movies and sketches

I have little fortune in getting friends to willingly be a guinea pig for my caricature exercises. Safe for one of my colleagues, which by now occasionally simply hand me her notebook, a pencil, and makes me a big smile. Adorable. Other than that, I find better fortune in either watching TV or magazines. Here some of the ones I'm most happy with, which I traced back with a ink pen brush.

Jealousy

A fast Illustration for this idea I had.

the last minutes- revised.

 All right, finally the revised version of what I did last week, with brighter colors and fixed pose/proportions...
As for the boy, become a girl as was too feeble, but I like the new hair volume and kindness of this figure more. Hope you like this new version.

Toon caricatures

Oh well, some exercise to cartoon some friend. Please let me know if you'd like to be cartooned!

the last minutes

retake by Varethane (http://varethane.deviantart.com/)

Ok, this is an experiment for coloring with Sketchbook Pro, although I'm not really happy with this and I'd need some advice in order to make a more pleasant coloring. I think I'll do a version in wuatercolor and see how that will do. Please comment and critique!

Auguri Mamma!

Ecco un'illustrazione di un mio ricordo d'infanzia - childhood memory

The Collective

No, I didn't stop to draw with all that sewing!
I actually started to go to a collective life drawing here in Toronto, and I got to know a lot of cool local people that reminded me my old self. Finally back in track with some new life drawing!

the sun and the stars

preliminary illustration about reality and dreams.

adding color to my drawings

In the last few weeks I started adding lots of color to my watercolors. it's a mix of coincidence and learning. at Work (Guru Studio) we occasionally have internal masterclasses, where we can teach something we're master of, to our colleagues. That time was the turn of Marco Bucci, who told us in one lesson his coloring portrait process, and in the following lesson we had 1h to do the job ourselves. But oh! I forgot to bring paints. the only things I had at my desk were crayola pastels and my sketchbook. So well, I went anyways. He said something like "when light are warm, shadows are cold, so I add here a bit of purple..." I couldn't mix colors. Crayola don't admit much of mixing and half tones, so... I just added the colors as they were. More yellow where the light hit, more purple and blue and green in the shadows... it come out a beautiful rainbowny effect. so I liked it and I try to apply the same effect to my watercolors and digital paintings as well. I have to say I enjoy my artwork much more now. Try to believe!

Cucire i miei regali -Sewing gifts

Ho well, I didn't post for a while. Work got really busy at the end of summer and I guess I got caught in it. Anyhow I made some cute Christmas gift and so here the results

Mannaggia, non aggiorno il blog da un sacco di tempo! Il lavoro mi ha tenuta piu' impegnata del solito a partire da settembre, e immagino di essemi lascita trascinare da esso. Comunque, ho fatto qualche regalo carino per Natale, ed ecco qui i risultati :-)

we have a 3D printing blog!

http://www.two3dmonkeys.com/blog/

 I forgot to mention, in all my creative chaos that, together with kym, we have set up a 3D printing blog. We're looking to inform the public about what's 3D printing, keep updated with our experiments, and see if anybody is interested in our services.

Please visit and let us know what you think!

Texile Museum of Canada and Bata shoe Museum

 I have a new link for my Museum Sketching at the following page.
I'm still really enjoying the chance to use the CULTURAL ACCESS PASS and I'll try to keep sketching and visiting canadian history through this pass.
Both Bata and Texile museum change their exibition every few month, so this second time I visited both, I could see new things.
 The girl in the 20's dress is made up from pieces and bits seen in the Roaring 20ies room.

Trying out Sketchbook Pro

This is a good occasion to advertise a bunch of things.
about 2 month ago I went to a Schoolism masterclass with Jason Seiler. It was hosted in the Autodesk bulding here in Toronto, and they gave us a free copy of Sketchbook pro. So tonight I finally install it.
I have to say, I really like the way the brush react to the wacom pencil. I still didn't understand how to use most of the tools, but I think it won't take long.
I made this colored sketch after a pencil one I did to Marlo Meekins while she was talking at TAAFI about a month ago. You should check out her illustartions she's really funny and original.

Mailbag Pocket Duo!

Mailbag Pocket Duo!, a set on Flickr.

last winter I finally learnt to sew. I had some scraps and I bought some beautiful quart of yard quit fabric in Montreal (l'Effiloche) and checked online how to do a Mailbag pocket duo (from the book "One Yard Wonders") and did my own versions (you can see I made 2 different versions, it's about try and error process). There is a 3rd one, but I gave it to my mum :-)

BodyPainting!

A couple of months ago we took part to a street fest, and my neighbour allowed me to full body paint their toddler! it was really hard, because he would moove, and get tickled by the brush, but we're really happy of the result!

Wedding in Esterel (QC) + 36th sketchcrawl

esterel1_web, a photo by kym.watts on Flickr.

Well, it happen to be during the 36th sketchcrawl so I didn't miss the chance to do some sketch on the river of the Lake. Here some extra one (last 3 scans)
Everything was AMAZING! The location, the hotel, the food, the reception, the wedding in the little church, Catherine and all my old friends. I had a great time!
Updates: Jeremy is working on the sketchcrawl documentary that we filmed back in April, so hang in there, we'll have the video soon!

what can happen in 9 Weeks

week9_cleanup_compoWeb, a photo by kym.watts on Flickr.

And here after 9 weeks, I'm really happy with the results (and hopefully this is only the beginning!) Here the rest of my submitted assignments. Please contact me personally if you wish to have more info!

Printing out my designs

Here the first 3 animals converted to cookie cutters!
We're starting experimenting since a while and I have to say it's much harder then expected. Other than the tecnical difficulties that the machine and softwares brings,  I needed to make a number of versions to understand how to make a functional design for good cookie cutters (thanks Kathrine for sweets cookie alliance).
So far Kym also printed a bunch of new pieces for improving the printer (yes, the machine can print new pieces for upgrading itself, which is super cool!), and a number of other things downloaded from thingiverse or our very own designs! Hopefully he'll be able to sort out things soon. for more pictures here!

Canadian Animals

As I liked a lot designing the Atlantic Puffin, I did later some other design based on Canadian Animals as I think most of them are really cute and representative of Canada, and further I'll add some new other. At the moment I'm experimenting turning them in cookie cutters through kym's new 3d Printer and making cookies out of them (see next post)

character Design

drOctopil_traced_with_rough_study_02, a photo by kym.watts on Flickr.

I'm learning the basics about character design since a while, it will be helpful on my job as a character modeller (finger crossed!)
so Here you can find most of my "homeworks" and hopefully we'll see some progression along the way!