A Feline Swashbuckler
Drawing-of-the-Day 17 Here’s another character from my doodles of last Sunday night, turned into a finished painting. I tried an experiment that was suggested to me by my mentor today […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
An Irate Mama Eagle
Drawing-of-the-Day 16! Blog post number 50! Whoo-hoo! In the graphic novel I’m working on with writer Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, there is a lady eagle who is quite irate, and telling Spam […]
Drawing-a-Day 15 — Birthday Card
My pencils and pens have been flying today — I’ve begun work on the pencils for the graphic novel, so I actually did a lot of drawings today, but I’m […]
Sid, Me, and the Bard
It’s about time I posted another comic — here’s a very silly one-page thing that I did for a class assignment last year. In our character design class, we had […]
Drawing-a-Day — Fortnight!
Today’s sketch marks two whole weeks I have been doing this. Sometimes I’ve only gotten a sketch in before midnight by the skin of my teeth, but I’ve done it, […]
Doodling a Drawing-a-Day — Little Bird Guy
Last night my hubby and I went to our usual Sunday evening haunt, the Victoria Folk Music Society’s weekly coffeehouse. I like to sit and doodle while I’m there, in […]
When a Drawing-a-Day Becomes Four Little Paintings
Today I taught my introduction to Watercolour Techniques class. I love beginner’s classes — it’s like getting to show your beloved city off to someone who’s never been there. And […]
Catching up on the Drawing-a-Day thing
It’s been a crazy-busy couple of days, and as I mentioned yesterday, I was away from the internet and didn’t have an opportunity to post yesterday’s sketch. So here it […]
Technique-of-the-Week — Combining Pen & Ink and Watercolour
It’s time for another dive into my vast pile of workshop handouts! I have been using this technique a lot lately, as it is my favourite method of colouring comics. […]
An Experimental Post and Pic
Today I won’t be able to post my regular post, as i will be out of the range of the internet (what?!? is anyplace out of range of the internet […]
Digital Dragon Delight — Drawing-a-Day 9
I can’t help it, I just like alliteration. Really, this is more of a painting today, but that starts with a P. Yesterday I posted the beginnings of a dragon […]
Drawing-a-Day 8
Sometimes an artist has to take some time to do other things in life. For some reason, housecleaning, social obligations, the procuring of supplies, unexpected phone calls, and spur-of-the-moment expeditions […]
Drawing-a-Day 7 — building on a gesture sketch
I didn’t forget my drawing of the day, but it’s been a very busy day, so I decided to go with the theme of this evening’s main post and build […]
Practice, Practice, Practice! — Achieving right-brain bliss through figure drawing
There’s an old musician’s joke: A fellow is walking down the street in Manhatten, looking lost. He sees a couple of guys on the street corner, busking, and asks them, […]
Drawing-a-Day 6 — a portrait
My drawing a day challenge is going along swimmingly, though I’m starting to obsess about it a bit. Tonight I went to life drawing at the studio co-op I belong […]
Anime, Manga, and Another Day, Another Drawing.
I had a great time at Tsukino Con this weekend, hanging out at the Camosun Comics and Graphic Novels Program table in artist’s alley, going to panels, admiring all the costumes, […]
Technique of the Week — Collage, beyond the Magazine
Almost everyone has made a collage at sometime in their lives; often by cutting up pictures from magazines and reassembling them to express a theme or an inspirational message. This […]
Wooing the Muse
Sometimes Iris just gives up on trying to keep my nose to the grindstone. I wanted to try using my brush-pen to do some really delicate details that I […]
Persuading the Muse
Iris is still not convinced about this drawing-a-day thing. She’s a bit high-strung but she’ll settle down soon, I’m sure. I, however think it’s a great chance to practice stuff […]
The Muse is not Amused
Uh-oh — now I’ve done it. Forgot to check in with the muse. Meet Iris, whose name means Rainbow. She’s my art muse. I have a bunch of muses, and […]
To Draw or to Blog — That is the Question!
This blog is like a shiny new toy that just keeps getting better. Today marks one solid, 31-day month of blogging every day for me (I was going to start […]
Collage — making a painting with paper and glue
Every now and then I get the urge to cover myself, my studio, and various more appropriate surfaces with pretty paper bits. I have a large collection of hand-made papers, […]
Blogging and the Virtual Studio Tour
Today’s article on WordPress’s The Daily Post, “Who Is Your Reader”, got me thinking. Who am I writing for? Well, if you’re reading this, you, of course! You’re visiting my […]
Technique of the Week — Demystifying Watercolour Paper
Since I was testing watercolour paper yesterday, this article that I wrote up for my watercolour students came to mind to post for this week’s technique. I’ve inserted some of […]
Testing Watercolour Paper with Renfrew the Raccoon
Renfrew the Raccoon is a character in a graphic novel I’m working on with author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, and as I’m just about to start on the full-sized drawings, I […]
