janis' blog

jungle critters

2012-02-12T18:30:00.000-08:00

more watercolor studies, super exciting crazy fun times.

Posty

2012-01-22T21:21:00.000-08:00

Yes! Broke the posting seal for 2012, now I should need to post all the time.

Merry Christmas 2011!!

2011-12-19T22:52:00.001-08:00

Hope everyone has a great (and safe) holiday!

main & cordova pt.2

2011-12-19T22:47:00.000-08:00

Some more coffee shop sketches.

more ink!

2011-11-09T22:34:00.000-08:00

I did this leading up to halloween, ...for something I started by scribbling randomly on paper it came out with a pretty consistent fantasy/fairytale theme.

main & cordova

2011-09-25T22:13:00.000-07:00

Inked some drawings from a coffee shop sketch session.

colour break!

2011-08-31T09:49:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd break up the black and white sketches with some (limited) colour. Is it a statue? Is it a ghost? is it a ghost statue? I think it started as a mummy but I have conceptual A.D... paper bag! paper bag! ... nope. Ghost mummy statue.

sketchy

2011-08-25T23:28:00.000-07:00

more sketches from colder days

update!

2011-08-18T23:55:00.000-07:00

Some sketches from back in the days of winter, which, unfortunately, are coming up again. Boo to pants.

work in progress

2011-07-01T14:59:00.001-07:00

I sketched these out back in march in anticipation of going to Barbados, but have been sloooooooooooowwwwwwww at getting them all clean and coloured..., but I'm overdue for a post :)

Purple!

2011-03-11T18:19:00.001-08:00

master of colour.

Variety?

2011-03-04T17:47:00.001-08:00

I only noticed these were pretty much the exact same design after I finished working on them. Proportion, Colour, Pose, Expression. Yep. Design variation at work. Le sigh.

Happy 25 Sid!

2011-03-02T20:18:00.000-08:00

Fashionably late, as usual ;)

homemade secret santa

2011-02-11T00:28:00.000-08:00

I got Sean Covernton's name in secret santa at work. So I made him a Gordon Voodoo Doll. Christmasy.

random sketches

2011-01-31T00:26:00.000-08:00

A few old sketches from last year.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

2010-12-23T21:57:00.000-08:00

Hope everyone gets their fill of the Christmas Season!!

mystery film

2010-11-30T23:16:00.000-08:00

Found an old roll of B&W film a while ago and finally got it developed. Had some gems, my fav pick goes to the byrd pub bulletin. All class, all the time. :)

BAM!! blog update.

2010-11-26T00:50:00.000-08:00

Was drawing over the summer and early fall....just maybe not posting. Some sketchbook drawings to break the silence.

hmmmm.

mmm, beer.

2010-06-02T11:30:00.000-07:00

started this back in april as a bday card, turned into a random project. Likely inspired by Nicolas Marlet's viking art.

fishy doodle

2010-04-22T18:20:00.000-07:00

"I am a fish, I am a fish, and I need water"
"Fish" lyrics - Hey Ocean

bloaty and crampy

2010-04-12T13:14:00.000-07:00

Bloaty and Crampy. I decided that they run a magical bakery from which they deliver poisoned pies of menstrual pain.

Happy Birthday Aaron!!!

2010-04-08T01:50:00.001-07:00

hee hee.

2010-04-03T16:21:00.000-07:00

a doodle I did a couple weeks ago to cheer myself up, I was supposed to go back and fix the colour but finally accepted that will never happen.

christmas projects

2010-02-18T22:25:00.000-08:00

I did some paintings for my aunt for christmas gifts, she requested some themes and put me to work during my winter hibernation.

design project

2010-01-25T11:06:00.001-08:00

character design from a design class I'm taking.

Dr.Sketchy's ... a year in retrospect

2010-01-13T21:51:00.000-08:00

...finally posting all my burlesque life drawing sessions from the past year, with some added flare since I have so much darn time on my hands right now, hee hee.

oldies...

