pirate ladies

Pencil coloured in photoshop. These were cake decorations of myself and our friend Trish for a piratey birthday cake.

rogue and the scarlet witch

More Toons on tap! Been going pretty much every time lately, more to come.

Conte on newsprint.

Cleopatra

More toons on tap at the Rhino. Conte and photoshop.

film noir

from "toons on tap" at the Rhino. Pencil, marker and photoshop.

So Droll

This line of audio was taken from the audiobook "Sense sensibility and sea monsters" Loved the voices Katherine Kellgren used in this, especially Mrs. Dashwood. :)
Using the model "Norma" found  here

more life drawing

A bit of life drawing from this past winter. Should have some more painting/animation stuff coming soon, plus a lot of toons on tap related stuff.

Pin ups!

More fun at toons on tap! This week's theme (although nearly a month ago now) was "housewives" featuring the ever lovely Bianca Boom-Boom.

conte, pencil crayons and photoshop.

She-ra!

Some She-Ra sketches from Toons on Tap this week at the Rhino. Thanks to the Dakota bitch for being such a wonderful model! Graphite, conte, and some digital touching up. 

figurine pose

so this was cool, a friend contacted me about drawing a pose for a dungeons and dragons (pathfinder) figurine. The original design of this character was by Michelle Moger. The character was then digitally modelled and 3d printed and painted. drawn in pencil and marker.

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