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Happy New Family

2012-02-01T22:02:00.001-05:00

This was for Chris Eltervoog and Tanis Roadhouse ( 2 good friends of mine ) as a surprise for Tanis. It's their first family picture :D

Cat In The Hat designs

2012-02-01T22:00:00.000-05:00

These are examples of characters and props that I designed for 'The Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That' children's show that is being done at Pip Animation Services in Ottawa. All designs are created by me but owned by other entities so pleeeeease don't steal them :D

Name that kid...

2011-12-30T11:57:00.001-05:00

Now that Xmas is over I can show what I did for the nieces and nephews. I took each of their names and made a drawing that I thought suited them. They seem to have been well received :D

Happy holidays all.

Jay & Silent Bob Get Old Canadian tour poster mark 2...

2011-11-30T23:05:00.001-05:00

And the weiners are...

2011-11-29T18:25:00.001-05:00

My Smodcast Case-Mate case design was picked as one of the 5 runner-ups. Yay me... and everybody else that made it too I guess :P

http://blog.case-mate.com/2011/11/27/smodcast-design-winners/

Jay & Silent Bob Get Old Canada Tour Poster

2011-11-27T17:32:00.001-05:00

Smodcast is at it again and are asking for artists to come up with a Get Old Canada Tour poster. There's no prize but the exposure is prize enough.

Hope you like.

SModcast Case-Mate contest

2011-10-14T17:22:00.001-04:00

I just entered a contest with an iPhone case themed to any podcast in the SModcast universe ( Kevin Smith's new obsession ). If you like it, please vote here and help me win stuff :D

https://www.facebook.com/casemate?sk=app_181523218592094

Thanks for you help you fine, fine folk.

2011-09-21T23:38:00.002-04:00

This is for a DeviantArt summertime prop challenge. Hope you like.

2011-09-14T20:23:00.001-04:00

This is work that I did to help a buddy of mine ( Paul A. Rodrigue ) with his music video Reesor Siding. It's a really nice video about a event that happened in northern Ontario in 1963 involving striking lumberjacks and farmers.

My part was to help with the story boards, designed the characters and the overall look the the BGs, and animated some scenes. It was took a while but it was definitely worth it.

You can check out the video on the musician's youtube page at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Yp2G4bEq4

Enjoy.

2011-09-11T18:15:00.002-04:00

This was done for a charity run to end women's cancers for Jen Dempster. I don't think I got it done in time to get the T-shirts they were hoping to get but I just hope it was well received nonetheless.

2011-09-11T18:02:00.003-04:00

Yay, done. And now.... I don't know.

Gnome Valley-almost there.

2011-09-10T22:24:00.003-04:00

It's almost there.

Gnome Valley-er...

2011-09-08T21:56:00.001-04:00

Here's where I got to on this diddy tonight.

More later.

Gnome Valley...

2011-09-08T20:11:00.000-04:00

This is a little gnome valley I'm doing as a piece to sell at the QUEEN WEST ARTS CRAWL craft show in Toronto. It's happening on September 17th and 18th. Look for booth C70 and my wife will be there selling her creations too. I may be busy entertaining a little boy.

More phases of this piece to come.

The next step in chipmunk evolution.

2011-08-25T21:16:00.002-04:00

My father in law asked me to gussy up some chipmunk pictures. Because I is who I is, I went a little overboard with it.

A girl and her friend...

2011-08-17T22:25:00.001-04:00

Got some warm grey markers to go with my cool grey ones. Now there's distinction :D

Kid Koala...

2011-08-10T21:20:00.002-04:00

Coolest DJ ever.

Tom Waits...

2011-08-08T14:57:00.002-04:00

I got all excited about the news of a new Tom Waits album coming out.

Ottawa-Endigen scout exchange...

2011-08-06T20:19:00.001-04:00

I was asked to make a logo for the Ottawa-Endigen scout exchange Meeka organized. This is what came of it.

Garlic Postcards...

2011-06-23T16:19:00.003-04:00

This is a series of postcards with a garlic theme I'm doing for Meeka. She has a craft show coming for which the applicants need a garlic theme but since her sockmonkeys and monster don't fit that, she asked me to make little drawings she could sell as postcards.

