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I was playing around with some oil paint last week in a manner that was reminiscent of my childhood experiences with crayons: colouring layer over layer with all of the brightest and happiest colours, and applying a thick layer of black overtop of all of those colours, only to use a sharp pencil to scrape bits of that top black layer and expose the colours underneath. While this wasn't crayon, and I didn't apply the layer of black overtop, I did play around with scraping off the top layer of paint with the end of a paintbrush.

Hello hello.

Portraits 3.0

More more more! These are so much fun. Just testing out some different styles and whatnots.



10 second portrait of my dogs: Squishy and Hammy



My "fewer-than-10-lines" portrait scribble of Homer Simpson.
I only just realized that I forgot his ear... but those are overrated, right?

Zebra

One of my favourites from about 6 years ago.

Microsoft paint scribbles

Made these a few months ago. All of them are MS Paint scribbles.

John Snow

Made this a while back as a t-shirt or button design for my student union.. sadly, I don't think it was ever used for anything. I originally made it in the green, but I thought the monochromatic black/grey/white could be interesting as well. Also, here's a link as a little fyi for anyone who doesn't know who John Snow is.

Portraits 2.0

Some more phone portraits (and scribbles)!



I think this is the lovechild of Charlie Sheen and Fred Flintstone

 

Pen scribbles

I like reflecting back on old pen and paper scribbles I've done. Ice Cube and the thylacine ones were drawn around the same time when my pen scribble mode was in high gear in 2009; the Alexisonfire one is old old oooold (and unfinished, sadly, because I lost the pen that I started it with and no other one stipples quite the same way); the friend-eating bacteria was drawn in class while I was in first year (again, old old old); Yoda was drawn a couple years ago, inspired after spending an evening with a friend sitting in a coffee shop scribbling in his notebook with sharpies; and the last one was drawn with pens and markers.. the words explain all that was going through my head at the time.

Portraits 1.0

Well hey there, looks like a first post!

This is a series of scribbly portraits that I've been working on for the past week or so. Some are of friends, the first is of a man in the newspaper, and the rest were inspired by figments of my imagination. I drew all of these using a finger painting application called PaintJoy on my phone.

Greatest time wasting ever.