Empty Calories

Here's some random stuff- warm up drawings and a little comic snippet. Things lifted from the ever growing pile of papers that accumulates on my shelf.

Prints and Zines!

I just got back from the printers and had a whole bunch of crap made up. Pick up one of these 17x19 signed beauties for the low price of 25 smackeroos. Or grab yourself a copy of PAB: 24 pages of doodly goodness, for only five bucks. Just e-mail me at rsumillang@yahoo.ca and we can sort something out.

Angela's Painting

"Our Lady of Ensenada"

Acrylic and ink on plywood, 36"x36"

Here's a Commission I did for Angela. It's based on a sketchbook drawing I made while in Mexico. The Painting turned out well, but after screwing around with Fred's camera equipment and Photoshop for 5 hours, I've determined that I am helpless to take print quality art photos by myself. So much for not making life more complicated than you'd think it needs to be.

Hair Squares.

Just some doodles lifted from my sketchbooks.

Revamp

I wasn't completely happy with the illustration I gave FFWD. My thinking got all uptight. Here I made a few simple changes and it looks so much better. I'll have to be more on the ball next time.

This is a quick sketchy version of the Eyeball I saw last night while falling asleep. When I get a chance I'll have to do a nice version. I've been meaning to get to the outerspace stuff for a while- I had a bunch of 'Alice In Wonderland In Space' type ideas last fall, and I'd like to get to them. They'd make a good series of paintings if done bright and big and cartoony. But while I type I'm procrastinating on paintings I should be doing now.

Loire Valley Wines

Hey, Sorry for the long deadzone between posts. First I was lethargic about the whole thing, and then, when Artwalk came along, I was super busy. But get a load of my first Bonafide Illustration. I drew her to accompany Kevin Maclean's article on the wines of the Loire Valley in France, Published in this weeks Issue of Fast Forward, in Calgary. Check out all the dead space to the left of her. I wish I had put something in there. Oh, Well. I'll do better next time. I had initially drawn her wearing coveralls and a plaid shirt, and with braids- workwear common in the region, but she came out looking like a hillbilly, so, no. Heres the original ballpoint pen drawing. As you can see, the face was replaced one I modelled after Audrey Tatou: