I was so, so lucky to catch a recent lecture by Marian Bantjes at OCAD as part of their lecture series. Holy crap am I glad I did. She spoke for about an hour and I left the venue feeling giddy, she's like this ball of curiousity and creativity, she makes you want to experience more of everything. If you ever have the opportunity to hear her speak do it!

This piece is about Expressive Agnosia: the inability to recognize facial expressions. Little flygirl has broken her mother's vase but doesn't understand that her mother is mad.

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.

I read this poem by Ray Hsu on a plane when I was 18 years old, it was from a friend’s copy of Breathing Fire 2, a book of Canadian poets, and I was trying to kill time on this 13 hour flight. I'm still not sure what it means but I'm still so drawn to it and have to search it out every few months.

Here is an exerpt, I don't even know what it's called:

Take this shovel. It is the enemy of the ground. Use it to write a play where the shovel appears at the beginning and at the end. The people are important, the shovel is important. If a door is locked, use the shovel. If a man is wrong, use the shovel.

If I should die on the floor, use the shovel to return me somewhere. Do not use a splendid sentence the splendid sentence is not a shovel. The splendid shovel is not a shovel. Do not apologize you are not sorry.

Tomorrow I will be going on the trolley. I will not be taking the train. The map I did not take said nothing about a way to Spain. Do not follow me I did not take it.

"sometimes it’s good to do stuff you suck at."

- Jillian Tamaki

this is a loose study based on a design for a character named Avalanche by Steven Gordon for the animated series 'x men evolution'. i really love the simplicity of gordon's designs. i've been pausing and gesture drawing my way through a few of the episodes.

i'm working to simplify my lines and shapes.

the disappearing lady - a drawing so minimal it's barely there!

programmed to love?

"hello! i found this in your front yard."

some of you have noticed that my blog name as changed - i've gone from an old internet handle to my actual name. do not panic! everything is the same. needless to say some old links won't work.

a little more...

moar wip figure studies. what better way to spend valentines day!

progress report:

WIP! was feeling a little lazy doing all those portraits so now i'm attempting a full figure. let's see how far i can take this! it's so hard to stop but i have to get some sleep.. here is where i'm at right now

today's practice: adam hughes' supergirl

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.