Fight

It's that time of year... Vancouver will have its gay pride march in the beginning of August.

We have our rights now, but sometimes we forget what a difficult road it took to get there. We forget that there are other countries that do not have the same rights and freedoms that we take for granted. And we forget that there are always other forces that want to take our rights away from us. The fight is far from over. Remember to protect your rights and freedoms. 

I would like to do a variation of this picture using a more limited colour palette soon.

Sketches of Sammick

F Sharp

Bitch Please!

I've been doing the odd sketch once in a while since my last post (When was that again?). Work is so busy nowadays, and it really does take a lot of my creative energy to do my job well. But sketching my own stuff does sometimes readjust my mind. I should make more of a habit of it.

Peachy Sammick

It's time to post again... This past summer was too beautiful to spend drawing indoors, and autumn was just too hectic with work. But I think now there's a nice balance of busy work, miserable weather, and free time to be able to post my thoughts again.

Here is something I did in the past week to get back into the drawing routine again. Sammick is a bit disproportionate in this picture, but I don't care... he's got life in him, which is all that matters to me.

Altar Boys

As I have been busy with work, and enjoying the summer weather, I haven't had enough time to draw as much as I would like. The above artwork was a simple idea to continue exercising my skills. It happened to be more difficult than I thought, trying to determine light sources, and rendering smoke and metal.

M is for RIOT: comic

An experimental comic is in the works

I return to Ponyville (full-time animation work) today and unfortunately can't afford to spend the time on my blog as I used to have, but I hope to keep up with postings, reviews and other animation-related stuff. Since my last posting, I have been busy at work on a comic. It has been years since I made a comic (perhaps 13 years?!) as my focus has been on animation.

Comics and animation, though closely related, have such different ways of getting the story across, that getting back into making comics threw in a lot of challenges that I have forgotten over the years, such as composing the art with dialogue bubbles, making the direction of the art flow smoothly, and laying out the panels. But with an animation perspective, I had fun utilising some skills that I haven't used as much before when I made comics, such as strong body language, movement, gesture, and exaggeration.

Still, finishing this comic has taken longer than I thought. But I am on a roll with it, and really would love to see this finished, as I think the look of the comic is pretty unique. Stay tuned!

Spring

Am I glad spring is here!

About the drawing: Jeff gives Sammick a big hug from out of nowhere.

After the last drawing of Sammick, which had a negative energy about it, I decided to draw something more positive.