Moved House

Well, after 917 posts on this site, and four years, I'm moving to a new blog. Same thing, just a different system.

Please update your bookmarks, as they say, to http://utopiamoment.ca, and let the party continue!

Lights and Darks

Not totally confident about placing the dark areas. It's a little easier for me to use the wash, but that's less easy to reproduce. Maybe doing different textures of ink, rather than my usual scribbles and crosshatching.

One last step to set up the other blog, but it's tricky. I think when that's done, I'm just going to hang a sign on this one to say, go to the new site. And come back here for the four years of archives when they're wanted. That's until I can migrate the archives to the new blog, which is supposed to be possible. But I haven't figured it out, yet.

'Copter Trouble

Meeting at the bar again, on a Friday night, to collaborate with a friend. Rick Gagnon was still away with family, but Marr was there. As I was writing last week, it's different from working with Rick. Marr suggests a situation or describes a scene, and I start to draw it. Then he adds to that. Sometimes I finish it off.

That's how these crazy helicopter pictures came to be. The one below is my sketch of a helicopter as a guide for the first pic, then Marr and I added figures and background.



The two sketches below are in Marr's sketchbook (hence snapped with my camera). They're drawn by him, and I added some light touches of wash, plus a couple of background figures in one.



Until next week!

Symphonie Fantastique

Listening to that, this morning, by Hector Berlioz. It has a nice musical guillotining scene in it. Below, I drew last night, while listening to a story on the radio about a man whose grandma was in the jungle with Che and Castro during the fight for the Cuban revolution.



Still haven't sorted out the blogs, so I guess this will be a duplicate post.

Battle of the Blogs

Made these drawings tonight, but to read all about them, and to find out more about my complicated state of mind concerning my two blogs, you're going to have to go over to the other blog, and visit the posting there. [link]


That's okay, unless now I invest too much in the temporary blog, and it doesn't become the permanent one. I'm sure it will all work out.

More New Year's

Trying to draw these figures with traditional underdrawing, and starting with 'lines of action' and all the things drawing manuals tell you to do. The girl looks nice, while the guy looks like the usual type of person I draw. Put in the Carrie-like background to set them off. That's a lot of little lines!

Happy New Year!

Here's to another year of oddness.