2010-01-07T20:43:00.000-08:00

a few pages of sketches from a sketchbook I finished a while back...

pooping fairies and dirty pirate hookers....

2010-01-05T23:07:00.001-08:00

awww, look, its pooping!

...every disease in the seven seas...

Christmas!!

2009-12-15T23:01:00.000-08:00

a christmas card...with a christmas octopus, of course.

tree deux.

2009-11-15T02:04:00.000-08:00

tree two. ...wow my monitor colour calibration is off. I thought it was light orange and yellow...now it appears greenish... whatev.

birthday card

2009-11-06T17:45:00.000-08:00

la la la. birthday card for the boyfriend's mom. apparently I haven't posted in a while.

failed fashion illustrations

2009-10-13T16:06:00.000-07:00

I took a fashion illustration course back in february, I went to a few classes and did a few assignments before I got bored and stopped going... I found them kicking around my room recently and got a laugh outta them, so I decided to post'em.

jungle illo

2009-09-29T10:10:00.000-07:00

Here is an an old jungle illo I finally cleaned up...I was going to wait til I coloured it to post it, but its already been a month since cleaning it up, and since the drawing itself is two years old now, I have little faith in my ability to finish anything :)

2009-07-01T11:12:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Dad!! Hope you have an extra fun time doing all the work I know you'll be doing despite it being a birthday/holiday. ...this is how happy I'm imagining you will be when you have to go get firewood, don't let me down :)

...in honour of Fathers Day....

2009-06-21T23:22:00.000-07:00

For Rickity, its not fathers day related, but it's a new post in honour of you... I'll try to do better for your birthday :) In the mean time, aquarium sketches, mmmmm. tasty fishes.

spring

2009-03-31T00:25:00.000-07:00

...and I can spell tree apparently. Thats fantastic.

2009-03-04T21:45:00.000-08:00

I've given up pretending you are my cute little angel Cam. You are without a doubt a little monster, still cute though. Happy 7th you little porker. Sorry the card is late.

Dr.Sketchys Sketch Dump

2009-01-18T20:04:00.001-08:00

Some costumed life drawing from 3 different sessions, trying to get caught up on some scanning...Boooorrriiinnngg.

late christmas post

2009-01-04T13:58:00.000-08:00

some christmas cards I painted...before christmas. I'm only posting them late. :)

sketchbook dump

2008-11-19T16:21:00.000-08:00

Went through the sketchbook to find some postworthy stuff and was mostly disappointed. Apparently I've spent the last 6 months completely uninspired. This was some of the stuff I scraped together from the sad little pages of my sketchbook.

I found this squashed between the pages as well, I loves it...I named it "LeafyLeafyLeafLeaf" cause I am sooooo creative.... you have to say it right though... like Tiger sings the "WoofyWoofyBarkBark" song in Feivel Goes West....

Happy Birthdays!

2008-07-03T22:09:00.000-07:00

A birthday post for my mom & dad, I had sketched out the usual card of them in wheelchairs/rocking chairs, old as the earth, but I decided to switch it up this year... and I like owls :) Happy Birthdays!!

no work today ... so happy :)

2008-07-03T16:45:00.000-07:00

I didn't have any work today, so I played, which was really fun after an eternity of work work work work work....

A childhood fan of the "Little Mermaid",

Hot pink leopard print just screaming "come get me",

blue, blue, blue, YELLOW!

evil girl child,

and my personal fav, the 5 o'clock shadow baby:

piratey love

2008-03-24T01:21:00.000-07:00

Even pirates fall in love....they just deal with it less like humans and more like praying mantis' :)

Kyuquot Tribute

2008-03-16T21:25:00.000-07:00

I've been missing home lately, so I did this for Marie & Kristy, two of my favorite little alcoholics.

poster poster

2008-03-08T12:23:00.000-08:00

A poster I did for friends tour this summer...she came up with the animal idea during a random meeting and some delicious beer on granville island......it kinda reminds me of a coke ad...with the polar bear/penguin thing going on...meh

buses cause war.

