Great band, uplifting sounds. Added listening to them while dancing on the beach at sunset to my "Vancouver Summer To Do List"
Some of the crowd. Apparently wearing toques indoors is the in thing to do now. I didn't get the memo
Drawing on both sides of the paper is making the scans look kinda messy. They don't show through that well when you look at the originals. Besides, when you draw big and do 40 in an evening, you can't afford to get finicky with that stuff.
a drawing can never be replicated. You can record the patterns of light that bonce off it and trace them onto a grid and pulse the patterns through fiber optics, but you can never replicate the drawing itself and the imprint of a mind that goes into making it.
PS; sorry the layout of the scans is getting messy. Photoshop is glitching out from too much art. If I keep getting faster this room is gonna start smelling like burning plastic every time I try to comp my scans
Monday, May 31, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Madama Butterfly -> Pub 340
Thursday night was crazy
After work I headed to the final dress rehersal of Madama Butterfly at the Queen Elisabeth Theater, having been invited there to sketch the performers. Having never been to an Opera, it was a huge inspiration. I set up my giant easel right above the pit band in front of the first row of seats. With the stage on my left and the pit band in front of me I caught enough bounce light from the stage lights to see what I was doing without totally ruining my eyes, though a small clip light would have been helpful
Most of the sketches were done on my giant pad, so I'll scan those ones later when I have access to a better scanner. This wimpy little 8.5X11 thing is way too tiny. Even the medium size sketchpad required multiple passes and comp to get these images you see. Gotta invest in a big ol' flatbed soon ...
Leading man. It was crazy how he used his whole body to project, his head would jut out with each bellowing note
Loved watching the conductor, so well animated
Finished off with a sequence of gestures for the last scene
After that was done I headed down to Pub 340 for the metal show to jar my senses. Tanner was in town for the night so we got a chance to hang. After trying to be quiet so as not to disturb people at the opera I was ready to rip it up, so I pounded a few back and started headbanging while I scrawled faces and poses of the bands and crowd. You can see my inebriation progress in the sketches
After work I headed to the final dress rehersal of Madama Butterfly at the Queen Elisabeth Theater, having been invited there to sketch the performers. Having never been to an Opera, it was a huge inspiration. I set up my giant easel right above the pit band in front of the first row of seats. With the stage on my left and the pit band in front of me I caught enough bounce light from the stage lights to see what I was doing without totally ruining my eyes, though a small clip light would have been helpful
Most of the sketches were done on my giant pad, so I'll scan those ones later when I have access to a better scanner. This wimpy little 8.5X11 thing is way too tiny. Even the medium size sketchpad required multiple passes and comp to get these images you see. Gotta invest in a big ol' flatbed soon ...
Leading man. It was crazy how he used his whole body to project, his head would jut out with each bellowing note
Loved watching the conductor, so well animated
Finished off with a sequence of gestures for the last scene
After that was done I headed down to Pub 340 for the metal show to jar my senses. Tanner was in town for the night so we got a chance to hang. After trying to be quiet so as not to disturb people at the opera I was ready to rip it up, so I pounded a few back and started headbanging while I scrawled faces and poses of the bands and crowd. You can see my inebriation progress in the sketches
Sunday, May 23, 2010
The Vault
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Talent on the street
Saw an incredibly gifted performer on Granville street named DB Buxton, he had the crowd mesmerized with his classic sound, till the cops came and shut him down for violating noise bylaws
Here's some stuff from a house party in the west end
Here's some stuff from a house party in the west end
Monday, May 17, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Our Ocean Burns
well, it's 2010. Instead of flying cars and jetpacks, we've got a hole in the bottom of the sea spewing black death that we have to burn from the surface, scorching the skies with our failure to care for our home.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
biltmore on a friday
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
meh
Saturday, May 1, 2010
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