beach

At drink & draw last night I thought I'd indulge a North 40 fan from Catalonia, who wanted to see Amanda and Sheriff Morgan in swimsuits at the beach.

I thought, "I will never have another valid excuse to draw this," so here you go, Antoni!

barbarians

Wolverteen

I have two excuses for this picture. 1: I didn't think of it, someone on Canadian Geek came up with the word, and 2: it's from drink & draw.

And this is a movie called "Planet of (the?) Dinosaurs" from 1978 that my brother and I watched all the time as kids. Aaaalll the time! Now you can watch the entire thing on youtube.

Sketching

From drink & draw last night:

Drink & Draw catch up

What do all these things have in common? I've never had to draw any of them for an actual job. Okay, I get paid to draw robots all the time, but they're always huge ones and almost never shaped like bells, cats, or Reggie's little cousin that he dressed up in paper cones to play a prank on Archie.

Bots:







Everybody drew Cable last week. I don't know exactly what he looks like, but I have a general idea:

(the stunning background explosion was rendered by Caleb, whose name is almost Cable)




An "ugly pinup girl" for Laura:

Diddley Daddy

NORTH 40 #1 solicited in this month's Previews!

Drink & Draw

I went to Seattle last weekend for the Emerald City Comic-con! It was really great and we went to a bar that had a "wheel of drink specials" so now I think Teens in Love in Space is going to have something similar.

Drink & Draw last night at Dickens Pub was EXCEPTIONAL because Brendan McGuigan (Synthosaurus, Teens in Love in Space: The Song musician) and his friend James were DJing there. We are hoping that will become a regular thing.

Drink & Draw

Joker:


Star Wars: X-wing and Salacious Crumb courtesy of Lee, nugget of wisdom courtesy of Nick

Drink & Draw catch up

FYI: We've settled on the Hop In Brew: 213 12 Avenue SW. If you've never been there, it looks like a small house with a sign that says, "PUB." Wednesdays at 7.

I'm pretty terrible at drawing characters' costumes from memory... I gave Matt a big DD logo on his forehead until Nick yelled at me.

Daredevil


Doc Ock


Kingpin


Red Sonja


Bossk, Luke, Leia


Some guy...


And MAJOR kudos to anyone who knows what this is a fanart of:

drink & draw: end of an era

Well, our beloved Murph's pub is closing at the end of the week so last night was the last time we will ever drink & draw in its dank recesses. The weekly tradition will live on though! We just don't know where yet.





Does Superman cry? A hot topic of debate last week




Drawing Simpsons characters from memory: actually really hard...


Robot arm

Drink & Draw catch up

Drink & Draw catch up

Hawkman:



Sci-fi:



Two Medusas:



Self-explanatory:



Also, Driftwood Saves the Whales by James Davidge is now out. Look for my cover depicting gigantic Inuit sea goddess Sedna in bookstores across Canada!

Drink & Draw catch up

These first two are characters I came up with for a sci-fi story... to be published in the next Vicious Ambitious book! It's called TEENS IN LOVE IN SPACE and I think it's the first thing I've ever written.



TEENS:



The only life drawing I've done in a very long time...



PS: Calgary Herald subscribers, I illustrated the cover story for this Friday's Swerve magazine. Look out for it! It's free!

drink & draw menagerie

Some sketches from the past couple of Wednesdays. What you see are: a space guy (a hazy nod to Arthur Suydam's Cholly & Flytrap), a mermaid (I think the challenge was old person + dolphin), Scarecrow, Captain America, Black Cat, Elektra, Jonah Hex, a space kid, a scuba diver, a Viking, a mouse, and a mouse girl with rockets (in the fashion of Dynamite Warrior).

Sketches

I should fill up sketchbooks faster than I do, but it takes forever! I draw too small.





From a recent drink & draw (every Wednesday night at Murph's if you're in Calgary):