Folding

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Sorry for the lack of updates. This should begin to settle down after the new year. This is a sketch for a comic I'm working on, tentatively called, "I Cant Believe I Realized How Much I Like You After I Moved To Japan."

Before The Oreos

Paper Crane

Paws is Swap Backwards

Rama Hughes and I swapped portraits. It was my prize for winning the Portrait Party contest. My drawing (above) was done in pen and ink with a bit of watercolour. The scan doesnt really pick up all the subtle shades.

The Japanese Love Trays

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A quick doodle from one of my daily trips to Cafe Di Espresso.

Kitchen

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This was drawn in a new Bristol spiral bound sketchbook (dont be jealous, Liz) I found at The Mall for 1200¥. And colored with my first Copic marker I bought at the same store. Im not really a big fan of the coloring though, Ill probably stick to my Prismacolors.

My lack of Photoshop is hindering the quality of my posts here. But I did get my scanner/printer to work, so hopefully I'll be more consistent with updates.

House in Kudamatsu

I did this drawing one morning when I woke up way too early. It is the house across the street. Most of the houses in the neighborhood have this similar style.



My laptop is crap and I cant install my scanner, so this is a photo of the drawing.

Taylor

A drawing I did of my little sister for her 10th birthday.

Me I.R.L.

If writing "To Do" lists counts as drawing, then Ive been doing a lot of drawing the last few days. I leave for Japan Tuesday and Ive already started a new blog about the adventure, Alone in Kudamatsu. I wouldnt visit it yet, though. It's kinda depressing and stressful right now.

Swapper

I busted out the ol' inks and watercolour for this drawing of Patrick. And he busted... nevermind.

If it cant be turned into a comic...

...I dont want to experience it.

Big Wall

The proposal.

I finished the mural in Montreal last Tuesday. Click here to read the article in the Mirror about the eco-fair I participated in.











It is supposed to be a cross-sectional landscape. Apparently it looked too much like a page out of a coloring book for some of the neighbors. That was encouraging news to hear at the beginning of day three. I dont know what I think about it. The owner of the building had all these contradicting demands. Id like to think without that Id have done something better. Maybe not.


Final sketch (click to enlarge).

On the merits of letting go...

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Drawn on some extra visa photos, with a road map of Florida on the back.

I leave for Tokuyama in ten days.

I won!

After a month of slaving away drawing your portraits, I won the Portrait Party contest! Now Rama Hughes and I will do a swap. I'm wicked pumped!



This swap was between me and an old middle school friend, James Vaucher.

Emily Haines

A drawing I did for daytrotter.com. It's for an article about Emily Haines (of Metric and Broken Social Scene). You cant really see the color I intended if you're not using a really dark and broken monitor. That sucks.

Thanks for the tip, D!

Wall-Mounted Ostrich Heads

Im in Montreal for awhile, but not just drawing on bar napkins. I am also painting a mural for an 'Eco-Fair.' I dont have access to a scanner, so I cant put the final sketches up, but I'll be posting photos of the wall once it's done.

The street festival is Saturday (Sept 1st), from 11-5pm. It will be on the corner of Pierce Street and Ste. Catherine in downtown Montreal. There has been a little bit of press about the mural and event Im participating in, too. So if you're in the area, the Montreal Mirror and the Concordia student paper The Link both mention me. I'll try to scan the articles when I get back so you (my devoted blog reader) can see how International Ive become. Stop laughing.

Naked College Girls

I've shown you the high school portraits. Here is some of my sophomore and junior ('03-'05) year college painting work. It was fun drawing nudes. No one lets me do that anymore.

See Me Draw!

This is a video of me completing my 2,374th portrait swap with Jenna. I was a bit drunk and giggly by the end.

Thanks Liz for putting so much time into this! You are magic!

The final piece:


EDIT:

Jenna DeLuca's excellent half of the swap.

Lo

Just when I thought I'd never done a proper drawing of Lauren, I find this piece on a disc. I have no idea where the original is or when I did it. A professor somewhere probably uses it as a coaster.

So here ya go Lauren (I know you're reading this)!

Invisible Pill-Popping Fish

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A page from a comic I made in 2003.

Who is Jimmy Jane?

And what does she say?

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Packing up to leave for Japan I've been finding the oddest things. This was the first page in a comic book I made in 2003.

I Am Working

Actually, Im fooling around on the computer. But sometimes I am working. On a comic book, to be specific. I am not going to post any of it here. Right now I am teasing you.

In my mind I will work on this book for the next year while Im in Japan (I leave September 18th) and come back to the USA with a fist-full of paper-gold. Then it will be all comic conventions and pimple-faced boyfriends.

But dont worry, devoted Sketchblog reader, I'll still be posting non-comic book drawings (assuming I get this laptop thing resolved).

Also, I gave my "two weeks notice" at work (woopeeee!), and I am headed to Montreal at the end of the month. I am painting a mural at a street festival September 1st, so if you're in the area you should stop by and say wuddup slut?

Nudder One

Swap with super-inker Ammon. I want his pen.

Naked People Should Not Say "Dude"

She knows me so well, yet we've never met. The most hilarious results in a Portrait Swap so far, with Shelly from Naked People Should Not Say "Dude" (her drawing of me below). Go look at Shelly's blog right now!



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Swapz

Portrait Swap with bully Josh Pincus is Crying. Yup, he drew me with a few bottles of Hate behind me.

Title

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This is as close to live blogging as I'll ever get.

My Favorite Hamburger

The long awaited portrait swap between el Jurko and me.

summer in the city

Trying out a new pen.

Bite Your Own Tail

A portrait swap with Sarah. We both thought it'd be fun to draw each other looking kind of creepy.

Whatever

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If you pick up the Boston Phoenix this week make sure to flip to the back to see Karl Stevens' weekly strip Whatever. Karl used me as a reference in his Parisian scene.

Call me!

Dedicated to Jon. Anyone else, don't.

Play Time!

Hours of fun can be had with Jeannette, a bottle of vodka, her sketchbook and little friend "Owl Skunk."

This month only donate at least $10USD to my Japan/Blog fund and receive a signed print of this doll in the mail. The donation button is located on the right sidebar.