2008-02-21T14:16:00.000-08:00

I don't know why public transit inspires so much hate in me, but i'm pretty sure i'm not alone in my general bad mood on buses. Anyway, time for my characteristic disclaimer about the colour job:
I am trying to colour more of my stuff but my computer is beyond slow, it is lethargic, and my tablet is so small my pen hardly fits on it and colouring digitally is just generally a pain in my ass so I get it to "good enough" and abandon it forever.

watercolour, eep.

2008-02-10T21:20:00.000-08:00

Some watercolours I did before christmas, tigger & tink were requested, and the dragons and pirate were for my little cousin cameron just because i miss him.

Crazy Farm Kids

2008-01-12T21:16:00.000-08:00

Some funny memories from drawing at the farm back in the summer... it has come to my attention that anywhere kids roam free in large packs of uncontrolled frenzy are dangerous for my sanity. They are cuter when they are helpless and alone...mostly cause they are quieter....

the last of the old sketchbook

2007-11-04T20:42:00.000-08:00

more of the same, coffee shop sketches, some farm animals, ... some evil-appearing-to-be-cute cats....

people watching...creepy

2007-10-22T20:07:00.000-07:00

Some coffee shop & seawall sketches from the last sketchbook

Zoo Sketches

2007-10-20T12:55:00.000-07:00

We went down to the seattle zoo a few weeks ago, it was awesome...just a little far away for sketching.

posty post

2007-10-18T00:28:00.000-07:00

Ha, I am afraid to post coloured stuff cause of scanning and colour display jazz, but whatever, this is a card I made for my friends wedding at the beginning of the month...they got married on thanksgiving, so I had pumpkins on my mind...

And these are just some quick sketches I did at my desk a couple weeks ago (instead of working) that I coloured with marker...I never colour stuff, then I started feeling lazy...which, justifiably, I am :) I am still staying away from photoshop though, i can handle markers, so fast :)

life drawing post?

2007-07-26T23:17:00.000-07:00

i have tried so many times to post this past week, and every single attempt i have made up to this point has been successfully foiled by my evil, sadistic mac browsers. I hope they are having a moment of pity right now...

concert Poster

2007-05-21T16:09:00.001-07:00

A concert poster for the roommate. This is pretty much the only work I have done in 3 weeks. ha ha.

sketchbook stuff

2007-04-30T21:06:00.000-07:00

these are from some coffee shop sketch sessions over from the past couple months. just fun stuff.

Postery stuff

2007-04-30T20:54:00.000-07:00

Some drawings i coloured to make posters out of for gradshow, colour takes me forever, i have sworn off anything that requires anything more than flat shading in the future...maybe

Finally Done

2007-04-30T20:44:00.000-07:00

i guess now that school is done i have no excuse to not post work, so i will be sticking up some of the work I've been doing for the last month now. These are some stuff from the model packs I was working on...

The Basket Women

The Crooked Cat, Mouse & Man

and of course, the ghetto pirates

Happy 5th Birthday Cam!!

2007-02-28T18:49:00.000-08:00

For my cousin Cameron, my favorite boy in the world, Luv you Cam, I promise i will have time to do a better birthday card next year!! Happy Birthday!

Weekly Illustration - Zombie Attack.

2007-02-27T09:07:00.000-08:00

OMG! Zombies! And they have garden tools!! Ahhhhh. The terror......I was so thrilled with the topic this week. Hey sloth, check out all those anatomically correct hands. ;)

Weekly Illustration: Bad Luck

2007-02-20T10:36:00.000-08:00

Felicia has this sign over her desk that says "Laziness Brings Bad Luck". Coincidentally, she is late for class today. I don't think bad luck affects her at all though so it really doesn't matter.

