I.F. Tales and Legends

The beginnings of a Tale and a Legend.

It's been a slow few days at work and I thought I;d chip away at this weeks I.F. theme. I realize I'm a doodler by nature so using a fine point papermate pen was the perfect medium for this drawing.

So many thoughts running through my head while coming up and executing this drawing.

Slow day at work…

These drawings resulted from having nothing to do at work today.
This is what's around me in my cubicle.

A while ago, I read about an illustrator who was excessively anal with his drawings and would take him days or weeks to complete one of them. I tend to be that way as well, so I thought the "workday" would be a nice time framework for me to complete as many drawings as i could! Also, I used a staedtler permanent fine tipped marker for my drawing so that there would be no erasing and the marks tended to be a bit more looser as well, I found with this particular medium.

each piece is not that great on it's own, but I thought it'd be better in a mosaic format.

January 20

Really cold weekend and I was hibernating for most of it.
But I got stir crazy this afternoon and decided to go to the local Starbucks for a coffee and a bit of on site sketching. By the time I finished sketching, it was evening and I wanted to fill in the window area with a solid colour. Used the last remnants of my coffee to do so instead of cross hatching.

Dr.Sketchy's-January 14

Went to my first figure drawing session in a while. It was nice to get the rust out of the ssytem, but as usual, it seemed I only loosened up at the end of the session. Great model: Chantal Fry. A figure skater.

January 13

January 11

Didn't Sketch yesterday and actually felt crappy because I didn't. That's a good sign! Must be equivalent to a runner who missed out his daily jog and didn't get his runner's high!

So here's my next installment. Another weekend has rolled around and hopefully I'll get a chance to sketch at my local coffee shop!

January 9

January 8

My abode. Ma casa. Watashi no uchi desu. Chez Wil. Mia Casa. My house. This is where I have lived for the last year and a half. A basement situation that has slowly grown on me (although a bit more natural light would be nice, thank you!).

Started this sketch from the right side, and you could see that the lines were quite hesitant but slowly loosened up as I worked towards the left.

So that's it and just barely got it in!

January 7

The wall was hit pretty early on in the sketch. Need to work beyond it, but I'm just too tired right now.
Hopefully it'll be better tomorrow.

The main objective to this page was to get an even watercolour wash. Not successful. ughhh.

January 5 + January 6

Well started my new sketchbook and I had a bit of stage fright on the first page.
My dad's plants (January 5) and laundry-mat (January 6)

January 4

It's already feeling like an assignment: doing ONE drawing for everyday of January. Will do it anyways. However, it's the first weekend of January and hopefully I'll draw a lot more than just one per day and will have a number of drawings to choose from to to scan in for the following two days.

The hand drawing marks the end of one sketchbook and the starting of a new one. Slightly excited about that. (Call me geek)

January 3

Technically I finished the pen drawing portion at 12.34am and added all the extra stuff later this morning. So I broke my new year's resolution already.

Why does it take me so long to draw? Am I anal? yes. for one, I'm not particularly good at drawing circles in perspective. It's right up there with drawing a really good hand...

Uploaded are the raw image as well as a slightly modified one.

January 2

To try to fulfill one of my resolutions, I broke out the sketch book last night after a tiring, yet invigorating, aikido class (side bar: my sensei wooping ass). I had sleep on my brain but instead I sat down for the next bit and concentrated on my "still life". Needless to say, I didn't want to break my 2008 resolution so quickly, so here's my first installment to sketching everyday.

I've looked back at some of my sketches and everyone had to be pristine and finished to some level. No doubt, with some of the sketches that i'll be drawing, they won't meet this subconscious standard I have for myself and that's probably a good thing. It might even lead to a development in style, something that I've wanted to happen since university.

2008 resolutions…

#1. Add more posts to my blog, which means draw more.
#2. Draw something everyday, be it a doodle on a napkin to a full blown piece to everything in between.
#3. get a new day job.
#4. clean my apartment on a regular basis
#5. eat healthier.
#6. spend a bit more time with dad.

Everyday Objects 2

The Swiss Army knife was invented by Karl Eisner in 1891. Eisner was inspired to create a tool for the Swiss Army that was not manufactured by Germans, so he set out to produce a Swiss knife for the Swiss Army.

The first knife he made was called the “Soldier’s Knife,” which featured a wooden handle and a variety of tools including a blade, a screwdriver and a can opener. Later Eisner created a revised version of this knife that featured two blades instead of just one. Eisner needed another spring for the second blade, which also made room for him to add more tools such a corkscrew.