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: