A piggy.

Random Assortment of Gestures.

Yes, I understand I misspelled "Bieber". :P

I saw a Fox last night.

Evil Llama

They are planning something...oh yes....

Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Drawings

ROM Visit for animal studies.

I was back at the ROM to do some more studies on their taxidermy animals. The last one is the "Aye-Aye". Due to bad lighting I couldn't see what was going on with the hands clinging to the tree-branch, so I will need to do some more studies on it's fingers to finish the drawing.

Cattle and pigeons! (And a Guinea Pig mixed in.)

A few pages from my sketch book. Random internet photos used as reference.

Domesticated Pigeons are super fun to draw. 

Fur and other studies!

Red Panda studies. I have huge issues drawing really furry animals. (I get confused on how to convey that they are furry.) I decided to start studying furry little animals in order to finally solve this problem via trail and error.

Some studies of Persian kitties. :3

Three gestures from a Starbucks trip.

Studies of my cat, Ashie.

Trip to the Museum and a new Pen!

Two sketches at the coffee shop one afternoon. Second is a rare environment sketch. Just the view of a shop on the street outside.

This past weekend, I headed to the Royal Ontario Museum to sketch. Here are some of them.

I purchased a new brush pen and decided to try it out by doing gestures in a local Tim Horton's.

I'm attempting to get more expressive gestures but it's a bit tricky in places like the coffee shop. Most people just stand in line and play on their phones. ><

Neutral Face - First Draft

Original character's neutral face. When I re-draw cleaner and a bit more accurately, this will be the baseline face for all other facial expressions this character makes. (A portfolio requirement is your original character making several facial expressions from different angles.)

There are some flaws I will be correcting, such as the ears and how they aren't totally lined up.

Full body: First draft

This is the first draft of the character I designed for the school portfolio I'm working on. Eventually, she will be in a full character rotation


The arm bugs me. It feels too ridged.

Designing an original character : Part 1

I started my first baby steps toward my chosen schools portfolio requirements.

The drawing test requires the design of an original character. After going through various ideas in my head, I came up a messy sketch of this girl.

I liked how it turned out in the sense that she looks a lot different than what I would normally draw.

After a few hours of attempting to draw her in a pose, I realized that I will need another sold week or two of anatomy study to perfect the pose.

Since I had a face, I decided to work on various expressions.

The first sketch is the very last facial attempt that day. I made her look like she was beaming. The lips look terrible in the second sketch but I like other aspects, such as the eyebrows.

First sketches where I drew the face and re-drew the same face with a different expression and in a different position. (You can also see all of my guidelines. ^_^)

Finally, a drawing update!

Two of the better pen sketches I've done lately.

When I have the odd day off....

One of my houseplants. An exercise in procrastination....

I will say that this was a practice is composition and some other fundamental rules. (Art has rules and formulas like anything else.) 

Saturday's activites.

On Saturday I biked to a conservation area located near my apartment. My main goal was photos of birds, but I ended up leaving with this as my only picture. It's a Wooly Bear Caterpillar.

I adore these little guys and move them to safety if I discover them in a place where they can be squashed.

While walking the trail, my companion and I heard a strange call. I thought of a list of birds that were spotted in the area and exclaimed "it's a gray catbird". He thought that I was making it up until I pulled out my birding app and showed him. We never got a clear look at the bird but the area it was found in matched and the call was unmistakable. (It sounded like a Siamese cat.)

The total distance biked that day was about 15 miles plus all the walking we did in the conservation area. Not too bad.

Buttons!

 (My cat "Buttons")

I'm not dead. I'm just very busy.

In the past two months I've :

• Found a new job that's actually tolerable. 
• Been trying to improve my photography skills.
• Been chillaxing in spare time reading various books. So far, all non-fiction. I'm not big on fiction.

Zoo Drawing Dump

I made two 2 1/2 hour trips to the Toronto Zoo over the weekend and came out with more sketches than I do when I visit for the whole day.

Apologies for the lack of posts lately. I've been busy adjusting to the new job.