Dude with gas mask

So I visited my high school art teacher last week on my last visit to Oman and I sketched this dude out:

Guys with gas masks are probably the easiest things for me to draw. I liked this guy a lot because I didn't use any ref and still got the revolver in perspective (well, barely...)

So I got home and got this thing out, it is so much harder for me to paint from a drawing rather than a photo: (The iPad made him look so short! It's the iPad, I swear!)

I used linseed oil instead of turpentine this time and found it like 300 times easier. 

I'm still not 100% finished with him:

> hands are still waay too small

> some dark bits on the clothing needs to be darker

> detail on belt and filter thingy

Overall I still find pen and ink infinitely easier than this oily crap.

First time trying out oils

So I went to the (only) art store in Oman the other day and bought meself a bucket load of oil paints.

Not knowing what to paint, I ripped off some bits of the newspaper that I was using to cover the table with:

And after like 3-4 hours it turned into this:

Did it on a pretty small canvas, I'm going to try a bigger one next time... It was a pain doing details!

Artist trading cards collection (1)

I've been collecting/trading/stealing and making my own trading cards a tiny bit before Emerald City Comic Con... Unfortunately I sold most of my cool ones before even taking any pictures of them! So in order to avoid this...




























PORTRAITS:

First row:
SUNNY SHAH, 3rd year Illustration
Second row:
Me, PAKORN PATARAWUTIPORN, 3rd year Illustration
Third row:
ALISON VOGELAAR, 3rd year Illustration
PETER SHORT, 3rd year Illustration (?)
LAUREN CARR, 3rd year Illustration
ROBIN CARPENTER, 3rd year Illustration
SINAN DEMIRER, 3rd year Animation
Forth row:
DURWIN TALON, ECU Illus Prof
EMILY GOSSMAN, 3rd year Animation
DEVIN ROSYCHUK, 3rd year Animation
JAIME ANDERSON, ECU Illus Prof
GUIN THOMPSON, ECU Illus Prof
MIKE MCRAE, 3rd year Illustration

LANDSCAPE:

Me again
CODY SHAW, 3rd year Animation
WINFIELD LUI

Still missing a bunch of cards... will upload it later!
I'm trying to collect at least one of everybody's from Emily Carr, if I can has then it would be cash

Introduction

Hi all!

So I started this blog in order to update new stuff, rant about random things and just generally get a bigger presence in the world. I've been meaning to do this for a while now... and since I never had a blog before, I'm still trying to sort everything out and make it actually presentable! This post itself is a test too... More stuff to come... (Well, obviously!)

Pakorn