Friends.

I took a break from sketches today and did more sketches. It seems redundant, but I enjoy it. There ivn't much thought to it, I just let my pencil loose and had a bit of fun.

Vintages: finished fox design

Here is the finished piece. I engraved with a wood burning tool a design I had shared in my last post. The design is filled with ink washes as a finishing touch.

The engraving is mirrored on either side. Here is a close up of the side view. I really enjoyed this project and really want to get started on more like it. if anyone has any suggestions on what the next project should be, feel free to shout it out.

The other day I went to a friend's house to help her move. I was immediately drawn to this wooden wine box, it was so bare I just had to take it home and attempt to give it some life.

As soon as I got home, I started sketching. The two themes I wanted to play with were wine and vintage, my instinct told me to turn to Dionysis (the greek God of the grape harvast). I noted that he would often be depicted wearing fox skins as a symbol of new life and would be surrounded by grape vines and ivy. Foxes, to me, seem like old souls and this plays well into vintage (since vintage is for those who feel kin with an older time).

Here is the final labelling I have worked out. I kept the line work brown because I am currently using a wood burning tool to inscribe the design onto the box itself.

I will be posting the final product, hopefully, tomorrow. In the meantime, I would love to hear your comments. Please feel free to critique.

Watermelon Sundress

As promised to a friend from A128, I've started designing my line of spring dresses for girls. They are (clearly) inspired by fruit and berries. This weeks feature is a watermelon, sleeveless sundress. This dress is perfect for Mommy's little helper in the garden or Sunday breakfast with the grandparents.

Stay tuned for the next design, strawberry blondie!

Dinosaur DNA

I know, this is an old image. But I have been meaning to tweak it here and there but have been so absorbed in my fourth year thesis that I have been putting it off.
I put this together for an assignment in school, where we would design a page for the National Post and they would critique the image. After reading an article on genetic engineering and remembering my love for drawing dinosaurs, I decided to throw this recipe together. The article read that scientists are working on cloning dinosaur DNA, just like in  Jurrassic Park. They would hypothetically slice the dinosaur DNA with DNA from a large bird, such as an ostrich, and the ostrich would lay a dinosaur egg through invito fertilization.
Now, I did stumble across this article a while ago and science has developed quite a bit since then, but I hope for the love of a duck that this does not happen. Jurrassic Park did not exactly end well, and I am certain it will not end well if this does happen.

A while ago, I posted my piece on three monsters reacting to their first romantic comedy when it was new. Since then I have scraped the first one and re-sketched, repainted, and re-edited the entire thing from scratch. I felt as thought the original was not clear enough in the message and believe this version reflects the mood of the movie genre better.

It is the end of the school year and I will finally be graduating after four long years at Sheridan college. Once school is over, I figured I would go a bit crazy without any projects to do so I have taken it upon myself to create projects for myself. The first of many is a comic about a vacant bunny who causes unthinkable trouble while his owner is out. I have the background on the characters figured out am in the process of writing and drafting. This is one of many of the process sketches. I just need to figure out the names of the owner and the bunny. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear it. If your suggestions are strong enough, I will use them in my comic. Just let me know what you think.