Insides on Paper

2008-09-25T21:05:00.001-07:00

Here's a couple of Thumbelina inspired drawings done at work.

A sketchbook?

2008-09-10T21:01:00.000-07:00

I've quite recently bought myself a sketchbook. Haven't had one for years. It's strange really, but it's nice to know where all the last drawings I've made are at! :) - Normally I draw on loose leaf paper... which always seems to get lost in the shuffle.

Anyway, I've done a few watercolor sketches.

Here they are!

Thanks for checkin in!

And here's one on a piece of paper. What the hell why not.

Making Mirco's day...

2008-06-18T21:53:00.001-07:00

I hope :)

Here's a couple of watercolors I've done in the past few weeks... I've been trying to keep doing one every night.. but that never happens.

More soon... maybe. ;)

Happy

Mad

Acceptance

Painting time

2008-05-23T00:46:00.000-07:00

Here's a few drawings I did over the weekend... I've found a watercolor kit, and started painting again... The top lineup of drawings are all on the same page.... if anyone finds that interesting. :)

Dinner time!

2008-05-14T00:01:00.001-07:00

This is a little animation I've been working on for a bit.

Hope you like it!

Painted Sculpture

2008-04-23T23:03:00.000-07:00

So here it is, the final, painted sculpture.

I wanted it to be a little dark... I was actually going to paint it black, but that was a bit too plain... so this is what it looks like now... Hope you like it!

2008-04-16T00:24:00.001-07:00

Just a quick update:

Sculpture time!

2008-04-14T21:58:00.001-07:00

I always wanted to sculpt more... so now I am! This is a rough work in progress, hopefully done within the next few days so I can start another one...

This one's for you Anthony!

More Drawings...

2008-04-10T21:48:00.001-07:00

Here's another fat bastard... I think
I love fat bastards...

A couple of skulls, I've been trying to
learn more about the face, and made
up couple of skulls

Something about this drawing I liked...
it was a super fast sketch done in the
morning...
And a quick paint of one of the skulls

Bossman..

2008-03-27T22:40:00.000-07:00

Here's one of those monstrosities painted in roughly. .. I'm just learning to paint, so I'm having a hard time picking colors so bare with me!

Birth

2008-03-26T00:45:00.000-07:00

Ok.. this is a disturbing one... but I just had to.

Walking to lunch the other day I saw a crow gagging... and I thought how funny it would be to have this happen... again, sorry, I know it's gross, just.. don't watch if you're sensitive :P

Enjoy!

:)

Wow. Almost made it a year.

2008-03-24T21:59:00.000-07:00

Without posting :)

Seeing as I've started drawing more being on Barbie... the computers aren't as speedy as some, and I've had to release some Barbie energy on paper... so I thought about putting some of my new ones up...

I'm thinking about making one of them into a sculpture... but until I actually start it, I'm not saying anything. I'll hopefully do more of these, and start posting again... And I'm also thinking about painting a few of them... just cuz.

Thanks for checking them out!! And let me know what you think! :D

Later!

2007-05-27T17:08:00.000-07:00

Tofino! whoa! It's a place in BC that's tucked away as far as Sydney is to Halifax. It's full of dangers :

The dangers of slipping,

the dangers of finding an eyeball in your beer, (not really)

the dangers of drinking out of a wine bottle at a fancy restaurant,

the dangers of falling in love with huge trees,

the dangers of being eaten alive by the same giant trees you just fell in love with,

the dangers of this temptation : it isn't a swing. it's a sling shot, obviously.

the danger of being dive bombed by a bald eagle

the dangers of Tsunamis,

the dangers of the moss-sloth

the dangers of me putting a napkin on my head in the same fancy restaurant and start acting like a pirate,

the dangers of great big slugs!!!! :

the explosive danger that comes with giant slugs playing chicken... tsk tsk.

the dangers of hunting great big slugs

the danger of finding some Ron in my sushi

And of course, the danger of relaxing.

Thanks for checking out this mother of all posts!

2007-05-08T22:20:00.000-07:00

Flowers !

I walked around the streets last week and found a really creepy place...

Wrestlers and machinery... must be some sort of fetish ... :S

I was coming down from work today, and I saw these guys.

