YaleTown Girl

Just trying out corel painter. Not used to it like Photoshop, but oh well.

Raw Head and Bloody Bones

Lately, I've been reading a bunch of short ghost stories to try to fall asleep. One in particular was a neat story called "Raw Head and Bloody Bones". It's about a witch and her razor back hog (named Raw Head), and eventually a hunter kills the razor back, and the witch casts a spell to bring her hog back to life and exact revenge on the hunter. So I thought it would be neat to do a little illustration for each story beat in this ghost story. anyways, I this is the first. More soon. hopefully.

Sketch dump

Just a bunch of quick sketches, alot of them were sketches of people in the food court at Metrotown. Glad to get out a couple times with Chan, Jarrett and Rags. then the rest of the sketches are just from me trying to get back to the basics with a good ol' charcoal and paper. i had to take photos of these since it would take a hell of a time to scan them with my dinky scanner. oh well. again, these were like seriously 2 min sketches.....soooo yeah.

oh yeah happy new year everybody!!

Johnny goes back to School!

Happy New Year Everybody! well it was a whirl wind christmas holiday, and was super busy as always seeing family and old freinds back in alberta. This year in particular was really cool. I got a surprise call from my former grade 7 teacher, Mr.Mastel, (who is now the principal), to come back to my junior high school, Sacred Heart, to talk as a special guest about animation. Initially I thought I was going to just talk to an art class, but i later found out that I was going to talk in front of the whole school! Yikes! I was really nervous at first, but eventually the kids got into it and all was well. After a short speech, we showed "Eyesore" my old and silly student film from Vancouver Film School, then a bit of Q&A. After that I got a chance to go from class-to-class to talk a bit about the animation industry and my experiences after Sacred Heart, and also to draw a really quick sketch for each class which was really fun! It was such a great time going back to my old school to and see all of my old teachers again, and to see how much Sacred Heart has evolved since I was there since they are putting a bit more emphasis on the arts. It's Great! I just want to say Thanks to Mr.Mastel and all the staff at Sacred Heart for having me back!