Wolfish lifestyle

Happy camper

First day of school

Howling in contemplation

shy in green

I had a bit of ...um ... time ... that I like to call "shy", but in fact, it's my phase where I absolutely hate every line I make, and I want to hide away and never ever try to draw again... but I can't really stop... and only now I realise, this time, most of my "shy drawings" are green... here are just a few of them...

strange world

serious conversation

les chats de Charles Baudelaire

hibernating monsters

I always have monsters hibernating in my head. Most of the time, they're quiet, but sometimes, when they wake up, they like to party... they party for days and days and won't let me sleep at all... for days... so after a while, I become an inhabitant of a weird place, where I'm half awake and half asleep constantly, and every time I blink, something completely unexpected appears before my eyes...

don't blink, you'll get lost

ummm... a dance?

    action <> reaction

 cause <> effect

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V

influence

Lately

I've been under a strong influence of a motion bug

that's been nesting in my mind

...

scary

...

and it always starts so innocently

....

sketches can be tricky

if left to do what they wish

I simply had to do it

Some drawings are cute, some drawings are sweet or scary or sad. I always loved drawings... but sometimes I happen to see a picture that really speaks to me... then... I don't need any effort at all to see it wink, smile, talk... its personality, its story, it's all there... that's whyyyy... one day, I decided to try and master a skill to help those critters talk to the rest of the world the same way...

I'm so faaaar from even scratching the surface of animation, but I love learning, I enjoy every step of it... If you want to see some of my first attempts click here. I'm obviously just a self-tough enthusiast... I would be so happy to know if you have any comment or suggestion.

Now, without further ado...

Let me introduce to you Baby Blue Owl.

I've met this feathery sweetie through our mutual friend, Heidi. Her blog is adorable, and she's an amazingly talented artist. Everything she ever draws makes me giggle and smile.

She wrote with so much love about the Owlish behaviour of B.B.Owl and other owlish friends, I fell in love with them... You can meet them too, of course, just click here.

The sweetest little owl ever, don't you think? :D

another octopus

this is work in progress

And I'm not a one man show this time... I actually have a little elf to help me. We're cooking up something amazing... and we know what it is... or I think we know... I think... you never really know with elves.
And until it's finished, this initial drawing is all you'll see ...

Mwa-ha-ha-ha (evil scientist's laughter)... that was the elf, not me!

when sweet Lady Octopus sleeps

... there's nobody to watch over our city...

I just started doodling, and after pencil, I added some ink, then some colour pencils, then I absolutely needed a touch of the famous gold, and it's acrylic paint, and then some white acrylic too, and it would have all been fine if only I hadn't started (and finished) it all on a piece if simple 80g copy paper... 

Lady Bear daydreaming

Some of you might have already met Lady Bear.

Unfortunately, she became a victim of my passion for drawing wallpaper.
She just sat there, in her chair, quietly, and waited for me to finish her portrait #2
I think she might have been a bit bored.

She told me she thought of some nice things all along...

hippo on a bike

I was thrilled to see this week's IF topic. I've been drawing bikes for months now, and I've started a project Animals on Bikes. Bikes are So cool, and I couldn't just post any old illustration, I wanted to go a tiny baby step further :D

It all stared with my good old sketchbook, as always:

Then, I played with Photoshop:

And THEN, I went a bit crazy!


It's 4 o'clock in the morning, and I know I could go on tweaking it for the next 3 days or more, but being my first animation ever, I think it turned out pretty well :)

This was FUN! I think I'm hooked!

IF bottled

I was thinking what would be the things that I would love to have bottled, so I can use them any time to make a cocktail that suits my mood. I wanted to bottle my cat and my dog, they always make me happy and giggly, but drawing them in a bottle seemed a bit macabre, so I went for the approach that's a bit more... conceptual.

unorthodox taste

I gave up on buying
                    fluffy furry toy-mice,
                    or flashing balls,
                    or feathery tails hanging on elastic stings attached to specially customized planks of wood...

This is THE ULTIMATE TOY!

If you are a cat minder (well, a slave, to be more accurate, but a happy happy slave),
I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about.
If it was available in toy stores (to buy, not given as a bonus item with anything BIG)
it would probably be called something like:
                   Magic Transforming Exclusive Supersonic lux-Cardboard Cave-Box.

Magic Transforming Exclusive Supersonic lux-Cardboard Cave-Box

dream catcher

another doodle from my sketchbook

Dream catcher

city scape

This drawing is my ode to procrastination.
I was supposed to be drawing something completely different!
... that's whyyy... well ...
I pretended I wasn't there.

-Hello! Tanya is not home at the moment. Leave a message, and she'll call you when she grows up and starts acting responsibly.
Until then, you might want to see some other drawings. Thanks for calling, and have a nice day.

And so, just to be consistent in pretending not to be there, I drew something totally out of charter... or so I thought... 

growing up

Barrie was just a little boy, and he was already very unhappy about many things. He wanted to say things, he wanted to be heard, to change the world, but

 ... he was just a little boy!...

and nobody was paying any attention.

So, Barrie did the only thing he could do: he learned by heart bits and parts from well know plays, especially Hamlet because... well... who would dare question or criticize Shakespeare... and it just happened that Shakespeare had already written many things Barrie wanted to say. Then, he set up a stage and performed so well that everyone listened, applauded and nodded their heads recognizing a huge potential in Barrie:

"He is certainly going to become a great actor"

That was the general conclusion. 

Well...
Barrie never became an actor.
He became an author, but he never forgot how powerful the sound of human voice can be.

These days, Barrie writes theater plays and lets other people go on stage to stir up our feelings and carve our thoughts using Barrie's words as tools.

IF stir

terribly late

Where I am, Friday is over, and I am posting last week's IllustrationFriday drawing.
I had this idea in my head ever since I first heard what the topic was, but I didn't have time to actually do it, so ... here it is ...

 IF warning

I'm being pretty obsessed by textures lately, and I keep adding layers over layers. I might try making a collage  and then trying to paint over it. Will let you know how it goes :)

cable car

cable car - to keep #3

I guess all of us need a way to get from one place to another... that is: -if- we want to get from one place to another... but sometimes I forget why do we... wish to do that... and sometimes that's all I want to do...

city biker

city biker - to keep #2

Another illustration made for my beautiful frame, but I've already told you all about it! You know the story of it's resurrection?
I don't think this drawing will get to be there way too long, I already hate it, but I've also thrown away more than a dozen finished drawings these last few days, and that's my quota for the week.

#2 to keep - city biker ... in the frame

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change of perspective

I tried to do draw, but it didn't go well. I tried to focus, and do one thing, but these days the twirl of feelings and thoughts keeps throwing me into a maze of undefined ... everything... so I drew everything... one on top of the other... a layer of a cold winter's day upon a layer of sunshine, upon a layer of friendship, upon a layer of sadness, upon a layer of warmth, upon a layer of gratitude... and I wish it could end, but it never does.

illustration friday: layer

soft spot

This week's IF topic is sweater, and when I see that word ... sweater ... all I can think of is some warm and cuddly and cozy feeling.
I hope this doesn't trigger some "animals in sweaters" frenzy but I've already started sketching my cat in a sweater, and my dog in a sweater and them together in one sweater...

as long as you're having fun

Well, OK ... I did it ... I did that drawing, finally! But the " clown" won anyway, because I was late.

I'm looking at this silly picture and trying to persuade myself that I hadn't become a cynic.

Here, some ridiculously stupid looking smiling hearts, just to prove I can do that too.