I've made 3 up to now. We'll see if I can find at least 3 more in me noggin'.

Cheers.

I needs me a doctor...

2011-05-22T18:35:00.003-04:00

I finally made a Dr Who with Matt Smith and the gang. Enjoy.

Royal Wedding...

2011-05-05T16:04:00.003-04:00

Yes, this is of the royal wedding. No, I'm not a preteen girl. I'm doing bits and pieces so that Meeka ( wife o' mine ) cane maybe sell them at her craft shows. There are plans a brewin'.

Rugged Men...

2011-05-05T16:00:00.005-04:00

So I haven't posted in a while now cause of the BG post ( below this one ), but I've been warming up my drawering arm with some new Prismacolor art markers. They're super fun to play with and have been talking to a fabulous artist about his technique. The next ones should be smoother and junk :D

Cheers.

JA bar bg

2011-05-05T13:36:00.002-04:00

It's been a while since I updated with some Joe Average stuff. This is why. Here's the first fully built BG for the show. This is also the first production BG I've ever really done so there's probably lots wrong with it but I still like it. Ask me again in a few months and my thoughts may have switched but for now, I'm happy. Cheers.

Dragons...

2011-03-26T23:58:00.001-04:00

( man I'm creative with my subject line ) So these are just some dragons I've been sketching while watching TV lately. Enjoy.

JA Hero batch 01...

2011-03-26T16:20:00.000-04:00

Still working on creating the life for our show. Here are examples of what the heroes might end up looking like. They're mostly background characters although some might come out every now and then.

Enjoy.

Randoms 02...

2011-03-20T20:36:00.002-04:00

Another set of random characters. I just needed to make enough schmucks to make a bar look like there's actual people there.

Since there's still lots to do on this show I'm going for old fashion animation trickery to make it look really filled by using 6 or so different characters.

Cheers.

Randoms 01...

2011-03-17T23:34:00.003-04:00

Just trying to get some random filler characters out.

Extras...

2011-03-16T23:39:00.004-04:00

So now that all the mains are set in stone ( just not built yet ), I decided to tackle the secondaries. Here are 3 versions of the boss. I tried to keep him as nerdy gamer as possible with a touch of successful.

Hope you like.

UPDATED:

The first guy's the boss. Second is a character called cool Tim ( he's cool ). The third is a run o' da mill douchy guy.

Last Dee?...

2011-03-15T23:01:00.001-04:00

Could this be the final Dee? Who knows? But I think so. Or she's super close.

Dee and other Dees...

2011-03-10T23:46:00.002-05:00

Here's a mix of what we liked with the other 2 versions of Distraction Girl. The helmet was starting to look a little on the big side so I think it's getting replaced by a good ol' hero mask. That thing on the far right's a shield from the front.

Cheers.

Dee is for Distraction Girl

2011-03-07T19:19:00.002-05:00

This is Dee as her superhero self ( or the first version of ). She's basically a law inforcer on her home planet. She does something mac-nasty ( hush hush ) and looses her powers ( and sense of fashion ). Enjoy.

Fox and Hope...

2011-03-06T01:49:00.002-05:00

Here's a drawing I did for a friend's b'day. It's from an idea he had a while ago. Cheers.

Joe Average and the gang...

2011-03-04T08:26:00.004-05:00

So here's the gang. Joe, Nixxon, and Dee ( originally Distraction Girl until she lost her powers ).

Stay tuned for adventures with accident prone Joe and he and his best friend Nixxon ( who's not necessarily smarter, but just a little more... observant ) in a world where supeheroes run rampant like superstars, are on all smutt mags like superstars, and get the highest privileges like superstars... ok, they're the superstars of this world.

And meet the fallen Amazon from her home planet of [ not decided yet ]. Dee joins the gang when her peers decide she doesn't deserve her powers anymore ( maybe she should have kept it in her pants ).

To be continued?... *bah bah baaaahhhhhhh*

PS - the sketches are of Dee in her supersuit ( so I guess it should be Distraction Girl's supersuit... but don't tell anybody her identity or she'll pound ya a good one )

Desert Fields...

2011-01-30T23:08:00.001-05:00

Ok so I've been keeping myself busy over the weekend. Practice practice practice.

Finished version coming soon... ish.

