My first go with using spherical perspective. My hand seemed to defy logic as I was working on this one...Interestingly enough it doesn't look so distorted in the finished piece. Will make something more intense next time round.

China has a big thing about loading on as much "shit" as possible onto a moving vehicle. Most of the time it's a bunch of scrap metal, plastic or bubble wrap or...bamboo leaves?? No idea. This concept also works for loading people onto buses, boats, subways and so forth. Pack em in like sardines I say.

Experimenting with some new body shapes and such so made a bit of a character rotation. Enjoy!

Ballet, MMA, and Obnoxious Plagiarism

I spelled the title wrong didn't I? So...it's time for me to break the news here. I have decided against Sheridan as my future. I also have decided against putting animation and art off for a decade because just doing it for fun doesn't quite cut it. If I learned anything in China, it's that you should never settle for a job that you don't love. EVER. Or I will come after you I swear. It's a miserable decision to accept something because it's there and it's easy and I'm the last person to do that to myself. (let's not talk about my growing dislike of teaching and bratty rich kids) So, here is my decision after much research and awe. I am gonna give it my best shot to get into Gobelins, Paris in 2013. And I have started devoting my life to this single goal as of last month, which means: 3 hours of french every day and the rest of my free time sketching, drawing and exploring as many styles and things to draw as I can. My art book library has tripled over the last week. Only 25 students get accepted each year, which I think is fantastic as it means a lot of attention will be given to each student, but they make it clear that they are not teaching you to draw, you should already be good at that. In fact, you should show them something more impressive than the other 1000 applicants. I'm gonna find that.


So...hence I am updating more consistently, with less complete work. Most of what I'm working on is life drawing, and will slowly transition into animals, machinery, buildings and every other thing I suck at drawing. And since life drawing in China is about as common as deodorant, I have started harassing endless hours of youtube videos. My current obsession is with UFC and Ballet. All these sketches (I think) are under a minute. It's interesting the difficulties each presents. Ballet can be captured with 3 or 4 s curves while fighting is all about sharp edges and stretch. The top one is my favourtie, I watched a single male dancer rehearsing for a good long while and tried capturing the transition of his poses. I kinda like how organized it look sin comparison to the other ones...heh.

Yes, I had to throw in a fat ballerina.

If anyone watches UFC, can you figure out which one is Johnny Bones? : ) Legs....

And this made me laugh very hard when a student showed it to me. Talk about...crappy digimon rip off? Complete with a card game and a slideshow quality animation. I laughed so hard then tried explaining how uncool this show is compared to digimon, but my kids didn't agree. What do they know about quality? And don't bother looking ti up in any search engine, tried my best to find it.

Eye Candy

Limited colour pallete experiments. Very chinese..gold and red. Also wanted to include some thoughts as I drew these so put in some primitive typography type stuff. Enjoy!

Fighting, Faces, and Icky Eaters

This quick study was fun. Took a bunch of basic shapes and observed different kinds of face shapes around town. One thing I love about China, I can stare at people all I want.

So the middle good looking guy is NOT from my town but from Shanghai. He was one of the metal heads I um...moshed with at the Lamb of God concert. The rest of the sketches are from my KFC window (this is now gonna be my hub as they have cheap shitty coffee but an awesome window). And I realized, my town has NO good looking guys, let alone manly guys. Couldn't find one attractive face. The two other guys depicted here are roughly what half my older students and generic men on the street look like. Yum.

Creepin' on People Eatin'.

This man is amazing. I did a quick sketch of his face in my last entry and decided to expand more on him. He just has so much character to him, I wanna capture it all. My friend says he looks like a Disney villan. Hehehe.


Am I gonna post something other than sketches anytime soon? When I fill all 4 walls of my apartment walls with life drawing sketches, I will. I will explain why next time. Ciao!

Ur chest is like a Petting Zoo

Isn't that just the best title?? Totally not original. I've been listening to very bizarre indie bands lately from my unsorted 250 gigs of music which I've been sorting for the last two years..


Anyhow, I found an effing cafe in Huangyan!! With real tasty non overpriced coffee and noninvasive staff!!! I wish I could convey how big of a deal this is for me as I can't life draw ANYWHERE without gathering a giant crowd. No it has nothing to do with me pretending to be Michelangelo, it just looks odd when a person in China is drawing, let alone a foreigner. So hiding behind glass and sketching life outside was such fun. It's been ages and I've regressed quite a lot..this top page took like an hour to do. But I'm gonna work on some more disguises and sketch more often now that it's warming up!


The rest of this shit smeared stuff is a mixture of sketches from my holiday..can't really say which ones are China which are Philippines..Enjoy! And big news in the next post!





And as for below, anyone follow my comic? I still update, at least once a week. And tis getting steamy as you can see!

The Many Faces of China

SO I was gonna do a big sketch dump here from my trip to Philippines, but my internet is being a douche and only let me upload this one pic..so. This was from my trainride, people weren't being too interesting so i grabbed a magazine and sketches. I know, cheating.

This one was a lot of fun. Acrylic and cheapo paper.

Hello! Long time no see so here is a big ass update! I haven't been drawing nearly as much as I want to with one thing coming up, a new cold, followed by an allergic reaction to something, followed by some crap at work. Trying to get back to being more zen. I do miss being zen.

The pajama people! The most fascinating crowd to observe in China. This lady was at the bank going about her business with this crazy updo, full makeup and yes, heels. When I ask people why so many of them wear pajamas they have no idea what Im talking about. Its like if I went home and asked why everyone is wearing jeans.

I see this puppy runnnig around town all the time with this..noose around its neck which has dug in so far into its skin. Every time I try to approach the dog it runs away, and me coming at it with scissors would scare the living daylights out of the poor thing..it's sad to see so little respect for animals.