I’m refining this style the more I work with it, and I finally getting pleased with how it’s looking. I think part of the idea is to be less… finnicky. Blocky, whimsical shapes add to the effect, I think. What about you?

I meant to post these on Friday because one was a submission for Illustration Friday but Telus decided that i didn’t reeeeally need to use the Internet, so I didn’t get to blog it until today.

The theme was “Infinity”. It was a pretty random sketch that kind of fit. I am also adapting it as a small painting for the local gallery’s annual Pick-a-Painting fundraiser.

This actually comes from an episode of Ghost Hunters (some people watch Big Brother… I watch paranormal reality TV); they were visiting a house were the children had claimed to see a boy with “black hair, black eyes, a black mouth and a black nose.” It was the visual of the black nose and mouth that creeped me out the most, so I was compelled to draw it. I’ll paint it once I have more of a drive to paint.

This is one of my favourite observational sketches from the summer; accompaning my close friend to watch a soccer game, we mostly watched the crowd instead of the game. They were much more entertaining, as you can see.

Seeing as this is quite a tedious task from my iPhone, I may save the rest of my sketches and comments for when my Internet connection is restored. You can view them here if you are impaitent, but you’ll have to wait for my insights. Soon!

Things are a bit hectic my first week back as I’ve just gotten back to work, all my friends are returning from THEIR respective studies and there’s a few events that I am helping plan/prepare for so… whoo! This is a quickie, to say the least… it was done in an hour. The concept was something that I thought about for a bit, a bit earlier, but actual execution was only an hour. I think a big reason that it went so fast is because it is TINY (72 DPI) so it was easier to work that way.

Anyway, my concept was the “love of theatre”. You know those people who live for theatre. But somehow, they always seem to know people who despise the stuff, but they get dragged along anyway. It was also a bit of a reference to the classic theatre masks.

I’m most happy with it, aside from the empty audience. But it gets the message across, andd it was fun and some good practice during a very hectic week! I hope I can keep up with this resolution, because it seems worth while.