Cheers.

Life and it's details...

2011-01-30T01:17:00.003-05:00

Alright, so now I'm trying my hand at painting. It started as a speed painting challenge. Then 2 or 3 attempts after, it changed to BG speed painting. Then whatever category this would be in.

The composition's weird but I wasn't really thinking finished project when I started it. But then I saw this fine artist's work ( [link] ) and got inspired.

As frustrating as it was to start, I like the process now and will keep plugging at it.

Hope y'all like it.

Cheers.

Mmmm, watery...

2010-12-19T23:39:00.001-05:00

So I've decided to get back into actual paints. My favourite medium has always been water colours for both look and approach. I always find that it's quite the challenge to make it do what you want it to but well worth it if you know how.

I'm ok with what came out considering how long it's been since I touched it but there's still a long road ahead.

Hope you likes.

Cheers.

Unipegafuzzytailephant the 3rd...

2010-12-18T20:14:00.002-05:00

A group of local cubs came into our studio the other day. Being one of the only employees left in the building I was quickly surrounded by tiny people wondering how we did things.

When it came time to show them that we can draw on tablets they started shouting ( some right next to my ears ) what they wanted to see.

One thing led to another and this guy was born... in a much more sketchy design.

Then I made him better. It was fun to see/hear the weirdo ideas they had. Such imagination yet still too young to join the industry... oh well.

Hope you like.

Wipeout the commission...

2010-12-04T18:12:00.002-05:00

Here's the second commission I've been working on for a friend. It was quite the challenge cause I'm not used to rendering BGs like this but I think I managed :D

It was definitely fun to challenge myself like that though. Everybody should be doing that if you ask me.

Cheers.

More Smod Please...

2010-11-30T23:58:00.002-05:00

Here's another Smodcast related drawing I'm working on for fun.

Kitty Pryde the second...

2010-11-29T09:20:00.002-05:00

This is the second version of the Kitty Pryde challenge my friends and I ( well, mostly them... I kinda jumped on the bandwagon later on :) gave ourselves. The first was to draw Kitty Pryde in our own style, coming out of a wall, and her dragon friend had to be in there somewhere.

This was my first one http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_99qdtnIJOe8/TMyfMQF5fpI/AAAAAAAAAL4/IYm5s4doqng/s1600/Kitty+Pryde_01.jpg

The second version was of the same exact layout but in a style of the other's choice that, in their mind, would be opposite to our's. So they decided I should do a Golden Age/Silver Age comic style.

So here she is.

I based her a lot on the old Phantom Lady comics and then a mix of dinosaurs and monsters from the aera.

Hope you likes.

PS - If anybody has a good way of getting the pixelation to look good on the small scale, please let me know. I had a hard time getting a version small enough to upload but big enough to keep the details. Thanks in advance.

Supa Gurl...

2010-11-21T17:59:00.001-05:00

This is Super Girl... duh. This is just another something to force myself to learn new techniques and skills so all you talented younglings ( that one's for you Ray ) don't have as easy a time stealing my job :P

UPDATED:

So the more I looked at the first SuperGirl, the more I hated her. And then I saw what my buddy Ray ( http://rocom.deviantart.com/ ) has been doing with female characters and really had to punch it up a bit... ok, a lot. So here's mark 2. Background to come later. And tweaks to come later too.

All's fair in love and war.

2010-11-15T19:06:00.003-05:00

If there are fans of Kevin Smith out there who haven't listened to his SmodCast, do it. DO IT!!! It's chok full of great stories.

DO IT!!!

Merry Xmas little boy I don't know.

2010-11-15T19:04:00.001-05:00

This one's for a little buddy of a buddy of Meeka's and me. Hope you likes.

Kitty Pryde

2010-10-30T18:41:00.000-04:00

So some friends of mine ( [link] [link] and a lady who should really have a page on DA... ) challenge themselves to drawing tests with twists and things. I joined in on this month's one ( Kitty Pryde ) a little late but hey, wha'dya gonna do, right?This one was to setup Kitty Pryde going through a wall and throw in her little dragon friend. I've never really looked into her so this was fun. The next step is to do another one but in a totally different style. One that isn't your's. Should be fun.If anybody has a trick on how to do hair, I would looooove to hear it. I'm not at all confident with my approach ( and final product ). I was always one to draw bald heads or hats.Cheers.

