Doings and undoings from my sketchbook

Recent drawings follow. The second page consists of sketches of a few of my fellow passengers on the early morning Seabus.

"Alone in the Elevator"

Hey, I drew a comic strip. Wanna see? Just click on the teaser thumbnail below:

I'm still drawing!

And I'll prove it with this selection of my recent drawings:

I made a movie!

At Capilano College, whose commercial animation program whipped me into shape for the industry that has been my bread and butter for the past two years, part of the curriculum was a film studies course in which we were taught how to present a story on film -- staging, camera moves, cutting and the like. For our final assignment each of us was to make his own movie, with the help of his classmates. I hit upon the idea of a music video of a certain classic novelty song. I could rattle on about the joys and pains of what followed, but better I should just show you the result:

And life drawings too!

I haven't been as busy animating for a living this year as I was last year, so I've found more time to get some life drawing done. Here's some of the best of the lot:

Semi-annual update

They do seem to be coming as often as that, don't they? Anyway, even though I've been animating for my supper all the livelong day, I've found the odd moment to indulge the urge to doodle. Here are some of the results:




Like some of you, I'm between situations at the moment, so I expect to tackle at least one project of my own while at liberty, and one more ambitious than anything posted here to date. Tune in again soon, won't you?

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Hey, kids! Sketches!

And none too soon either:

Recent sketches

And about time too:


Some of these could use a little colour, don't you think? I'll see what I can do with them shortly.

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New stuff to look at!

And plenty of it too! I just finished uploading a whack of my latest drawings to my website. Have a look at it, if I may be so brash as to suggest as much.

New demo reel online

Work on Ruby Gloom wrapped up at Mercury earlier this month, so now I'm gathering up and sifting through my animation, drawings and what not to make a presentable whole to prospective employers. Part of that whole is my new demo reel, which I just uploaded to my website. Look here to see some of the work I did over the past year and a half -- all of which got on TV! New character designs and sketches will also go up soon; watch this space for news thereof.

Whattaya know? New drawings!

Best wishes for twenty-ought-eight to all! Follow this space in the new year for exciting developments. No, really!

Life during daytime

As of last week, after over a year of working Sunday to Thursday from 3:30 p.m. till midnight (and sometimes later), yours truly has moved to the day shift and now works Monday to Friday from 9 to 5 (and sometimes later). The new schedule has taken longer for me to get used to than I'd figured; for the first three days I was still going to sleep at 4 a.m. as had been my habit even though I now had to get up at 7 a.m., and as a result my efficiency at the studio during those days was, how shall I say, substandard. But I've been turning in earlier and earlier since then, and should be my usual chipper and alert self tomorrow.

My new work hours also allow me to attend life drawing sessions regularly. I took in the one at Basic Inquiry this afternoon, the first one I went to in several months and the first one I attended at that place. The selections below show how it went for me:

I've been cartooning in my sketchbook since my last post, of course, but nothing I've drawn since then seems much different from what I've put up here before, so I'll pass on showing any of it off. I have to shake off some old habits and do something really interesting before I pipe up here again. Some of my coworkers past and present are starting a comic book and I'll be attending their first meeting to see whether I can be of any help to them, and vice versa. If so, you'll hear more about it here soon.