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A Warm, Wet Hug and a Cold, Hard Shoulder
I saw a clip today of an NFB film, ORA, that uses thermal imaging cameras and dance to transform how we experience seeing people. It is so beautiful and bizarre to see how each person's body is drawn...
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1 + 1 = 1
Math is a lot like drawing. Both disciplines involve pattern recognition. Both have simple approaches that lead to breathtaking complexity and both are ill-served by a mind numbing emphasis on...
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A Rabidly Changing Environment
It's time for the visual tweet, of the hand drawn variety. If we can get the world drawing just think how cool it would be to send visual messages that are truly personal. Erik Kessels emailed me info...
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The Hemoclysmic Atrocitologist
I am presently listening to an audiobook, Steven Pinker's, The Better Angels of Our Nature. I hate audiobooks. I didn't expect to hate them, I started with The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt and things...
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Visceral Virgins
A friend, who is an English teacher and writer challenged me about why artists draw the naked body. It is always good to have a debate about something you believe in, especially if you have 32 years of...
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Illustrophobic
I was asked the other day about what has changed for Illustrators over the past number of years. I found this drawing of a panel of Art Director's at an Illustration event in a sketchbook, I purposely...
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The Smoke on the Horizon
My old 'hood in South Riverdale was an eclectic mix of rowhomes that in the 1901's-9's housed the Irish bricklayers that built much of the neighbourhoods in the Eastend of Toronto. The passage of time...
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Afraid of My Shadow
One advantage of using sketchbooks since I was a teenager, I can look back and see where I was at different times. The pages above are from my last semester at College. I was 23 and planning my year...
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Raw vs. Cooked
A sketchbook can be a wonderful tool, and it is a tool that should serve a purpose. I have sketchbooks filled with writing, filled with figure drawings, filled with cityscapes, sketchbooks used on...
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Hoop Genius Book Talk and Signing
The Canadian Inventor of Basketball In partnership with the Central Grosvenor St. YMCA, join U. S. author John Coy and Canadian illustrator Joe Morse as...
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