Lady Sketches...

2010-10-07T23:59:00.001-04:00

I've been getting an itch to learn how to draw women. Here are some sketches taken almost directly, but not traced off of, the following talents.
http://j-scott-campbell.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2zpdch
http://j-scott-campbell.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2yp0i0
http://moni158.deviantart.com/#/d308wie
Bedtime.

Generation Tron

2010-10-01T00:28:00.001-04:00

For those of you who don't know, there's a Threadless contest with the new Tron movie as a theme. Great prizes and fun-ness.
Here's the link to my submition. Go over and vote for your favorite... or mine, I won't stop you from just voting for mine.
http://threadless.com/submission/300555/Generation_Tron
I tried the link and it's waiting for approval... but soon.
Cheers.

Spaccceeeee...

2010-09-26T21:16:00.002-04:00

I've never tried this before but with the Deviant Art/Eve contest's cool prizes I thought I should force myself to try. I'm actually happy with what came of it.
And now the hard part's done, figuring out what the hell it was going to look like. Now, only the other hard part of figuring out the views is left....... eep!
This design was highly based on a Russian plane. Check it out, it's pretty insane looking http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/09/06/a-weird-soviet-plane-vva-14/.
Cheers.

Spidey VS Hulk

2010-09-26T01:51:00.005-04:00

Hello all. A friend of mine asked for some drawings for people she knows. This is the first one I decided to try out.

Hope you like.

Cheers.

Colour me... coloured...

2010-09-25T23:33:00.001-04:00

Here's the first pass coloured version. Hope you like.

Cheers.

Cleanin' m'bull...

2010-09-25T17:50:00.003-04:00

Here's OP8, my D&D Minotaur. He's big and dangerous, in an outlaw way. I'll colour him later on.

Cheers.

Hazah for regular postings!

2010-09-22T23:20:00.003-04:00

So here's the next step in colouring Kevin eating Scott. I'm scared of the next bit cause I haven't done BGs in a loooonnnng while.

Hope you likes.

Hello strangers...

2010-09-21T23:52:00.003-04:00

So I've been away for a while. I've finally been able to do something creative too, surprise surprise.

A couple of friends of mine and I are going to nerd out with D&D. Here's my character, Omicron Persiae 8, a Minotaur Oultaw.

The other one is of Keving Smith learning to fight through the teachings of Scott Mosier. Listen to SmodCast and you'll understand :P

Too tired to write anything else.

Cheerios.

mPod

2010-02-15T11:05:00.005-05:00

Hello all and allets,

Meeka wanted me to make her a little drawing of her on her scooter for her iPod ( apparently she found a site that lets you design your own iPod skin ). I thought I'd add a bunch of her creations running after her.

Hope you likes,
Ren

Orange Lantern Meeka

2010-01-17T17:13:00.003-05:00

Hellooooo. My wife, Meeka, wanted to be an Orange Lantern. She has been making and has been obsessed with sockmonkeys for ages now so I thought it would be fitting to give her a little buddy.

Cheers,
Ren

More colour please.

2010-01-04T23:13:00.002-05:00

Heeeellooooooo.

In my ongoing quest to better myself ( by stealing what I can of other artists )( ssshhhh ), I've decided to learn how to paint in a more fully rendered way as opposed to the flat, cartoony way.

There are sooo many wicked painters on Deviant Art.

Although I ended up doing mostly my own thing, I was really inspired by this drawing http://gueuzav.deviantart.com/art/Flore-125934783. Take the time and check the other pieces out.

Cheers for now,
Ren

Monkey Girl, meet DrawMonkey.

2009-12-31T16:36:00.003-05:00

Helloooooo,

A wicked artist who's blog is at http://yearinmerde.blogspot.com/ has an awesome character called Monkey Girl. He had asked a while ago if anybody wanted to draw her in their own style to do it. I figured it was about time for Monkey Girl to meet DrawMonkey... seems fitting, don't you think?

Cheers,
Ren

Bastion's 7.

