Sidewalk Saviour

A couple of years ago I went home for a week. On the bus back to Ottawa traveling and stopping as it does thru small towns along the way I saw these fellow standing on a street corner preaching about the pending apocalypse to anyone who would listen. A great character and I put in an hour or so doing there sketches. Done on a Canson XL 9 x 12 mixed media sketchpad using a Bic round stick medium point ball point pen.

Transit Way Sketches

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches, Ottawa Transit Way. A quick gesture sketch of a man engaged in a conversation at the Bayshore stop platform. The drawing (right hand side) is based on an older gentleman I saw on the bus, bent over unfortunately, seemed tired and sad but had these great spatula like hands. Done on 8.5 x 11, 110 lb. single sheet finished card stock using a Bic medium point ball point pen, Col-erase-carmine red pencil.

Character Design Course

I put together a eight lesson course in designing characters for animation a few years ago. This was the both the print poster and as well on-line graphic.

Capitalist / Corporate type

Capitalist / Corporate type, sketch for a friends art installation. Black china marker on Bristol / vellum finished paper.

The Identity Group Advertising Campaigns

I did these two sets of rough drawing for an advertising agency a few years ago .The first set (images 1 to  6 below) Were for a campaign launched by West Hills Hospital called "Stuff Happens". The idea was to promote there services for treating day to day injuries. The advertising company and I narrowed down the possibilities of stuff happening to sports then baseball and basketball. The ideas included baseball, injuries incurred as a bystander not paying attention, injuries incurred as a participant  not paying attention, defending your son. Basketball included slipping on a banana peel and colliding with the net. I did these sketches in an afternoon, we narrowed the possibilities down to two which I cleaned up and forwarded to an illustrator for final art production.  The second campaign (image 7  below) was for a company that wanted a Superman like super hero, They had a give away superhero ring the whole deal. What I like about these drawings, firstly images 1 to 6, and the reason I hung onto them, was the spontaneity. Quick, loose drawings that captured the situation, conveyed emotion and had a feeling of movement, much like sketches I did when we had "Gag Sessions" or "Story Sessions" in animation production. With image 7, I again liked the spontaneity, and the discovery that my life drawing skills were still intact was immensely satisfying; Glad I paid attention to my super hero comic books when I was a kid, It came in handy.

Bowling

I joined a bowling league a year or so ago, it was great fun, one sport I really enjoy. I did these drawings, caricatures really,  based on persons on my team or other teams.