I'm back with another Toons on Tap update. (And a few other sketches) Two weeks ago the Models for the Wizard of Oz Themed night were the Larger than Life drag queens; Daytona Bitch, and Miss conception. Their hilarious comments and personalities kept the audience laughing throughout the evening (Which is good or else I would have gotten frustrated by the fact that I could get proportions right to save my life for about half of the night)
I also got some decent time Lapse recordings of the night, I just need to remember to actually hit the record button more frequently over the course of the evening.
The next Toons on Tap is Tomorrow night at the Rhino Bar on Queen Street, and the theme is Brave.
If it works for Bane in the comics it MUST be an effective way to get a chemical into the blood stream
As Anime North rapidly approaches, and I try my guts out to get a new issue of Manifest Destiny done in time for the show this coming weekend, it dawned on me that I hadn't updated. I really need to stop forgetting that.
So last Toons on Tap session was Retro Scifi themed and it was awesome.The Models Meredith Viner and Nic Farber were outstanding as the alien and the plucky heroine. Once again I did the drawings on my iPad but it got a little crash happy part way through and I ended up losing much of the time lapse video; I'll try again for tomorrow's session and maybe tack the two videos together.
The Next Toons on Tap session is tomorrow night and is Wizard of Oz Themed featuring a pair of Drag Queens (Daytona Bitch and Miss Conception) it should be fun, or at the very least interesting.
So I mentioned that Anime North is coming up this weekend here's a sneak peak at some of what I have been working on for the Show.
the sketch for the cover of Bo'glin Book 1 print edition
And once again I have had the privilege to Color one of my favorite Artist's work, for the rerelease of Ninja Highschool V 2.0 which will be debuting at AN this year, pick up a copy and get it signed by the Artist Ben Dunn (And me too if you like the coloring on the cover)
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go back to feverishly coloring.
What is Life drawing? What do you do at Toons on Tap? What do you get out of it? These are questions I have been asked by friends and coworkers. In short Life drawing is pretty much what it sounds like, drawing something from life. In art school this meant a model came in took off their clothes and posed while we drew them, but it could even just be as simple as sitting on the subway and drawing the people around you.
Toons on Tap specifically is costumed life drawing. Which means that the Models are wearing costumes. This lets me as an artist get practice drawing not just anatomy, but costumes as well.Toons also takes place above a bar, so you can have a recreational beverage while you scribble to the sound track that the organizers Laurie and Jeremy compile for the session. A metric tonne of awesome, talented people show up to every session.
In short it's an evening of drawing interesting subject matter, perhaps enjoying some food and a beverage, while listening to music surrounded by awesome people. If that doesn't make for an awesome evening I don't know what does.
If my description doesn't make it clear on what Toons on Tap is, last session I decided to do all my drawings on my iPad. This is significant because the Sketchbook pro app let's you take a time lapsed recording of your drawings... which I did. So without further ado I give you 3 hours of Toons on Tap drawings, presented in roughly six minutes.
Some notes on the video, 1. orientation of the recording doesn't change when the UI of SBP does, I will keep that in mind for next time please excuse some of the "sideways" drawings in the mean time. 2. I tend to jump back to a piece that I am trying to get more polished, while the model is on break; I tried to get them all into place but missed one. Sorry.
I've been practicing my digital painting skills on my iPad
The other night I went for a meet up with some of the local people who play and work on my fave Facebook game Mousehunt. It was a grand evening filled with fun discussion and good people, and food. Of course it took place at one of those restaurants that puts paper on the table and crayons within easy reach which of course means scribbling ensues. Despite the crayons I opted to use one of my all time favorite mediums to work in; cheap ballpoint pen.
Mouse Hunt inspired table Scribblins
And more scribblin
The other thing I have been doing lately is playing Skylanders, which has some very fun character designs. This naturally means that I want to draw them. I've been using them as warmups/ digital paint practice.
I've also discovered that Sketchbook Pro will create Timelapse movies of a drawing if I want, and I figured I post one of those too. I'd like to be able to add music to it but at the moment I'm fighting with a couple programs to get that to work right, and Udate is more important that a few nice tweaks..
Or should that Draw someone dressed like an Egyptian?... Of course I refer to the fact that last week's Toons on Tap had burlesque dancer Coco Framboise dressed as Queen Cleopatra. Here are my compiled life drawings from the session.
And speaking of Toons on Tap. This month is Marvel Month at ToT and I am very much looking forward to it. Here is a look at the flyer that Laurie and Jeremy Made for the events
And to finish up I leave you with some random character sketches I have done.
It's Monday therefore I'm going to update and post some of my sketches from the week.
Some scribble of a character I have been posting the comic of on Tumblr
a Tattoo design for my friend Rich Known As Jack and sketches
As you may have seen (from pic above) I have been posting a fantasy themed comic on My Tumblr , I mention this because it seemed like a good way to sneak a link to it in should anyone be interested. I'm also posting it on my deviantart account.
Also This week is a Toons on Tap week (Tomorrow night at the Rhyno on Queen st) and the theme is Cleopatra which means next week I'll be posting my drawings from it.
So yeah that's about it from me for this week. Have a good one!
