behind it. I then decided to go nuts and try and draw a full body Hulk. I was never very good at drawing the Hulk. I could never realy give him the awesome sense of sheer mass that he deserves. But I thought I'd give it a try. I managed to do a ruff drawing in flash without too many problems. Cleaning it up howerver... That's another story. Everytime I'd try and grab a small section of the artowrk to tweak it a bit and make it a bit tighter, large sections of the artwork would disapear or turn negative. That was really frustrating and really put me in a "Jason Smash!!" kinda mood. Don't know what flash was tripping out about but I just left the drawing in it's ruff state and added color.

I really have a love hate relationship with drawing in flash. Most of the time it feels like I'm drawing with a large melting crayon. This drawing was no exception. I've heard using a Cintiq goes a long way in making digi-drawing feel more organic. I'll have to give one a try someday. If only they weren't so damn expensive. :).

Wolvie...

I started doing a little doodle today in flash and it turned into wolverine. I slopped some color behind it to make it seem like more than it is. Which is just an off the cuff doodle. Then I remembered that I had some drawings I did awhile ago of the old canuck. They were the only drawings of the character that've done that I thought turned out OK. And it was just me fiddling around to see how I'd handle drawing his mug if had to. So I dug those up as well, to fatten this post out a bit. They were only about an inch and a bit big in my sketchbook, so that's why they're a bit "shakey" looking. :) Not a very stupendous post, but I'm trying to see if I can post a bit more frequently to keep from getting rusty.

Dump 2.5..???

Here's a couple more drawings I did recently. Nothing spectacular, but really all I have to show.



My Wife asked me to do a drawing of a robber and an angel for her last night.. I thought the quickest way to do it would be to go down the old flat UPA"ish" route. This is what happened.. And yes.. There be drugs in that there bag. Not money.


I was asked to do an illustration recently for local comedy troupe Sketch 22. It was supposed to go in front of a sketch they were doing about an alien going to a psychiatrist during their summer show. I went for the gross Jabba the Hut look, but I was told to keep the head human. Kinda adds to the strangeness of it all I think. :) The sketch ended up getting cut, and thus so did the illustration. I was actually kinda relieved because it didn't turn out that great. Lotsa cheaty cheatness in there.

Sketch dump 2.0

Here are a few images I scanned recently. Not much to say about them. Just some random sketchbook doodles.

Sketchbook dump...

My friend Keith and I have recently started giving ourselves weekly sketching projects to keep us motivated to draw. And I tend to draw the same things over and over if I don't give myself a bit of direction. So I was hoping this would help with that as well..I've been posting mine to my facebook account and thought I'd post a few here too. They're just mindless sketchbook doodles.. So don't think you're getting anything of quality. :) This was our first subject.. A Takin.. I did a couple of sketches from photo ref and the quickly veered off into cartoony caricatures..




Then Keith suggested we draw some rhino's. I didn't go as far off into the land of cartoon as I did with the Takin. Just quick little sketches...







Then Keith and I went to Tim Hortons and drew some regulars for a little bit. We only ended up staying for about 10 mins or so because Keith was too into it that day. But here's what I got out of it.. The first page was drawn from memory after I got home..



Our next drawing motivational subject was "evil". We were just going to draw whatever came into our heads when we thought of that word.. Again. I veered off track. As I tend to do. :) So some of these are less evil than they should be...













This one I drew with my daughter Chloe. She made some gestural lines around the page and I made a picture out of it. I think I like it the most:).


And with that I filled the sketchbook. It's been awhile since I've filled a sketchbook. It'll soon be time to figure out next weeks sketching project and start a fresh new sketchbook. Hopefully we can keep this up and I can fill the new one fast. I've got alot of barely started / totally empty sketchbooks that need filling. :)

Taken...

I saw the new Liam Neeson movie Taken recently. It was quite a romp. There's nothing like watching Liam Neeson kick ass for about 90min :). The surrounding drama was... meh.. whatever.. But I liked the asskicking. It made me smile and laugh.. And unfourtunately caused me to draw this horrible 5 min doodle. Suposedly this is Liam Neeson. At least that's what my brain was thinking when I drew it.. Geesh... I need to draw more... Draw more Neeson...

Change..

This was supposed to be an entry for the "Cute as a..." button event at the Confederation Centre of the Arts here in town. Something my wife talked me into. Until I realized 2 things... 1 it looked awful at the actual size of 1.5 inches. And 2.. I used an American quarter in my design and I'm pretty sure that's a copyrighted image. :) But oh well. I thought it was a funny idea. And I got to draw a little portrait of one of the most intelligent people I've seen take office at 1600 Pennsylvania ave. in my lifetime. And who knows.. Maybe someday he'll grace some actual US currency. But for now.. Here's hoping he can bring the change that is so desperatly needed in these times. He's got a tough job ahead of him. But I have faith in him. Have a good weekend!!