Cartoon Girl wearing a Beanie

Yet another cartoon

Sea Serpent sketch

Another cartoon character

I had a similar version of this character before, it didn't look too great, so I removed the post after a few minutes. Decided it was better to put in more time and effort into the cartoon so I could get it the way I wanted to.

Tribal drawing

I've done tribal designs once before in Illustrator: http://graemethedigitalmediaartist.blogspot.ca/2011/03/adobe-illustrator-tutorial-tribal.html. This is the first time I've drawn a tribal design by hand.

GRA180: Pattern Project

So this is the final project for Drawing (GRA180). You first have to take a photograph taken by Karl Blossfeldt which you feel could be the base for your pattern design. You then trace the image, simplifying it-remove any unnecessary details. When you're satisfied with your trace, ink it. Use the ink version as your motif and design 4 motifs that demonstrate: translation, reflection, rotation and glide reflection.

Original Image

First Trace

Second Trace: I removed the highlights from both the surface of the plant and the outer edges for this trace. It allowed for some negative space to open up in between the leaves of the plant, which would look better as a graphic translation. Outlined in ink.

Graphic Translation

 This is base for my 4 motifs.

Final Motifs

This is the first real "design" project assigned this semester. Challenging, but rewarding way to cap off the semester.

Glide Reflection

 Reflection

Rotation

Translation

The final task was to combine at least 2 of motifs in order to build a tile for the final pattern. I chose the reflection and translation motifs. The colour palettes were chosen from this website: http://www.pantone.com/pages/fcr.aspx?pg=20948&ca=4

Black and White tile

Colour Tiles

Final pattern designs

Zombie face

Found a cool looking zombie illustration online. Made a trace of it and shaded it myself. Mainly looking to test my shading/replicating skills on this one.

Original image

My image

Surfer Girl

Found this image online. I really liked it, so I thought it'd be cool to draw it out for myself.

Still a work in progress. Got the pose down. Threw in my own twist when creating the character's likeness. I'll add in the flowers in Illustrator. Pretty sure there's an option for that.

GRA180: Hand drawing

I've done more of these drawings in last 3 years than I have in my whole life. This drawing takes me back to 2009 when I was fresh out of highschool and looking to enroll in Art Fundamentals, Animation and Illustration; they required hand drawings either as a portfolio requirement or as part of an on-site drawing test.

What made this drawing interesting was the fact that the hand had to be drawn through a piece of plexiglass, hence why there are white marks on the knuckles of my hands; the sections pressed against the plexiglass. You more or less had to draw while closing one eye, otherwise you'd be trippin' balls trying to get the line work done. Certainly made for some interesting line work, perspective and foreshortening.

Pointillism project: Final Rough concept

Final rough concept for GRA170: Pointillism piece. I made the composition more dynamic by adding more chain aimed downwards as oppose to going just straight across and I added in chain fragments from the broken chain link to increase to feeling of movement in the composition. Next step: Full size on Tabloid paper.

Cheerleader character

Drew this one up awhile ago, forgot to upload it then. Better late than never, I guess.

This was my first attempt at this character. Not a bad attempt, but she didn't look young enough. Ideally, for a cheerleader, an ideal age is in the range of 16 to 19 years old. I wasn't getting that likeness from this character.

Second attempt. This one is more successful than the previous design. Larger eyes, longer lashes and a big smile really contribute to the young, peppy, cuteness deal you get with cheerleaders.

Candice Kucsulain drawing

This is a character model of Walls of Jericho vocalist Candice Kucsulain. The bottom image is my reference image and the top one is my interpretation. I guess I can attempt the crazy amount of tattoos she has later....

Stick man drawings

So this was a warm up excersise for my first Media Preproduction class at Seneca College. If we get to draw maybe more advanced stuff, like actual characters as oppose to stick guys, I will enjoy this course, for sure.

Kitchen Drawing

Kitchen drawing in perspective, drawn for my final project in my drawing 1 class in Art Fundamentals. The whole process took about 4-5 weeks to draw, including thumbnail sketches, rough drawings, final drawings and then the 3 tone ink wash (dark, medium and light). I'm very proud of this drawing, it shows how far I've come in terms of perspective, structure, composition and sighting techniques. Canvas size is 11x17

Rockin' Out

A little piece I put together in my Style Drawing class in my Art Fundamentals program at Seneca college. I love music, so this piece was that much more enjoyable to compose. The actual canvas size is 18x24.

Rabbit sketch

A basic, stylized sketch of a rabbit that I did in like 5 minutes. It was an in class assignment for my Sketching for Communications class; a course in the Digital Media Arts program at Seneca College. Not a bad looking sketch for the time I was allowed.