Sir Gowland of Caledonia, Rise a Knight of Strongbow!

Hey party-peoples!

I've been meaning to post more art up here for well over a month now, but I can't really seem to get past the point of scanning it.

So I became a knight of Strongbow this past Thursday. It is where a you finish a pitcher of Strongbow to yourself in under 45 min in the presence of an already established knight of the cider.

I found that finishing the pitcher wasn't the hard part. The hard part came when you were done, and then stood up to be knighted (butterknife style), and the "Whoaaa...." of realization that Strongbow is an 8% beer.

Anyways, it was fun. And the next day I found a gift from Lady Ramon (the first ever Lady of Strongbow) in my wallet the next day.












It may be illegal, and it may have cost me $5, but I say a Hellboy Laurier is worth it.


- Mighty Tighty Whitey

I Keep Doing This to Myself

I should not be awake right now.
There was no logical reason to colour this, but I did.



















This was from way back at the start of the summer. We were supposed to come up with 'professor-ish' characters, and I think I just ran with the idea of a guy with the pipe and got this.
It's pretty obvious I'm just copying Kent Mansly from Iron Giant. BUH.

- Fuh.

Told You So

Another version of an idea I'm working on. Probably not the final.

I whipped this one up for acting class, and I just put in the hyper detailed background.

You owe me.

- The secret was to scratch really, REALLY hard!

But Could He Play Guita-ar

I'm procrastinating so hard that I find myself staring at MSN, just watching people's names and pictures change. I'm not joking.

The reason I'm searching for distraction so hard is because I have a king's ransom in homework to do, and very little time to do it in. So this is probably a good sign that I will probably post something this weekend.

- Oh shit, there's a bear

Karin is Snoring Right Now. Don't Tell Her That I Told You.

AHAH! Got you!

Remember when I said that I was going to start updating like, a couple times a week?
You actually believed me?!
Holy shit! AHAHHAHAAHA.....AHHAHA..You stupid-AHAHHAAHHA......ahaha..I can't believe you actually thought that I would-BWAHAHAHAH...


Moving on.


Well I can at least give one excuse as to why I haven't been posting.
It's because I've been drawing like shit for the last two months.
I chalk it up to learning Maya as a shock to my system. That and I wasn't practicing.

Cough.

So yeah. Nothing really new. I talk to friends back home, and I'm amazed at how little is going on in my life aside from school.
Saw The Prestige. I recommend it. Wonderful tag-team of Bowie and Gollum. Only real criticism of the movie that I have is that it kind of danced around the first and biggest question of the entire film. How did Batman do the 'real magic' in the first place?
I understand that most movies want to keep an element of mystery to the whole ordeal, but this movie did a wonderful job of revealing secrets while keeping it entertaining. The fact that they left this one aspect unanswered left me feeling like someone forgot something.

Anways, here. I added some really quick colours to this like 15 min ago. There's some rough concept work of a character that I'm working on. And a unicorn.
























- I'm listening to music that you hate.

AND WE'RE BAAAACK!

Summer's gone.
Work is done.
Ani House is full of joyful angry lesbians.
Bring on the schoolin.
Fuck you, updatin'.

So I'm going to try and get back into the habit of posting sketches up here again fairly regularly.

But aside from that, everyone should be reading Scary-go-Round by John Allison, and Sam and Fuzzy by Sam Logan (I just realized this second that he named the main character after himself.)

Both are in the middle of fantastic story lines, and in the case of Sam and Fuzzy, a story line that stretches back well over a year now.

Amazing work.

- End transmission.

This was supposed to be like 4 or 5 sentances tops. I swear.

Dateline: Peterborough

In order to compensate the deafening amount of money I'm not making, we've been going out on Wednesdays and Saturdays to the Festival of Lights and doing caricatures of the many many Davey Jones fans.

It should be noted that Davey Jones is known as "The King Kong of the Monkees". Serious stuff.

This is pretty weird for me, because its so final. Draw the person so it looks like them. Caricaturize features of their face to make it "cartoony". Pretty it up, because people paying at a festival don't want to see how ugly they are. Do it fast. Don't screw up.

So often I have sold someone a drawing without being able to look them in the eye.

I've found that if I screw up it's not that bad. Often if I blow it on a drawing, people with think they are ugly, not that I can't draw. It's also a good idea to target couples, especially the girl of the group because the guy will sit there and say aloud how pretty the drawing is.

Anyways, we hit a huge dry spell on Saturday so I made a sign to post on the back of my drawing board.



You will not believe how well this did not go over in Peterborough.

- I'm so sorry.