So, I keep spotting these amazing caterpillars around my neighborhood, but cataclysmic events (for the caterpillars, at least) keep preventing me from taking pictures, so here’s a couple of quick photoshops.
The first one, a huge green caterpillar, which was nearly the length of my hand, probably 5 inches long, was crawling along on the sidewalk [...]

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I found a nifty sidewalk chalk character outside a kids’ store during Westfest, a dinosaur monster someone drew among all the scribbling of the toddlers. I’ve been itching to bring a box of coloured chalks home and doodle out some art on the sidewalks in front of our building, but I haven’t gotten around to [...]

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So I thought I’d travel light to work yesterday without my bag full of camera equipment and sketchpads and magazines and technical documents and library books, and invariably stumbled on all kinds of interesting stuff as I was leaving work. It seems like the universe waits for me to not have my camera on hand [...]

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Out by the river last night Natasha saw a bird with a red spot on it’s wing and asked me what it was. Being an expert ornithologist, I had no idea, so I stalled and told her it was a Cardinal. Except it was clearly not a Cardinal, it was a Red-Winged Blackbird. So she punched [...]

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I bought my first new sketchpad in over a year, and christened it before my next lifedrawing workshop with a big 12 by 12 inch Ninja Turtle. I doodled it in because it was fun to draw, I wanted to mess around with linework and practice my shading, and I needed to get something onto [...]

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I finally made it out this evening to a figure drawing class I’d been invited to weeks ago – Andrea suggested I might get hit by a boulder this afternoon before making it out of the office, since something seems to always come up on Wednesdays out of nowhere.
Doing figure studies was totally invigorating, though, [...]

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My doodling projects are coming along. I think, like anything, it’s just important to find some time to work on it a little bit every day. This is a three-armed Droid I’ve drawn up for Amber’s Star Wars movie – I’m trying to do up a set of robots I can model in 3d and [...]

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I always worry when I post an intentionally badly drawn picture that people are going to take it seriously – Natasha made a comment the other day about my hockey players that made me a little anxious. It reminded me that maybe it’d be nice to do some polished personal projects now and then.
It’s not [...]

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One of the other quick sketches I made in my book at the ROM (apart from some mideval Chinese sculptures) was this one of a bison. I thought he was kinda neat. So I’m sharing.

I’ve eaten bison before. I always feel guilty when I see them. They have very human faces. Big open eyes that [...]

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Meet Adam, my generic human. Modelled him during my downtime at home while I had no internet access. He’s a generic female with the touch of a few buttons, and the whole point of him is to serve as the clay that will allow me to build a whole fleet of digital people.

I can’t beleive [...]

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