Monday Notepad Image #008 | Curious and Curiouser

Curious & Curiouser

It always amazes me what you may see when you tour the outdoors. My television often comes back from a walk quite shaken.

Monday Notepad Image #007 | The Hillside

The Hillside

In keeping with my vision of the outdoors, Here is the caves you travel to when you're a kid, the ones that look like they'll eat you up and spit out your bones.

Monday Notepad Image #006 | Tree

Tree

From a concept about clouds came an image about trees, Something drawn a little differenly, I hope you enjoy this one for monday.

Monday Notepad Image #005 | Fade

The fifth image, is a subtle texture test from Notebook #17.

Fade
A while back I was testing my pens out and I was working on using the pen for subtlety, This is a quick sketch and render of without the eyes I tend to draw, Have a look, drop your opinion below and I look forward to seeing you next week.

Monday(on Tuesday) Notepad Image #003 - Awake

The third image, while a litte late is from Notebook #16.

Awake

This sketch is a focus on one of my more repeated topics of the eye itself. Something I practiced sketching on post-it notes, maths text books and anything else. I know the matchstick is quite short but pretend this is a matchtsick for ants....

Monday Notepad Image #002 - 5 Senses

And the second image in the monday Notepad Image is a reworking of an older design....

The 5 Senses

With this reworking I've sketched out each individually an will put them into a single frame (quintuptych?) I was quite happy with all 5 and I wanted all of the men to have there own personality.

Monday Notepad Image #001

So to start off a new series while the School of Faces gets underway, here is a sketch for the week from my notebook, specifically from book 16.

The Tattooed Elephant

After a recent trial working on different styles I've started working on a tattooed series including a tattooed eye, a tattooed building and a tattooed tank. The elephant I'm quite happy with. I may work on a larger version of this as well.

A Day of Drawing

Last Saturday marked the day of sketching for a considerably number of people around the world with the officially title Drawing Day 2010 starting and finished a good number of sketches, doodles and other such stuff. The rule being that the sketches had to start and finish on the day.

My own efforts involved a coffee shop in Parkdale , a plate of french toast, two coffees and a pot of tea to come back with 4 sketches


And I'm quite happy with my sketches.


But this isn't all about me. If you have a look at the Red Bubble group for the day you'll notice that there are stupendous amounts of sketches and more will probably still be rolling in over the next few days.

Now since they are aiming to have quite a few sketches for the day (the aim is 1,000,000) then I should feel it is my duty to direct you to a few images from other artists who do make wonderful images. Ensure you click through to look at there work properly.

And so if you do feel like you want to get into such a project next year I recommend this one. For a fun day whittling away the hours with a marker of your choice it's great to pass the time and relax.

A calendar for life and other news

In order of importance of news I have the great pleasure that I am the new illustrator for Bananafish Magazine as well as having the fun of designing their new masthead. After seeing advertisement for an illustrator for there site and upcoming publication I approached them and have happily had the header accepted.

and all this after a year of keeping my notebooks with me and sketching for all I am worth. But onto that news as well. I have happily completed two months of The 365 Notepads Calendar and am working my way, whistling, through March.

I have specifically kept the day and year off the calendar so that you don't have to buy a new one every year and am looking into the options of publishing the whole lot at the end of the year. Most likely it will be a  day to a page (with some method to cover leap years).

If you have any comments please leave them here or on the Facebook fan page as I'm always intrigued which images people like (even like them if that's all you want to do). It is also posted on the

365 days of Sketches

My first project for the New Year, should last a whole year and revolves around a full calendar of sketches. For every six days of Black and white I'm also having a seventh colourful day.

Here are the first of the days:

Someones been sketching.

So I should explain that I've been sketching a little more recently. A little more excitedly and a little more fervently. But I have also recently tried to make my T-shirts look more interesting by adding the balaclava posing rocker to show off the styles.

So to introduce my sketches:


/\ The Flying Ship /\

/\ The Cheshire Cat Grin/\

/\ The Monkey Powered Tugboat /\


/\ Leap with Boots/\

/\ This Penguins Got a Gun/\

Sketches from another notepad