Marshall on Mars

If you haven't been listening already check out The Thrilling Adventure Hour by Nerdist. It's a terrific podcast in the style of oldtime radio. These are some sketches based on "Sparks Nevada! Marshal on Mars!" which I've added some colour via photoshop. 

Life drawing November

Some more life drawing. Mostly from "suspended life drawing" at the drawing room in Toronto. Conte and soft pastel.

More paintings and animations coming soon I swear...

life drawing oct 2012

went life drawing twice last week (conte)

summer doodles

Various doodles/cafe sketching from the last month. Graphite.

skeletor pin ups

Why? Because Art Frahm

We were set with the task of coming up with an image for a coworker's birthday cake. It was really a mix between her undying love of skeletor and our recent discovery of the 50's pinup artist Art Frahm, who's entire schtick was women who's panties had suddenly fallen around their ankles (see link above)

This was the result.

(We went with this one.)

onwards, twitterius!

Fly, you magnificent beast!

So I finally was peer pressured into joined twitter with my own free will. so ha.

https://twitter.com/DianeAarts 

Celebratory doodle!
(graphite + photoshop CS5)

bacon latte

just for practice, this clip was taken from the audio book "Iron druid- hounded"
Maya, did the animation lighting and bg. character was modelled and rigged by Jana Johnson.

the waiting song

 

A doodle from work. The songs from this show have a habit of getting stuck...

June sketch dump

It's been a while since I've done one of these, so here's some sketches from the last month. Animal sketches are from high park zoo and a fair that showed up near my house. People sketches are from various go train/subway rides.

Pencil, conte, marker and ink.

Iron Tiger

For a coworker's birthday card. A mash-up between Iron Giant and the show we're currently working on. (You can see both characters here.)

drawn in pencil coloured in Adobe Photoshop.

A Soviet Plot

Maya, Just for fun.

Recently I downloaded the entire discography of Hans Zimmer. Included on it was this clip from the movie "Insignificance." There was so much good stuff here I couldn't resist trying to capture it.

Used the andy rig

just chilling

Somebody waiting outside a pub.
drawn in pencil, coloured in photoshop CS5.

shopping with megan

This really happened. Drew this on the train, in marker. Toned in photoshop. 

and this little piggy..

 For a commission. Acrylic on stretched canvas. (Approx 2x3 feet)

Also here is the quick sketch I drew before painting:

tree

An old friend contacted me about doing this for her wedding. Instead of signing a guestbook guests will sign paper leaves which will be glued onto the painting, and then podged.
Acrylic on stretched canvases, approx 5'x 7' total

bighorn sheep

rocky mountain bighorn sheep. Some quick designs drawn in col erase and graphite, just for fun. Might do some more pages like this.

life drawing winter 2011/12

Went on a bit of a life drawing binge this month.
Drawn in conte.

sketch dump winter 2011/12

Oh brush pen, how I have missed you..

Various doodles and such from this winter. Some of the more lifedrawing-like ones drawn using this. (Otherwise made up, drawn from life, or cafe sketching on the go train.)
Materials: coloured pencil, graphite, marker, ink

something's different about grandma...

drawn and painted in Adobe photoshop cs5
for a monthly art challenge at work

female knight

drawn in graphite, painted in photoshop CS5. Just for fun.

basically drew a pretty horse and wanted a rider to go with it.

Factoids:
Female knights did exist in many parts of Europe, they were called "dames" instead.
The term chivalry originally had nothing to do with being polite. It refers to horsemanship.

windmill

Wanted a little practice with layout, so here's a windmill on a rock.

drawn in graphite, shaded in photoshop CS5.

life drawing

I attended the occasional open life drawing class this fall in Toronto. Here's a few drawings from that:

conte

pastel

conte

marker and pastel

conte

flower paintings

These were both painted as Christmas gifts for my mom. Both are acrylic on canvas, 16"x20" It was interesting to go back to acrylic after painting digitally for so long. Happy new year everyone!