2009-12-30T14:42:00.002-05:00

Here's one I did for CHEEKS' Bastion's 7 contest he had over the holidays. The theme was to draw a character of his own Bastion's 7 comic and make it our own. I threw in his logo chasing after his character for gags sake.

Enjoy,
Ren

His and Her's.

2009-12-30T14:39:00.002-05:00

Here's a pic I did while the wife, the in-laws, and I were watching Love Actually ( yes, chick flick, but a good one... really... watch it, you'll understand ). I was actually going for more of a french style but I'm happy with what came of it.

Cheers all,
Ren

Contra final.

2009-12-30T14:35:00.003-05:00

Hello all. Here are the finishing parts of my homage to Contra. Hope you likes it.

Happy Holidays everybody.

Ren.

Contra part 1, 2, and 3 of 4... I think

2009-12-24T15:15:00.005-05:00

Hello all,

Aaahhh, Crimas. It's a good time to relax and update your blog. Oh, and I guess hanging with the inlaws is pretty darn fun too.

An excellent artist on Deviant Art ( http://lerms.deviantart.com/ ) other arters to join in an art jam. The theme being homages or emotions of an NES cover art, I just had to jump on that.

I picked Contra.

Hopefully I'll be able to colour it before work start again in the new year.

Cheers and Happy Everything you celebrate during this time... and if you don't, just have fun, will ya?,
Ren

Back from the dead.

2009-12-09T20:37:00.003-05:00

Hello everybody. I haven't posted in what feels like an eternity mostly because work is keeping me extremely busy... and I got sick... and I got an iPhone.

Here's one that took a while to do for the above reasons and cause it has more work put into it than any other piece I've done up to now. It's a little boy whom my wife knows through people who's nine I believe and has lost his leg to bone cancer. We were really touched by this story so one thing we did was that at our wedding, instead of having the glass clinging that everybody else in the world does ( and that the caterers didn't want us to do ), we told everybody that they'd have to donate money to a little piggy bank set at the head table. We thought that would also limit the amount of awkward kisses we'd have to do.

We were wrong.

The good side of this story is that we raised a nice bit of money for the little boy. Although it's still weird to have smooched so much with some co-workers and our boss there to see all that unfolding.

Oh yeah, we got out of his mother/aunt/I'm confused as to who it was now that his favorite hero is Super Mario... hence him with Super Mario.

Told you I'd be back...

2009-10-26T22:03:00.003-04:00

Here ya go. Adventure with the coolest kid in the woods. Now to go hang out with my wife and watch zombie movies in preparation of Halloween... yeah, we like to get ready well in advance.

Hope you enjoy.

Cheers,
Ren

( by the way, that title works better if you read the following post before this one :D )

That's Mr Husband to you.

2009-10-26T21:09:00.002-04:00

Hey folks, I'm back. It apparently takes the drawing out of you if your computer's in the shop for about 3 weeks while you also have to get ready for a wedding... YOUR wedding.

I've also been geeking out majorly on anything space related.

So I drew something space related.

I took my time for the line work but did a quick colour job. I wanted to try it all sketchy like.

Hope you like it.

I'll be posting a whole lot more now that I can relax.

Cheers,
Ren

I hate computers.

2009-09-10T20:52:00.003-04:00

Here are a couple of new ones I've been working on lately. The Green Lantern I did today for a gift for someone. I don't think I've ever drawn so fast. And especially with my computer acting like a real butthole, I'm surprised I got it done at all.

Zelda's almost fully coloured so that should be done soon... as long as my computer doesn't die.

Hold on old fella... HOLD ON!!!

Yay first!

2009-08-30T03:08:00.002-04:00

There we go Fagan. We have a comic... page.

Cheers,

Ren

Almost there.

2009-08-28T22:44:00.004-04:00

Wow. This one's taking forever. First colour. I think I like them.

Cheers,
Ren

One more step...

2009-08-24T23:40:00.004-04:00

The cleanup didn't come out as well as I was hoping ( I wish I had a good WACOM... or a Cintiq... mmmmm, Cintiiiiiiq ) but still happy with it. Now the fun part of adding colour and them there words... tomorrow.

Cheers,
Ren

Dead? Me? Yes... but I'm back.

2009-08-13T22:39:00.008-04:00

So I've been busy for the last while and I think I've already lost some oomf. But I have good reasons to have been away from my drawing table... really... umm...

