i just read a post by Sam Blosma about his process work for his Hobbit series in which he is awesome enough to be showing us the magic behind the finished illos. one thing i absolutely love about sam's work is that he uses pencil in his finals - i love pencil drawings in a way that borders on obscene. check eet out.

i think i'll post some sketchbook stuff this evening.. stay tuneeeeed.

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for hubbuch in 1924

a drawing after a 1924 study by Karl Hubbuch entitled called Berlin City Scene with Circus Caravans.

in this version he is a honky tonk harmonica player.

for rego

a drawing after a study by Paula Rego

sometimes when i don't know what else to draw i like to make drawings based on other drawings or paintings. I'm not sure what they are, they are definitely referenced but i wouldn't call them studies because i'm not trying to be accurate. it's kind of like a drawing riff. i like how changing their styles and taking them out of their contexts changes their stories. i like to start drawing them and send them in different directions. i guess i kind of think of it more as a drawing collage: take two figures from two different paintings, put them together on a sketchbook page, and see what they do.

my living room

for an assignment we had to design a movie poster for terry gilliam's Brazil. i tried to do something totally different this time, working all art deco to give a little nod to Brazil's art-deco influence. i really liked the propaganda posters in the film.



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the moral of the story is, don't piss off your office supplies man, they will CUT YOU.

woohoo - for a book cover assignment.



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now with BONUS progress-shot-o-vision!

pencils for a big ol' drawing, now in bad-photo-o-vision!



scanning this is going to suck..

thursday night i had the opportunity to see Gary Panter speak (you may not know his name offhand, but he was the dude who did the set designs for Pee Wee Herman.) it was totally inspiring, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for sure. He's a very thoughtful man and also really, really funny. afterwards i ran up and got to shake his hand :B

also, yesterday I made a silly 6 page book out of my morning ink doodles, all on huge paper stapled together. i left it on queen west for someone to find - hello, did you find my book?

okay, okay, enough with the 3 headed cats, here's a drawing for a painting i'm starting:



inspired by a certain austrian.

okay, okay, enough with the 3 headed cats, here's a drawing for a painting i'm starting:



anatomy is for suckas!

inspired by a certain austrian.

hydra-cat



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this is how i spent my saturday night:

I'm totally jazzed to be a featured artist on Steel Bananas this month - thank you, banana gang!

Here are some more bananas for you and here is an article about Steel bananas on the Torontonist entitled This Shit is Steel Bananas

Rube Goldberg Machine: a deliberately over engineered machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction.

a little drawing from today that i rather liked

a sketch i'm working on turning into a big ink drawing, even as i procrastinate by posting it

This is a piece inspired by a Radiolab podcast about Memory (and forgetting). The main idea presented in the episode is that our memories don't exist in our heads in some kind of memory bank, they're actually created (and altered) on the spot every time we "remember" them. Because we base our sense of selves on these stories we're actually creating our identities as we go. Crazy! Listen here.



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