Preparations for ECEE 2014

There are several media guest attending the Edmonton 

Convention, I am doing a few prints of some of them.

If there are certain guests you'd like to see me do images 

of, let me know and I'll see if I can get t done.

 

A busy weekend for drawing. More to come.

GarSeeYa!

You can see more updates at

 http://instagram.com/garseeyaink

2014 February Drawing Challenge

The challenge is to post something creative everyday for the month. 

These are for day one a few doodles done at a convention, done on 4" X 6"

index cards using different pens. I'll create at least one image a day.

Thanks for visiting.

GarSeeYa!

Market Collective on July 19th to 21st, 2013.

 Hello,

 It has been a little while since the last post. I've been busy creating new work
for the next show and setting up a gallery of my work. It is slowly building up
on my Facebook page.

I am working on more images...check back

for updates or follow me on Facebook.

Thank you.

GarSeeYa!

Southwood: Calgary Public Library

The show is up for the month of May, 2013

at the Soutwood: Calgary Public Library.

I will be doing a sketch and demo session at the

branch for anyone who would like to watch

or participate. This is a hands on demo and

I will have guests try some of my tools.

Please come by for a visit, check out the work,

the books, music and movies. Always something

happening at your local library.

Thank you.

GarSeeYa!

Alien and Iron Man.

 I miss placed the camera on the weekend,

so I had to scan the artwork.

Lots of work in these two, but the challenge was interesting.

Lighting, focus, values all work together in a balance to make

a picture work. I am working from photographs and the

real puzzle is making it all work in ink lines.

Less than a month to the convention...still lots

to do, but I think I have enough images for the show.

Thanks for visiting.

GarSeeYa!

Kirk, Dixon and Croft.

Another peek at what's on the drawing board. I have close to thirty images

for the show and still deciding on which to print more of. If there are any

in particular, that has your interest let me know and we can work something out.

Thanks for visiting.

GarSeeYa!

Weird Al, Michonne and Glenn

 I took a little family time this weekend,

slowed down a bit on drawing.

I won't be posting all the drawings for the 

comic show, just to have a few surprises.

I will be limiting my prints to ten or twenty

and the originals will be for sale.

These were really fun to do, up until 2 AM

working on the last two.

Thanks for visiting.

GarSeeYa!

Tomb Raider Inks.

Mixing it up a little bit...pencils before inks on blue

print image. Gives it a different effect and look.

 Loose pencils, tightened up on the inks.

Keep things interesting try new approaches to get to the same 

objective, take some chances and learn something.

Thanks for visiting.

GarSeeYa!

Captain Hammer.

Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer.

 GarSeeYa!

Terminator Ladies and Palpatine

Linda Hamilton and Kristanna Loken

were done on a Sunday afternoon.

The latter piece was done with a synthetic

 brush  pen "kuretake" no.13. Fine crisp

lines at the start.

Ian McDiarmid done on a Monday night. The most

detailed one yet, a very elaborate costume.

This one took some extra time.

  Tuesday night drawing originally drawn by 

Adam Warren.

Free flowing lines, ideal for brush work,

very loose lines.

 I have to make choices on how to interpret

the artists lines...extremely loose lines.

I would have gone with a finer line on the cross hatching,

given another chance.

My computer was out for servicing,

so some delays on posting. Up and running again.

I hope you like the pictures.

Thanks for visiting.

GarSeeYa!

Peter Dinklage Inks.

 I recently got my new Kuretake brush tip replacement...

it has been MAGIC. I am really enjoying the work.

Able to do super thin lines for now,

but it will wear down eventually.

The cartridge brush gives me more freedom

and control, compared to a traditional

brush. The "no ink dip" factor keeps the lines flowing smoother.

Thanks for visiting.

GarSeeYa!

Charles and Batman.

 Another day drawing, starting with Charles.

I liked his photo and wanted to experiment with

an ink brush rendition from the photo.

It was a quick exercise, followed by something more challenging...

...another David Finch work.

 Very fine line work. There is some guess work with this one.

 I'm sure working over actual pencils would make a huge difference.

Still I am learning a lot with these inking exercises.

 Thanks for visiting.

GarSeeYa!

Poe Tree 2

I went by the Dollar Store today and picked up some artificial grapes made from silicone

bubbles. I snipped a small hole on one end of the globes and pushed the brushes through.

Instant brush grips. Comfortable, functional and no more wrapped tape on handles.

I've had a brush in hand everyday this week,

inking a little at a time.

Another Dollar Store item: picnic table cover

snaps. Holds down my pages and easy to adjust.

Combination brush and dip crow quill pens for finer lines.

Almost done here.

Stepping back. I didn't like the feather on his shoulder.

So I took it out.

And the finished page in a couple of sittings.

 I hope you like the show and tell.

 GarSeeYa!