Snake Man

Hey guys, I'm looking for a man who's bald, has slitty eyes, a pointy nose, a boa constrictor and has a face that just screams I'll beat you up just for the fun of it!!!

jks no... I'd be too afraid Q_Q

Just doing some late night doodling, I actually really like this guy's face. I'm thinking about doing a little series on people who resemble animals just for the fun of it.

And things smoothed over at home which is a huge relief. I feel pretty stupid for blogging my inner emo but it felt really good at the time so no regrets?

so many who am I kidding.

Royal Winter Fair + Sheridan Illustration Merch

I had the chance to go to the Royal Winter Fair yesterday in downtown Toronto with about 12 of my classmates. It had to be the best field trip I've ever been on,  you can't beat 5 hours of straight animal drawing :D

Everyone got their own mini Sheridan Illustration stool (it had Sheridan Illus. on it, I felt so cool ;u; ) and we sat in front of the animals and talked to them (or yelled if they moved, there was a lot of that happening). I tried using different mediums, but it all went back to pencil in the end. Watercolour was SO BAD holy shit now I've got to practice so I don't disgrace myself in public again.

And drawing in public was mildly terrifying. I've creeped people in public before, that doesn't even bother me, but when you're drawing the animals people walk by you and stare over your shoulder,

TOTALLY NERVE-WRACKING. 

But yeah, it was fun and I could've stayed for another couple of hours (next time).

One of my classmates Melissa posted her sketches online too, you should check them out!

And in other news I officially love Sheridan. They had a mini-sale for the fourth year illustration grad show and I bought some stuff. I'm totally going to save money JUST SO I CAN BUY ILLUSTRATION MERCH.

Last years Grad book (so nice, the quality of the printing is beautiful! And the illustrations are okay too :p).

Some Kailey Lang buttons (Melissa grabbed the pair of earrings I was debating on buying, WHY). These things are so cute, like, they melt my heart (even if you can't tell by the photo).

Life's good when you can draw animals and buy really adorable buttons :)

Weekly Sketches #1

Sorry my artistic absence, school's been somewhat busy recently and to be honest I just haven't been drawing anything terribly interesting. School's really hammering us with the basics (like colour theory and shape, construction, etc.) and we haven't gotten many chances just to let ourselves be free~

But my conceptual process class, taught by Julia Breckenreid (I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I've always wanted to do that :'D ) forces us to keep a daily sketchbook so I thought,

why don't I just post what I have in there? It proves to the internet I'm not artistically dead and it'll help motivate me to actually do them every day :p

Every week, most likely on Mondays, I'll post 6 pictures from my sketchbook. Since I'm starting this late though the sketches on this post are from the middle of September. I might post a few more in a couple of days to catch up. 

My reading week just finished... today I guess so I'll be getting a lot of projects back, like my figure drawing portfolio and some painting pieces. I'll upload them when I get the chance :)