Weekly Illustration: EVIL

2007-02-06T15:04:00.000-08:00

This is an evil chart for some of the classmates. Felicia and Janet are works in progress.

Weekly Illustration: Obsession

2007-01-30T11:25:00.000-08:00

dum dee dum.

Coffee Shop Sketches

2007-01-21T22:23:00.000-08:00

weekly illustration: Starving Artist

2007-01-21T21:56:00.000-08:00

This is a poor starving hollywood actress. Sigh, the things they go through for their art. Umm, also, this would be the first time colouring anything since the days of graphic design and beautiful flat colours, so I know there are lots of things that could be better but whateva.
... also i got bored and didn't finish it :) ha ha.

Weekly Illustration: Self Portrait

2007-01-10T23:44:00.000-08:00

Ha ha haa ha ha ha ha!!

The only thing i am going to apologize for is the bad photoshop job :D

Class Ilustration : childhood trauma

2006-12-13T12:23:00.000-08:00

So back in the day when i was a cute, helpless, innocent little child, my mom and older sister decided to send me as into a lake to test for leeches. Turns out there was.

Class Illustration - "B" is for...

2006-12-05T15:37:00.000-08:00

Bellydancing.

Class Illustration : Phobia

2006-11-27T01:09:00.000-08:00

yep. spiders. hate the evil bloodsucking little creatures.

Class Illustration : Retro

2006-11-14T00:23:00.000-08:00

So during my extensive research, I found that woodland animals seem to be popular retro subjects ;)

Weekly Illustration - Gluttony

2006-11-07T10:09:00.000-08:00

If all the cookies we eat ever affects these girls at all, which is doubtful, they might look like this...only more like themselves (it's Felicia, Janet & Donna). ;)

Weekly Illustration #5 : HALLOWEEN!!!!!! YAY!!!

2006-10-31T09:21:00.000-08:00

Just a reminder about last year Sean. :)

and because fat halloween-candy-sean is almost identical to the voodoo queen he loves so much, a bonus drawing, wheeee!!!

Class Illustration #6 - "Before & After"

2006-10-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

So, if anyone isn't already familiar with the whole geoduck story, in short, Meghan decided she wanted a pet geoduck last year after seeing how cute they were in a picture I showed her (a geoduck is a type of clam that bears a ridiculous resemblance to part of the male anatomy), so when I went back to Kyuquot for the summer, I got one off of the geoduckers (the guys who dive for the geoducks)and decided that it would be ok if I just sunk it off my dock for the remainder of the summer in a 5 gallon bucket/crate combo to keep it safe from the evil little sea otters. Anyway, as it turns out, not a good idea. I pulled the poor little guy up 8 weeks later and I'm pretty sure he had acquired some kind of skin disease, not to mention parasites, barnacles growing OUT OF HIS BODY, algae growths and looking pretty sad all around... So here is the before and after illustration of the poor little geoduck...I let him go by the way, so now he's probably going to spread his skin disease to all the healthy geoducks, deplete the geoduck population, put the geoduckers out of work, the Asian market is going to collapse and then there is going to be a huge war and we're all going to die because Meghan wanted an exotic pet. So, in short...blame meghan... :)

Before

After

Weekly Illustration #5 : Horrible Illustration

2006-10-17T15:05:00.000-07:00

Actually the topic was Socially Awkward. Anyway, it is supposed to be the parents arriving in Vancouver F.O.K (Fresh Out of Kyuquot). I would like to be the first to point out that my mom looks A. nothing like her, B. a little kid, C. Definitely not frazzled enough. And the Background has no perspective and Sid told me it was a huge cop out, and basically I am going to remove this from my blog after today...but I won't remember, so maybe tomorrow. There IS a guest geoduck appearance in it but even that isn't going to save this one. Sigh.