Thought I'd share :)

I got drawings coming up soon... just gotta get them in the computer...

More magic of Vancouver

2007-04-07T12:56:00.000-07:00

Sooo here's a bunch of pictures from around the city, from the beautiful to the ugly...

I wanted to find Stanley park but I couldn't find it on my own, so I just kept walking around town. Then out of nowhere, I saw trees in the distance, and I walked in that direction. Suprise! I'm in Stanley park! :D

In town, cherry blossoms bloom

At one point I ended up at the beach:D

At the beach, tiny little flowers start to grow

Then from the beach to a scary back alley in the city... there's countless alleys like this around town... I just picked one... And saw the "behind the scenes in Vancouver" :D

I went down the alley to see how many needles I could find. And I kept an eye on the streets of downtown.

And now, on to some happy stuff. Here's Stanley park.

If you look closely, you can see the gondolas I was in when I went to grouse mountain :D

Now, this really threw me off. Totally. I was feeding the squirrels in the park ( I found a pack of crackers on the ground ) and after sprinkling some crackers on the ground, this thing came out of nowhere!

Can you see him? :D

After walking in the forest for what seemed like hours, I started panicking... I couldn't hear a single car sound, no one was around, I actually hadn't seen anyone for over an hour... and the sun was setting. I just stumbled out of the jungle and landed here, a very expensive restaurant.

Complete with a beach :D

Ok, this is it for now... my feet are killing me.

later!

work sketches

2007-03-26T22:16:00.000-07:00

Hey :D

here's a couple of sketches I did at work... I can't seem to draw anything at home, but I feel more at ease at work... and I think I'm getting worse at drawing every day now... I just don't draw half as much as I did. Oh well. And all I seem to be drawing lately is monkeys... which isn't that bad :D

She's sad 'cause no one wants her... :(

Me on Fridays

Thanks!

Scream!

2007-03-16T22:50:00.000-07:00

Hey, nothing really new to talk about, but this! Awesomeness!! I don't think I need to ask if anyone ever heard this scream before :D

Enjoy!

whistler!!!!

2007-03-04T23:00:00.000-08:00

Wow! What a place. I wasn't planning on going there this weekend at all. I randomly went, and I'm glad I did! I met up with a few old friends who've been living there for 7 years as ski bums, getting themselves a ski magazine front cover shot each, Matt, Kris and Dom, and slept on their couch :) Fun times!

First day there, I couldn't see the mountain clearly, so I thought it ended where the clouds are. Surprised the hell out of me the next day!

Matt and I went biking in the snow... and saw some crooked trees:D they were pretty tall...

Kris and me ready to strike! (the camera wasn't responding, and I went back to see what the deal was, and then it worked :D )

Kris always had a way with parking :D

Whistler is really an awesome place. Even if you don't ski ( I didn't end up going... funny story) it's so nice. I can see how this is a dreamland for skiers and snow boarders.

Thanks for checking out!

The incrrrrrredible brother of mine!!! :D

2007-03-02T00:02:00.000-08:00

This is my brother Charles. He does something I've NEVER seen. Yes, never. Ever. I'd like to know if anyone else has ever seen this, or can do this. :D

PS:I know I went overkill with the editing, but hey... it's freaking great!

download quicktime version here

Life drawing again

2007-02-27T21:30:00.000-08:00

Here's a few pics from the sunday life drawing. The model was crazy skinny!!! couldn't believe it.
So I just had to stick to super skinny drawings for gestures :D

Thanks for checking them out!

The Lyre bird

2007-02-16T15:27:00.001-08:00

Whoa! Ok... this is real, and it's totally unreal at the same time... check it out to the end, ok? It's worth it.

More Life Drawing

2007-02-13T23:04:00.000-08:00

Here's a few more life drawing's from Sunday... I really wasn't having a good drawing day... and getting there I spilled my coffee all over my seat and some of it went onto my paper... which gave the pad a real textured feel... threw me off completely. :D

The model was crazy. I never had such difficult poses... he tethered himself with a rope tied to a pole, and was leaning into and out of poses from time to time... great stuff :)

And his regular poses were pretty spectacular too

That's all I got this time! Thanks for checking it all out!

