some recent stuff from my sketchbooks:



the 3 on the right are ref'd from 80's nat geo

that boy is my favourite thing i've drawn in the last few months, so here's a big ol' closeup:



i really like the feeling of the backpack, loosely drawn but still feeling like a solid object.

you want a toe? i can get you a toe by 3pm, with green nail polish.



bridgeman hand studies.

Presenting: the movie you all probably forgot you were in (except Phill)

my friend mina is a director and film editor, she documented us shaving our friend Phill's beard. watch us in our natural habitat, mina's bathroom!



If you're in TO, Mina's film Doppelgänger is showing at the Transak (292 Brunswick Avenue) as part of their event Sad Waitress Thursdays: The Doubles Edition on May 6th. See the trailer here!

life drawing from this morning's sustained pose



see it big here

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.



please CLICK HERE for the big.

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