... this is one. And I would say that it's a good reason. For those of you who are wondering, YES!, it was a wicked show. I can't believe old folks like that can still move. We were probably more tired watching them then they were playing 'till midnight-ish on a Monday night.

Only one eye...

2009-07-02T23:46:00.003-04:00

Here ya go. Hopes ya like it as much as I'm going to like going to bed right now.

Cheers,
Ren

Halfway there.

2009-06-25T21:19:00.005-04:00

Now it's ready for colour.

I've had Step By Step from the Backstreet Boys in my head aaaalll damn day and posting every step of this piece is not helping at all.

Step By Step,
oo babehhh,
Gonna get to you giiiiiiiiirl.

Help,
Ren

Oh boys... !

2009-06-25T08:40:00.002-04:00

I've started noticing how most of my favorite artists to check out do comic books, or at least post comic pages. Then I started wondering if there was a connection to the fact that their such great artists and the medium they chose.

After thinking about it, I've decided to give sort of a purpose to my drawings, or just drawing in general. I'm going to try and draw in a more comic style. So, as often as I can do it, I'm going to try and draw as if I'm making a one page comic... maybe two. Since I'm not much of a writer, I've asked my friends to write some shorts for me, but this one was all Ren.

Cheers,
Ren

The Dr sees all... in COLOUR

2009-06-18T22:13:00.004-04:00

Yay. Well, this one took a little longer than I thought due to sicknesses, wedding plans, not being here, and other excuses... err, I mean, reasons.

Hope you likes,
Ren

Baby steps

2009-06-08T23:49:00.002-04:00

So here's the cleanup version of the Dr and my fiancé hanging out behind my back. I didn't have time to scan it all in and patch it all together nice and neat like. But you get the idea.

Next step, colour.

Cheers.

Someone has a crush on someoooonnne

2009-06-03T23:27:00.000-04:00

Meeka's ( my fiance ) asked me to do a drawing of her and David Tennant ( a.k.a. Dr. Who ) so I finally sat down in front of the drawing board tonight and got this clean-ish rough done. I think I like it but the final verdict will have to wait 'till tomorrow night... or the day after.

In any case, hope you enjoy.

Salut.

Oldy

2009-06-03T20:51:00.000-04:00

I was going through my old stuff, looking for short short I did a while back. I couldn't find it. But I did find something totally different that I did some years ago for an idea friends of mine and I had about the life and times of a lazy kid... we never did anything... probably 'cause that lazy kid was mostly an amalgamation of us.

Eep.

Seeya.

Naughty Spidey in Technicolour

2009-06-01T22:54:00.000-04:00

After a fun-filled weekend with the inlaws and my lovely wife-to-be, I was able to squeeze in some time to colour Spidey in action.

The cat in this piece is my cat in the pose that I see him in most of the time... with jaw gaping, thinking he's interesting to the rest of the world.

I resisted the temptation to blur Spidey in his speedy pinchy move 'cause I got yelled at by my peer for being blur happy.

Happy now :D

Cheers.

What would YOU do with super powers?

2009-05-28T18:27:00.001-04:00

Hiya folks.

Since I don't really have the time to finish a drawing this week and I haven't posted any rough stuff yet... here is some rough stuff.

I've been looking at the meriad ( I think that's how you spell that ) of wicked, wicked artists on Blogspot. When I find someone I like, I try to steal what I can from their styles. It obviously never ends up exactly like their's ( they're good for a reason ), but you learn soooo much doing it. So these 2 are "inspired" by Mathieu Reynès and Florian Satzinger. I HIGHLY recommend checking them out.

Cheers all,
Ren

Kuta attempt numéro deux

2009-05-24T18:36:00.000-04:00

So after checking out all the awesomeness that people did for Cheeks' contest, I realised two things. Holy crap they're good, and they all did their's in their own style as opposed to Cheeks' ( ish ) like I tried to do.... soooooo.

Needless to say that I got back on the drawing board and came up with this piece.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Ren

Kuta : A Cheeky Contest

2009-05-21T21:47:00.000-04:00

Sean "Cheeks" Galloway has a contest going on for his Kuta character. This would be my first attempt at an entry. I think I'll only be able to make another one which is too bad 'cause this is fun.

