I showed up a bit early to pick up Natasha after work, so while I waited in the car I pulled out my long-neglected sketchbook and doodled out the awesome view from the back of the confederation building. This is Parliament Hill’s Peace Tower, looking from just behind and below the West Block. (Can you [...]

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I went back to life drawing after a bit of a hiatus and had a really good night – I even exceeded my expectations a bit and managed to not horribly embarrass myself with my final drawings. The guy posing (Jarl) was a real pro – he was doing crazy dynamic poses using [...]

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I needed some elements for a web design I was working on, so I had some fun writing up a little script that generates electronic-looking shapes I call “Traces”. They’re drawn using a “Random Walk” algorithm I wrote that’s limited to 45-degree turns – the result is cool-looking cyber-lines.

Because the path is random, [...]

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Thought I’d have a bit of fun with them before I go on to the next step.

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Having worked with a large number of very smart people I’ve long ago come to terms with the notion that I am not as smart or as original as I wish I were. An example:
I’d had a neat dream – I was looking at cells all packed closely together, jiggling and dividing with their little [...]

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I recognise that this is an advertisement, but I had to share. This is what happens when you bring buckets and buckets of free paint to ugly grey parts of Brazil, France, London and India, and then get a director to shoot it in time lapse. Click the image to jump over to Youtube to [...]

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We were downtown last night for a life-drawing session with a twist – the models come in costumes. Dr Sketchy’s Anti-art School arranges for ladies in themed outfits to show up at Mercury Lounge and pose, and local animators and drawing enthusiasts show up to record it all in pencil. They’re generally racier costumes, but [...]

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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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