Toons; Buddy cop session drawings

It's been a super busy couple of weeks for me, there always seems to be something on the go that I am late for recently. Here are my sketches from the Last session of Toons on Tap; Buddy Cops. Done in Sketchbook pro on my Netbook with my Wacom Bamboo tablet. The Models Dew Lily and Mohagany Storm were awesome to draw and their hamming it up made the entire room crack up frequently.

And once again there is a session tonight, it's theme is going to be Woodstock. So if you are in Toronto and want to draw a groovy chick while listening to classic rock Come on down to the Rhyno on Queen st tonight at 7. You can hit up the event page on facebook for details.

Of Toons and Taps

Greetings all.

It's Toons on Tap again tonight at the Rhyno on Queen, with the theme of Buddy Cops (Think Lethal Weapon, or 48 Hours as a reference) To celebrate I'm FINALLY going to post stuff from the BRAVE session from like a month ago....

 Also Myself and my cohorts from Jack and Pookie Publishing, and Rice Hat Saurai Jewelery will be journeying to the wonderful city of Montreal this weekend for once again we have a table at Otakuthon, Where we will have Neat new stuff Like Print editions of Bo'glin Book 1, new prints, and at long last Manifest Destiny issue 2. Plus all the cute plush like Pooklets and Skowls (Who will soon be in another comic but more on that next update) that you come to expect on our table. So if you are in the Montreal area Stop by and Say Hello, we'll be in the Dealers room across from our talented friends from Romantically Apocalyptic.

So I fell off the face of the planet again....

Yeah. It happened again. I have two or three sessions worth of life drawings to post and haven't got around to pulling them off of my iPad yet. I do however have last session's drawings which I did on my netbook in the full version of sketchbook pro (As opposed to the mobile app) The theme was Red Sonya, and our model was the gorgeous Rubie Magnitude.

The Quens of Oz

Fun with Dinos...

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.

A Steampunk Alice in Wonderland.

Retro Future and Anime Con prep

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 this Life drawing thing you do?

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.

Here are the compilations of the drawings.

The House of X

Alright So I missed updating last week. Oops. New week back on the updating horse. Starting off with some digital sketches from my iPad.

And now we get to the life drawings from last Toons on Tap Session with Tamar Lipsey as The Scarlet Witch and Toronto Rogue.

And speaking of Toons on Tap, Marvel month continues tomorrow with Venom themed life drawing. at the Ryhno on Queen on 7pm