Hope you liiiiiiike.

Ren.

Particle Man

2009-05-18T20:54:00.000-04:00

I was just introduced to the whole Particle Man song by They Might Be Giants. It screamed to be sketched. So instead of going deaf from the screaming, I thought I'd give it a try.

Hope you like it.

Cheers,
Ren

Particle man, Particle Man

Doing things a particle can

What's he like? it's not important

Particle Man

Is he a dot, or is he a speck?

When he's underwater, does he get wet?

Or does the water get him instead?

Nobody knows, Particle Man

Triangle Man, Triangle Man

Triangle Man hates Partical Man

The have a fight, Triangle wins

Triangle Man

Universe Man, Universe Man

Size of the entire Universe Man

Usually kind to smaller man

Universe Man

He's got a watch with a minute hand,

Millenium hand, and an eon hand

When they meet it's a happy land

Powerful man, Universe Man

Person Man, Person Man

Hit on the head with a frying pan

Lives his life in a garbage can

Person Man

Is he depressed, or is he a mess?

Does he feel totally worthless?

Who came up with Person Man?

Degraded man, Person Man

Triangle Man, Triangle Man

Triangle Man hates Person Man

They have a fight, Triangle wins

Triangle Man

Scooting away

2009-05-08T01:04:00.000-04:00

Work has started up again so I don't have the time I'd want to put on drawing anymore, but I'm still pushing forward... just a little slower.

I became a gradient and blur whore in this one. I may have overdone it, or I may not... I'm kind of tired right now and can't really tell.

On that note, good night everybody.

Cheers,
Ren

Get that girl

2009-05-04T11:28:00.000-04:00

I thougth I'd play with gradients for colouring and shading on this one. Here's the cleanup too. Why not, right?

Now to go enjoy the beautifull day outside since I've been hiding out in my cave for the past couple of weeks drawing up a storm.

After that, mooore drawing ( who am I kidding, it's like a drug ).

Cheerios,
Ren

Bloody

2009-05-02T23:50:00.000-04:00

I'm still playing with the new Photoshop ways. I'm starting to get the hang of it but now it's taking that much longer to figure out what I want to do with a picture since my options are that much more varied. And with taxe time, a house to tend to, a cat that can't live without my attention, and other distractions, single drawings are taking more time than ever before.

Hope you like though,
Ren

Potty humour

2009-05-01T00:17:00.000-04:00

One of my good friends at work ( Steve Cheyne ), who is also a Photoshop guru, gave me pointers at how to paint in Photoshop.

This is a quick doodle I made to try out his technique and make sure I didn't forget too much of it. Apparently I didn't. It wasn't cleaned properly to really get the full use of his colouring method but I understand it enough to use it.

I only realised after how relevant the drawing was. We've all been faced with the fearsome unknown, and this is kind of how I felt getting lectured on a software I thought I knew enough to get around... nah!

Thanks Steve, wherever you are.

Cheers,
Ren

Dr Who?

2009-04-29T20:18:00.001-04:00

I decided to start the blog off with some drawings of the good Dr.

"Who?" you ask?

Yes, that one.

I'm trying to mature my style to something that's simpler and fun to animate. I'm a lot closer to it than I used to be, but I still have some work to do to be at a level I'm happy with. I look at these and realise that I need to work on my basic shapes and proportions push them even further ( especially when it comes to the lady shapes ). Any comments and criticism is greatly appreciated ( I AM doing this to improve myself in the end ).

'Till next time.

Cheers,
Ren

Zzzzzzzz..rraahhgfs..... wha... what?

2009-04-24T10:28:00.000-04:00

Hello all.

I've finally decided to utilise this thing people keep talking about. I think it's called the interweb? I've just been given a couple of weeks off and decided to reinvent myself and my style... so I stole from the artists I admire most ( Sean Galloway, Cyril Pedrosa just to name a couple ). And now I'm ready to start posting things as they come. My wife-to-be ( titaniumhip.livejournal.com ... that's not her name, but her blog adress ) will eventually forget who I am but will hopefully forgive me due to the amount of TV time she's going to gain.

So as soon as I find my scanner chord, I'll be in business.

Cheers,
Ren