I.F. multiple

Inspired by another boring day at work.

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.

Everyday objects #1

Everyday objects #1

Shoes

Everyday objects #1

Everyday object 1

a collection of my shoes.

"Open"

A comforting neon sign in the middle of the night.

"Open"

In the middle of the night, a neon sign can be quite comforting.

Neighbourhood man

A man I see in my neighbourhood. Top. Final image. Bottom. Pencil roughs.

Sketch page

I.F.- Emergency

Original based on this line: "We knew all the answers, And we shouted them like anthems" from the Scissor Sister's song, "It Can't Come Quickly Enough", but also, I think, appropriate for the I.F. theme of "Emergency".

I.F.-communication

Another submission for Illustration Friday.
I taught English in Japan and there was a game I played that worked on pronunciation and listening skills. A student would start off with a phrase at one end of the line and whisper it to the next student who would then repeat it to the next student. In most cases the phrase was alterd so much it was pretty funny.

For this drawing I attempted to hand draw the lettering in the text bubbles....It's not too clear. The left bubble should read, " I like eating prunes". The right bubble reads, "Ivan cheats spoons".

I.F.-wired

Should be read as, "Buddha Wired". I think it just sounds better that way.

More didgy illos.

Here's some more work stuff.
I usually draw pieces for the flash animator in house.
Here's some samples for an animation he's doing on healthy vs. junk food living.

Digital Illustrations

During the day, I earn my keep by working in the graphic design industry.
I was given an opportunity to do a little illo for an inhouse newsletter I designed as well. The article the illo accompanied was about the money saved by only using one elevator after a certain hour.
Here's the newsletter.(above)

And the initial illo (on the left) and the final one on the right.(top)

A link

Happened upon this link a while ago. Some interesting points about pursuing the freelance life. You could read it here.

sketching

Always a bit nervous sketching in public...I'm trying to overcome that by doing it more often. Top image: sitting in a coffee shop by the water looking at this boat. middle image: the kitchen in my bachelor pad. bottom image: random people at the mall near my dad's place.

Sweet Belle

Well, finally finished the Queen Street sketch (as promised). What turned out to be just a sketch, evolved into a full blown drawing. Bits and pieces presented themselves on my walk home which I thought would be appropriate to this drawing.

Still trying to work on the technical side of this medium and figuring out what colours work with each other.

Queen Street

On my walk home everyday, I walk by so many eye catching women. Tried to capture what I found unique among all the ladies I walked by…not too sure it worked because a friend said it creeped her out. Oh well. Plus the golden egg up above wasn't supposed to be an egg but rather a vase. The technique got away from me and before I knew it, it was an egg.

Actually working on an updated version of this image and hopefully will finish it during the holidays.

Everything but…

Within this drawing I knew I wanted to incorporate a few elements: one or more person. A naked child and a pattern. Everything else I created as I went along. I'm still out on the verdict with this one. I definitely know some parts took me out of my comfort zone, but that's a good thing, no?

Too much coffee…

This image came about after I drank one too many cups of coffee.

Laundry Man

First attempt at using coloured pencil on a man who spied on me while I was doing my laundry.