SkADaMo Nov 7: Lucy

Max Ferman's kitty Lucy came up on my Facebook Newsfeed just as I needed a model and my kitties are in the other room. So here she is. Background is dark Painter pastel and coloured pencil. Kitty herself is all Painter coloured pencil. Drawn on my cintiq.

Sketch A Day Month: Nov 5: yes, another kitty!

Sadie laying on my arm, so I can only use my stylus to draw: no resizing, changing brush size and all that fancy stuff! Figured I may as well draw her, before I dethrone her so I can do some professional work at my Cintiq! You can see the rest of the participants by clicking the SkADaMo button on the right hand menu... See you later today for Nov 6!

Hmmm, now that I see it in thumbnail, back of the head not quite right. Brightest point should be the back left of her head. oops!

SkADaMo Day 4: Amazy

Here is cartoonist Lee Kennedy's kitty, "Amazy". I drew her first in regular Real 2B Pencil brush in Painter 11, and then added in a blue pastel background, with the white lines on the fabric drawn in eraser, again in Painter 11. What do you think?

SkADaMo #3

Well, they "mostly" held still today... moved when I got this far (and stripey Sadie actually turned her head to the side halfway through so I faked it a bit)... Sketch for Day #3... so far so good!

SkADaMo sketch #2: Nov 2

Second "Sketch a Day". This one is Kitty Alley lying on the table beside my computer. I was trying to sketch as fast as possible but of course she still moved.

Finding it frustrating to not understand properly how to get the 2B Pencil brush in Painter to go wider when I tilt it and draw in certain directions for the black. Not much control. Good exercise though.

Halloween 2013: Home Office Illustrator on Deadline!

Since provoked by the SkADaMo to rediscover this blog, ask for a new log-in password etc, I guess I'll make use of it! Here is my "inspired" Halloween costume this year: a self-employed illustrator on tight deadline... my personal nightmare! (well, unemployed illustrator with no deadlines at all is worse but still...) Here we go!

And no, I don't put curlers in my hair (who has time?!) or wear a housecoat and pjs. Or mismatch my socks. But the coffee cup is authentic, as are the birkenstocks, overdue bills, worn out hoodie, fingerless glove and art supplies! :) What is YOUR art-related nightmare?

SkADaMo !!! Let's try it!

So yes, I haven't updated here since July 2011 it seems. Between moving from Montreal to Saskatchewan (Martensville, just north of Saskatoon), too much work, no work, too much work, travel etc... I seems centuries since I have been drawing just for drawing. Two days ago I heard about SkADaMo: Sketch A Day Month, this November. And decided to go for it. I am sorry that for me, days usually start late and finish late, so for me it is still Nov 1 but for everyone else I am late. Here goes! Someone said that the theme was "vice". Mine seem to be procrastinating, coffee and munchies (buttered popcorn, melted cheese, gummy bears...) less than exciting things like absinthe, crack cocaine, wild sex, grand theft auto... so here we go!

Hopefully tomorrow I'll draw something more interesting than "myself"!! This is quite like my Liliane comix character, though you can tell it is me, not her, since I have a nose!