2006-10-17T00:44:00.000-07:00

Cam has a pair of giant fuzzy slippers. I think they might even have bears or something on them...eyes or a nose maybe. Anyway, I saw him wearing them in the hallway today and it was too funny with the Cam hair and everything so I had to draw it. Ummm, apparently all the first years think Cam's name is Brian for some reason. Someone should tell them they are wrong.

Weekly Assignment #4 - Frustration

2006-10-10T15:15:00.000-07:00

No matter how high little Lauren jumped, no one noticed she was there. Life is hard on pygmies...and animation students enrolled in 2 year animation programs instead of degree programs. :)

Weekly Illustration #3 - Animal Characture of a Classmate

2006-10-03T15:22:00.000-07:00

This is the first one I did, but except for the fact that it is a skunk (which kind of gives it away), you can't really tell who it is from the drawing.

Yeah, so, I learned something from this assignment, I always thought that it was Preying Mantis, but it is actually Praying Mantis. Umm, this doesn't affect the fact that the classmate is definitely more of a Preying Mantis...
:)

triplets of belleville character - class illustration

2006-09-26T11:27:00.000-07:00

sigh.

santa monica

2006-09-19T00:55:00.000-07:00

I don't know why, but bedouin soundclash always makes me want to draw...it doesn't really have anything to do with the song, but it reminds me of it so i like it...for the moment.

Ancient

2006-09-17T23:40:00.000-07:00

Ummm, so, this is the ancient voodoo queen Me-ghan (subtlety is not one of my strong points). She eats peoples souls...lots of them...and it's not a widely known fact, but souls are very high in saturated fats.

My stylus pen is M.I.A, so I tried to colour it using my mouse...I may have to illustrate that occasion at some point...unfortunately my mouse was K.I.A...

Laura

2006-09-13T19:12:00.000-07:00

I finally made it to see my roommate sing last night, it was awesome...unfortunately the drawing isn't but it was really dark and there was alcohol involved :)

Pretty sure I hate 3D

2006-09-12T00:42:00.000-07:00

Yep.
And no, I am not left handed.

drawing for fun?

2006-09-09T01:06:00.000-07:00

Cat, I was inspired by your pigtails,
they are so cute!

Kyuquot Chronicles II

2006-09-09T00:33:00.000-07:00

I wanted to post the geoduck pics taken after it's 3 month confinement in a bucket off of my dock, but I guess they didn't make it onto the cd, I'll get those, until then, here are some of the prettier sort of pictures from KY.

Aktis Island...

Sunset from the West Entrance...

Trout Fishing up McKay's Cove

Outside Beach...

The sunset I was going to paddle away into instead of coming back to Van.

i will probably regret this

2006-08-23T23:28:00.000-07:00

i felt guilty about not posting any drawings all summer, but I'm pretty sure these sketches will be sufficient evidence of why i haven't.

ummm, I was going to post this on our class blog for an "unusual advertisements" topic, but I was a month late for that week and felt stupid...plus I finished it and decided it really wasn't ugly enough...jason could kick my ass.

umm, this one was a sketch of one of the many mechanics after one of the many vehicle breakdowns on my way into kyuquot. whee.

umm, i just liked this one...

exotic kyuquot wildlife...

and I'm being cheap with this one, it was another weekly topic (slugs) for the class blog, but whatever.

Kyuquot photos coming soon. The excitement is almost overwhelming.

Kyuquot Chronicles I

2006-06-13T23:43:00.000-07:00

Sooo, since I am terrible at posting drawings, I'm just going to use this blog to chronicle the many adventures I'm having in Kyuquot. Adventure #1 : Aquiring Meghan's rare and beautiful exotic pet: the Geoduck (goo-ee-duck). I'm sure Meg would love name suggestions. I am really hoping he survives till the end of the summer, but we'll see.

i'll drink to that

2006-04-29T23:48:00.000-07:00

Alright Sid, this first post is dedicated to you. Cheers. Oh right, and posting work... I'll get right on that. Ha ha ha ha.