The Second Fabriano Book is Finished

Book #2 is now full. Here are some drawings from that book which I hadn't posted before. (Ach, This layout is irritating.)

Coloured pencil. I went over this with a clear wax and polished the surface. and while it did enhance the colours, it also caused the wax in to coloured pencils to sort of "pill" and become muddier.






Coloured pencil.
They eventually fixed this flag by cutting off the torn panel.








Water soluble coloured pencil and water based markers (flouresent highlighter pens)








Pencil, pen, highlighting marker, white, yellow and blue Stabilo pencil.





Pencil, pen, highlighting marker









Pen, water soluble markers and black Sharpie.







Pencil, sepia brush pen, highlighting markers.









Gravity strings. pencil, coloured pencil, water soluble marker, pen

Eventually...

Eventually, these wi'll appear in a more proper form on my portfolio site before too long.

I'm sort of pleased with these two.

Mostly what I do with these images on line is demonstrate how un-critical I am on my own photography.

Leaves and "Acutal Size"

The paintings of my sons

stage #1

sans titre

More items in progress

I was in my little painting nook with the camera last night. These are the paintings I've got on the go. The light wasn't the best. The images looked better on my laptop than they to on the this one (Our other PC). Almost all of these are incomplete. I'll post progress pictures from time to time.

(fixed the colours somewhat.)


Gareth, early days in War of 1812 reenacting.

Needs about another 4 hours work.









Glenn Beauchamps working on the Lancaster, bracing the fuselage.
This and the next two are part of what may end up as a series of people working.










Hands of a graphics installer applying a vinyl wrap.










Man with hoist. (Lancaster work)










What it looks like












box in the livingroom ceiling.













Used turps Jar.
done, I think

next

I'm staring two new paintings tomorrow.

Portraits of my sons. This will be interesting, because - well, because I don't have a client to please, while at the same time being very unsure about even being able to do a creditable job.

Thumbing through the "not quite done yet" file

This blog seems to more about becoming something than being anything.
I'd rather post works in progress than finished items.

So here are some more, near completion or at the point where I stop to ask "is it done?".










Pipe Wrench. This may be done. I like it raw like this.










Grey Data Cable. Needs some refinement.













an Actual Size item. well OK, this is 90% done. Or 99%.










Dash Skating. I was going to work up the details quite abit more, but I like this one the way it is.

Just About Done -

.. But painting children is damn difficult. Just like they've always said.

It is a very long time since I painted at all, and quite frankly, I have only painted two other portraits before,and they were when I was a teenager in highschool. this was a practice piece to warm up for the other two.

More From The Sketch Book

progress on the painting front

Now that the Cartooning course is done I can clean up some of my other commitments.

The portraits for my client are almost done. It has been a crash course, re-learning how to paint. All in all, the faces aren't bad. Kids faces are a heck of a lot harder to paint that adult faces, and little girl fingers are murder. I painted an extra (head only) portrait of the girl just to get a bit of practice in.

At the same time, I'm very parsimonious with paint. This means that when I squeeze a little out of the tube it must be used. If I see I have some that may go to waste I either prepare a new canvas with an earth ton base coat or start a new painting. there are about 10 at various stages right now and they are much more interesting than these two. Postings to follow some day soon. I have to have these two ready to mail next week, which has to include drying time.

Where ESR-A Lives

Or part of it - What fits in the scanner.













ESR-A, Poubelle and GRRR-BIN all live in a "mixed use" neighbourhood on a residential / light industrial street. The view out the back of their home is of industrial buildings and a distant city scape. Their house is the one under the high tension power lines (the ULW radiation keeps their batteries charged). It is a small factory building or something like a railway switching tower. They live there in hiding, although only nominally so. ESR-A occasionally has to disguise himself, and they have to keep an eye out for Sanitation Department inspectors. The yard is littered with broken appliances. most neighbours are strangely blasé but there is at least one Mrs Kravitz they need to deal with from time to time. (Or, who was the nosey neighbour in My Favourite Martian???)

Perfect House for a Cartoon Character

My first though was to place him in one a "Save TheChildren" donation box. You can see these in Scarbourough, ususally in pairs or threes. Cute idea, but then the interior isn't going to work unless I distort the space - or ignor it.


Alternately there is the industrial building idea. I like the railway contol tower, but in practical terms it will be a time consuming pain to draw over and over again. It will also dictate that their home is some place near train tracks, because for the story I don't want to part from reality that much. There fore the tiny factory building works best for me. The next step is to design and model the interior, then map the neighbourhood.




I was most impressed when I went to see Seth's exhibition in Guelph the the thoroughness of the back story he created. The central piece of the exhibit was a scale model of the city it was set in. Each building had a history. One of his notebooks was open to a page with the history of the train station, which was based on Toronto's Union Station.