randomness...

posted by Arna:
After the working day I found some old and some new bits to scan. The sleeping fella at the bottom really did look like this. He was covered in a fine plaster dust and asleep soundly all the way from one end of the subway ride to the other. Our siameser Jasper does have eyes, but I amused myself by not drawing them in this sketch. The red girl is a doodle.

How Rude...

Posted by John and Arna:
These guys are from a project that may yet see the light of day.
Drawn by John, coloured by Arna.

What Cyril will do for shortcake...

Originally, this was a throw-away drawing from a sketchbook. It felt awkward and clumsily drawn when I did it a few months ago. Then I realized that this one is more about the character and less about the drawing. ( Hey, that's my excuse for a bad drawing, what can I say!) I've added the wallpaper and shadows in photoshop. Maybe it needs a picture of Cyril's Ma and Pa on the wall behind him, dunno what the relatives look like yet...


posted by Arna

Jacques Le But...

In honour of NHL season starting up again, here are a couple of sketches of a shinpad-wearing, hockey stick-wielding superhero from the Great White North, eh! John drew these in black prismacolour earlier this year while working up another series idea.

And while we're on the theme of hockey players, be sure to check out Mr. Dot's exquisite (and very funny) painting here.

a few sketches...

Here are a few of John's rough characters-in-progress, done in brush marker over light pencil:

Enter...'MoosieFrog!'

Here's a character/series idea that John's been having fun with. I (Arna) had a friend, Lanny, who gave me the nickname "MoosieFrog" when we were kids. He was always teasing me with poems about a particular hat I wore in the winter. It was red with pompoms on it. Functional but silly-looking, I'm sure. John loved the name 'MoosieFrog' and the idea took off from there...