Happy Valentine's Day!

Created this sketch for Pacha Balloon Creations'
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Backyard sketch

Playing around with watercolour sketches...(15 - 20 min. sketch)

Balloon Seminar sketch dump

Many of you know that aside from living in "Animationland", I also have one foot in "Balloonland" (like the main character in the new Pixar movie "UP"). I was extremely surprised to hear of such a story line, since I create balloon decorations/event decorating, when I am not animating. I can't wait to see "UP" on May 29th! I guess my balloon-related story ideas should be thrown out the window now that Pixar got their hands on such a unique story...ARGH....
Anyways, here are sketches from a balloon seminar I went to. Yes the balloon is a 3ft. balloon, so it is meant to look that big. And yes, there are balloon decorating classes/seminars!!! My favourite one was in Disneyland!  Check out the cool portfoliohttp://pachaballooncreations.com Many people can't believe you can make anything out of balloons!

Sketch dump...

a few sketches...(top 2 from Arizona)

Remember...

It seems strange to think we can possibly forget what happened in the past, since we are going through war today. Based on that, I just drew a quick little sketch that I might colour if I have time. My cousin is in Afghanistan and my prayers are with him to come home safely.

Sketchbook

Some sketches from life drawing. Most are done between 10 - 20 min's in a sketchbook approx. half of a letter size piece of paper.

Life Drawing Madness

All of the uploads from today's postings are life drawings from last year and this year. They are a mixture of gestures, short poses, and longer poses. Most of them deal with experimentation on colour, lighting and drapery...all the aspects we are concentrating on this year. We are now trying to not only be able to draw what we see, but incorporate our ability to analyze the figure and portray it in the following ways: structurally sound, use of good design elements, and a sense of character. The practice continues.....

A few more older ones....might as well post them all!

Here are a bunch of older ones...

Still not the finals from my portfolio, but more experimentation. This whole semester is concerned with drapery.

Life Drawing

These are some life drawings from the past 5 weeks. I will update the ones I handed in for portfolio review when I get them back. I was playing with colours in a few of them, so they lack a little in structure, but were very fun to play with.

Watercolour Sketch

This was done in 2005 when I went camping. After coming across sketches like this, and being inspired by other artists, I really want to sit and paint from life again. At the time, I only had about 20 minutes to set up and paint this and then head back to the campsite. It was a fun quick sketch. I can't wait to camping again this summer!

Life Drawings

Some life drawings (not so recent).... but an update regardless.

U of T medical department

Drawn in 2nd year from a real kidney specimen at U of T.

Winter Fair 2005

Life Drawings

These are old life drawings I had from 2nd year at Sheridan. It's good to compare through the years of improvement. Can't wait to improve some more!