Thank you Stephen

For those of you that like to listen to motivational speeches and podcasts about drawing, you should definitely check out Stephen Silvers UStream Videos. He gives some great insight into what he thinks about while he's drawing; he shares mentalities he's picked up over the years and also some wonderful stories with his listeners.

Here are some facial studies that I've been doing recently and I thought the would fit in well with this post. I had lots of fun doing these. Comments and critiques are as always more then welcome :).

Birthday Party 01

Derek and Chloe 04

Happy Birthday Sam !

I did this image for my friend Sam, whose birthday it is today :D!
I also have to give out a BIG thank you to David Sourwine for helping me finesse the colours.

Derek & Chloe 03

I found Chloe really hard to draw. I think especially in this image she doesn't quite look right so I apologize for that in advance. That said, I still like the atmosphere in this drawing though so I thought I would post it none the less.

Also I wanted to post a link to my friend Anne-Maries blog. She's the one that got me reading "The Summoning", and she did some amazing drawings of the books. Two of her posts can be found here
http://sweetnpepper.blogspot.com/2008/12/summoning.html
and here
http://sweetnpepper.blogspot.com/2009/09/sorry-thanks-love-darkest-powers.html

And a Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to everyone out there :)

Apple's gone goth

Scared?

For Steffi

Hockey

I did this for my friend Chris. He's been playing hockey since he was really young.

Childrens honesty and enthusiasm is wonderful!

Happy Birthday Hans!

Derek & Chloe 02

This was one of the first drawings I did of Derek & Chloe. I was still trying to figure out what they should look like here.

Derek & Chloe 01

The Summoning

I just read Kelly Armstrong's book: 'The Summoning', which my friend Anne-Marie lent to me. We both love the characters Derek and Chloe, so there will be lots more drawings of them coming up. Some of them are from what happens in the books, but there are some that I just came up with as situations for the character. These are the characters from the second book "The Awakening"
Hope you enjoy it ^^.

Gouache

Diving anyone?

New Shirt

Awesome Hair

We always go sketching on Saturday and my friends Faith and Tim both had awesome hair styles happening, so I couldn't resist to draw them ^^

For Tim

A friend of mine had a great idea. She said she would create 5 pieces of art for 5 friends, who in turn would each also create 5 pieces of art for 5 other people...and so forth.
I thought that was an amazing idea, so I joined up. This first piece was for my friend Tim. They are his characters Mallori and Travis. ^^

Happy Birthday Tom

I've been doing a bunch of drawings for my friends, but I haven't had a chance to post them. I'll start with this one. Happy Birthday Tom ^^

Little cat

Mat 09

In a way this looks completely ridiculous. ..I mean who would use a baguette like a sword. But we recently had a stale baguette in the house, and I changed my mind. That thing became hard like a club. So if you see someone threatening you with a stale baguette.......run. ;)-