2007-02-10T20:53:00.000-08:00

Here's more pics of downtown. i didn't realize how much the buildings look fake :D

And this is Grandville Island. I though there would've been nice coffee shops there to sit at and draw, but all there is is shops!

Free Stuff!!!

2007-02-08T00:24:00.002-08:00

So I got a call from my landlord, he asked me if I wanted free stuff. I said sure! I just have a few plates and bowls and all that. He said he had speakers and a microwave too, but I really didn't expect the speakers to be giant... oh well. :D And the coffee table is pretty neat too! He bought a place a few doors down from mine, left the door unlocked so I could get in, and told me to "loot the place"... in those exact words :D and yeah... I now have stuff. :D

I just hope nothing is gonna happen to me now... like police... or mob guys... but in the mean time, I'm enjoying me new free stuff! Can't wait to throw plates at that guitar playing guy at the bus stop :D

Life drawing

2007-02-04T20:22:00.000-08:00

Here's a few drawings I did at life drawing here in town... I don't get to draw too much any more, and it's nice to get to do some every once in a while.. all the poses are 5 minutes or less...The schedule is nice, it's 15 minutes of 30 second poses, then 1 minutes, then 2 minutes, then 5. It's comfortable.

One from my first day there... the model was pretty great!

My second week there. The model did the strangest poses I have ever seen... but still good... and sweaty... like, drench sweat all over the stage, sweaty... :S

Last week's model. These poses are pretty much ALL she did. For 3 hours. It was pretty boring... but I guess it forced me to draw things that are boring. Like the model.

And this week's model was great. She had really difficult poses to draw... and it wasn't a good drawing day to begin with... but fun none the less...

Ok! well, there's a little something different for you guys who read this thing! Later!!

Something for all artists/animators

2007-02-03T13:13:00.000-08:00

This kind of stuff has been said many times before, but it's always nice to have a new iteration :D

This should be called "Hey Findlay! Wake the f*3k up!!"

Every day, there are more and more Craigs List posts seeking “artists” for everything from auto graphics to comic books to corporate logo designs. More people are finding themselves in need of some form of illustrative service.

But what they’re NOT doing, unfortunately, is realizing how rare someone with these particular talents can be.

To those who are “seeking artists”, let me ask you; How many people do you know, personally, with the talent and skill to perform the services you need? A dozen? Five? One? …none?

More than likely, you don’t know any. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting on craigslist to find them.

And this is not really a surprise.

In this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.

So, given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as you drive down the street?

Would you offer a neurosurgeon the “opportunity” to add your name to his resume as payment for removing that pesky tumor? (Maybe you could offer him “a few bucks” for “materials”. What a deal!)

Would you be able to seriously even CONSIDER offering your web hosting service the chance to have people see their work, by viewing your website, as their payment for hosting you?

If you answered “yes” to ANY of the above, you’re obviously insane. If you answered “no”, then kudos to you for living in the real world.

But then tell me… why would you think it is okay to live out the same, delusional, ridiculous fantasy when seeking someone whose abilities are even less in supply than these folks?

Graphic artists, illustrators, painters, etc., are skilled tradesmen. As such, to consider them as, or deal with them as, anything less than professionals fully deserving of your respect is both insulting and a bad reflection on you as a sane, reasonable person. In short, it makes you look like a twit.

A few things you need to know;

1. It is not a “great opportunity” for an artist to have his work seen on your car/’zine/website/bedroom wall, etc. It IS a “great opportunity” for YOU to have their work there.

2. It is not clever to seek a “student” or “beginner” in an attempt to get work for free. It’s ignorant and insulting. They may be “students”, but that does not mean they don’t deserve to be paid for their hard work. You were a “student” once, too. Would you have taken that job at McDonalds with no pay, because you were learning essential job skills for the real world? Yes, your proposition it JUST as stupid.

3. The chance to have their name on something that is going to be seen by other people, whether it’s one or one million, is NOT a valid enticement. Neither is the right to add that work to their “portfolio”. They get to do those things ANYWAY, after being paid as they should. It’s not compensation. It’s their right, and it’s a given.

4. Stop thinking that you’re giving them some great chance to work. Once they skip over your silly ad, as they should, the next ad is usually for someone who lives in the real world, and as such, will pay them. There are far more jobs needing these skills than there are people who possess these skills.

5. Students DO need “experience”. But they do NOT need to get it by giving their work away. In fact, this does not even offer them the experience they need. Anyone who will not/can not pay them is obviously the type of person or business they should be ashamed to have on their resume anyway. Do you think professional contractors list the “experience” they got while nailing down a loose step at their grandmother’s house when they were seventeen?

If you your company or gig was worth listing as desired experience, it would be able to pay for the services it received. The only experience they will get doing free work for you is a lesson learned in what kinds of scrubs they should not lower themselves to deal with.

6. (This one is FOR the artists out there, please pay attention.) Some will ask you to “submit work for consideration”. They may even be posing as some sort of “contest”. These are almost always scams. They will take the work submitted by many artists seeking to win the “contest”, or be “chosen” for the gig, and find what they like most. They will then usually have someone who works for them, or someone who works incredibly cheap because they have no originality or talent of their own, reproduce that same work, or even just make slight modifications to it, and claim it as their own. You will NOT be paid, you will NOT win the contest. The only people who win, here, are the underhanded folks who run these ads. This is speculative, or “spec”, work. It’s risky at best, and a complete scam at worst. I urge you to avoid it, completely. For more information on this subject, please visit www.no-spec.com.

So to artists/designers/illustrators looking for work, do everyone a favor, ESPECIALLY yourselves, and avoid people who do not intend to pay you. Whether they are “spec” gigs, or just some guy who wants a free mural on his living room walls. They need you. You do NOT need them.

And for those who are looking for someone to do work for free… please wake up and join the real world. The only thing you’re accomplishing is to insult those with the skills you need. Get a clue.

2007-01-27T22:13:00.000-08:00

Hey.

So, last night I was invited to go to a party held by MPC - London's Moving Picture Company. It was nutty. First, the booze was free, and everyone there was loaded. That's not the worst part. they're Brits. They put beer in their cereal. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is, I was loaded, and everyone else was just drunk. :) I still met alot of really cool people though. MPC works on alot of film stuff. You should check out their reels :) And I got a free MPC pencil.

Today I went to a place called Grouse Mountain, it was pretty cool. I never had a ride in one of these, and I was honestly contemplating about just turning back as soon as i faced it.

Goin' up!

You can kind of see Vancouver down there...

the city

Above the clouds.

Please bird, help me out of here!! Fly me, fly me away!!

I make boobie sculpture for kids!

During the descent, things got a little exciting I suppose :D The ride really lifted you...

And a pack of wolves in a pen... they were nice, but they weren't happy.

That's it for now I guess... thanks for checking out, and take care everyone!

2007-01-25T14:48:00.000-08:00

here's a little something to make coffee lovers smile :D

2007-01-14T20:50:00.001-08:00

Hey! So another weekend, another adventure. I was going to go to the science world exhibit of "Body Worlds 3" which is a show of opened up human bodies, with muscles all showing and all, but it's been sold out every time I've tried to go see it. And now it's over. dang.

But I did manage to go walk around places again, take more pictures.

This one's for Mark. Could someone show him this? :D I walked past it at the supermarket and couldn't resist.

"How much you want for that pair of used brake pads?"
This is what happens if you leave your bike on the streets here. Crazy nuts take EVERYTHING off of it. I've seen about 10 bikes like this around downtown.

And this is Granville Island. I feel it's kind of a farmer's market kind of place. It's the only place I found Pitt pencils. And that's the only reason I went all the way here, but after seeing the place, I think I'm gonna go back more often.

Ok, that's it for now. I found a life drawing place, but I'm way too rusty to start posting things up just yet :D

Later!

Purple and Brown

2007-01-10T22:58:00.000-08:00

You guys need to see these... man, so fun!!

check them out!

2007-01-10T21:08:00.000-08:00

Whoa! Some thing's wrong here! There's snow in Vancouver! :D

Everything is going pretty good here, here's a few pics of the library downtown... which just blew me away rounding a corner up to it :D it really looks like the Colosseum:)

Still lots to see here... the weather's been horrible and my foot's busted from walking all over town... so when I'm all "heels" up -ha haaaaah ah ha ha ahhhhhhhhh. damn I'm funny, I'll throw more stuff here as I come across it. Maybe drawings too, cuz I can finally think for myself in the first time in forever :D and I'm finding myself drawing more.

k! later!!

2007-01-06T11:03:00.000-08:00

After my first week here, I feel pretty good. aside from the few office perks, my supervising animators are great, and everyone else is fantastic to work with. First day there, I started with another animator from EA, Brian, and after 6 years of fixing motion capture data, he got tired of it all, and went into film. I've been asking everyone soooo many questions already... I just hope they aren't tired of it yet, cuz if I know me, and I might, I think there's alot more questions coming :D

Another thing, I continue to meet amazing people. The head designer/writer is unreal. His drawings are straight out of Tim Burton's style. I think he worked on Nightmare Before Christmas, just to help make the connection. And I met this other guy from California, and he showed me his portfolio, which was all hand painted BG's from Clone wars. I guess he was hired directly by Genndy. Then he went on saying things like.. ." yeah, I called Genndy the other week, said he's just waiting on a green light for his movies... "Man... And I just talked to like, 5 people outside the animation dept! So, it's all been very overwhelming, me being such a geek for this stuff, I'm just loving it. It all seems so surreal.

Anyways.

So this is the studio I work at. I indicated with the track pad some drawn arrows to which floor we're on... and where the balcony to go out for smokes is. :D

And since I can;t take pictures inside, here's a couple of pictures of EA, I can walk to it from where I live... but it's not a walk I'd like to do every day. I thought it was maybe a 20 minute walk, but it ended up being over 45 minutes!

And here's just another couple of pics of downtown stuff. These are condos... man, they look nuts.

Mountains!

funky cars in bc... every 1 in 4 is like this.

Ok, well, this is it until the next update, mr internet is supposed to hook me up later in the week, so maybe i'll start posting more.

take care!!!

stairway to... hell :D

2007-01-06T10:58:00.000-08:00

This is an escalator. I thought it was pretty long. What do you think?

and here's a little park that took my by surprise, in the middle of downtown vancouver.

quick lame clip of home

2006-12-31T14:58:00.000-08:00

I finally got Youtube working for me. I wanted to post this thing up yesterday, but nothing went up yet. And there's a few more videos coming :D

Another day

2006-12-31T09:32:00.000-08:00

Ok. So I have a few more adventure pictures.

It seems there are a few homeless people here too ... yesterday a guy asked me if I had money, and before I answered, he said : "I'm eating freaking peanut butters!" while he looked at me in the eye and ate a toast spread container of peanut butter.

Another thing, everyone here is here to make a penny. Literally. Superstore asks you "how many bags would you like? " and after I say "errr... 4? you think that's enough?" the cashier looks at me and says, "yeah.. just to let you know, the bags are 4 cents each." ok :P

Ok, pictures.

These are pictures of the place where I called Liane yesterday:D right outside the mall.

Just like the malls in Halifax, the mall here has giant fountains, huge horses and enormous bamboo trees inside.

This might make sushi fans a little jealous :D

Clever advertising (wokon inn)

Don't mess around in work zones :D

Ok, that's all I got today.

Advent

2006-12-30T12:03:00.000-08:00

Here I am. I made it, even after having to change planes because of a faulty door they found on the first one.

This place is ridiculously huge!! I haven't even gone to Vancouver yet, I just stayed in Burnaby, and went shopping for stuff... as soon as I go to Vancouver I'll be posting more stuff up, I'm sure.
Everything is overwhelmingly massive. And stucco seems to be a real in thing here, I think I might have seen 3 houses with regular siding.

Ok, well, here's a bunch of pics I took already.

This is right out of my apt. window.

They're a little hard to see, but they're there!! (mountains :D )

This is my apt. building.

A park in my back yard :)

There it is for now, I had to look for a place that has free wireless internet to do this, at least now I know where to come to to add to this thing!!

I hope everyone at home is good!! Thank you sooooo mush for all your support, everyone.