Evil Queen

I loved the life drawing theme this week, here's a photo of one of my sketches.  The character model was so fun to draw :)

Journey to the West

Todays' Sketch Dailies theme was Monkey King. Such a fun idea! I'm so swamped with work though, I just wish I had more time, but I wanted to do something for this theme today. Sketch dailies has been great for me to practice colour sketches. So here's a fast Sun Wukong sketch, just wish I could squeeze in more time!

Jinkies!

Quick Velma Dinkley colour sketch for sketch dailies.

Three Blind Mice - String Trio

Really fast colour sketch for sketch dailies.  I wasn't initially inspired by the theme but then I started thinking about how developed your other senses are if sight is removed, and I thought about how they would feel and enjoy music... So this was my fast last minute sketch once I finally came up with an idea.  I wanted to try keeping it really graphic, so it had more of an old school jazz feel to it.

Selfie

Sketch Dailies theme of the day was Selfie.  Yesterday was a long day, but I managed to get a fast sketch in before bedtime!

Gibson Girl

Last weeks' life drawing theme was inspired by Charles Dana Gibson and his iconic Gibson Girls.  Such a fun costume theme to draw!  I just wish I had a scanner, but for now phone photos will have to do!

Jem for Sketch Dailies

Sketch Dailies theme of the day was Jem.  Here's my Jem sketch, I managed to squeeze in some time to draw and colour it this morning.  It's very pink...

Cleopatra

Just another sketch dailies theme drawing, I have a bunch piled up, I need to just start grouping them each week so I don't over spam this blog!

Bonnie & Clyde

Another drawing for sketch dailies. :)

Griffon

Just another quick sketch for sketch dailies.  I love that they have daily themes!

Dancer

Just a photo of a 5 minute sketch from the life drawing session this evening.

Centaur for sketch dailies

Sketch dailies had a centaur theme this week, I had to do a tribute to Fred Moore style Fantasia centaurs.  I love his drawings!

Danielle

It's been a while, so I thought I'd put something up.
I'll be getting a break soon and be able to update this more frequently!

Animation Art Show - Dublin

Here is a piece I did for the Animation Art Show, which takes place in November in Dublin, Ireland.  The show is organized to help raise money for 2 children's charities.  It's worth checking out!

Merida

Had a really fun costume drawing session at the studio where our model posed as Merida from Pixars' Brave.  She was awesome!  Here are some of my gestures.  Derwent Drawing Pencils on Newsprint.

Former Hollywood Actress

Character Poses

Some of my drawings from my characters' pose sheet.  Definitely fun to try to figure her out :)

 

Center Stage Gallery

Just a photo from the exhibit.

Character sketches

Some exploration sketches to figure out her personality.

Center Stage Gallery

I'm really excited that four of my pieces have been selected to be featured in "Fast Tracked Animation" an exhibit curated by CGMA, along side the signing of the Art of Turbo, from Dreamworks.  The show takes place at the Center Stage Gallery in Burbank, California, during the last 2 weeks of July. If anyone is in the area, I think it will be worth checking out. I already know of one of the other artists, Trip Park, who's work will also be featured.  He does beautiful work, and I am so excited to see the rest of the work from all the other artists in the exhibit!  I feel very very honoured to be featured along side that kind of talent.

Bonny

Quick sketch of Bonny from life drawing practice.  I liked her costume so I just thought I'd add an old paper texture to match the feel of her circus outfit.

Danielle

It's been a bit busy, but I wanted to post something.  I finally scanned one of my costumed drawings of Danielle.

Bonny

Here's another sketch of Bonny as Marie-Antoinette.

Marie-Antoinette

Here's Bonny as Marie-Antoinette.  Bonny's a great character model, I love drawing her!

Pin Up Exhibition

A couple years ago I was invited to participate in an exhibition of Pin Up art that was held at a gallery in Paris.  The exhibition toured around France and also came to Montreal.  I was really excited to be invited to participate, as many artists like Alessandro Barbucci were also part of the exhibit and I was honoured to be included in a project with them.  It's an old piece, but this is one of the drawings I was able to find a scan of.

Pocahontas

Here's a quick gesture from a life drawing session.  It was a really fun session with Danielle as Pocahontas.

Andreane

7 min sketch of Andreane.

Character Orthographics

Andreane

I haven't had a chance to post in a while, (mostly because more than half my work is done on paper and I get lazy about scanning) so I thought I'd post a quick drawing from one of my life drawing sessions.

Tiger sketch

I thought I'd keep playing around with photoshop, still learning to use it!

Marie-Lyne

I thought I would put up another drawing of Marie-Lyne.  She was a beautiful model, and an artist.  She treated modelling as an art form, and took the concept of being a muse for artists to a level all to itself.  She will be missed by many artists.

Character story moment

Character study

Studio drawing

Sometimes when there are 10 min poses at the studio drawing sessions, I finish the drawing early and end up drawing other artists in the room.  (I'm sure I'm not the only person that's ever done that in a drawing studio :P).  This is a quick sketch of my friend.

Swashbucklers!

I had a great time playing around with a diverse line up of pirates.  I love swashbuckling adventure, so this was really fun!