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IF: "scale"

Idea: first outta my head
Tools: All on the tablet in photoshop
Background: listening to the WW podcast for the first time

I think they're calling it Craft & Draught now...

The following sketches were done at the Laundromat's knit/sew/craft & DJ night. Teri joined in to knit up a storm, and I was a) glad that I wasn't the only dude there and b) took the opportunity to sketch 20+ people sitting around not moving much!

Met lots of great Moncton folk too...they were very welcoming and had lots of wonderful stories to tell over their knittin' & purlin' (note to self: not moving to rural Labrador any time soon). Discussions soon turned to Guerrilla Knitting a la Suzen Green, so we'll keep our eyes open for illicit woolen coverings.

Sketch dump

Time for a new sketch dump:

IF: "Hat"

Hey IF folks!

Illustration Friday's word this week is "hat".

Drawn with my dusty ol' Pentel brush...

Arne

"Arne from Olds, AB"
We met Arne shortly after we moved, and he is a bit of a local celebrity here. Arne is the unstoppable force behind the St. George Soup N' Sandwich shop (I'm still reminiscing about that Pork/Apple Cider-sauteed onion sandwich...mmmm...) and slings coffee at the Laundromat on occasion, as well as leading by example in the organic food/sustainable gardening/ Monkey Money scene.

Arne has been kind and very generous in making us feel welcome and helping us to fit in a little 'round Moncton.

Lost: if found, please return

Tim Horton's Sketches

Got rained out walking to a late-night concert...sought refuge in a Tim Hortons. A country music jamboree (don't ask) was wrapping up, and all sorts of characters stood around in line for me to sketch from.





The lanky kids are a few of the many skinny-jean-Ramones tee-shirt wearing under-fed punk teenagers that wander Moncton's down-town in a daze. I could spend all day analyzing their gait in my sketchbook...

Yes, this actually happened to me...sigh...
"Lady, I'll zoom up to your eyebrows, that's the best I can do."




rainslickers seen on concer-goers out the window...

Sunday morning sketches...

WWII comic

Sketches for an educational tool for a military museum's propaganda literacy program. Based on "The Great Whites": paper-ban era WW2 comics in Canada...especially Leo Bachle's over-the-top patriotic bare-knuckle adventures of Johnny Canuck.

These images are comic panels or cells, that will be arranged to create a large comics page. Dialogue and text will be added by the participants.

FFWD sketches

FFWD cover thumbnail sketches re: damage to lands around CFB Suffield due to oil development.

I particularily like the two owls carrying the stretcher in the background...

Settled a showdown sketch, which was developed from the cowboy image, the animals in the stretcher sketch and oil rigs drawn with the tablet:

A less confrontational sketch was suggested:

I liked the rough and loose brushwork on the oil rigs, and used them in the final drawing.

Illustration Friday: Discovery

Hey IF folks!

Illustration Friday's word this week is "Discovery". Haven't drawn with pencil in a while...

Just moved last month, and cleaning is under way in the new home. Under (what is apparently 5 years of) dust above a window casing in the masterbedroom...a men's wedding band. Interesting, mysterious and disgusting...the best kind of discovery.

Sketchbookin'

Sketches of upcoming projects and other brain noodling...

The Dartmouth Shuffle

Met this character walking along the train tracks with friends in Dartmouth. He approached us in the scariest way possible (a lurching run), doing his best to make painfully awkward small talk. I don't know how Andrew and I would have defended the women folk armed with cilantro and crab legs...but I'm sure we would have figured out something. Nothing came of it, other than cathartic rusty-iron-spike jokes for the rest of the night.

Here's to you, Crazy McStabbington...

Science Matters

As yet unpublished FFWD column by by David Suzuki about declining bird populations related to UK agricultural policies. I couldn't resist the metaphor of a little coal-mine canary.