More quickies with the promise of more later.

Well I haven't been posting much. Reason is for the last few weeks I've been prepping for Frightfest (a bunch of avid haunters get together to put up an impromptu haunted house out in Langley for a campground)

We had hundreds turn up this year. The line went clear back to the entrance to our area for three solid hours. Good times! Photos of the set we build, some of the costumes and props to follow as they become available. Here's a couple starters and a bunch of little sketches from recent doodlequests.

it's a fun-splosion!

Lots of drawings and projects. Poster for a play a friend is doing, some coffee shop drawings, circus posters and Slughorn. I feel the need to explain the Slughorn thing and the Circus posters. So here we go. Circus posters were an attempt to draw like a person who *can* draw but was never *trained* to draw. Like if you started with the eyes like you used to draw people as a kid. Not sure how successful it was. I like the aging effect though. I'm going to print them out for our featured Circus room at the Hallowe'en in August event at FrightFest this year. Give them a good working over and singe the edges and so on. Slughorn was because I tried him a while back but it morphed into some weirdass non-slughorn character. So much to my amazement when I google images of "slughorn" I find this terrible drawing I did. So I'm doing this slughorn design to try and overwrite my previous terrible drawing of him with something more representative.

Have a good week everybody!

Madly Off in All Directions.

I have about a million things I keep telling myself I'm gonna do and all I'm doing is watching Season 1 of Q.I.

Life Marches on. And The Mist is a great movie.

Got the mist. Watched it. A lot. Cool movie. Very cool. Here's some paintings! One is sort of a drawing jam speedpainting I did trying to capture the look of the hidden city in The Mountains of Madness. The other is an attempt at "Innsmouth folk" but I don't think he looks fishy enough. Still like the painting though even if it missed the mark a little.

Hey everybody! Have a great day!

some quickies before I leave for the weekend

I'm going on record as saying that I really don't like Ledger's Joker. I stick by my trailer assessment that he looks like "a" joker rather than "THE" Joker. And I'm also getting the feeling and I hope I'm right that I'm gonna eat my words. I really hope so. Mech was inspired by an image I saw at theStudio B art show. It was very VERY cool. So I went and doodled a quick mech related image and did some quick colours and stuff on it. Fun times! I wish I'd been more careful wiuth the perspective. WTF is that thing behind them?!?!

Quick, man! Post something!

Yessir, here's some drawing and a painting. I got all inspired watching how fast ManMay's getting awesome at digital painting so I figured I'd jump in on the fun but the "speed" painting turned into a multi-day tinker and fiddle. Oh and owls are cool. Cats are there because I was staying at dad's place while he's in Winnipeg (Happy Birthday, Mum, Dad, Gillian and Paul!) and he has a cat. But she's boring to draw so I was drawing her poses as if she were more interesting. You hear me Marley? You're uninteresting! Ah-hahahaha!

Kung Fu Panda: Dreamworks Finally Gets it Right

It's awesome. I could nitpick but... screw it. Everything I wanted and more. Everyone go see it or else.