and again! i'm working my way through parts of this adam hughes book because I'm trying to study the way he paints... so i'm painting his stuff. over and over. and over. yay!

okay, disclaimer time: i dont read superhero comics. i'm just here for the painting.

hangover study - cat woman by adam hughes.

is there any hotter super villain?
(A: no.)

take your medicine!

police photos of australian criminals, 1920s

unbelievably beautiful images.

thank you mina!

ah yellow sweater you are nice.

i am watching you do stuff.

magic 8 ball says this thesis concept sketch may get rejected but i really like it

sucks to be that guy. i like drawing characters in ridiculous and horrible situations with whom i can then sympathize with.

this is a really quick and messy sketch i did of my nephew but i like it because i caught him in this second when he was poised to paint but then suddenly got distracted. his head moved but everything else stayed totally frozen in position. he had a deathgrip on his paintbrush but his other hand held the paper down so carefully and delicately.

everything about his pose said '3 year old' to me.



oh jack i love you

another doug braithwaite study - wonder woommaaannn



digital painting is funny, sometimes i'm like 'man it's so much easier to get this colour i'm looking for' and sometimes i'm like 'where is this colour, if i could only just mix it by hand'

another lil' somethin-something, from a top secret drawing i'm working on for a friend.



it's an alternate version oliver twist where everyone is replaced with gargoyles.

actually no its not. but y'aww ain't he cute?!

also i think this is my first serious attempt at a monster - cool!

this is a study based on part of a Justice cover by doug braithwaite.

i'm suddenly interested in digital painting! it's a lot more crampy than regular painting but im also not used to holding the stylus thingie.

This piece is part of a series entitled Stranger than Fiction, I've used retro and pulp fiction style imagery to explore contemporary neurological case studies revealing that actual science is even stranger than science fiction.

This piece is about Delusions of Sentient Companions: where the sufferer believes inanimate objects are sentient.. and sometimes BFFs!

my nephew jackson, caught in sharpie. this kid does not stay still. ever.

he is my robot-suit building buddy.

I think there can be a tendency to over-conceptualize in illustration… or perhaps it’s just fashionable at the moment. Never underestimate the value of (and NEED for) simple, effective drawings. In every Concepts class I’ve taught, I’ve tried to instill the idea that sometimes a beautiful drawing is enough. Just as “surface” style can become dated, so can “conceptual” style. - Jillian Tamaki

just to prove im still doing stuff! here is part of a larger drawing.

repost, because i finally got a scanner big enough to scan it properly.



click for big.

from this morning; gesture/shape exercises



i saw true grit last night and it was really good! then again, i also would have paid the same amount just to watch jeff bridges drunkenly ramble in a cowboy suit for two hours. i love that man.

i've spent the entire day gesture drawing. i just realized i'm kind of tired. here's one that i liked!

Jillian Tamaki is going to be at TCAF again this year(!!) and she's made the most beautiful poster for it. Can't wait to nab a poster after they're put up around the city. I met her once before but I was so excited that I think I embarrassed myself so I hope to be more composed this time around. She is one of my top fav illustrators.

Annyen watching fantastic mr. fox.



Annyen Lam is an awesome printmaker and bookbinder who has printed with a steamroller.